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Red

2019 Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos St. Jacques Vieille Vigne

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4/28/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 95 points

Whoa.
Dense powerful primary fruit, all ripe red cherries, earth and iron, spicebox, stems, perfumed aromatics.
Medium+ tannic grip and medium acids. Last glass evolved to show some licorice, salt and a touch of tar. 13.5% Alc.

Every now and then you sip a delicate Syrah that is easy to confuse with Pinot, but this is the first Pinot I’ve had that tasted like a love-child of Nebbiolo…nothing delicate here.

This is a delicious glass with loads of good material to age well and interestingly, but I suspect it will be a polarizing wine; if ethereal and light-bodied are what you want from Burgundy, this ain’t it.

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2017 Faiveley Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru La Combe d'Orveau

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4/19/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Tasted blind

Dark-fruited, salty-stemmy, some reductive graphite notes. With airtime this opened up and mellowed out.

Liked this enough to seek it out. 17’ is a Burgundy vintage I mostly skipped for reds, but lately I find a lot of pleasure there.

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Red

2013 Lucien Le Moine Corton-Renardes

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4/19/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Tasted blind, I guessed 17 or 15, maybe a Corton or a Chambolle Sentiers (because of the grip)

Ripe dark fruit nose, noticeably dark color.
Juicy dark-fruited backed by med stiff tannins and acid. I liked this a lot, enough to seek out.

Corton is a sweet spot for quality and price for lovers of a generous and dark-fruited Burgundy (like me). See also Mallard, Tollot-Beaut, Bouchard’s Le Corton, Jadot’s Corton Pougets.

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Red

2015 Domaine Rossignol Trapet Chambertin

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4/19/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 94 points

Nose of baby sh*t and berries.
Ripe dark fruit, with some low-med tannic backbone and low-ish acid. This surprised me for how open and approachable it was, based on other reviews.

An easy glass of pleasure that stood out on a table of delicious wine (13 LLM Corton Renardes, 17 Faiveley Chambolle Orveaux, 12 Chezeaux Vougeot…). But it went up against its serious and structured neighbor, 15’ Dom. Trapet Chambertin, my WOTN

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White

2020 Louis Jadot Chablis 1er Cru Fourchaume

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4/25/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 92 points

Lemon, mineral-oyster shell, light to medium bodied. 13% Alc
Very nice

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2015 Frederic Esmonin Mazy-Chambertin

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4/21/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Dark fruited, backed by stiff and grippy-salty tannins, med acid. 13% Alc.

Has all the right stuff to develop well, but I’d suggest let it rest till 2030 so the tannins can mellow and integrate.

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2019 Domaine Pattes Loup Chablis Vent d'Ange

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4/15/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Somehow dense yet light, lemon essence, cidery-chalky. 13% alcohol.
Delicious.

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2020 Domaine William Fèvre Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

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4/10/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 94 points

Oh, hello.
Drying and stony meets a light touch of lemon-pear.

This may be too cold to appreciate properly. I should probably have another glass…or three.

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White - Sparkling

NV Nathalie Falmet Champagne Cuvée Le Val Cornet

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4/9/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 92 points

Light lemon and crisp acidity all in balance. Delicious

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2020 Domaine Billaud-Simon Chablis Grand Cru Vaudésir

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4/9/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Vivid and electric balance of ripe lemon and dry stones, walking that tightrope of concentrated and delicate. Good stuff.

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Red

2009 Joseph Drouhin Griotte-Chambertin

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4/6/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 94 points

Dark, smells of diapers, mint and funky soil (in a good way).
Savory more than fruit at first, licorice and savory, earthy and salty. Black cherries emerging with warmth and airtime. Med-grippy tannins and low-med acid. 13% Alc.

A serious and savory Burg, in contrast to my expectations of a sun-ripe fruit-forward glass. The one you marry, not the one you date in your feckless youth.

Good stuff, fine to open now (with food) but plenty of stuffing for future positive development.

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2013 Domaine Dujac Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Beaux Monts

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4/6/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 94 points

Remarkable spice-perfumed nose leaps from the glass at first pour. (This from a a guy who is all about the palate usually, not the nose).

Initially reticent, tasting of underbrush, briar, soil and stems. Bit of coconut(?).
With airtime and warming, dark fruit peeks out, balancing and welcoming another sip, and another after that.

Give it time to warm up and wake up and be rewarded. Great stuff-it makes me want to try this from a riper vintage.

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Red

2009 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

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3/23/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: NR

A Burg-guy’s eye view of Bordeaux (with grilled lamb)

Rich. Chocolate and blackberries with ample balancing acid and gritty tooth-gripping tannins. 85% Cab/15% Merlot, 13.5% Alc.

This is excellent, a steak wine to rule them all and years of development to go. Even a Pinot person like me can like this one. The welcome spine of acid and tannic grip keeps this ship on an even keel. All that said, I must not be wired for Bordeaux because I’d take a well-made OR Pinot or 1er Burg any day of the week in place of this pedrigreed Cab blend.

