Staff Notes:

"The domaine’s aux Craz bottling is also from the vineyard of la Grosse Pierre, but these vines are from the summit of the vineyard and are seventy years of age. Due to its elevation at four hundred and twenty meters above sea level, the wine is more transparently mineral in personality on both the nose and palate. The beautiful aromatic constellation offers up a blend of black cherries, pomegranate, very pronounced granite soil tones, pigeon, peonies, a touch of blood orange and a gentle topnote of fresh thyme. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and very soil-driven in personality, with a lovely core, excellent intensity of flavor and bounce, moderate, perfectly-integrated tannins and outstanding length and grip on the complex and ethereal finish. This bottling is so much more defined by its underlying minerality than the other two bottlings from la Grosse Pierre that it seems to almost hail from a different vineyard! I am very happy that Pauline Passot decided to bottle it on its own, as its personality is dramatically different from her other two cuvées from this vineyard." 93 Points John Gilman, View From the Cellar