Big bread on the aromas. Palate dives much more into enchanting mineral water territory. Palatemof frosty mineral with some massive width.

Damn, is that dosage or just stunning fruit presence? The balance today is almost too easy. Wonderfully executed salted poached pear.

Lacquered and varnish nose, strawberry darkness. The softest black pepper, dried flower, and again dark red mature fruit. Has character, but not my favorite today.

'very dry'. Salted strawberries and thoughts of cocoa.

Spiced wild strawberry.

Pepper, clove, spice, mineral, floral, red fruit spiced. Strawberry mineral water. And quite the spectacle as well!!

Brown sugar, sugar cookie, simmered red fruit, showing some mature fruit thoughts. Really a rich brown edge on a red fruit palate. A mouthful of champagne and then some.

What a treat!! Reaffirming why this is one of my favorites. What was once an in your face-ness of brown lees notes, (ie marmite, etc), is now really into a salty and mineral tunnel. Absolutely, KAPOW! on the palate.

Butter, but not toast. Mineral precision on ripe fruit palate. Both wow! and kapow! 8 or 9 years on lees.

A brown bone. Again, a Pinot dominated feel, a rocking dark aging strawberry.

This was really a treat. 12yrs on the lees, closed with a crown cap. Rich fruit palate, orange marmalade, but more engaging is the strawberry jelly, that reminds me i'm out of my mom's homemade strawberry jelly and need to re-up. A real treat, thanks Andy.

Magic!!...as a bottle resurfaces. Caramel, gooseberry, pineapple, green spice, smoke and ash. Another year or two ahead of this one, but really at the top of it's game right now.

White forest flower, pear richness, mineral, loads of mineral, white pepper, exotic pepper.
Day 2, the richness of fruit is really laid out on the parquet. sweet pear nose. palate is really glassy in texture up front. yesterday, i was perplexed, today i'm totally floored.

Dry thoughts of ripe apple and lean pear. ...at a tipping point in maturity and all the better for it. I hath not enough time with you today brundlmayer.

Orange liquor nose. Apricot and nectarine palate. ...really too much going on in this wine for the field today.

Rich mineral palate, it's got some nice weight, showing oak that seems forward in it's non-new-oak-ness.

Cream and cream soda, smoke is vanishing and this is now masterful balance for Chablis. What a treat!

Much less mature feel than The 02 Vaillons right next to it. Pear fruit realm, lemon meringue, and a hazelnut breath, while still nice and firm on the palate.

Oak aromas quite apparent on the nose, sweet citrus fruit and clove, palate gives way to a profound laser of acid.

This is all mineral today and a real textural stand-out. A real glassy texture on the palate with a refreshing thought on a balance that is more than suitably soft.

A real treat in the sense that I didn't have to open my last half bottle to get this opportunity. Lean pineapple juice is but a really rich palate...and thoughts of peanut butter. This is the wine that left me guessing the whole day. Numerous times and I went back to the first part of this note, only to not edit.

Orange circus peanut, banana, lemon custard. I've been trying, but the 09 has my heart over the 08. This wine was just in the wrong company today.

Wowza!! Next to all this white burgundy, this is the real deal of regional difference. Just shy of pineapple, much sweeter and richer than the 07 Coche Dury Rougeots Meursault next to it. Smoke, oak, clove, 14.6%ABV, some nuttiness towards the finish. Dare I say, the clock is ticking on this one.
DAY 4, still holding on strong, but again the madeira-style nuttiness on the finish makes me wonder. much more focus on the palate today, but there is that circus peanut (also buttered popcorn, maybe they're really one in the same) on the palate and in the aromas.

Mineral, spice, and smoke, a cracked grain oak on a really creamy palate. damn!!

MAGNUM, wow, oak shows on the nose, but then just KAPOW!! On the palate. This note doesn't do much justice to anything.

Med(+) body, medium tannin, fresh red fruit and green pepper. Really, really nice clarity to the palate. Not unlike a candle in the window. Great experience.

Fine tugging tannin, medium(+) body, medium tannin, and again a green aspect, but not the balance of the Mount Mary 1998 or the girth of the 02 Pichon Baron.

Big dark red fruit, almost into raspberry. Espresso, med(+) tannin, med acid and full body. A full tilt style and top of this 3 set.

Wild red fruit palate. The 'wild' feels like some resolving stem. Insanely juicy red fruit palate. Rhubarb. Was this the wine that went toe-to-toe with 07 Folk Machine Factories and Smoke Pinot Noir?

This has been open for more than just a couple hours at this point. Palate is drying out a touch, but smoke and forest floor. Past it's best, i'm sure, but still holding on with med(-) tannin. Super fine and iodine. Quite a treat.

Uber-soft palate and still showing a touch of oak. Sweet fruit, but with med(-) tannin. Dark earth aspect and great with Lapierre Morgon Red Velvet Cake.