Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, December 7, 2012 - Wine Bash of the Year 2012 (Jade Palace, Forum Galleria): I really wanted to shower this wine with my love, but in the end, it was very good rather than astounding. It did have a lovely nose, with wonderful notes of black cherries and dark berries surrounded by a halo of spice and meat, bramble and undergrowth - really nice stuff. On the palate, however, this showed both the strength and the weaknesses of the 1988 vintage. It had a lovely elegant feel for an Echezeaux, with firm but super-fine tannins and lovely, juicy 1998 acidity dancing around fine flavours of black cherries and blackberries. This had a lot of depth, but also a fine purity and clarity to it, with a certain precision that seems to go missing in less deftly handled wines from this vineyard. However, it finished rather weaker than it started, with the fruit fading a little at the backpalate, so that the wine seemed almost too fresh, too crunchy in its bright acidity and tannins, ending with a hint of 1988 dryness weaving its way through a little layer of ripe black fruit touched with spice and a hint of bramble. Overall, an excellent Echezeaux. However, this is neither the best I have drank, nor anywhere near that. A great experience, but as much for the Jayer name as for the quality of the wine. On a side note, even though I thought that it may have been a little better a few years back, this bottle was still going pretty strong.

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