| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2017 Henri Magnien Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Les CazetiersPinot Noir more |
5/5/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 94 points{One of 3 botles purchased in the last year. Advised by retailer to decant despite being a 2017}. To start: GREAT nose to start, dark brooding rich fruit, initial palate somewhat reserved, bitter cherries, medium-to-full presence, stones, Gevry earthiness. Others have noted 'grainy tannins' which are there. 40 minutes in: Great nose, fantastic palate attack. 75 minutes and 2 hours later: tannins less prominent, super fruit more forward, my notes read "outrageously good" and "gorgeous fruit, mouth feel, and length" and "fantastic palate. Complete, filling, rich, long." |
| White |
2020 Jean-Philippe Fichet Bourgogne Blanc Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
5/4/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 90 points(1st of 6, perfect fills). Golly this is good! Bordering on rich, full, complex, flat out delicious, long, ... Lots of lemon oil and phenolics. Another example of why you should seek to buy the Bourgogne from top-tier producers. Captivating. Superb for a Bourgogne. |
| Red |
2017 David Duband Nuits St. GeorgesPinot Noir more |
4/30/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 91 points[Bought in Beaune last week, but due to Paris traffic, colleagues could not find time to try there, so opened in Boston. :-)] |
| White |
2016 Domaine Laurent Cognard Montagny 1er Cru Le Vieux Château BlancChardonnay more |
4/21/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 89 points2 bottles consumed at dinner for 9 Chevaliers at Chez Monsier, in Paris. Delicious, round, rather rich, excellent food wine with an acid lift at the end keeping it lively. Notes on other years says grown on a limestone patch and that the producer suggests drinking at about 6 years, but these bottles showed no signs of decline, probably at peak. A gourmand wine for food and conversation. Tasty. 88-89. |
| Red |
1969 Château Lafite RothschildPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/21/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 93 pointsMagnum recently bought by ND, shared at dinner for 9 Chevaliers in Paris. Super classy cassis nose, really superb, acid overtaking the fruit but "pretty darn good. Currants, tobacco, new belt leather. lasts forever on palate, very Left bank. What a treat! |
| Red |
1972 Maison Leroy MonthéliePinot Noir more |
4/21/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 89 points3 bottles purchased by ND recently, shared with fellow Chevaliers at a dinner for 9 in Paris. 1st bottle cork fell into the wine, not shown by ND, NR. 2nd bottle brown, full of sediment, tertiary brown sugar aromatics but not on palate. Gentle, long some good depth (and very good with my onion soup). Controversial and clearly in decline, but sound. 3rd bottle, pale rose color, had a fabulous redfruit nose with hints of strawberries but no fruit, all acid on palate. Fun to try! |
| Red |
2020 Domaine Desvignes Givry 1er Cru Clos CharléPinot Noir more |
4/9/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 91 points18 bought on release, somewhere around #6 consumed. Sound cork. |
| White |
2016 Domaine de la Vougeraie Vougeot 1er Cru Clos Blanc de VougeotChardonnay more |
4/6/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 94 points{#1 of 13, professional storage, PopNPour} Started out a bit reticent, initially underwhelming, poured with a crabcake course followed by lamb and a Volnay. After being open x 3 hours huge, phenolic, super long, impeccable balance. Will decant next bottle. Very Cote de Nuits blanc, not Cote de Beaune blanc! |
| Red |
2020 Domaine Joseph Voillot Volnay Vieilles VignesPinot Noir more |
4/6/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 89 pointsDrunk at Aquitaine in Chestnut Hill, MA to accompany superb meal there. Sound cork, Diam 5. Rich, ripe, totally delicious wine, very 2020 with fruit dominating soil typicity. At most only hints of Volnay in nose of this slightly sexy, wonderfully judged wine. If offered this at a restaurant don't overthink it, buy it. Crowd pleasing sophisticated balance and length. With John Gilman on this wine. Hard to tell it's Volnay, but that's what you get in 2020, and it sure won the table over. 91 on pleasure-o-meter and 87 for purist "is this a Volnay" |
| White |
2017 Joseph Colin Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly BlancChardonnay more |
4/4/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 91 pointsbought on release, sound cork. As noted by some reviewers, reticent nose and then pretty big palate impression and very good length. Classy St Aubin fruit, did well over the evening. Lots of citrus and orchard fruits as pointed out by others. |
| White |
2017 Joseph Colin Saint-Aubin CompendiumChardonnay more |
4/1/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: NROne of two bought on release. Good village wine, authentic flavor set, good length, and better mid-way between room and refrigerator temp. Very nice mid-palate. Ready to drink now. I will drink my other bottle sometime this year and start sampling my 2017 Joseph Colin premier cru St Aubins now too. |
| Red - Fortified |
1994 Dow Porto VintagePort Blend more |
3/30/2024 - Musigny1955 wrote: 95 pointsPurchased on release in fulls and halves, 750 bottle #6 of 12. No ullage, cork crumbled a bit. Forgot to decant before serving, yet still had super length, complexity, nose, forever finish. Rich yet drier Dow style works very well. This wine has been firing on all cylinders for the last half-decade, halves may be showing a bit more maturity than fulls. Not a drop left after the dinner party! If had decanted would probably been 96 or higher. |
| Red |
2005 Bouchard Père et Fils Volnay 1er Cru Caillerets Ancienne Cuvée CarnotPinot Noir more |
