Community Tasting Note

Musigny1955 wrote:

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - Cellared since release, prof storage, exc fill. PopNPour into Riedel O glass
-> Earthy, dusty, mute, hard to tell was Pinot Noir based wine. Double decanted balance of bottle, VacuVin'd once back in original bottle, retried at 24 h.

Then: earthy and dusty, clearly an intellectual wine of soil and structure; while Pinote, not Rabelaisian fruit. Good depth, good length... but still feel this wine needs a lot of time, the breadth of palate flavors feels like it needs a lot more time to reveal itself. Enjoyed- mostly respected- but will not pour a bottle for others without serious decanter time. For my palate 90 points but could be 92 with time. This is a very serious wine that should not be lightly poured. (Note bottles from 1865 reviewed by Burghound). IMHO, the very high end Beaunes like this need a lot of time to come around and are not made to be tossed down... notes by Burgandy and Englishman's Claret resonate; (the famous saying that this wine tastes like Infant Jesus in his velvet pants... maybe so in another 20 years).

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