Clos Vougeot 2011s

London fine wine brokers Fine + Rare Wines have revived their admirable tradition of organising a massive blind comparative tasting of the wines of a single vineyard in Burgundy. The extensive and hugely variable Clos Vougeot was always the obvious candidate and it was heartening to see much more consistency in the 38 examples of 2011 that were on show earlier this week than there had been in the first of these exercises, 2008 Clos Vougeot – although admittedly there were 56 samples submitted for this tasting in a heatwave in July 2010. A second look suggested that vintage was...