Tasting Notes 5,000+ found

Tasted blind, this wine had a red center and light orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose wasn't showing much. It seemed more like an ancient CDP rather than a Burgundy. What is counter intuitive about wines like this is that even though they seem like they might be over the hill, they really need air to bring them back to life and resuscitate their flavor profile.

After a few hours, the medium+ intensity nose offered up black cherries, anise, brown spices, and candle wax. As it aired, the wine developed classic Rhubarb notes.

Again, this wine was not particularly special in the mouth for the first hour or two and it slowly came out of its shell. Toward the end, it had light, rounded tannin, solid acidity, excellent balance, and fantastic length. It had a slight roasted quality that suggested a warm year.

This wine moved up from a 92 point wine to 97 over the course of 5 hours in a decanter. Open it early and try not to drink it before it can reveal itself! (4711 views)

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Very interesting. Much more floral, stem, celery, herbal notes on the nose than previous bottles...almost to a fault imo. Spice. Great fruit, acid and balance. Complex. ? off bottle. (6529 views)

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Birthday lunch for Mike and Andrew: A beautiful, fragrant bouquet. Intense, precise and high toned. Complex and multi-layered including aromas of violets, gentle mixed spices, black and red berries, minerals etc, framed by discreet vanillin oak. In the mouth, intense perfection. It achieves that rare combination of real power with lightness of touch that only great wines can. It is very pure and clean and yet the flavour profile is detailed and multi-layered, with a seam of rocky minerality throughout. The serious architecture is disguised in the sleek, seamless package. The acidity is gorgeous and the tannins are superb, ultra-fine grained and suave. It’s only a baby of course. Hold it for as long as you have the patience. I guessed it was a 2002 and then a 1998 La Tâche – it seemed inconceivable it could come from any other Burgundy vineyard. Thanks Mike. (5171 views)

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Tasting: Perfumed and modern styled. Quite different from the 2010 Echezeaux, which I had early this year. In a very nice place now. (4094 views)

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This was my first time tasting la Tâche and it’s true that there really is nothing like it. Power without weight, the flavors just explode on the pallet. The depth of flavors stunning and I am sure if given more air or bottle age this will be a near perfect wine. (2100 views)

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From 3L. Floral, stem, expressive aromatics. Loved the silky, red fruit palate. (00001/18271) (3513 views)

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Earthy, smoky aromatics. Bestial, wild quality. Blockbuster palate, sweetness and persistence. Superb mineral quality. (3622/10418) (1764 views)

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Tasted in a arrivage tasting of all DRC 2019. Overall, the 2019s DRC are beautifully perfumed, very ripe wines, but they also carry a nice vein of acidity that is making them brighter and fresh. The bottles show incredible class, but also a certain ripeness that might be something that needs getting used to for purists. I thought that the terroir was showing beautifully, despite the ripeness of the year. The wines seemeed very different and true to their cru, especially at the beginning of the tasting and again with quite some air. In between the differences were just a tiny bit muddled.
If I remember correctly the first vintage of this wine at DRC from 4 plots that are owned by Bonneau de Martray. Slightly reductive notes of matchstick, but also lemon oil, citrus, flintstone, white flowers, wet stone, beautiful minerality. It‘s medium-full bodied, with medium-high acidity adding precision and tension, very good persistence too. Very long finish with building complexity. A superbly fresh, complex and layered Corton-Charlemagne and a fantastic premier. I personally liked this better than the Montrachet next to it (which was a clear step up in body, richness and probably also complexity). (1695 views)

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Normally don’t post restaurant wines on here. But gotta post the DRC note. Drank at Fresh Run Farm for the “Quince at The Farm” lunch series in northern Cali. Soaring aromatics, tremendous complexity and crazy expressive. Red raspberries, exotic spices, roses, fine acidity and an energetic and ample mid-palate with a seamless balance and a finish for days. Absurdly delicious even at this stage. (5602 views)

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If you’re going to open a young La Tache, the 2017 is a vintage to consider. Surprisingly open, and simply delicious. One of the group had opened a couple in Beaune recently, so we carried the theme back to MN. Most of the CT notes here are spot on. (3417 views)

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2nd Most Epic Burgundy Dinner (Boulevard - San Francisco CA): Served blind in a nice Vosne flight. My first time tasting this vintage. Corked. Jeremy thought it corked right away, it took me another 2-3 minutes to agree. (7725 views)

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Dinner at Tetsuya's: Served blind. Incredibly perfumed and pretty floral notes then spice, musk, cherry and a just a smidge of earth. On the palate it is so relaxed, composed and classy, especially next to the very tense/taut 2009. Very long, with considerable depth to it. I was surprised when this was revealed, but maybe I shouldn't have been as I think it might be impossible to go wrong with DRC in 2006. (5719 views)

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A 62.5-ml Coravin pour at 67 Pall Mall in London. Transparent brick color, a bit of sediment. Astonishingly complex nose of barbecue sauce, orange peel, menthol/Vicks VapoRub, Bloody Mary, smoke, and earth. I've come across many of these scents in other wines before, but never on the same glass. Tremendous concentration and density in the mouth for a wine with so little extraction. Old-wine viscosity and length. I would have liked this more 5-10 years ago--the fruit is all gone now, leaving this a bit too cerebral for my palate. But this is still a mesmerizing wine I will never forget. (4422 views)

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Excellent vintage of La Tache. Expressive and complex with vibrant dark red fruit and restrained spice. The '08 vintage leanness / acid is there but it's well-integrated and adds nice energy. My personal quibble with La Tache is that it can sometimes get too dark and earthy to the point of being almost muddy and this vintage is so far from that. Loved this. (2968 views)

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Three hours of air before serving. Spice, green stems, coffee beans, perfume and red currant. Very good acidity and precise red fruit. No doubt alluring but the palate was on a slightly leaner side which is not surprising for the vintage. 94+ (3192 views)

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