Community Tasting Notes 11

• JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  May 3, 2024 - Savory raspberry, iodine, iron filings, vine smoke, grilled meat. Plenty sapid with resolving character. Glad I bought a few. Shows the ripeness of the vintage without any signs of torréfaction.

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• JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  September 8, 2023 - Domaine Lafouge is a longtime favorite. Definitely shading toward the savory and earthy (as Auxey-Duresses do). The reds can be a bit foursquare in their youth, yet cellar aging somehow ennobles the wines. Rusticity becomes gravitas, stolid structure resolves and emerges as loquaciousness. And somehow the fruit reveals itself from behind the sometimes foreboding tannins. But it takes a minute, friends. And such is the case with the 2009 Climat du Val 1er. The village wine has been open for business for a few years now, but visits to the premier cru well have been damn near fools errands—Pyrrhic victories whose conclusions are “not yet.” And lo, this bottle sings. Not quite Sarah Vaughn but more Janis Joplin. But there’s plenty of charm in those lonesome blues and no denying their power. Sauvage and dark-fruited, the 2009 Climat du Val offers notes of red currant, plum skin, game bird, and a pungent iodine mineral note at its core. The fruit seems broad, but the earthy notes rise from within and frame the ripeness. Oak, acid, and tannins are knitting beautifully, even if this will always lean toward Harris Tweed rather than worsted wool. Fabulous energy has begun to emerge from its slumber and fine length matches its dynamism. Quite a bottle and there’s plenty in the tank. Well worth the tariff and I’m pleased to have a few bottles. Drink and hold if you have a few cellared.

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• madflyfisher wrote:

  December 13, 2012 - Nice showing. Ripe strawberries, cranberries and freshness. A very tasty and easily drinkable wine.

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• DaleW wrote:

  November 6, 2012 - r . Riper than usual (as one would guess from vintage), fleshy black cherry fruit, earth, a little meat. Very tasty if not classically styled. B+

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• dead puddle wrote: 87 points

  October 6, 2012 - Tasted blindly. Classic clear hue with turning borders. Nice nose of jamy strawberries, and black cherries. An evolved red fruit basket. Mouth peasant but a bit soft. Took for a 2001 vintage. A good wine but with ageing potential totally unknown.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Lafouge
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Rouge
• Vineyard Climat du Val
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 42 (45%)
• Consumed 51 (55%)

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