Tasted double blind, correctly identified as Grand Cru from 2000 or 2001, both vintages showing their age. I thought this Gevrey, and the Dujac whole cluster really wasn't coming through. I did really like the density and balance here, but Dujac's 2001 magic didn't quite come through. But I always find their Clos St Denis doesn't have nearly the longevity as their other Grand Crus.
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5 of 12 paired with 2008 Dujac Echezeaux… decanted at 3:00 served at 7:30…. Darker and more youthful color than the Echezeaux, tightly wound nose of black cherry fruit with baking spice. Layered dense red fruit, rich satiny texture, fine grained tannins, persistent finish. A remarkably youthful 23 year old GC still 5-10 years from full maturity. This is what great burgundy is all about bravo
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Dujac evening with friends - lucky enough to get this en magnum and side by side the splendid 02 CSD (standard bottle) what a pair. The 02 initially clearly showing better but when given a decant the 01 caught up rapidly to remain just a whisker behind the 02. Very fine boned, mineral, precise and fresh with long midpalate on a slightly grippy finish. A real treat and long life ahead. 96+
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A lovely bottle of this which is still rather firmly structured but with time in the glass it becomes really elegant and complex with notes of wild cherries, blueberries and a touch of charred barrel. The finish is fabulously complex with an array of spices and minerals. Not a broad wine but a very fine one with plenty of gas left in the tank.
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This was really in the zone tonight, just drinking great!! So floral and aromatic, with pretty red fruit and a super elegant structure. Lovely precision and fine & silky tannin -- such exceptional balance here. Perfectly mature for my taste, this was one of the most memorable bottles of Dujac I've ever tried.
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Magnum. Slow-ox for ~2 hours. This was wide open for business with intense, seductive aromas of mature red cherry with layers of earth and spice. Palate is mature but still plenty fresh, buoyant and long with so much fun, alluring spice and herb. Classic whole-cluster Dujac.
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Pausing for the Cause Fundraiser and Dinner (Obelix - Chicago IL): Alongside the 2014. Maturing red cherry and berry, well spiced and complex. Lots of complex fruit, earth, spice throughout. Probably better a few years back, but still very good through the decade.
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Easter Saturday (Chicago, IL): In contrast to the fully mature 2000 which was drinking splendidly from the get-go, this bottle was clamped down and ornery at the beginning. The high-acid structure of 2001 is on full display here, and there's no mistaking the plush generosity of the 2000 versus this. The fruit is bright red, with plenty of Dujac spice; it's just that right from the get-go this was too taut and nowhere as exuberantly expressive. But when we revisited this bottle at the end of the evening, this became everything classic about Dujac -- that spice showed in heaps, there was beautifully clean fruit, and this lovely minerally texture undergirding everything. The right thing to do tonight would have been to fully finish the 2000 first (which started to fade a little at the end of the evening) and then drink the 2001 as it started to blossom.
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4 of 12 En Flight with 2001 Dujac Clos St Dennis, 2001 Rousseau GC Clos St Jacques, 2001 Roumier CM Les Amarouse, 2001 and 2002 Lignier Clos du la Roche
Flights like this really allow one to compare and contrast the wonderful differences each of these great domains. The CSD, which I find to have the most explosive aromatics of Dujacs GCs, delivered a stunning bouquet of sweet red fruits which kept my nose in the glass for several minutes before moving on the other wines. At the other end of the was Roumier’s Les Amarouse, a broody beast demanding more time in the glass. As noted this wine is really in its early sweet spot delivering a palate to match its nose, layers beautiful clean red fruit, spice, fine tannins, good acidity, lovely texture and persistent finish. This wine draws your lips back for another sip, clearly this was the most ready for prime time of the flight.
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Tasted blind, served as a pair with the CDR. Here it is, the million dollar Dujac whole cluster nose. I guessed the producer right, but could say which one was the CDR/CSD. The CSD had a cloudy color with camphor and damp forest floor elements while the CDR was bright and shiny, lots of sour cherry intermixed with cured meat and stemmy elements. Both were very grand, very much in the house style.
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First time I’’ve had this in almost 4 years, the aromatics have massively improved. This is quintessential Dujac perfume with brown sugared herbs and violets. It’s light on its feet with dark cherry and thyme flavors.
The 01 vintage shows itself with the lean finish and slight astringency of the tannins which limits the upside. I’m happy to have more of these, but if i had to buy at these prices, I’d pay more and get the 02....at least there you can argue if money is no object the quality is sublime
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Can’t believe the price increase of this wine. It’s a great bottle. The oak of yesteryear has subsided and the stem has integrated to an arresting perfume instead. Ripe and delicious cherry fruit and supported by structural acidity. It’s too young still. Interestingly, best was first glass then started to shut down. Will hold.
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One of those frustrating nights where the wine is moving back and forth -- brought on in part by hot temperatures that make the wine's temperature difficult to hold constant. Initially, typically spicy nose, but seemed acidic on the palate. Then opened to the spices in nose and mouth and sensuality on the palate, dark plum fruit. Has gone in-and-out since. A very good Clos St-Denis, but not as great as some of the others can be. Cellared since original release.
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This is deep and earthy, with some floral spice. There’s a core of black cherry and a fair bit of animale funk. Good but I have had far better bottles of this ’01.
#2 of 12. As has been noted in the last dozen TNs this is hitting on all cylinders, a melange of red and dark fruits engulf your nose upon opening, a quick taste and into the decanter for 3 hours. This wine has it all, layers of sweet red and black fruit, earth, spice, smooth tannins, elegant mouthfeel, perfect balance and long finish, certainly a grand cru in every way. This wine should still pick up greater complexity over the the next few years.
