Community Tasting Note

justburg wrote:

Saturday, June 13, 2015 - Dinner at Les Amis. Off the winelist, and the bottle was in quite perfect condition. I must say the sommelier, Yang, despite his youth handled the wines impeccably. This was undoubtedly the oldest wine of the evening. Very clear, but with a touch of orange around the rim. The nose was stunningly elegant. Arabian spice, wood, leather, truffle and earth, immensely perfumed with dried roses and violets. Plums, tart cherries and wild strawberries completed the quite superb bouquet on this 32 year old masterpiece. There was some rusticity, barnyard and dirt on the palate at the initial stage which blew off quickly. The wine had lots of secondary characteristics like wood, earth, truffle, mushrooms, but the fruits (with quite some of it remaining) still had the freshness and acidity. There was lavender, roses, wild strawberries, red kiwis and plums, with just the slightest touch of raisins and sour prune. Chocolates and coffee emerged after about 3 hours in the glass. This was a quite sensational wine, the first Chambertin from Rousseau I've had the fortune of tasting, thanks to Peter and SS. In its peak drinking window, and the perfect representation of a top top matured Burgundy.

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