Chateau de La Tour 'Hommage a Jean Morin' Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru 2017 750ml

93 Points Burghound

(made from the first bunch on each fruiting cane; around 900 bottles are produced each vintage). Very generous wood stops just short of being dominant on the red pinot fruit, mocha, forest floor and newly turned earth. There is outstanding concentration to the big-bodied and overtly powerful flavors that brim with dry extract that serves to buffer the very firm but not really robust or especially austere finale. This is certainly a big wine but I don’t find the separation that I normally find between this and the old vines cuvée though it may separate more clearly in time.