Wow - this is good! Fantastic, complex and perfumed pinot nose. Many layers of earthy, mushroom but also clear red and black fruit flavous. Very balanced and smooth with ample underlying power at the same time. Very long. It might even have a bit further development potential with its underlying core of fruit but it is drinking so good now.
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A great wine whose only flaw was following two utterly epic wines. This was everything one could want in an ’01 Grand Cru, it’s in a great spot just starting to show what it has. With air, it evolved into a sweeter and more beguiling wine. Beautiful, but not yet as complete and mature as the wines that preceded it.
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Les Amoureuses Dinner (Imperial Treasure Teochew, Ion): A great wine to crown the night. I lost my detailed notes on this unfortunately, so just a brief impression The nose was wonderful, with wafts of blueberry fruit, earth and toasty Morey spice leading into a full, very polished, very whole palate, with velvety tannins and deeply integrated acidity wrapped around a core of pure blueberry fruit, spice and a hint of earth tones. A deep, inexorable wine, yet all elegantly focused and impeccable balanced. Solid. Still needs time though!
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Spicy red fruits, lightness of texture, but this wine seemed to be at an intermediate phase, not quite fully integrated. Keep remaining bottles for some time. Cellared since original release.
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Domaine Visit & Tasting at Dujac (Morey St. Denis): Served blind. PnP. Complex, exotic and alluring nose of smoke, tar, stem, pleasant earthy funk and red and black cherry. The palate has medium+ concentration. Earthy, stemmy red fruits. A bit short but I suspect a bit of air will round out and lengthen the wine. Love Dujac of this era. 93-95+
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Domaine Dujac Cellar Visit and Tasting (Morey-St.-Denis): Tasted blind at the domaine. So much elegant and mature red fruit. This also came across as from a leaner vintage with very elegant style and very good density, coming across clearly as Grand Cru to me. I correctly identified both the vintage and appellation.
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East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party (Chez R&G): nose - cinnamon, spicebox mouth -strongly spice inflected. spicey mid palate, spicey finish. are these the stems showing? with time the fruit unfurls and shows itself to be spicey as well.
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East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party: This had high ullage and a horrifically beaten down cork with some leakage under the capsule. Nonetheless the bottle was generally sound, showing a delicious melange of gentle spice, soft integrated red fruits and sophisticated sous-bois. With air a brown sugar madera note appears, and some blurriness develops at the edges of the fruit, and I suspect better cared for bottles will show fresher than this. But I enjoyed this bottle very much.
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Light ruby. Red & blue fruit, burnt sugar, potting soil, and a whiff of baking spice. Improbable concentration condensed into a light body with ripe acidity and ripe & softening tannins. Killer energy! Long finish. A surprise hit. This is gorgeously open & aromatic today but has the fruit & structure to hold in there for the long haul. Drink now through 2030+.
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2006 RC and 2006 DRC Montrachet dinner - Stanley Cup Final (Proof Restaurant - Washington DC): Absolutely gorgeous nose displaying decadent red and black fruit, blackberry, raspberry, black cherry, a hint of dark caramel and spices and earth. Excellent concentration, nicely layered generous cherry fruit, perfect amount of acidity and earthy mineral, and a long seamless sweet red and black fruit driven finish. Drinking magnificently but there is ample fruit to improve further.
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Fireworks for January: plethora of top wines with great friends (Black Salt Restaurant, Washington D.C.): The best of three red Burgundies. At 13% alcohol, rich and elegant at the same time. This has such a perfume about it. Pinot Noir ripe cherry, black cherry. Beguiling. Sexy like a fox. 93 points. Or 94? Heck, give it 95 and be done with it. Indeed, Ken Brown and Charles Stewart and I all three preferred this more than the other two! So, pretty clearly a winner. Bravo!
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Slightly holding back on the nose, though it's still beautiful, mixing excellent earth and leather aromas with dark berry fruit. Slightly sharp, tart action on the palate, showing freshness and extract in spades. Calms down toward the back. Favorite element is the nose, with a suggestion of umami to it. The wine seems to need more time to unfold on the palate, however.
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Served single blind. This was so dark and shut down most people pegged this as the 01 Lambrays. At the end of the night 3 hours later this was just staring to show its potential. Not sure if this is going through another closed phase or if this bottle was kept in a cool celller. Hold.
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Theme: MSD Grand Crus Light ruby. Full of perfume red fruits of cherry, pomogranate and highly seductive floral scents, elegant. This has the best harmony tonight and the complex umami and inner perfume is incredible. Well deserved for WOTN.
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During a Domaine tasting, only brief impressions. Also here a oxidative, mushroom nose, some red fruit under neath. Not sure it is supposed to be oxidative. NR
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Opened for an hour and consumed over the following 90 minutes...it drank beautifully though the bouquet never opened up. Aromas of tobacco, herbs and smoked meat were subdued but this really unfolded in a precise, complex and ultimately somewhat decadent way in the mouth. The dark cherry fruit is somewhat secondary to the panoply of earthy, herbal, meaty flavors. Would have scored it higher if it weren't a bit reticent on the nose.
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Very pretty on the nose. Red fruited, spice, and a bit of sexy. A bit more open than a couple of years ago. I think this may be starting to open and enter a drinking window. Delicious. A couple deemed it WOTN over the 99 Rousseau CSJ. I preferred the CSJ but not by much.
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First of a case. Bright ruby color, initially restrained nose a full hour to show its stuff. Palate was much more accessible, fresh, bright red fruits with good acidity, perfectly balanced silky texture and a lovely finish, Absolutely delicious now and will clearly pick up complexity over the next 5-10 years.
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A good bottle of wine but very tight. The nose was very restrained while still having that dujac smell. The palate hints to a well structured wine with good acidity that needs time to shine.
