This wine is a monopole and comes from a vineyard tucked in close to the village. It is surrounded by high walls and has a marly soil rich in clay.
The colour is a little deeper than Le Village, and while the Clos de la Rougeotte is currently slightly muted on the nose, it is gorgeously svelte with a rich bright cherry fruit on the palate. I suspect that Marc-Olivier Buffet has timed the picking date to perfection, while the finish is very persistent. 91-94 Points
Full bottle 1,363 g. The label says Rougeottes, not Clos de la Rougeotte – we're using the Sylvain Pitiot name for the premier cru. There is a remarkable, hypnotic creaminess that sort of offsets and lifts up the intensity of the silky sweetness of this crimson-breasted wine with its feathered tannins. It’s a wine that takes wing on murmurations of iron without weight across sky without boundaries. Iron, flower, cherry, long alto, bleeding red into all the spaces. Fine and flying. (Drink between 2025-2041). 17/20
