RN74 - San Francisco CA
Tasted Friday, March 12, 2010 by Burgundy Al with 656 views
Another sensational La Paulee tasting from several years ago, particularly for the Grand Cru white Burgundy. I took legible and meaningful tasting notes on less than half the wines. I just came across these notes (from almost 4 years ago) and am trying to decipher and add them to Cellar Tracker...as I start thinking about wine to bring to the upcoming La Paulee de San Francisco.
Vertical tasting, brief note. Great floral start with lemon, lemon peel, roasted hazelnuts. similar on palate, longs of power and good textures. Very exciting today, but I slightly prefer the 2007 alongside which seemed slightly longer and energetic.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. My favorite of the vertical. Incredible floral start with lots of lemon, some apple, some roasted nut. Powerful fruit to start on palate, then incredibly acidity, minerality and power bring about incredible length and persistence. Wow.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Same great lemon and nut aromatic and flavor profiles as the younger vintages in the flight, but with less power, intensity and energy, while also seemingly slightly more ripe.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Floral start with some faint earthy hints. Very good spice set with ripe apple on both nose and palate. Moderate weight.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Very good fruit and spice with good power. Slightly tropical and hints of new oak still stand slightly apart.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Clearly my favorite of the vertical, this is the most complete wine, best built to age. Apple, pear with a bit of clove and white pepper. Very mineral driven with subtle floral hints, everything is in good balance already, but has the structure to do well in the cellar.
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Verticals tasting, brief note. Lush and forward mostly stone fruit aromas, some mint and spice support. Also lush flavors, very fat and pleasurable with moderate weight and length.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Lots of apple and some lemon on both nose and palate. Less opulent and buttery than I would have expected from 2002 Corton Charlemagne, but I like this leaner styled and energetic wine a lot.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Lots of ripe stone fruit aromas and flavors. Showing good balance of mature character - evolved fruit and spice working well with earthy elements. Unlikley to get more interesting in the future.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe apple with some new oak spice aromas. Flavors are also a bit fat the start but more balanced in the middle. Good now, but lower energy, so I wouldn't keep longer term.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Great spice with ripe apple and pear aromas, clear earthy character coming through, some floral notes. Same on palate, very charming, but slightly more evolved than i would hope.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Favorite of the vertical. Lots of flowers, ripe orchard fruit and curry spice aromas. Powerful and dense on palate, giving me hope for longevity vs the 2003 and 2004 in this flight.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. By far my favorite of the vertical. Floral and mint whiffs to start with lots of stone fruit aromas. More restrained on palate with same flavor profile plus some lemon with lots of energy and minerality. great material for a very cellar worthy wine.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe apple and tropical fruit aromas with some mint and floral notes. Slightly more ripe and rounded on palate with moderate length. Probably the best to drink young in this vertical flight.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Tropical fruit and mint to start with floral background hints. More restrained and firm on palate with some of the same tropical fruit plus apple and lemon. Good minerality and acidity work well and should help with cellar-worthiness.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Intense and extravagant stone fruit aromas and flavors but with serious structure and concentration. Beautiful now, but also built for long term aging.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Incredible to try, incredible for the Domaine to provide, but I think it was very ripe and lower energy and slightly past its prime. Now the 1985 tasted next....
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Vertical tasting, brief note. What great old white Burgundy can be. Powerful, lush, incredibly textured and balanced with hints of cooked mushroom and intense spice.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Slightly floral start with lots of lemon, lemon custard and ripe apple aromas. Somehow lush and restrained at the same time with ripe fruit and great structure. Fantastic.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Oddly this is one of the tougher wines to assess today. Starts with lush, forward aromas of summer flowers and tropical fruit, continuing fairly similarly onto the palate. but this finishes with so much concentration and sneaky structure that it also comes across as very ageworthy, despite seeming to be lower acid to start. I look forward to trying this again in a few years. Probably 93-94 points for where it is today.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Lots of ripe orchard fruit, hints of toasted brioche and some Asian spice. Moderately ripe flavors, again lots of spice and great textures. Fresh and still very young.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe and forward red cherry aromas with clove, licorice and black pepper aromas. Forward as well on palate with some earthy character. Best young.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Alluring and floral start with intense black fruit and baking spice. Lush and powerful black cherry, plum flavors, ever-so-slightly sweet but balanced with solid structure. Very good.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Good black cherry, slightly underripe with some background spice and roasted meat. Moderate intensity, and despite modestly ripe fruit, there really isn't any "2004 green" character here today.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Powerful dark fruit aromas to start with background spice. Less in the Dujc style, or even Vosne style, than the 2006 or 2007 in the vertical, but I understand that Dujac didn't have responsibility for the entire growing season (hence didn't bottle as Domaine). But still this is the most powerful and seemingly serious wine in the flight with huge fruit and intense spice emerging on very, very long finish.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Lots of fat red and black cherry, lots of spice. Very Dujac in that regard. Perhaps very ripe flavors, but I think this will get somewhat leaner with age. Great concentration and density help give me that level of confidence.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. What a sensational 2007. Fresh, incredibly bright red berry aromas and flavors with alluring spice. Perhaps not the most powerful or complex, but this wine is a perfect example of making a great wine out of what the vintage offered.
