Floral aromas with apple and lemon. Same flavors with good concentration and moderate weight and acidity. Much less like the 2002 vintage, and more like the 1999.
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru
Alluring ripe aromas with great spice and lots of density. At some level this is a real beauty, but it is clear this is already at its peak and slightly shy of the acidity to allow it to age gracefully. I could see this as a 92-93 point wine for the very near-term, but I think it is already starting to weaken. I have three bottles in the cellar and will try to drink them within the next 12-18 months while it is this super tasty. I doubt this will even be a 90 point wine by 2020.
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru
Lots of fruit and spice that I enjoyed more than ever before from this great wine from this vintage. But I didn't find the right balance here. A bit too much new oak, slightly too ripe, slightly devoid of structure.
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru
Thanks, Ken, for bringing. This wine was a wild ride in glass. It started musty and backward. Within 10 minutes it opened and showed fully mature ripe black fruit with spice and mushroom with nuance and intriguing layers. But this fell off the cliff after 45 minutes and showed little or nothing from that point forward. The 1990 Clos Vougeot has consistently been so rockstar that I don't know what to make of this GE, but if I owned a bottle I would pop-wait 5 minutes-and-pour.
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru
This was more of a great bottle of Pinot Noir than a wonderful bottle of Grands-Echezeaux. Easy to enjoy, but if served blind I would never have identified the terroir. Unquestionably tasty, but a bit monolithic, with a bit too much new oak that hasn't fully absorbed.
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru
Red fruit throughout with background spice, this is clearly a wine requiring more cellar time and patience. This kept evolving in glass, but I never felt it was really totally forthcoming, and instead was the rare backward 2006.
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru
Six months ago this was jammy and uninteresting. Tonight it was balanced, sophisticated and incredibly nuanced. Obviously a much better bottle, much more consistent with what i expect from Rouget. My WOTN, most others agreed.
2004 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut 93 Points
France, Champagne
Floral aromas with apple and lemon. Same flavors with good concentration and moderate weight and acidity. Much less like the 2002 vintage, and more like the 1999.
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2012 Château de la Maltroye Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Dent de Chien
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru
Alluring ripe aromas with great spice and lots of density. At some level this is a real beauty, but it is clear this is already at its peak and slightly shy of the acidity to allow it to age gracefully. I could see this as a 92-93 point wine for the very near-term, but I think it is already starting to weaken. I have three bottles in the cellar and will try to drink them within the next 12-18 months while it is this super tasty. I doubt this will even be a 90 point wine by 2020.
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2005 Arnaud Ente Meursault La Seve du Clos Plus Vieilles Vignes 94 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault
Monumental concentration for its level with great freshness and really very tasty. This might even have upside from here. yum.
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2007 Claude Dugat Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux St. Jacques 89 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru
Lots of fruit and spice that I enjoyed more than ever before from this great wine from this vintage. But I didn't find the right balance here. A bit too much new oak, slightly too ripe, slightly devoid of structure.
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1990 Domaine René Engel Grands-Echezeaux 90 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru
Thanks, Ken, for bringing. This wine was a wild ride in glass. It started musty and backward. Within 10 minutes it opened and showed fully mature ripe black fruit with spice and mushroom with nuance and intriguing layers. But this fell off the cliff after 45 minutes and showed little or nothing from that point forward. The 1990 Clos Vougeot has consistently been so rockstar that I don't know what to make of this GE, but if I owned a bottle I would pop-wait 5 minutes-and-pour.
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2007 Domaine d'Eugénie Grands-Echezeaux 91 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru
This was more of a great bottle of Pinot Noir than a wonderful bottle of Grands-Echezeaux. Easy to enjoy, but if served blind I would never have identified the terroir. Unquestionably tasty, but a bit monolithic, with a bit too much new oak that hasn't fully absorbed.
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2006 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Echezeaux 92 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru
Red fruit throughout with background spice, this is clearly a wine requiring more cellar time and patience. This kept evolving in glass, but I never felt it was really totally forthcoming, and instead was the rare backward 2006.
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2006 Emmanuel Rouget Echezeaux 94 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru
Six months ago this was jammy and uninteresting. Tonight it was balanced, sophisticated and incredibly nuanced. Obviously a much better bottle, much more consistent with what i expect from Rouget. My WOTN, most others agreed.
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