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Drank alongside the '01 Dujac Clos de la Roche. Table consensus favored the CdlR, although I gave the edge to this CSD. Initially some earthy funk on the nose, which blew off after a while. Then, that lovely Dujac perfume, spicy Pinot fruit, all that structure already well integrated, good balance of acidity... Was surprised how well it's drinking now, but this clearly will benefit from more time. Very nice.
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2002 Champagne and Burgundy dinner with Eric (Chez Billy Sud - Washington DC): Intense ripe sweet red and black fruits, clove and other sweet spices, mushroom and earth. Excellent concentration, round and warm, sweet red fruit driven palate impression, good acidity, nicely integrated tannins and seamless finish with sweet spice as the end note. Definitely ready and more mature than all 02s. Drinking really nicely at the moment.
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La Paulee Dinner at Recette (Recette): Very ripe plummy fruit, quite ripe for the vintage, with lots minty and spicy stem character and a light vanilla edge from the oak. Very Dujac. The nose is extremely expressive and absolutely wonderful. Still very young on the palate, medium bodied, the oak and the structure have not quite integrated yet and the tannins are a touch chalky. Very, very good now but needs more time in bottle, this may have been just a bit shutdown. Not nearly as mature or texturally refined at this stage as a recent 2000.
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My first Dujac (and my first grand cru) and I am rating this based on a food pairing alone. If I had to score it on food pairing it is probably a 95. A soft and subtle wine, with a complete palate of subtle red fruit, light stone, and earthy notes of stem and pinot. Perfect medium acid to compliment the food, and just enough earthiness to finish. This burg killed with a complex mushroom soup. Likely good with anything.
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Dujac dinner at Jade Palace. 2nd bottle in the first flight of 3 blinded. Bright to dark red, very intense bouquet, with lots of sweet ripe cherries, wild strawberries and fresh leather. Very elegant and defined on the nose. Palate had good structure, fairly acidic but lots of intense and sweet fruit to balance that out well. Loads of cherries and fresh peaches, very plush, elegant and silky. Lovely wine.
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Thursday Night Dinner (The White House, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong): Semi-transparent lambs blood colour but darker at the core. Nose is wow!....gorgeous....shitty but clean cow sheds..... they must be Swiss cattle.... wonderful sous bois and dusky wild woodland strawberries.....very integrated and holistic......you just fall headlong down the rabbit hole into the dusky, alluring perfume. Palate is an absolutely velvet glove with a great acidic vivacity that wakes up the mid-palate followed by gorgeous mellowed forest floor fruit and just incredible fine dusted tannins, the epitome of "powdered tannins". Fantastic......a truly beautiful experience.
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Utterly profound wine. Still rather dark color with overwhelming bouquet of wild flowers and earth. Essence of Morey. Sappy yet lithe with great persistence. On the young side still.
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A beautiful bottle, still young, the fruit and leather components of the nose are blended together, complex long palete shows the gc nature, still has time in hand, I did not notice the steely csd signature as much as I have in other bottles, more fruit driven. Solid Dujac.
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Daniel's bachelor party. Holy moly was this great! Opened a couple hours before drinking. Nose was off the charts, with black and red fruits, a little gameiness and just super-complex. The palate was lacy and so very fine, elegant and poised, with a long, fresh finish. This was amazing.
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Dinner with Véro and Bertrand - Compared to the CdR from the same year I had a couple of years ago, this bottle showed less complexity on the nose (the bouquet was nonetheless riveting, as is often the case with Dujac) but the palate was denser, juicier and more compact, which is somewhat unusual for the vintage and not really befitting the CSD vs CdR classical idiotypes. A great bottle of wine by all means, put a '98 Anne Gros Richebourg to shame that evening.
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Haunting nose of red fruit, wood, soy Slow start with a little bit of acidity but the lenght and the equilibirum of the mouth is very good - tannins fully integrated The viscosity is striking This wine remains a mistery as I feel I did not fully cracked it
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A little of that preserved plum , indian spices , sour succulent balsamic notes. A lil herbal Hawthorne fruits an stewed roibois spicy currant tea. An amazing trip to paradise and back
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End of the World Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Tremendous. This rounded up a trio of Grand Cru Burgs beautifully, and as good as the two Rousseau wines that preceded it were, I thought that this was perhaps the best of its flight, showing a touch more depth and complexity than either of them. It had an amazing bouquet, with layers of Morey spice and meat and earth on a lovely undercurrent of blueberries and black cherries, and then a pretty whiff of violets and just a tiny citrusy lift. Lovely stuff. It was the palate that really knocked my socks off though. This had all the light freshness of the 2001 vintage, but unlike say the 2001 Ruchottes earlier, it also had a reservoir of depth and lots of fleshy fruit above its fresh acidity, with a supple strength and muscle in an attack that showed rich flavours blueberries and dark cherries robed in lovely, velvety tannins. I thought the midpalate was just a bit on the tighter side, lacking some of the power and authority of the start, but the wine made up for it with it on the finish, where it was all sweeping grace and elegance, with the silkiest feel to otherwise savoury, masculine flavours of smoked meat and earth and toasty spice, with a hint of the violets picked up on the nose floating away around a core dark fruit. A beautiful expression of the Clos St Denis vineyard, this was quite the iron fist in a velvet glove. A great wine even now, but though this had been opened a couple of hours before serving, it still came across as the youngest and most tightly wound of the three wines, one that was just about creeping towards its drinking window. Assuming the world does not end on 21 December 2012, I would give it some 3-4 years more before opening another.
