October 12, 2022 - Nose: red fruits, rose petals, spices
Notes: Tasted from a 95/96 Mongeard Mugneret dinner featuring Echezeaux VV, Grands Echezeaux and Les Suchots from the respective vintages. Was my second favorite of the night. The 95 GE had a big structure and probably a fuller body than the rest of the other wines. With a classical GE nose I do feel that the palate could do a little better. Perhaps the EVV 96, the wine of the night was performing so well that it simply overshadowed everything else. I can imagine if there were no comparison I would've given perhaps a slightly higher score for the GE 95. Given the relatively stronger body I do feel this wine will age for a little longer and probably still has more than a decade of drinking window ahead of it.
Drink: Now-2034
Rating: 92
September 4, 2022 - probably time to drink up. Fine but nothing amazing. Good fruit and mineral. Stewed strawberries.
March 19, 2022 - Classic 95 Burg. Lite amber on rim with clear garnet color. After 2 hours the nose fully registered with dark cherry and blackberry, some dark chocolate. Palate should more of the same with Vosne spice and ending with hints of violet and some French oak on a moderate plus finish.
February 18, 2020 - Dark red in color. Wonderful nose shows lifted Vosne spice, sandalwood, dark candied cherry, hint of graphite and smoke. Large scaled in the mouth showing sweet dark macerated cherries, cocoa, no tannins, medium acidity, toasty oak still present and perfumed finish. If not for the toasty oak the wine would have merited a higher score.
June 29, 2018 - Corked
March 28, 2015 - totally discombobulated
October 29, 2013 - Deep red in color. Slow o'd for ~6 h. A very showy wine indeed with high pitched Vosne spice (mulled spices) aromas, red raspberries veering towards the blacker spectrum, oak and violets. A medium bodied palate follows through with good depth to the crushed red berry fruits, a velvety mouthfeel, lovely inner mouth perfume of wood spice and medium acidity with some discernable oak on the finish.
February 28, 2011 - started out not giving up much openned for an hour and then decanted before pouring ....openned up a bit but was not a strong performer.....brought to a Burgundy dinner
November 8, 2010 - Garnet with orange at the rim. Nose was outhouse and dried herbs, nic e in an odd old way. Taste was acidic, thin, not pleasant. This wine is just not very good, but there are some in the Cult that would wax poetic. Feh.
July 18, 2010 - At first it had a unusual unpleasant taste.........but not corked. Decanted and the unpleasantness dissipated and over time and it got better. the oak and tannin were just a little much for the fruit(strawberries and cherry) but it was very drinkable with food.....some secondary flavors emerged. I too wonder if age will help the last bottle I have or not. May be a good experiment to just stick this "just Ok ' wine in a keep for 5 years box and see what comes out the other end