Community Tasting Note

• DChan wrote:

  September 13, 2005 - There comes a time when you've stared at the bottle in your cellar long enough and just have to open it. With a fellow Burg lover coming to my apartment for dinner tonight, I couldn't wait any longer. So since I couldn't heed Kevin Harvey's advice to wait another three years, I took his alternative advice to decant a couple hours ahead of time.
  
  This was gorgeous wine - not as pure and unmanipulated as the d'Angerville Volnay I posted on yesterday - but the Dujac house style showed well here. The spiciness from the stems was readily apparent - as was the 100% new oak influence (well integrated at this age though), but the most compelling aspects of the wine were the concentration and the obvious old vine intensity. Really deep red and black fruits tinged with green river rock and forest floor. My bottle may have been on a slightly faster evolutionary track than Kevin's, but I would say that this is very close to its peak if not there already. Dynamite.

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