Jacky Truchot Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2001

Jacky Truchot Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2001

white flowers and crushed rock

it’s an intellectual interpretation of Cabernet Sauvignon

(The soils are treated with compost to darken them and to keep them balanced

balanced and harmonious finale

blackberry and blueberry fruit

assuming that one of them will be

powerful and firmly muscular large-scaled flavors possess superb mid-palate concentration where the abundant dry extract also buffers the presently unyielding tannic backbone on the massively long finish

soft spice and game hints

from a cooler zone of the valley

deep black raspberry and blackcurrant fruit

but another look with decanting showed that it was ready to roll

There is a really lovely sense of underlying tension suffusing the much more mineral-driven middle weight flavors that are not quite as rich but notably more precise on the chiseled and wonderfully refined finish