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Restaurationen. Very expressive and deep nose of dark berries, coffee, caramel, forest floor, bright black fruit and spices. Somewhat reductive nose with very good punch! Sweet attack with spicy feeling to the fruit. On the palate, very good balance, and quite fresh for the age and vintage. Lovely now!
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Excellent color and pretty nose of cherry spice. Medium-bodied with a slight effervescence which calms down after an hour. Underneath is beautiful, crisp cherry fruit. The finish is long and really spicy. This should be gorgeous in another 5 years plus. 92+
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Opened and drank over 3hrs. Elegant sweet nose of red fruits. Soft on the palate with a little dryness on the finish. Enjoyable but not as round or complete as the 2002.
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This had a very nice combination of the Dujac stemminess and the sappy, almost candied young red fruit. Still very primary and the youthfulness of the fruit gave it almost a juicy, simple quality despite the range, depth and length of the wine. This will need some time for the fruit to integrate and become a bit less jumpy and overt. Still, nice raw material and a nice look at what could be a pretty intriguing wine in time. Give a minimum of 5 more years until the next go round.
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Red cherries, spice with hint of herbs on the nose. The 04 Cristom Summers Res (OR) gave it a run for the money side by side. Nice depth and balance. Should improve with time in the bottle.
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2011 Casual Session - 12 @ Jade Palace (Jade Palce @ The Forum Shopping Mall): Alcohol :: 13% Decanted for 1.5hrs and this fan out beautifully. Quite floral and game at first, not expressive but open up nicely with high tone floral note that consist full of essence Pinot note, blue and red cherry aromas with delicate tea leaves sum up the highly seductive, fragrance aromatic profile, really good! Delicate and intense, though lack a bit of layered from the good vintages, this actually provide immense drinking pleasure now compared to the 06 which offer more substances but need more ages to show. This has what I ask from a Pinot: elegance, pure and finesse. Super silky tannin along with subtle sweet fruits, soft, refreshing acidity. Very delicious, focus finish that lingered with autumn leaves and mineral that last for a minute, oh, so elegance, complete and utterly delicious that I keep asking for more!
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Heidi's 2.0 Kickoff - Red Burgundy FAIL (Heidi's, Minneapolis): Consistent with prior TNs. Notably younger and more structured than the 2000, tasted side-by-side (see TN), with more of a black fruit profile. A bit stern at first, but unwound beautifully over a few hours. Earth, dark fruit, and spice that build to an elegant, long finish. This has the structure to age gracefully for many more years.
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Good dark fruit and mocha nose, big cherry taste - good acidity but a little too sour for me. long aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel. Drank it over a couple of nights and there were times when it seemed a little thin in the middle. Very good but not quite the bang I was expecting for a grand cru, but then it was an off year for the Cote de Beaune and perhaps it was starting to taper off.
'88 Northern Rhones at Siggy's: It's traditional to end a night at Siggy's in Burgundy, and he didn't let us down. Popped and poured. Awesome Dujac nose of stemmy dark fruit and coffee aromas. The taste is equally great with great texture and great balance. A perfect way to finish the evening. Thanks Siggy.
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Dark berry nose with an obvious presence of wood. Stemmy, sappy, crushed red berries on the palate with firm structure and nice acidity throughout. Good grip on the medium plus finish.
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Burg of the night, rocked with wild mushroom risotto. Super sexy wine that seems to be at the top of it's game. I've only had CSD a few times, but love the elegance of this vineyard
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Lac Dujac (Braeburn): Without a doubt leaner than the '98 in both the intensity and the sweetness of the fruit; in terms of fruit, this seems to show as much skin as flesh. And the word "bony" again seems apropos—here's another '01 that seems to stretch the material too thin over the frame. It gets better with air, and I liked it better than the Echezeaux, since even though it seems a little hollow it still conveys a sense of dimension; maybe bottle age will manage to color in the rest.
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This wine polarized the table. It received the most votes for wine of the flight but several people were worried by its level of bret. I thought it had an intoxicating perfume of cherries and meat with that sappy whole bunch lift that one associates with Dujac. The palate was lacy and fine with sneaky power and a tight, minerally finish.
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Sexy, opulent, and well-balanced. Not the most complex Burgundy, at least at this stage of evolution. Nevertheless, it's very tough for any palate not to enjoy this wine. I am loathe to use the term since it's been beaten to death by you-know-who, but it applies here: hedonistic. Strongly recommended. B+
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G7 (Alex): Strawberry, cola, earth and plumb. Nice acidity and balance. Good depth of fruit in the mid palate. Very complex finish. My favorite red of the flight.
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a general discussion of the wine being closed, and a strong opinion that the dujac ethos expressed in this wine lacks a sense of place. my experience isn't enough to comment on the terroir. all i know is that i enjoyed the wine, and felt it was the most intellectual in the tasting. i see this developing, shedding it's plumpness, and rounding out/improving. it will never be a delicate wine of nuance, but it's certainly fun to drink.
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Tasting Group Dinner (Craig's House): Second time I've had this. More so than the first bottle, this was fairly closed and only hinting at its true character. Layered, perfumed dark fruit, earth, and spice. Terrific flavor concentration. Velvety, minerally texture, framed judiciously by new oak. A well-balanced and structured wine that needs several more years to unravel.
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A surprisingly full-bodied Clos St. Denis for Dujac considering the vintage. Its loaded with sweet dark cherry and blueberry fruit which is balanced by zingy fresh acidity. Finishes quite concentrated although the flavors are still primary and possesses a beautiful round and silky texture. Poised to be a top Dujac bottling with another 5 or more years of aging required. 93+
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@ Fifth Floor w/CMM. Nose is full of the vegatative stem-character and filled out with deep and dark fruit. Overall mid-palette structure is refined and has silky mouthfeel. Complex finish that lasts.
