At A Glance
- Field
- Detail
- Producer
- Domaine Michel Gros
- Village
- Vosne-Romanée
- Named site
- Clos des Réas
- Range
- Village Vosne-Romanée and Clos des Réas Premier Cru red wines
- Defining feature
- Walled Clos des Réas with an earlier harvest calendar
The Producer
Domaine Michel Gros works with village Vosne-Romanée and Clos des Réas, a walled vineyard whose enclosure creates a protective microclimate. Michel Gros brings meticulous attention to detail to the work. The range includes a village wine and a named Premier Cru site wine.
Place
Clos des Réas sits within Vosne-Romanée behind a wall built between 1800 and 1810. The enclosure allows harvests two or three days earlier than in the rest of the village, giving the parcel a different harvest calendar from its neighbours.
Wines
Two red wines give the range its hierarchy. The 2023 Vosne-Romanée Clos des Réas Michel Gros is the village level wine. The 2021 Vosne Romanée Premier Cru Clos des Réas Michel Gros is the named site wine. Premier Cru is the Burgundy vineyard level above village wine and below Grand Cru, so the labels move from a village appellation to a classified vineyard.
Final Word
The Clos des Réas parcel has about 50 centimetres of red soil with limestone above oligocene marl, salmon coloured veins and large limestone blocks.
Sources
1. https://www.bourgogne-info.eu/html/domainemichelgros.html 2. https://www.frw.co.uk/editorial/untangling-the-gros-familys-estates-in-burgundy 3. https://ansoniawines.com/learn-wines-region/burgundy/michel-gros/ 4. https://www.burgundy-report.com/burgundy-report-extra/12-2022/michel-gros-2021/ 5. https://fpwm.com/2023-domaine-michel-gros-vosne-romanee-burgundy-france-750ml/