This was a light garnet color with considerable browning on rim. Perhaps more advanced in color than it should be at this age. There may have been a temperature problem at some point. This was purchased on Winebid. This nose was beautiful with the expected beet root and meaty nuances, but not the depth and expansiveness noted by others for this wine..
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SF Wineberserkers Offline (BerserkerDay) (San Francisco, CA): Initially seemed like riper styled fruits, but then it developed a lovely funky sweaty complexity, lots of red fruits; palate has light smooth tannin, nice fruits. Very nice, made in a slightly riper style than the lignier-michelot, but still obviously old world. 90-92
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Lovely wine. Nose quite secondary with earth, pine needles and quite dark fruits on the nose. With air it filled out and pushed the earthy side of NSG. Palate is just midweight but tannins and fine and nearly fully resolved. May lack just a bit of density but this is more a vintage thing than winemaking. Really speaks of its place with no winemaking artifice. Notgreat length but beautifully balanced. A lovely, honest NSG. Drinking very well now but another couple of years may just add a bit more complexity.
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6/10/2014 - godx wrote:
La Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (Vancouver) (Zest): This was quite peppery in comparison to the 01 Roncieres with an overall darker fruit profile as well. This could use more time. Excellent.
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11/28/2013 - wineack Likes this wine: 88 Points
This was a light garnet color with considerable browning on rim. Perhaps more advanced in color than it should be at this age. There may have been a temperature problem at some point. This was purchased on Winebid. This nose was beautiful with the expected beet root and meaty nuances, but not the depth and expansiveness noted by others for this wine..
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1/27/2013 - aagrawal wrote: 91 Points
SF Wineberserkers Offline (BerserkerDay) (San Francisco, CA): Initially seemed like riper styled fruits, but then it developed a lovely funky sweaty complexity, lots of red fruits; palate has light smooth tannin, nice fruits. Very nice, made in a slightly riper style than the lignier-michelot, but still obviously old world. 90-92
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3/4/2012 - Pverd wrote: 90 Points
Lovely wine. Nose quite secondary with earth, pine needles and quite dark fruits on the nose. With air it filled out and pushed the earthy side of NSG. Palate is just midweight but tannins and fine and nearly fully resolved. May lack just a bit of density but this is more a vintage thing than winemaking. Really speaks of its place with no winemaking artifice. Notgreat length but beautifully balanced. A lovely, honest NSG. Drinking very well now but another couple of years may just add a bit more complexity.
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3/6/2011 - Dave Dalluge wrote:
No notes taken but this showed consistent with previous notes. Glad to have a few more tucked away in the cellar.
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