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Tasting at Wine and Cheese Show - The highlights: Deep red, but not dark. Lovely nose is singing dark fruit, complexity. Still very primary but there is good effort in both the mid pallette and the finish. Some very plush tannins can be picked up, but this is going to be stinky great pinot in 5 to 10 years. Nice.
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4/21/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Tasted double blind, correctly identified as Grand Cru from 2000 or 2001, both vintages showing their age. I thought this Gevrey, and the Dujac whole cluster really wasn't coming through. I did really like the density and balance here, but Dujac's 2001 magic didn't quite come through. But I always find their Clos St Denis doesn't have nearly the longevity as their other Grand Crus.
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3/3/2024 - paul195 wrote: 96 Points
5 of 12 paired with 2008 Dujac Echezeaux… decanted at 3:00 served at 7:30…. Darker and more youthful color than the Echezeaux, tightly wound nose of black cherry fruit with baking spice. Layered dense red fruit, rich satiny texture, fine grained tannins, persistent finish. A remarkably youthful 23 year old GC still 5-10 years from full maturity. This is what great burgundy is all about bravo
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1/23/2024 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 96 Points
Dujac evening with friends - lucky enough to get this en magnum and side by side the splendid 02 CSD (standard bottle) what a pair. The 02 initially clearly showing better but when given a decant the 01 caught up rapidly to remain just a whisker behind the 02. Very fine boned, mineral, precise and fresh with long midpalate on a slightly grippy finish. A real treat and long life ahead. 96+
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10/21/2023 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
A lovely bottle of this which is still rather firmly structured but with time in the glass it becomes really elegant and complex with notes of wild cherries, blueberries and a touch of charred barrel. The finish is fabulously complex with an array of spices and minerals. Not a broad wine but a very fine one with plenty of gas left in the tank.
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9/30/2023 - Viking10 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Delicious, drinking really well with our roast chicken. Very smooth, floral, pinot noir on steroids, long, impressive.
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9/28/2023 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 98 Points
This was really in the zone tonight, just drinking great!! So floral and aromatic, with pretty red fruit and a super elegant structure. Lovely precision and fine & silky tannin -- such exceptional balance here. Perfectly mature for my taste, this was one of the most memorable bottles of Dujac I've ever tried.
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9/17/2023 - Nanda wrote: 97 Points
Magnum. Slow-ox for ~2 hours. This was wide open for business with intense, seductive aromas of mature red cherry with layers of earth and spice. Palate is mature but still plenty fresh, buoyant and long with so much fun, alluring spice and herb. Classic whole-cluster Dujac.
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9/17/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Pausing for the Cause Fundraiser and Dinner (Obelix - Chicago IL): Alongside the 2014. Maturing red cherry and berry, well spiced and complex. Lots of complex fruit, earth, spice throughout. Probably better a few years back, but still very good through the decade.
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9/2/2023 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Floral with sousbois, autumnal aromatics. There's a haunting, baritone depth. Good length too.
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4/8/2023 - acyso wrote: 98 Points
Easter Saturday (Chicago, IL): In contrast to the fully mature 2000 which was drinking splendidly from the get-go, this bottle was clamped down and ornery at the beginning. The high-acid structure of 2001 is on full display here, and there's no mistaking the plush generosity of the 2000 versus this. The fruit is bright red, with plenty of Dujac spice; it's just that right from the get-go this was too taut and nowhere as exuberantly expressive. But when we revisited this bottle at the end of the evening, this became everything classic about Dujac -- that spice showed in heaps, there was beautifully clean fruit, and this lovely minerally texture undergirding everything. The right thing to do tonight would have been to fully finish the 2000 first (which started to fade a little at the end of the evening) and then drink the 2001 as it started to blossom.
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2/23/2022 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Initially, so well rounded but became very green and faded relative to the ponsot cdlr as it evolved in the glass.
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12/23/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Reflects classical Clos Saint Denis. More floral, silky than Clos de la Roche. Glossy finish. Elegance and length.
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4/26/2021 - paul195 Likes this wine: 96 Points
4 of 12 En Flight with 2001 Dujac Clos St Dennis, 2001 Rousseau GC Clos St Jacques, 2001 Roumier CM Les Amarouse, 2001 and 2002 Lignier Clos du la Roche
Flights like this really allow one to compare and contrast the wonderful differences each of these great domains. The CSD, which I find to have the most explosive aromatics of Dujacs GCs, delivered a stunning bouquet of sweet red fruits which kept my nose in the glass for several minutes before moving on the other wines. At the other end of the was Roumier’s Les Amarouse, a broody beast demanding more time in the glass.
As noted this wine is really in its early sweet spot delivering a palate to match its nose, layers beautiful clean red fruit, spice, fine tannins, good acidity, lovely texture and persistent finish. This wine draws your lips back for another sip, clearly this was the most ready for prime time of the flight.
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3/12/2021 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points
Tasted blind, served as a pair with the CDR. Here it is, the million dollar Dujac whole cluster nose. I guessed the producer right, but could say which one was the CDR/CSD. The CSD had a cloudy color with camphor and damp forest floor elements while the CDR was bright and shiny, lots of sour cherry intermixed with cured meat and stemmy elements. Both were very grand, very much in the house style.
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1/22/2021 - Bobby Burgundy wrote: 96 Points
What a beauty really like this wine
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1/16/2021 - kr522 wrote: 94 Points
First time I’’ve had this in almost 4 years, the aromatics have massively improved. This is quintessential Dujac perfume with brown sugared herbs and violets. It’s light on its feet with dark cherry and thyme flavors.
