Cleebourg Pinot Noir Passion

French road trip from top right to bottom left; 9/16/2024-9/29/2024 : From 75cl in a restaurant, closure not seen, P+P, deteriorated in glass. Big, ripe, dark-coloured and dark-fruited PN with alarmingly sparkling, bright citric acidity and serious, hot 14% alc. Very acceptable co-op product. It's just too confected/lab-tweaked for much pleasure to persist after the (initially correct, modern) first impression. Still: I'd rather have this in my glass than any of the the pale, woody-false, stewed-prune Alsace PNs I remember …