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Clos de Vougeot. A clos (French 'enclosure' [1]) is a walled vineyard. [2] Walled vineyards protected the grapes from theft and may improve the mesoclimate.They were often the vineyards of Cistercian monasteries.
Domaine Ponsot is a wine producer in Burgundy, France that produces white and red wine.They are best known for their Morey-Saint-Denis Blanc 1 er cru Clos des Monts Luisants — the only premier cru Burgundy made entirely from Aligoté [2] — and their flagship reds, the Clos de la Roche Cuvée Vieilles Vignes, and the Clos St. Denis Cuvée Très Vieilles Vignes.
Clos du Val is a winery located in the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley, California. Founded in 1972, it earned global recognition in 1976 with its involvement in the famed Judgement of Paris in 1976. [ 1 ]
A monopole (from French 'monopole') is an area controlled by a single winery (wine company) and can be as small as a named vineyard or as large as an entire appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC). Frequently this is mentioned on the label as it is rare for only one winery to produce all the wine from an area entitled to a certain name.
Clos Erasmus is a Catalan winery in the Priorat wine region. The wine is a blend of Grenache and Syrah grapes grown with biodynamic viticulture. [ 1 ] The Clos Erasmus 2004 vintage was scored 100 points by influential wine critic Robert Parker and its average price is €975 per bottle. [ 2 ]
Michel Rolland (born December 24, 1947) is a Bordeaux-based oenologist, with hundreds of clients across 13 countries and influencing wine style around the world."It is his consultancies outside France that have set him apart from all but a handful of his countrymen."
The gravity-fed winery is in the Dundee Hills AVA in the Willamette Valley. It was built in 1988 for $10,000,000 by Maison Joseph Drouhin. Veronique Drouhin is the winemaker. Domaine Drouhin Oregon is the result, in part, of the 1979–1980 Paris Wine Olympics where David Lett's The Eyrie Vineyards of Oregon took second place behind a 1959 ...