Community Tasting Note

Barry Rothof wrote:

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - Red Burgundy tasting (@ Rotterdam, Netherlands): Hello, old friend… With a medium intense translucent ruby core, we’re more into familiar territory. While beyond medium intense on the nose, a slight spritzy fuzziness takes a few minutes to dissipate and then its black fruits resemble blackberries, but I also smell an unprecedented note of bacon/pancetta.
The vintage shines through in its medium-plus body, while on the mid-palate medium acidity lends sufficient freshness to this consistently high-quality village. Medium-minus fine tannins are plushy enough to shore up medium-plus intense flavours of blueberry, which are both generous and mouth-filling. The finish does a convincing 20-25 seconds and while this wine surely is a shockingly ripe, open and delicious drink at the moment, it is definitely not the most typical of 10+ vintages I’ve tasted so far. I’ll give 88 points for this showing and perhaps medium-term cellaring will see this wine transform and warrant a slightly higher score ............. TN Mike de Lange.

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