The Vieilles Vignes is powerful with a lively taste of fruit and minerality.
Domaine Marc Roy is an impressive Domaine of only four hectares. Their wines are arguably the most accomplished of the village appellation. The cuvée “Vieilles Vignes” is made from vines averaging 70 years in age from plots such as En Jouise, Carougeot, Les Murots, Les Crais, Vignes Belles and Les Seuvrées.
The nose is powerful, with a great concentration of red berries and earthiness. The taste is lively, delivering a great weight on the palate, framed by a delicious minerality. It can be matched with charcuterie, barbecued beef and cheeses. It shows well in its youth and can benefit from being cellared between four to ten years.
(from ~70 year old vines).
Ripe but fresh aromas include those of plum, black cherry, cassis and plenty of earth influence. The opulent, concentrated and powerful larger-scaled flavors coat the palate with sappy dry extract that also buffers the moderately firm tannic spine shaping the balanced, long and complex finale. This is a very good Gevrey villages and worth your interest.
89 Allen Meadows burghound.com Tasted: Jan 10 2020 Drink: 2025+