The 01 vintage shows itself with the lean finish and slight astringency of the tannins which limits the upside. I’m happy to have more of these, but if i had to buy at these prices, I’d pay more and get the 02....at least there you can argue if money is no object the quality is sublime
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10/7/2020 - acheng wrote: 93 Points
Can’t believe the price increase of this wine. It’s a great bottle. The oak of yesteryear has subsided and the stem has integrated to an arresting perfume instead. Ripe and delicious cherry fruit and supported by structural acidity. It’s too young still. Interestingly, best was first glass then started to shut down. Will hold.
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8/18/2020 - cfk49 wrote: 94 Points
One of those frustrating nights where the wine is moving back and forth -- brought on in part by hot temperatures that make the wine's temperature difficult to hold constant. Initially, typically spicy nose, but seemed acidic on the palate. Then opened to the spices in nose and mouth and sensuality on the palate, dark plum fruit. Has gone in-and-out since. A very good Clos St-Denis, but not as great as some of the others can be. Cellared since original release.
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1/18/2020 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This is deep and earthy, with some floral spice. There’s a core of black cherry and a fair bit of animale funk. Good but I have had far better bottles of this ’01.
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12/22/2019 - paul195 wrote: 96 Points
#2 of 12. As has been noted in the last dozen TNs this is hitting on all cylinders, a melange of red and dark fruits engulf your nose upon opening, a quick taste and into the decanter for 3 hours. This wine has it all, layers of sweet red and black fruit, earth, spice, smooth tannins, elegant mouthfeel, perfect balance and long finish, certainly a grand cru in every way. This wine should still pick up greater complexity over the the next few years.
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11/23/2019 - larsth wrote: 95 Points
Wow - this is good! Fantastic, complex and perfumed pinot nose. Many layers of earthy, mushroom but also clear red and black fruit flavous. Very balanced and smooth with ample underlying power at the same time. Very long. It might even have a bit further development potential with its underlying core of fruit but it is drinking so good now.
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8/31/2019 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
A great wine whose only flaw was following two utterly epic wines. This was everything one could want in an ’01 Grand Cru, it’s in a great spot just starting to show what it has. With air, it evolved into a sweeter and more beguiling wine. Beautiful, but not yet as complete and mature as the wines that preceded it.
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8/5/2019 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Les Amoureuses Dinner (Imperial Treasure Teochew, Ion): A great wine to crown the night. I lost my detailed notes on this unfortunately, so just a brief impression The nose was wonderful, with wafts of blueberry fruit, earth and toasty Morey spice leading into a full, very polished, very whole palate, with velvety tannins and deeply integrated acidity wrapped around a core of pure blueberry fruit, spice and a hint of earth tones. A deep, inexorable wine, yet all elegantly focused and impeccable balanced. Solid. Still needs time though!
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7/7/2019 - cfk49 wrote: 93 Points
Spicy red fruits, lightness of texture, but this wine seemed to be at an intermediate phase, not quite fully integrated. Keep remaining bottles for some time. Cellared since original release.
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7/2/2019 - Nanda wrote:
Domaine Visit & Tasting at Dujac (Morey St. Denis): Served blind. PnP. Complex, exotic and alluring nose of smoke, tar, stem, pleasant earthy funk and red and black cherry. The palate has medium+ concentration. Earthy, stemmy red fruits. A bit short but I suspect a bit of air will round out and lengthen the wine. Love Dujac of this era. 93-95+
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7/2/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Domaine Dujac Cellar Visit and Tasting (Morey-St.-Denis): Tasted blind at the domaine. So much elegant and mature red fruit. This also came across as from a leaner vintage with very elegant style and very good density, coming across clearly as Grand Cru to me. I correctly identified both the vintage and appellation.
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6/1/2019 - d'Artagnan wrote: 94 Points
Au 50e d'Éric
Une superbe bouteille! Vin plein de finesse et d'élégance, à maturité mais en pleine forme. Un délice subtil et délicat. 94 pts
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2/16/2019 - wardamnwine wrote: 94 Points
Fantastic, but not close to peak.
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12/15/2018 - soyhead wrote:
East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party (Chez R&G): nose - cinnamon, spicebox
mouth -strongly spice inflected. spicey mid palate, spicey finish. are these the stems showing? with time the fruit unfurls and shows itself to be spicey as well.
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12/15/2018 - 5laton wrote:
East Bay Burgundy Group - Holiday Dinner Party: This had high ullage and a horrifically beaten down cork with some leakage under the capsule. Nonetheless the bottle was generally sound, showing a delicious melange of gentle spice, soft integrated red fruits and sophisticated sous-bois. With air a brown sugar madera note appears, and some blurriness develops at the edges of the fruit, and I suspect better cared for bottles will show fresher than this. But I enjoyed this bottle very much.
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7/28/2018 - rlove wrote: 94 Points
Light ruby. Red & blue fruit, burnt sugar, potting soil, and a whiff of baking spice. Improbable concentration condensed into a light body with ripe acidity and ripe & softening tannins. Killer energy! Long finish. A surprise hit. This is gorgeously open & aromatic today but has the fruit & structure to hold in there for the long haul. Drink now through 2030+.
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6/7/2018 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points
2006 RC and 2006 DRC Montrachet dinner - Stanley Cup Final (Proof Restaurant - Washington DC): Absolutely gorgeous nose displaying decadent red and black fruit, blackberry, raspberry, black cherry, a hint of dark caramel and spices and earth. Excellent concentration, nicely layered generous cherry fruit, perfect amount of acidity and earthy mineral, and a long seamless sweet red and black fruit driven finish. Drinking magnificently but there is ample fruit to improve further.
