Trump International Hotel
Tasted Saturday, October 22, 2011 by Burgundy Al with 970 views
There are worse ways to spend an evening. I've grouped the wines with similar wines, so they are not exactly in the order tasted.
At its peak, time to drink up. Lush, ripe, concentrated stone fruit on nose, with similar peach and apricot flavors on palate. Very good minerality, reasonable acidity, intensity and power on the finish. Bottle from a few months back seemed a bit more fresh.
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Starts with apple and pear aromas with some charming spring flowers. Palate comes across far more subdued with lean and crisp orchard fruit and acidity galore and incredible energy. This will need at least 5 more years to really show its potential.
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Big stone fruit on nose, similarly vibrant fruit on palate. Happy to see where it is after almost 20 years and so early in the Kistler history. Fat and buttery in that classic CA chardonnay manner, but a bit short and simple.
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Rich spice on nose with candied apple and floral hint in the deep background. Incredibly ripe fruit on the palate that starts slowly and then explode with fruit and intensity towards a very powerful, lush finish. Incredible balance and elegance for its power and youthful exuberance. This wine kept getting better and better with more time in glass, and I think the wine still has a few more years of improvement in its future.
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Big fruit aromas and flavors, but the overripe fruit dominated for me tonight. Also showed white Rhone's inclination for a lush, oily texture, but also showed a bit too much heat for me on the finish.
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Started with classic Ramonet mint on the nose along with lush stone fruit. Palate shows lots of great power and intensity to start but oak protruded a bit in the middle. I'd like to see a bit more acidity, so I'm thinking this a medium-term Grand Cru already in its drinking window.
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Bright orchard fruit aromas with hints of roasted nuts in background. Clean and direct apple flavors on palate with really good acidity providing lift from middle to finish, even if the fruit is a bit short and simple.
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Great perfume and spice on nose to start. Wonderful red cherry flavors on palate, also showing that great whole cluster spice. Started to show a trace amount of muddiness towards the finish. I wouldn't be holding these much longer.
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Earthy nose with some good baking spice in the background. Red cherry flavors on the palate with reduced mushroom. Sadly not even close to the quality level of another bottle from the same case opened a few months ago.
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Perfumed aromatics, with red and black fruit also on the nose with really sensational, classic Asian spice. Palate had that same combination of fruit flavors, but also a real emerging sense of secondary development that became more prominent with more air, so my only complaint is that this wine is starting to show its age.
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I haven't tried many Dujac 2003s since release and this bottle reminds me why. Super-ripe, even for 2003 burgundy, I could have been convinced this was from Russian River if served blind. Some redeeming spice on finish if you look hard enough.
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Lean red fruit on nose, but still rather fruit forward. Perfume and spice aromas come through more clearly than from a bottle tasted this summer. Wonderful spice on palate, also with charming red cherry and strawberry. Good for now, I'd think this is just a few years away from its peak and will mostly be best before 2025.
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My biased expectation was that this would be terrible, so it was quite a happy surprise. Black fruit with dense, meaty spice. Not complex, but very enjoyable. Good concentration for the vintage, and I imagine Bernard Dugat's low extraction style served him very well in this vintage, in which extraction led to bitterness for so many Burgundy producers.
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Came across as quite modern styled and fruit forward, but that is how lots of 2007s are showing. Big fruit, even showing a bit a California style and some bubblegum flavors to me. Unclear where this will develop but a fun glass of wine today, even if not classically Bonnes Mares.
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Earthy nose. Palate shows some fruit lingering around with lots of earthy flavors and textures. Some sweet hints poke through from the remaining fruit and oak, with really pleasant spice coming through on its moderate finish.
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From magnum. I don't recall how/when/if this was opened and decanted, but this was simply amazing. Black cherry and kirsch on nose with intense fruit and oak spice. No question about there being lots of oak and tannins, but this wine already seems close to balance, with so much of everything that it is already showing wonderfully tonight. Big and dense throughout, but with amazing textures and harmony. I really look forward to seeing how this shows in another ten years. wow.
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From magnum. Earthy and mushroom aromas and flavors with a trace green edge. Good tobacco and cedar elements throughout. Moderate intensity and finish.
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Powerful wine with incredible balance. Black cherry and plum fruit with good cedar and tobacco notes. Lots of tannin and acidity but incredibly balanced. This is at a great place today, and has the concentration and density that I expect will hold here for a long, long time.
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Served by Bernard de Laage from Chateau Palmer, somewhat of a "warm up" for me for our Palmer dinner the next night. Mostly secondary aromas with good floral elements. Some more black primary flavors on the palate, also showing good spice. Lean finish. This convinced me to find my 1971 Palmer to bring to dinner the following night, in addition to the 1955 i was already planning to bring.
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The bottle came by quickly and I tried a small taste. I didn't find this interesting n the context of everything else being poured tonight.
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Still very primary and highly structured, showing great potential. 1986 in a nutshell.
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Would never have expected this to be drinking so nicely. Black cherry, kirsch and cigar box on nose. Same fruit with licorice on palate. Powerful but balanced.
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Big and brooding, surprisingly tannic and backward for a 13-year old wine that is mostly Sangiovese. More black fruit on nose, a bit more red fruit on palate, both also starting to show some emerging earthiness.
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Quite good fruit still coming through on both nose and palate. Bright fruit flavors accompanied by cedar smells and some meaty spice. Good acidity and very good textures and nuance. A big positive surprise.
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A perplexing wine. This is probably the 5th or 6th time I've tasted this wine. it was amazing once a few months ago, but somewhere between "okay" and "good" (perhaps 85-89 points) every other time. Tonight it was dark to start, but also earthy with lots of forest floor, then a bit muddy and uninteresting towards the end.
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Starts with good spice on nose. Big black fruit on palate, more primary than secondary, accompanies by same spice. Good acidity helps provide good textures and reasonable length. A very good older-styled, even Bordeax-styled, Monte Bello that I wouldn't be surprised if it's still getting better.
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Very floral nose with red fruit. Same red cherry flavors with exciting spice and very silky, elegant tannins. Way too young to be opening this bottle, which I expect will get more exciting with some secondary character added.
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Super-concentrated black fruit with a real gamy element that I enjoyed but found a little too intense. Good licorice and pepper spice, but I found this wine mostly relying on brawn than finesse, so not necessarily an Hermitage for my palate.
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From magnum. Perhaps I was getting tired, but this didn't show much to me and I've enjoyed this wine quite a bit when I've tasted it before. Black and red cherry with some underbrush. Probably both the bottle and I needed some more air at this point. Huge potential.
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Lush and creamy Madeira with wonderful flavors of figs and dates. Good sweetness, but then this shows surprising, sneaky power with silky textures through to its long finish.
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Great spice, wonderfully textured wine. Somewhat unusual, a real treat to try.
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