April BYO

Bodø, Norway
Tasted Friday, April 19, 2024 by Torchy with 44 views

Flight 1 - Champagne (6 Notes)

  • NV Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Tradition Brut 90 Points

    France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru

    The wine has a light copper color—a fine and fruity nose with a hint of almond. The wine has a high and pronounced acidity on the palate with a distinct flavor of green apple. The wine is also experienced as mineral with salt as a clear marker. The wine has a slim finish and is of medium length.

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  • NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Extra Brut Meunier Rendez-Vous No.3 92 Points

    France, Champagne

    The base is 2013, and the wine is straw yellow. The nose is complex with malo, wax, and light notes of honey. With a bit of air comes burnt matches, melted plastic, and a tiny bit of liquorice. On the palate, the wine is experienced as somewhat sluggish. Oxidative notes, gunpowder, mineral salt, and something rocky. Not much fruit except for some lemon at the very end. The wine appears slim and acidic with a medium length.

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  • 2002 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Flawed

    France, Champagne

    Cork

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  • 2013 Pol Roger Champagne Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill 94 Points

    France, Champagne

    The wine is lively yellow in the glass. Round and creamy scent, with dairy products such as cream and cold butter. On the palate, the wine is fresh and fruity with red sweet berry fruit and what are perceived to be distinct pinot tones. Some candy and an exit with sweet oranges or clementine.

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  • NV Michel Fallon Champagne Grand Cru Ozanne Blanc de Blancs 100 Points

    France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru

    For the first time in my life, I end up at 100 points. The wine is dark straw yellow and has a very complex and appealing nose with a marked floral expression. Furthermore, there are notes of honey, dried meat, freshly cut grass, and eventually salted caramel. The wine feels complex and develops as long as I have it in the glass. At first contact in the mouth, the wine is very concentrated. Malt extract, green apple, and the delicious little bubbles give me an association with soda powder. On top of this, the wine has perfect balance and a lasting finish.

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  • 2014 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Rosé Emotion 96 Points

    France, Champagne, Champagne Premier Cru

    This wine is a mindfuck. Had I not seen that it was a rosé, I would have thought that this was a white champagne. The nose has (uh) ripe cheese and some sweet situs. On the palate, the wine is wonderful with almonds, coarse marzipan as well as clementines, and sweet lemons. I also find some red berry fruit. The wine has a delicious acidity, good length, and mousse that makes it feel fresh and lively.

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Flight 2 - Whites (4 Notes)

  • 2015 Domaine Henri Boillot Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles 94 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru

    Nose with charred oak barrels, mint, and cool citrus. On the palate, the wine has cool citrus, minty chewing gum, and toothpaste. There is also some parquet and pine needles. A very classic and typical white central burgundy.

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  • 1982 Bouchard Père et Fils Meursault 89 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault

    The wine is dark yellow and looks unfiltered. The nose surprises and must be said to be seductive with coffee grounds, tea leaves, and something oxidative. On the palate, there is ripe citrus and the wine still has a somewhat oily oak taste. A simple wine that has withstood the test of time surprisingly well.

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  • 2019 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Blanc 92 Points

    France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage

    The wine is light straw yellow, and smells of sweet fruit, dry paper, and light notes of hung meat. The wine is perceived to have fortified tones, which I have previously also experienced in white wines from the Northern Rhone. Left the wine for a long time in the glass and with time it develops more floral notes. On the palate, the wine is acidic and has an oily mouthfeel. The wine has a bitter fruit profile.

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  • 2021 Enric Soler Espenyalluchs 92 Points

    Spain, Catalunya, Penedès

    The wine is light watery clear. On the nose, the wine has slender citrus, some ripe fruits, wax, melted plastic, and hints of licorice. On the palate, it has light citrus. Lemon water. The wine is fresh and has something tropical and mineral. The wine is fresh and lively. Blindly I thought this wine was from Chablis. I was surprised when I found out that it was a Spanish white wine made from a grape otherwise best known from Cava.

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Flight 3 - Reds (6 Notes)

  • 1996 Château Léoville Barton 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    The wine is dark red. Nose with metallic blackcurrants, tobacco, coffee, and equestrian sports. In the mouth, it tastes of stable, lead, dark dense fruit, as well as something minty. The fruit is concentrated and somewhat angular, which makes me blindly think we are in Pauillac. We weren't!

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  • 2006 Domaine A.-F. Gros Richebourg 95 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Richebourg Grand Cru

    Blood red with some browning towards the edge. The wine looks ripe. The nose has earthy tones, cool red fruit, and something volatile that blows away. On the palate, the wine has everything I associate with a good red Burgundy. Seductively cool and precise firm red summer berries. Pepper and other types of spices.

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  • 2014 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore Ornellaia 89 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Bolgheri, Bolgheri Superiore

    Nose with blackcurrant, dark fruit, and hints of coffee. On the palate, the wine is light-bodied, with little fruit and hints of coffee. I suspect a suboptimal bottle.

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  • 1998 Dominio Pingus Ribera del Duero 96 Points

    Spain, Castilla y León, Ribera del Duero

    The wine is dark red with browning towards the edge. The nose has fresh and lively red fruit, some earth, dairy, 5 spice, coffee, and cured meat. On the palate, the wine is dense and with an insane concentration characterized by an abundance of red fruit and spices. Delicious length and balance in the wine. The taste lingers.

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  • 2007 Domaine du Clos de Tart Clos de Tart Flawed

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos de Tart Grand Cru

    Wet cellar, horse, and grease.

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  • 2015 Rene Rostaing Côte-Rôtie Cuvée Classique Ampodium 93 Points

    France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie

    Last and 16th wine of the evening. The notes are mostly in monosyllables. Nose with fur, forest, and game. In the mouth, the wine is still dry and rich in tannins. Steel, blood, delicious redberry fruit, and heather.

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