Best Red Wine of the World at IWC

Clos de la Roche 2014, the most illustrious wine from the Jean-Claude Boisset wine house, has won the IWC Champion Red Wine 2014 award. Its style captures the essence of Burgundy, the ultimate expression of Pinot Noir in all its glory: Finesse and power at the same time, a thoroughbred wine with incredible length. (900 bottles.) 

At the northern edge of Morey-Saint-Denis, the Clos de la Roche expresses its hard brown limestone soil, which produces a very firm wine with remarkable ageing potential. An original feature of this vineyard planted with 45-year-old vines is its rows planted north/south to avoid gully erosion down the slope.

The 2014 vintage was saved by the September sun and wind. An abundant and healthy harvest, with generous grapes and volumes that have at last returned to normal after four lean years. 

The grapes were vinified 50% in whole bunches, aged for 16 months, half in new oak, with very light filtering. The result is a wine with a complex bouquet of raspberry, chocolate, and a hint of graphite, with lovely smooth tannins and a texture dense enough to give it great length. 

*International Wine Challenge