Community Tasting Notes 13

• cct wrote: 94 points

  October 1, 2020 - The second wine this week that I grossly underestimated in its youth.
  
  Translucent ruby in color. Earth, dark pinot fruit, some meat and ferrous notes, loam, and moss on the nose. It's midweighted and subtly structured yet graceful on the palate. It's sappy yet precise with terrific focus. Much more than I expected from this wine. There's more undergrowth, ferrous and meatiness that adds to the fresh and pure red and dark pinot fruits. Quite long on the back end. While I am sure this has plenty left in the tank, but I feel that on this day I drank this wine at its absolute apogee. I can't think of a reason to choose to wait to drink it. This was so much better than I had hoped for. A terrific showing for a vineyard in the Chevillon lineup that I tend to neglect or or outright ignore. This was a joy to drink and such a pleasant surprise. Almost implausibly terrific.
  
  A terrific pairing with Xian Bing meat pies and bao.

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• acyso wrote: 88 points

  June 1, 2016 - Chevillon Roncières vertical at The Bristol (Chicago, IL): Double decanted an hour before dinner. This is perhaps showing even more stemmy and austere than the 1996. Certainly, air allowed this to blossom more, but it never really left that ornery phase. There were some really nice red fruits on the palate, but this was mostly a very dense wine that was hard to read. That said, all the right elements were still there: fruit, acid, earth, tannins. It just needs to all loosen up a bit.

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• jlm wrote:

  March 27, 2016 - Excellent bottle, with very typically NSG iron and earth notes in the aromas, and black fruits. The palate is medium bodied with an energetic snap to it, and some ever so slightly grainy tannins to frame the whole thing. Chevillon is such consistently good producer, and this bottle showed it.

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• godx wrote: 90 points

  June 10, 2014 - La Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (Vancouver) (Zest): Aromatic nose showing nice development. Quite resolved on the palate with pinot fruit flavours and solid acidity and length. Drinking well now but no rush. Excellent.

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• Paul D Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 18, 2013 - Medium/deep garnet core, medium pale garnet rim. Nose is aromatic, developed and complex - autumnal with some bruised red and plum fruit, liquorice, leaves, soil. On the palate this is medium/full bodied, sweet yet slightly decaying fruit, again autumnal with soil, undergrowth and liquorice, some black cherry and plum fruit, soft and glossy, with lovely tangy acidity carrying a good length, slightly herbal finish, with a touch of grip at the tail end. lovely and drinking very well indeed, but should hold for a few more years yet.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Robert Chevillon
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Roncières
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 64 (48%)
• Consumed 68 (51%)

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