Domaine Michel Juillot Clos du Roi, Mercurey Premier Cru, France

米歇珠葉奧酒莊羅伊干紅葡萄酒

點(diǎn)擊次數(shù)：3436

The 2018 Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Roi is showing well, revealing aromas of sweet berry fruit, dark chocolate, woodsmoke and warm spices. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and supple, it's elegantly layered and succulent, with powdery tannins and a long, sapid finish. This is especially texturally refined this year.

The 2017 Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Roi displays inviting aromas of ripe cherries and plums, mingling with scents of woodsmoke and dried flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and enveloping, with a fleshy core of fruit and velvety tannins. As usual, this cuvée consists entirely of free-run juice.

Aromas of cherries, cassis, candied peel and dried flowers introduce the 2016 Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Roi, a full-bodied, ample and generous wine, with lovely purity of fruit and a firm, chalky finish. It's a bit rounder and richer than the Clos des Barraults, but it doesn't possess quite as much elegance or length this year.

The 2015 Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Roi from Laurent Juillot is superb, offering up a lovely bouquet of ripe cherries, wild berries, rich soil and incipient notes of game bird that has hardly budged since I tasted it from barrel in October 2016. On the palate, the wine is supple, deep, and medium to full-bodied, with a lovely chassis of fine tannin and the amplest core of fruit of all the domaine's 1er crus. From a parcel planted in 1932, the domaine's smallest holding, Juillot formerly bottled this exceptional wine exclusively in magnum, but now opts to release it in regular bottles too. It's well worth seeking out in either format.