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1/30/2018 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fireworks for January: plethora of top wines with great friends (Black Salt Restaurant, Washington D.C.): The best of three red Burgundies. At 13% alcohol, rich and elegant at the same time. This has such a perfume about it. Pinot Noir ripe cherry, black cherry. Beguiling. Sexy like a fox. 93 points. Or 94? Heck, give it 95 and be done with it. Indeed, Ken Brown and Charles Stewart and I all three preferred this more than the other two! So, pretty clearly a winner. Bravo!
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1/15/2018 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine:
Slightly holding back on the nose, though it's still beautiful, mixing excellent earth and leather aromas with dark berry fruit. Slightly sharp, tart action on the palate, showing freshness and extract in spades. Calms down toward the back. Favorite element is the nose, with a suggestion of umami to it. The wine seems to need more time to unfold on the palate, however.
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12/21/2017 - FYC wrote:
Served single blind. This was so dark and shut down most people pegged this as the 01 Lambrays. At the end of the night 3 hours later this was just staring to show its potential. Not sure if this is going through another closed phase or if this bottle was kept in a cool celller. Hold.
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10/6/2017 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Theme: MSD Grand Crus
Light ruby. Full of perfume red fruits of cherry, pomogranate and highly seductive floral scents, elegant. This has the best harmony tonight and the complex umami and inner perfume is incredible. Well deserved for WOTN.
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10/6/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
MSD GC theme'd dinner @ Summer Pavilion.
TBU...
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7/21/2017 - Collector1855 wrote: flawed
During a Domaine tasting, only brief impressions. Also here a oxidative, mushroom nose, some red fruit under neath. Not sure it is supposed to be oxidative. NR
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7/4/2017 - kr522 wrote: 94 Points
Opened for an hour and consumed over the following 90 minutes...it drank beautifully though the bouquet never opened up. Aromas of tobacco, herbs and smoked meat were subdued but this really unfolded in a precise, complex and ultimately somewhat decadent way in the mouth. The dark cherry fruit is somewhat secondary to the panoply of earthy, herbal, meaty flavors. Would have scored it higher if it weren't a bit reticent on the nose.
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6/23/2017 - VinoVeloVinyl wrote: 92 Points
La Grande Paulée at Cabotte (Cabotte, 48 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7AY): Lots of tannins still probably in part from the whole bunch fermentation. Supple and herby flavoured with earthy notes over some pretty red cherry fruit. Not quite the Dujac of my dreams alas.
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6/12/2017 - FYC wrote:
Very pretty on the nose. Red fruited, spice, and a bit of sexy. A bit more open than a couple of years ago. I think this may be starting to open and enter a drinking window. Delicious. A couple deemed it WOTN over the 99 Rousseau CSJ. I preferred the CSJ but not by much.
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2/25/2017 - JOsgood wrote:
Another fantastic bottle. Showing some secondary notes now with pure silk on the palate and a knockout nose. Beautiful Burgundy.
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1/13/2017 - FYC wrote:
Meaty earth spice bright red fruit black tea. Sexy sexy wine.
One of my favorites in an extravagant Dujac lineup.
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12/30/2016 - BurgFixx Likes this wine: 96 Points
Like a basket of fresh red/black fruits, earth and stems, intense mouth coating fruit. Primary with many years ahead. Superb bottle.
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12/13/2016 - PC73 wrote: 94 Points
I found this quite flirty, sexy but in a good way. Very fresh, lovely raspberry fruit flavours. Great precision.
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12/6/2016 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
Showed well at Stannary St Morey dinner, in early maturity but all the elements are there for further development, trademark elegance. F+
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11/8/2016 - paul195 wrote: 95 Points
First of a case. Bright ruby color, initially restrained nose a full hour to show its stuff. Palate was much more accessible, fresh, bright red fruits with good acidity, perfectly balanced silky texture and a lovely finish, Absolutely delicious now and will clearly pick up complexity over the next 5-10 years.
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10/28/2016 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Very drinkable now, with plenty of life, turning the corner from primary to secondary.
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4/23/2016 - fatboi wrote:
A good bottle of wine but very tight. The nose was very restrained while still having that dujac smell. The palate hints to a well structured wine with good acidity that needs time to shine.
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1/14/2016 - BradE wrote:
The Boys of Bedrock without Bedrock. BBM and Dujac Clos St. Denis; 1/11/2016-1/14/2016: Some find it not as impressive as other 01's. This can be a very good wine, tonight it was just "good".
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7/29/2015 - esh44 wrote: 93 Points
Drank alongside the '01 Dujac Clos de la Roche. Table consensus favored the CdlR, although I gave the edge to this CSD. Initially some earthy funk on the nose, which blew off after a while. Then, that lovely Dujac perfume, spicy Pinot fruit, all that structure already well integrated, good balance of acidity... Was surprised how well it's drinking now, but this clearly will benefit from more time. Very nice.
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7/11/2015 - BradE wrote:
Farve-a-thon 4.0. Saturday lunch and evening. Partial list.: Two bottles tonight. It's always been a vintage I've liked, and tonight was no exception.
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3/25/2015 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points
2002 Champagne and Burgundy dinner with Eric (Chez Billy Sud - Washington DC): Intense ripe sweet red and black fruits, clove and other sweet spices, mushroom and earth. Excellent concentration, round and warm, sweet red fruit driven palate impression, good acidity, nicely integrated tannins and seamless finish with sweet spice as the end note. Definitely ready and more mature than all 02s. Drinking really nicely at the moment.
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3/1/2015 - coremill wrote:
La Paulee Dinner at Recette (Recette): Very ripe plummy fruit, quite ripe for the vintage, with lots minty and spicy stem character and a light vanilla edge from the oak. Very Dujac. The nose is extremely expressive and absolutely wonderful. Still very young on the palate, medium bodied, the oak and the structure have not quite integrated yet and the tannins are a touch chalky. Very, very good now but needs more time in bottle, this may have been just a bit shutdown. Not nearly as mature or texturally refined at this stage as a recent 2000.
