2012 Domaine Dujac Clos de la Roche Grand Cru

Mid crimson. Really quite reduced on the nose! Firm and youthful with lots of bright fruit tucked in there. Extremely youthful. Some majesty and some delicacy underneath. But embryonic in the extreme. (JR)

Dujac's 2012 Clos de La Roche bristles with palpable energy and intensity. One of the more polished wines in the range, the Clos de la Roche is all about saline-infused energy and brilliance today. I very much like the precision here, but time has shown that the Clos de la Roche only starts to blossom with considerable bottle age. Today, the layers of dimension are present, but also compacted. In a few years, the 2012 will be truly magical.

Bright, deep red-ruby. Much more reduced than the wines from Vosne-Romanée, offering scents of cinnamon, nutmeg, underbrush and sweet oak. At once tactile and backward in the mouth, showing impressive medicinal reserve to its flavors of red and black fruits and spices. A fleshier, somewhat more saline version of the 2013, probably for drinking earlier than the later vintage. And yet this soil-inflected wine is a bit hard to get a handle on in its current form and may turn out even better than my current scores suggests.