GT Fish & Oyster - Chicago IL
Tasted Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Burgundy Al with 473 views
Classically Krug multi-vintage. Fresh, powerful but also toasty.
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Fresh fruit with good balance, concentration and textures. Also very bready and yeasty. Definitely good if this is your preferred style of Champagne.
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Magnum. Apple aromas and flavors. Even keeled and balance, slightly borderline simple. Ever-so-slightly sweet. Moderate length.
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Magnum. More interesting than pleasurable for me tonight. Fat, forward fruit - apple with some raspberry hints. Also a bit sweet. Not very texturally exciting. But at least I can now say I've tried this wine.
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Magnum. Great aromatics start with floral and spice elements along with ripe fruit. a bit of new oak still protrudes. Slightly off center on palate, slightly too fat right now. I expect this will improve with a few more years in the cellar, with that likely upside reflected in my score.
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Magnum. Great flight of young Leflaive. This wine is very 2009 (fat, ripe, fun) and very Leflaive (concentrated, spicy, oaky) in all good ways. Big and very easy to enjoy, but with energy and textures coming through in background. Some preferred this to the 2007 in the next glass, but I definitely prefered the '07.
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Magnum. Stone fruit aromas with lots of spice and floral hints, some of everything you want. Lean and sensational palate, but with fat fruit as well. Long, powerful, lots of energy throughout. For me, more exciting than the 2009 in the next glass. Needs plenty more cellar time to reach its full potential.
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Magnum. Lemon and lemon zest aromas and flavors with some green apple flavor hints. A bit lean and reticent at this stage, which was unusual for the wine at this age, but certainly no signs of premox.
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Magnum. Apple and lemon aromas, then similar on palate, perhaps slightly riper. Very well textured and showing emerging hints of maturity, but very age appropriate for a 2004. Step from the 2004 Clos in the next glass.
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Magnum. Lush aromatic start with forward, ripe peach along with summer flowers. Similarly lush and powerful flavors, with classically Batard richness and allure. Fantastic alongside the Marc Morey 04 Chevalier-Montrachet in the next glass, with each perfectly representing their respective terroir.
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Magnum. My Wine of the Night. Apple, spice, flowers and some peach aromas, all very balanced and elegant. similar flavors but very restrained, also elegant. Incredibly lift and energy throughout, this was fascinating to drink alongside the Marc Morey 2004 Batard-Montrachet in the next glass, with both perfectly representing their terroir.
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Magnum. Very grassy aromas with good apple on nose and palate. Easy to enjoy, this should best be consumed young.
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Magnum. I had very low expectations here, but found this to be just ever-so-slightly past is peak,, but nicely balanced and a very pleasant surprise.
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Magnum. At first i thought this was Puligny-Montrachet Villages and I was amazingly impressed. Still very good once correctly identified as from Clos de la Mouchere, showing ripe and concentrated stone fruit on nose and palate with plenty of supporting spice. A bit sweet and shorter than I recall from when last tried this summer.
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Magnum. Tough wine to assess this certainly has great fruit with plenty of apple and lemon, just seemed slightly awkward and imperfectly balanced at this very early stage in its development. Lean and nicely textured with beautiful, classic Burgundy styling.
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Lush and forward black fruit aromas. Similarly ripe and concentrated black fruit flavors with good density and plenty of sneaky structure coming through at finish. Needs more time in the cellar.
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Magnum. Slightly more earth than fruit on nose, perhaps slightly fresher on palate. Bit firm and tannic but good length and finish.
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Magnum. Nothing interesting remaining here.
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Magnum. Certainly not my preferred style of wine, this was way to forward, fat and simple, but at least had good level of concentration.
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Magnum. Fresh and very enjoyable black fruit. simple but well balanced and easy to enjoy without requiring much thought.
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1996 Roederer Estate L'Ermitage Brut 88 Points
USA, California, North Coast, Anderson Valley
Ripe, sweet apple. Showing fair amount of age, helped by good acidity. Drinking well now, nowhere to go but south from here.
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2004 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Grand Cellier d'Or 92 Points
France, Champagne, Champagne Premier Cru
Lean and racy aromatic start with some floral hints, plenty of citrus. Very linear, very well textured. Crisp apple flavors with some lemon. Lots of energy.
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