6 Bottles Joseph Drouhin Beaune Clos des Mouches Premier Cru Rouge 2023 750ml

Pinot Noir from Beaune, Cote de Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France

Notes from the Winemaker

89 James Suckling Top 100 Wines of the World 2025

Reviews and Accolades

98 Points/James Suckling
The iodine, blackberry and rose-stem character comes through clearly. Plenty of fruit and depth. Medium-bodied with fine tannins that caress the palate and provide endless flavors of Indian spices, flint, nutmeg and light crust. Such refinement and integrity. Drinkable now, but better in three or four years.

93 Points/Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2023 Beaune 1er Cru Clos des Mouches (Domaine) is showing nicely, bursting with aromas of sweet berries, spices, orange zest and new oak. Medium to full-bodied, succulent and lively, with chalky grip on the finish, it will offer a broad drinking window.
Barrel Sample: 91-93

93 Points/Decanter
Lovely cherry fruit with hints of lavender and rosemary. The texture is silky and dense, almost fat. There is more clay here, and less limestone than in Les Cras, and the tannic structure is not as firm. The grapes are from Drouhin's massive 6.75ha here, not far from Pommard; they are partially destemmed and fermented on native yeasts before ageing in cask (25% new) for 14–18 months.

93 Points/Jasper Morris
An attractive mid crimson colour. A fine fresh bouquet, elegant fruit, not too demonstrative, but with a graceful detailed red fruit, alpine strawberry and little raspberry notes. Very nicely put together, all about the fruit more than the structure. Drink from 2030-2037.
Barrel Sample: 91-93