That said, I have a few more bottles to sample down the years (in the name of science), and um, I’m not selling them.

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Red

2013 Domaine Robert Groffier Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses

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2/24/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Quenching tart red/black cherry fruit, initially a touch of the acetic and then bitter cherry. On day two this settled and opened up into a more generous glass. Good, but not as transporting as I might hope for from Amoureuses.

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Red

2017 Cecile Tremblay Chambolle-Musigny Les Cabottes

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2/25/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Red and black cherry fruit, greenbriar-stemmy-forest floor notes, med+ tannin and med acid. 13% Alc.

OK, wow. This reminded me of Mugneret Gibourg: A delicious, subtle and balanced glass that held its own on a table with 98, 13 Groffier Amoureuses and 01 de Vogue declassified Musigny.

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2015 Domaine Fourrier Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Gruenchers Vieille Vigne

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2/18/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 90 points

Dark ripe berry fruit up front, a touch of reduction/gunflint, low-med tannic grip, low acid. 13.5% Alc.

An easy-to-enjoy glass but not a complex one. It seems sort of indistinct, not from anywhere in particular. I’m a big fan of Fourrier’s Gevrey wines, but this particular Chambolle was just ok for me.

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2013 Domaine Robert Groffier Bonnes Mares

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2/15/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 92 points

Ripe blackberry fruit, touch of reduction and dried fruit (blueberries?) saline and greenbriar, mellow grip. 13.5% Alc.
Maybe not a serious/complex wine for the ages, but a nice glass, easy to like right now. As others have noted, drinks approachable and young, so would not hurt to give it time.

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White

2020 Bruno Lorenzon Mercurey 1er Cru Pièce 15

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2/13/2024 - Pinot_Geek wrote: flawed

Corked.
(Natural cork, not Diam)

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White - Sparkling

2017 Michel Gonet Champagne Grand Cru Le Mesnil sur Oger Blanc de blancs Hauttes Mottes Les Comperes

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2/10/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 92 points

Light-bodied, delicate citrus and dryness. Its Brut nature so 0 dosage, but there is a hint balancing sugar there from the grapes. 12.5% Alc.
Delicious with sushi.

A grumble though: What kind of pretentious twit waxes champagne corks!?
Oh wait, there's a picture of a certain bearded and ubiquitous somm/winemaker-as-cherub on the label; mystery solved. (I kid, the guy seems to make good wines wherever he goes…)
It was a messy and painstaking process to get the damn thing open and dropped bits of wax/plastic/whatever into the bubbles.

Wine enjoyment: 92+
Closure: 61 fuggedaboudit

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2021 Alain Hudelot-Noëllat Bourgogne

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2/8/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 91 points

Oh HELLO.
Balanced ripe strawberry/berry fruit.Low medium tannin and medium acid, bit of briar. 13% Alc.

Wow, this is delicious. Light on it’s feet and refreshing right now.

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2015 Domaine Odoul-Coquard Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Baudes

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2/8/2024 - Pinot_Geek wrote: NR

Nose of rubber and funk.
On the palate, Pinot funky, quite ripe dark berry fruit meets plums and figs. Touch of salty wood, rubber and leather, biggish. 14% alcohol.

This bottle tastes advanced for it’s age tonight, perhaps a reflection of the solar 15’ vintage or bottle variation. (Bought on release, stored at 55F etc, etc).
Drink up!

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White - Sparkling

NV Egly-Ouriet Champagne Premier Cru Les Vignes de Vrigny

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2/7/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 points

Stellar. Crisp cut of acid balanced by brioche toast and 2 g/dl dosage.

This is 100% Meunier? Dang,..ok. Sign me up.
A lot of pleasure here.

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2015 Domaine Trapet Chambertin

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2/4/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 95 points

Opens with ripe red cherry fruit, followed by quenching, woody dryness. Reductive flint notes, mellowing med tannic grip and med acid. Seems concentrated yet balanced. 13.5% Alc.

A glass of delicious pleasure today, with all the elements to evolve into mature complexity. I’ve been lucky to sample the 15’, 16’ and 18’ this week. All were excellent, with similar profiles of red fruit, earth, iron and plenty of stuffing to improve over time. But the 15’ was the most open and pleasurable at the moment.

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2006 Pierre Moncuit Champagne Grand Cru Cuvée Nicole Moncuit Vieille Vigne

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2/4/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: NR

Nutty and rich, label doesn’t specify, but I would guess a little dosage here.
I like a little touch more acid cut in a bubbly, but this is still a very nice glass.

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2018 Domaine Trapet Chambertin

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1/31/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 94 points

Rich, dense, dry. Red and black fruit meets briar/garrigue. Has that "blood and iron" thing I sometimes find in Gevrey. Med tannin, med acid. 13.5% Alc.

Wow. Just a baby, but it seems like all the parts are there. This tastes like a preview of greatness in the making.

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