3/30/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 92 pointsI think #9 of 12, sound cork, 1-2 mm ullage. Dinner party with rack of lamb and similar fare. Good depth, complex, length, but I think Ducster72 has this right: the primary fruit aspects are no longer present but the wine seems to be at an awkward "not quite secondary aromatics yet" stage. The gorgeous aromatics of ~ 5 years ago have become hidden again. Decanted an hour before tasting, that was not enough time. 4 hours after decanting it was still relatively tight but had not declined at all. I will let my last 3 bottles sit for a while! |
| White - Sparkling |
2014 Sebastien Girost Champagne Millésimé BrutChampagne Blend more |
3/30/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 92 pointsOpened for dinner party - very much a food wine, matched well to smoked salmon then crabcakes. Very little in the way of smoky brioche, instead much more a complex, good length, minerally champagne that obviously sat on the lees for a long time. No bruised apple in this wine. I think will hold my other bottles of this for a few more years to see how it matures. |
| White |
2014 Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Garenne Domaine du Duc de MagentaChardonnay more |
3/30/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 92 pointsBought on release, 1st of 12, perfect fill, cork tight and hard to remove but sound. Part of dinner party with DH, JK, KB, JL, PG. Rich, palate-enveloping nose and foretaste, with mixed stone fruits and minerals, energizing acidity and quite good length. Big, balanced 2014 fruit. When opened it tasted best with a bit of a chill, and when the last few drops drunk 3 hours later, rich and delicious at room temperature. Pundits noted a creamy texture with lots of dry extract in barrel tastings, and that rings true today. Not a shy wine! |
| White - Sparkling |
2006 Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Cuvée RareChampagne Blend more |
3/26/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 95 pointsPurchased on release, sound bottle. Tasted in a flight with the 1996 Krug. Rich, lots of brioche, "must have been on the lees forever" was one comment. Great by itself or with food. 4 of 12 (including me) voted this ahead of the Krug (8 of 12), which for me had begun the downside slope of maturity and was a perhaps 93. First time I have had this wine and nearly the level of the fabulous 2008. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
2018 Justin Girardin Maranges Vieilles VignesPinot Noir more |
3/28/2024 - Musigny1955 wrote: 90 pointsBought on release, casual Thursday night wine. Pinote, nice nose, good body, good length... and a touch of elegance over and above the gourmand pleasures. Dark fruit notes, not strawberry red fruits. Nose and palate have seriously good elements, nothing candied, simple, or over-ripe in this 2018. Very well done. |
| White |
2019 Domaine Giroux Pouilly-Fuissé Sélection Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
3/27/2024 - Musigny1955 wrote: 89 pointsPurchased on release from Ansonia; perfect fill, sound cork. Delicious, good cut as well as medium full fruit, none of the tutti-fruity elements sometimes found in PF. Great wine for the price. Will hold. #1 of 6 |
| White |
2019 Henri Boillot Bourgogne BlancChardonnay more |
3/17/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 90 pointsFirst of 12 bought on release. My, I like this wine! Spicy nose and forepalate, robustly sized with lots of minerals thrown in too. Better at room temperature than at refrigerator temp. Hints of petrol complexity and lots of citrus notes. Very much of a style but very successful. |
| Red |
2005 Daniel Bocquenet EchezeauxEchezeaux Grand Cru Pinot Noir more |
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. |
| Red |
2004 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave HermitageSyrah more |
3/13/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 94 pointsBought on release, one of many bottles consumed, sound cork. Lovely classic Hermitage, superb tannins, ready to go. Super with duck meal. |
| White |
2014 Domaine Billaud-Simon Chablis 1er Cru Montée de TonnerreChardonnay more |
3/6/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 93 pointsBought on release, sound cork. Minerally, citrus pithy, mear electric wine. Huge fruit in mid and end palate yet superb acidity and minerality keep this taut, superb wine in balance. Wow wine. |
| White |
2016 Domaine Testut Chablis 1er Cru Montée de TonnerreChardonnay more |
3/5/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 92 pointsCellared since release, perfect fill, sound cork. Classy floral nose, intriguing minor near smoky element, cleansing palate with intense seashell minerals in mid- and end-palate. Pretty good length too. Classic Montee de Tonnerre scents, flavors, mouthfeel. Great wine. 91 on my pleasure-o-meter and another point for balance, sophistication. A wine for both gourmands and for aesthetes. |
| White |
2012 Domaine Servin Chablis 1er Cru Montée de TonnerreChardonnay more |
3/4/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 92 pointsBrief note, cellared since release, sound cork, probably drunk 60 F 10-12 C. Delicious, appetizing, long, excellent midpalate, tres minerally Chablis with some maturity but can last for years. Nice balance throughout... Another strong showing. I may be down to last bottle! |
| Red |
2015 Domaine Rollin Père et Fils Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile des VergelessesPinot Noir more |
2/28/2024 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 91 points{one of 2 bought in mixed case on release, perfect fill, sound cork} complex, minerally, Pinote wine, subtly seductive, persuasive wine. Way better than the villages Pernand. Not quite as fruity as the Aloxe-Corton in this vintage but more complex and regal. Great wine, if you have magnums invite me to dinner in the future! Still young. |
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