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2/13/2015 - kenhoeve Likes this wine: 93 Points
My first Dujac (and my first grand cru) and I am rating this based on a food pairing alone. If I had to score it on food pairing it is probably a 95. A soft and subtle wine, with a complete palate of subtle red fruit, light stone, and earthy notes of stem and pinot. Perfect medium acid to compliment the food, and just enough earthiness to finish. This burg killed with a complex mushroom soup. Likely good with anything.
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2/12/2015 - justburg wrote: 92 Points
Dujac dinner at Jade Palace. 2nd bottle in the first flight of 3 blinded. Bright to dark red, very intense bouquet, with lots of sweet ripe cherries, wild strawberries and fresh leather. Very elegant and defined on the nose. Palate had good structure, fairly acidic but lots of intense and sweet fruit to balance that out well. Loads of cherries and fresh peaches, very plush, elegant and silky. Lovely wine.
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9/4/2014 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 Points
Thursday Night Dinner (The White House, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong): Semi-transparent lambs blood colour but darker at the core. Nose is wow!....gorgeous....shitty but clean cow sheds..... they must be Swiss cattle.... wonderful sous bois and dusky wild woodland strawberries.....very integrated and holistic......you just fall headlong down the rabbit hole into the dusky, alluring perfume. Palate is an absolutely velvet glove with a great acidic vivacity that wakes up the mid-palate followed by gorgeous mellowed forest floor fruit and just incredible fine dusted tannins, the epitome of "powdered tannins". Fantastic......a truly beautiful experience.
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6/1/2014 - cellarid wrote: 96 Points
Utterly profound wine. Still rather dark color with overwhelming bouquet of wild flowers and earth. Essence of Morey. Sappy yet lithe with great persistence. On the young side still.
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5/25/2013 - beachbum wrote: 93 Points
A beautiful bottle, still young, the fruit and leather components of the nose are blended together, complex long palete shows the gc nature, still has time in hand, I did not notice the steely csd signature as much as I have in other bottles, more fruit driven. Solid Dujac.
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5/24/2013 - Machiavelli wrote:
Daniel's bachelor party. Holy moly was this great! Opened a couple hours before drinking. Nose was off the charts, with black and red fruits, a little gameiness and just super-complex. The palate was lacy and so very fine, elegant and poised, with a long, fresh finish. This was amazing.
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3/5/2013 - thomasito2001 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dinner with Véro and Bertrand - Compared to the CdR from the same year I had a couple of years ago, this bottle showed less complexity on the nose (the bouquet was nonetheless riveting, as is often the case with Dujac) but the palate was denser, juicier and more compact, which is somewhat unusual for the vintage and not really befitting the CSD vs CdR classical idiotypes. A great bottle of wine by all means, put a '98 Anne Gros Richebourg to shame that evening.
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2/10/2013 - s0da wrote: 94 Points
Haunting nose of red fruit, wood, soy
Slow start with a little bit of acidity but the lenght and the equilibirum of the mouth is very good - tannins fully integrated
The viscosity is striking
This wine remains a mistery as I feel I did not fully cracked it
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12/16/2012 - Alex H wrote: 92 Points
A little of that preserved plum , indian spices , sour succulent balsamic notes. A lil herbal Hawthorne fruits an stewed roibois spicy currant tea. An amazing trip to paradise and back
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12/15/2012 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points
End of the World Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Tremendous. This rounded up a trio of Grand Cru Burgs beautifully, and as good as the two Rousseau wines that preceded it were, I thought that this was perhaps the best of its flight, showing a touch more depth and complexity than either of them. It had an amazing bouquet, with layers of Morey spice and meat and earth on a lovely undercurrent of blueberries and black cherries, and then a pretty whiff of violets and just a tiny citrusy lift. Lovely stuff. It was the palate that really knocked my socks off though. This had all the light freshness of the 2001 vintage, but unlike say the 2001 Ruchottes earlier, it also had a reservoir of depth and lots of fleshy fruit above its fresh acidity, with a supple strength and muscle in an attack that showed rich flavours blueberries and dark cherries robed in lovely, velvety tannins. I thought the midpalate was just a bit on the tighter side, lacking some of the power and authority of the start, but the wine made up for it with it on the finish, where it was all sweeping grace and elegance, with the silkiest feel to otherwise savoury, masculine flavours of smoked meat and earth and toasty spice, with a hint of the violets picked up on the nose floating away around a core dark fruit. A beautiful expression of the Clos St Denis vineyard, this was quite the iron fist in a velvet glove. A great wine even now, but though this had been opened a couple of hours before serving, it still came across as the youngest and most tightly wound of the three wines, one that was just about creeping towards its drinking window. Assuming the world does not end on 21 December 2012, I would give it some 3-4 years more before opening another.
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12/2/2012 - cellarid Likes this wine: 93 Points
Just entering prime drinking. Needs about 30 minutes to get going.
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11/14/2012 - BradE wrote:
Gorgeous. Drank very well.
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7/11/2012 - BradE wrote:
Beautiful nose. Lovely wine. Good juice.
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6/27/2012 - UTPK wrote:
Restaurationen. Very expressive and deep nose of dark berries, coffee, caramel, forest floor, bright black fruit and spices. Somewhat reductive nose with very good punch! Sweet attack with spicy feeling to the fruit. On the palate, very good balance, and quite fresh for the age and vintage. Lovely now!
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6/15/2012 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Excellent color and pretty nose of cherry spice. Medium-bodied with a slight effervescence which calms down after an hour. