3/15/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 92 points

{cellared since release, opened without decanting for small dinner with LT and LF} How stupid of me to open without decanting. This excellent, deep, very Ech wine needs decanting (or another 10 years). Reticent nose, very pretty stuff comes up with a lot of time, elegant yet muscular in a VR way. 92 points without decanting but really, folks, this will hit 95 points with time. Some Ech is really very good 1er cru level but this is the real deal. Alas, also very 2005 Grand Cru. If you can find this in the secondary market buy it in a heartbeat, but it needs more time or a lot of air. Please see prior note. It's a typical killer Bocquenet understated wine that unleashes lots of authoritative and supremely well balanced fruit and depth ... with time. The bottle that I gave a 94 to that was drunk with SE a year ago had some time in a decanter.

High end Burgundy is made to age for decades now, so the (false) rubric of not decanting Burgundy from my vinious childhood 40 years ago is not true to the realities of the better wines made now and over the past 3-4 decades.

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