Community Tasting Note

Barry Rothof wrote:

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 11 th Burgundy tasting - Reds part II (@ Rotterdam, Netherlands): …and we’re back to the wines that were doubly decanted at 08.30hrs. This one is medium intense, somewhat translucent ruby at the core. The nose starts us off at medium intensity and offers up refined notes of candied red fruits, sweet soy sauce and a hint of game. I’ve tasted examples of this vineyard from a handful of domaines, but the nose wasn’t very typical at this showing. Not quite medium-plus bodied on the attack, some positively silky, high-quality medium tannins and medium-plus acidity are somehow buffered completely by at most medium intense strawberry and cherry flavours, which receive added complexity on the mid-palate from a liquorice-like mineral edge. The finish continues in the same vein for 25-30 seconds. While this is by no means a bad wine and the matière seems first rate, I would have expected more from this famous domaine. So, 89 points for this showing and I expect that to rise to the low nineties in five years from now. .......... TN Mike de Lange.

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