Enshrined among legendary terroirs, the Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru 2024 from Domaine Louis Latour belongs to those wines that shape taste and imagination. Behind its illustrious walls lies a mosaic of plots whose history intersects with Burgundy’s most noble expressions. Here, Pinot Noir finds a natural gravity and a rare verticality that marries the flesh of the fruit with mineral drive. The 2024 vintage offers a particularly nuanced expression, where fruit brightness meets finely chiselled tannic structure. The house’s precise, composed signature enhances the cru’s depth while preserving its natural elegance. A bottle for aesthetes, collectors and those who understand that some wines are not merely drunk, they are experienced.

Blend and winemaking

This Grand Cru is made exclusively from Pinot Noir, the emblematic grape of the Côte de Nuits, picked at perfect ripeness within the famous historic clos. Careful, parcel-by-parcel selection captures the site’s multiple identities, restrained power balanced with delicate texture. The harvest, strictly sorted, preserves the integrity of the berries to extract a noble, precise material. Winemaking, carried out with the restraint befitting great cellar-ageing wines, promotes fruit expression, aromatic freshness and tannin harmony. Ageing in oak barrels, controlled and measured, provides a frame of fine oak, never showy, that weaves into the thread of soft spices, reinforces the structure and refines the finish. Altogether this yields a wine both deep and luminous, where the terroir’s tension embraces the vintage’s caress in a remarkably steady balance.

Tasting notes

• Appearance: Deep ruby with garnet highlights, clear and intense, it foreshadows a harmonious concentration. Delicate legs underline a generous material and expertly measured extraction.
• Nose: Initially seductive on ripe dark fruit, cherry and blackberry, it opens to notes of peony, violet and fading rose, then enriches with touches of incense, fine pepper, cocoa bean and a subtle oak evoking cedar and sandalwood. Aeration reveals a mineral dimension that stretches the bouquet with grace.
• Palate: Broad, satiny attack, carried by a fleshy mid-palate where density aligns with measured freshness. The tannic structure, finely chiselled and noble, draws a precise architecture without ever hardening. The finish, long and uplifting, resonates with sweet spices, black cherry and a delicate salinity, a promise of captivating development.

Serving temperature and advice

Serve this Grand Cru at cellar temperature to preserve its dialogue between fruit and structure. A gentle decanting, without rushing the wine, allows the aromas to fully unfold and harmonise the emerging oak. Open the bottle well ahead of service to let its complexity express itself, then allow the wine to relax in the glass, gaining depth with every breath. Store it on its side, protected from vibrations and light, for a peaceful rest that will refine its texture and amplify its bouquet. Its cellaring potential is generous, enjoy it young for its brightness or later for its fullness and aromatic patina.

Food pairings

• Refined aperitifs: thinly sliced parsleyed ham, airy gougères, knife-cut beef tartare enlivened with a touch of old-style mustard.
• Gourmet starters: perfect egg with woodland mushrooms, puff-pastry chicken and foie gras pie, oxtail ravioli with truffle.
• Characterful mains: roast pigeon with reduced jus, milk-fed veal with morels, dry-aged beef cut served with tender root vegetables.
• Delicate game: hare à la royale in a contemporary interpretation, venison fillet cooked pink, braised pheasant with gentle spices.
• Cheeses: aged Comté, tempered Époisses, truffled Brillat‑Savarin whose richness dialogues with the wine’s lift.

Occasions to enjoy

The Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru 2024 from Domaine Louis Latour is the ideal companion for:

• To mark a special moment when you want to combine prestige, emotion and finesse at the table.
• At a gourmet dinner where culinary precision meets the expressiveness of a great terroir.
• As an insider’s gift for a Burgundy enthusiast sensitive to the subtleties and grace of Pinot Noir.

Characteristics

• Name: Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru 2024, Domaine Louis Latour
• Appellation: Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru AOC
• Type: Red wine
• Vintage: 2024
• Grape variety: Pinot Noir
• Terroir: Historic clos of Vougeot, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy
• Producer: Domaine Louis Latour
• Ageing: Careful ageing in oak barrels, fine integrated oak
• Cellaring potential: long, depending on storage conditions
• Service: at cellar temperature, decanting possible to open the aromatics