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2007 Horizontal. Impossible to provide a 3-year vertical with only vintages under their belt.
Tasting, brief note. Great dark berry aromas with lots of spice and a bit of new oak that needs to integrate. Charming, rich and forward on palate, also showing great spice, perhaps not particularly Vosne right now.
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Tasting, brief note. Alluring aromatics start with blueberry, boysenberry, blackberry, dark chocolate, nutmeg and floral hints. Intensely fresh on both nose and palate, it was hard to decide if I prefer this or the Clos Vougeot. Probably this is better now, Clos Vougeot longer-term.
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Tasting, brief note. Blackberry, black cherry aromas with lots of spice and floral support. Same great fruit and flowers on palate, slightly firm and dense. I think this might be a better wine than the Grands-Echezeaux longer term, even if not as forward and alluring today.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. All red fruit with moderate spice and early earthy signs coming through. Good.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Forward red fruit with lots of ripe character that started nicely, didn't finish as interesting or complete to me.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Certainly the most interesting of the vertical. Very ripe red fruit with good spice. Intense red fruit flavors, moderate length but good weight and balance.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe black and red cherry aromas with anise, espresso, mushroom and liqueur notes. Ripe and zaftig, easy to enjoy, but some good tannins help provide balance and structural support.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. As sensational as I recall from when last tasted a few years back. Slightly floral with an amazing array of red berry aromas and flavors with fresh herbs and some clove and nutmeg. Incredible balance, incredible freshness.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Similar to another bottle last year. Lots of forward fruit, far more lush, forward and charming vs most 2001s at this point in their development. Still has the background structure providing backbone and texture.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Lots of red fruit with very enticing, warm, meaty spice. Lush and almost opulent flavors with good textures, minerality providing nuance from middle to finish. A rare 2007 that seems well designed for aging.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Huge scaled black fruit with sweet spice, vanilla, chocolate and espresso. More reserved flavors, even brooding, which is no surprise for a 2005. But the density and power coming through on finish are world class.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Dense black and red fruit aromas and flavors with lots of new oak spice. Rich and ripe, but also a bit backward and firmly structured. A tough wine to assess.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Floral start with forward fruit very atypical for Chambertin, but very 2007. Ripe and slightly sweet, very charming today, but with substance and concentration coming through near finish.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Black fruit with great spice and a real sauvage character. Prototypical Gevrey-chambertin, even if its forward accessibility isn't normal for young Chambertin. Lots of concentration and density along with structure (mostly in background today) make me confident this will be very cellar worthy.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. black fruit, moderate spice, hints of sauvage. Very firm tannins give a slightly bitter edge near finish, but no 2004 underripe bitterness coming through.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Very meaty with all black fruit and spice for good slowly braised meat. Very powerful and dense fruit with a very Gevrey sauvage style that I like a lot.
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All black fruit aromas with a hint of liqueur. Plum and blackberry flavors with lots of every structural element, with everything's large scale coming together in very good balance.
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Vertical tasting, brief note. Good roasted meat and fresh black fruit aromas. Very good, dense fruit on palate, but less balanced and refined than the two younger vintages in the vertical.
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2000 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 90 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru
Vertical tasting, brief note. Lemon, apple and hazelnut, very good, probably at its peak now, but more subdued expression than the 2004 or 2005 in the vertical.
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2004 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 93 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru
Vertical tasting, brief note. Lemon peel, some peach and lots of sweet roasted nuts come through, perhaps even some marzipan. Very lush and alluring today on palate as well, but not the depth and concentration I've found from this wine in its best vintage, so most likely best on the younger side.
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2005 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 93 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru
Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe apple, peach, lots of hazelnut, lemon peel. Very alluring aromas, very lush and powerful on palate. Perhaps not as refined as the 2004, but greater density and length.
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