Region
France > Burgundy > Vosne-Romanee
Producer
Domaine Sylvain Cathiard
Grape
Pinot Noir
Classification
Premier Cru
Domaine Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru, Aux Malconsorts
· 2009·
WO score
WO score is the average of all critic scores for this wine
Tasting notes
Vinous
Tasted: 30/03/2023
Drink: 2023-2030
Author: Neal Martin
The 2009 Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts 1er Cru has a very lively, floral bouquet with a mixture of red and black fruit, incense and iris flower. Fine delineation. The palate is surprisingly tannic and backward, quite an "insolent" Malconsorts, solid and missing a bit of Pinoté toward the finish. I have encountered other Cathiard wines with more charm. Tasted at the La Paulée in Beaune.
Vinous
Tasted: 03/01/2012
Drink:
Author: Stephen Tanzer
Good medium red. Reticent but highly complex nose combines redcurrant, dried spices, coffee, milk chocolate and earth; smells rich and mellow. Large-scaled and weighty, with huge volume for premier cru. Mocha, graphite and oak notes currently overshadow primary pinot fruits. Finishes tight and rather introverted, with a touch of aggressive austerity to the strong tannins... read more/less
...Cathiard takes the fact that the wine is very closed now as a sign that it will age well, but I wonder if there's enough verve here to outlive the tannins. Still, this wine would appear to need a decade of cellaring.
Vinous
Tasted: 03/01/2012
Drink:
Author: Stephen Tanzer
Good medium red. Reticent but highly complex nose combines redcurrant, dried spices, coffee, milk chocolate and earth; smells rich and mellow. Large-scaled and weighty, with huge volume for premier cru. Mocha, graphite and oak notes currently overshadow primary pinot fruits. Finishes tight and rather introverted, with a touch of aggressive austerity to the strong tannins... read more/less
...Cathiard takes the fact that the wine is very closed now as a sign that it will age well, but I wonder if there's enough verve here to outlive the tannins. Still, this wine would appear to need a decade of cellaring.
Vinous
Tasted: 01/01/2011
Drink:
Author: Stephen Tanzer
Very good deep color. Wonderfully high-pitched aromas and flavors of sappy red fruits, Oriental spices, blood orange and bitter chocolate; it's rare to find this sort of perfume in 2009. Then compellingly sweet and sappy on the palate, saturating the mouth with flavor. A large-scaled premier cru that spreads out impressively on the finish, which features substantial but very fine tannins. Does this have the complexity and verve of the outstanding 2008? Cathiard believes this will be good "young and old, but you'll need to forget the 2008, which is a real vin de garde
Vinous
Tasted: 01/01/2011
Drink:
Author: Stephen Tanzer
Very good deep color. Wonderfully high-pitched aromas and flavors of sappy red fruits, Oriental spices, blood orange and bitter chocolate; it's rare to find this sort of perfume in 2009. Then compellingly sweet and sappy on the palate, saturating the mouth with flavor. A large-scaled premier cru that spreads out impressively on the finish, which features substantial but very fine tannins. Does this have the complexity and verve of the outstanding 2008? Cathiard believes this will be good "young and old, but you'll need to forget the 2008, which is a real vin de garde
Contact details
Name
Domaine Sylvain Cathiard
Address
20 R Goillotte, Vosne Romanee, Côte-d'or, Bourgogne, France
20 R Goillotte, Vosne Romanee, Côte-d'or, Bourgogne, France