Community Tasting Notes 5

• Genghis88 Likes this wine: 90 points

  December 26, 2023 - Happy Boxing Day!
  
  Translucent red garnet in color.
  Remnants of red fruit,. Some sangre of the nose, iodine.
  Medium body. Some acidity persists. All traits nicely integrated. There's those red berries again, faint as they might be. Some red licorice. I did not carafe the wine (maybe I should have) but just let it bottle-breathe.
  
  I was underwhelmed with the wine considering its cost. It seemed a little thin. No doubt a fine wine, but no wow factor. I'll try again in a couple of more years.
  
  Tonight's annual Scratch Salmon Wellington was a ten out of ten, however. Britt ate too much and is in a food coma now.

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• WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 points

  December 12, 2020 - saw my note from 2014 and it made sense... this bottle was great, with med ++ body, plenty 'o red fruit, and some spice rolling around in the background, decent (ie med) acidity, but enough to carry the fruit... pleasant side of 2006 vintage (without some of the smoke & oak I sometimes get)... in '14 I said wait at least five years and glad to say I waited six!! (rarely do I follow my own advice on 'waiting'), could plateau or get better over next 5-10 years as well but ready now with a multi-hour decant

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• tinybubbles Likes this wine: 91 points

  May 10, 2015 - Nose of red fruit, spice and sap, all somewhat subdued. Palate is not quite as luxurious and while it offers ripe fruit and rounded tannins, acid dominates the back palate.

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• WoodieBayArea wrote: 89 points

  December 14, 2014 - bought three of these and decided to try one, drank over three nights, saw barry rothof's note and i wasn't surprised, this was shut down hard -- especially in that it had ZERO fruit on the palate, nose was reticent, color was good and mouthfeel was fine, good acidity, not too much tannin, but almost had that wood and water thing going, nonetheless it wasn't bad -- it had something lurking in there -- but certainly disappointing, if i'm patient (and i'm often not) i'll wait five years for the next

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• Barry Rothof wrote: 93 points

  December 9, 2010 - This wine was also served blind, although nobody doubted the fact that it would be Bourgogne, knowing its donors inclinations. Popped and poured, it’s medium intense ruby coloured without any clearing or bricking. The nose is medium-plus intense and quite rich and sweet in a wood-spicy way, with again damsons as the main fruity ingredient. Air adds a gamey note. The wine is medium-plus bodied, with medium-plus ripe yet feisty tannins. In the textural sense they seem to be seamlessly integrated with a pronounced wood-spice component, which is quite a feat. Luxurious oak indeed. Pronounced acidity manages to keep the wine from being cloying on the quite extracted and intensely flavoured mid-palate and the 30 second finish adds a honeyed liquorice note, while kicking up flavour intensity another notch. Based on this showing I’d be inclined to give 93 points with some headroom, as more complexity and integration should make this wine more harmonious. While commenting on its likeness to Chambertin early on, I called it a very good Vosne Premier or perhaps Richebourg instead. Much to my relief, I did at least call the vintage correctly. As the evening progressed the fruit receded and wood notes started to dominate, rendering the wine somewhat clumsy. This does not bode well for its future, so if you have any stashed away I recommend drinking while this fruit-forward phase many 2006’s currently enjoy lasts. Otherwise, at least 10-15 years of cellaring might prove me wrong...... TN Mike de Lange

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Perrot-Minot
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Vieilles Vignes
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru

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