Beaune Clos des Mouches Blanc 2023 Joseph Drouhin

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (94)

The 2023 Beaune 1er Cru Clos des Mouches Blanc (Domaine) is another strong performance, delivering aromas of sweet pear, peach and mandarin mingled with buttered toast and mint. Full-bodied, rich and ample, it's layered and unctuous, with a seamless, satiny, textural profile and a long, lusty finish.

Jancis Robinson (17)

Cask sample. Cream and lemon curd on the nose. Lots of charming fruit on the nose! Extraordinarily open and friendly and welcoming for a baby premier cru. Dried lime peel and Persian lime. This almost seems to pop in the mouth like sumac-spice space dust. Wonderful clementine sweetness and clementine-peel fragrance loosely laced together by green notes that drift from tomato vine to angelica, lemon verbena to tarragon. This is an orbit of flavour, elliptical in the way it moves, spherical in its sweetness and presence. Long and giving all the way. (TC)

Vinous (94)

The 2023 Beaune Clos des Mouches Blanc 1er Cru has more intensity on the nose than expected, with lovely lilting yellow fruit, quince and crushed stone scents. The palate is very well balanced and generous, with a slightly oily texture, great depth, fine acidity and a judicious touch of lemongrass toward the finish that feels long and intense. This may well surpass the 2022.

Burghound (92)

A vague suggestion of the exotic is present in the form of jasmine tea, orange peel, white peach and a background hint of passion fruit. The medium-bodied flavors are rich to the point of opulence yet retain a relatively sleek mouthfeel that carries over to the balanced and nicely dry finale. This attractively persistent effort could use better depth so at least a few years of cellaring should prove to be beneficial.

Jasper Morris (95)

Mid lemon, with the somewhat more sumptuous bouquet of Clos des Mouches, always more flesh right from the outset. This is a powerful fleshy wine, with a good oak support, probably higher in alcohol. Lower than expected yield here in white. May well be around 14% I suspect but that goes with this territory. Drink from 2028-2035. Tasted Nov 2024.