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• Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 7, 2023 - Grand Crus > 20 years CT gathering at IT-SPDP. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of charming fragrant earth, red plums, darker red cherries. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), integrated medium- tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of licking wet stones minerality, dark red cherries, focused red plums, other piercing red fruits, charming integrated oak spices. Juicy long finish.
  Very good quality. Was guessing 90s Charmes-Chambertin, drinking in a great spot already. Elegant style. I like.

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• melvinyeowq wrote: 94 points

  July 7, 2023 - Grand Crus > 20 years: Superb nose with fully integrated oak, was guessing the cellar of the person who brought it and asked if this was a Rousseau haha. Clearly from a strong vintage but with high acidity so was thinking 95/96/99, and guessed Charmes because of its elegance. Straddled between red and black fruit that would appeal to a wide audience. In a perfect spot of maturity now.

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• pclin wrote: 94 points

  July 7, 2023 - Another good showing tonight. Clean and floral nose with vibrant acidity. Tannins pretty much all resolved. Elegant and good balance, acidity will keep this alive for a long time.

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• Burgundy Al wrote: 92 points

  September 8, 2022 - 1996 Dinner...Top Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux (Park Ridge Country Club): In '96 Grand Cru flight. Opened approx 30 minutes before serving, more air would have helped. This started slightly musty and awkward. This certainly put on weight in glass, as well as cleaned up nicely. Still never got to the full harmony I hoped for, but it is still young for this producer in this kind of vintage.

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• Papies wrote: 94 points

  April 2, 2022 - Dinner at the Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): A very pretty wine once again ( our last bottle of the wine that launched our serious wine journey and albeit not as exciting as the one we had 9 month sago ( Papies 96) still a magnificent and effortlessly elegant wine. Well evolve, nice soft dark fruit undertone to the red fruit nose, light earth, silky and delicious. Thank you for the 15yr journey old friend. 94 this time.

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• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Serafin Père et Fils
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru

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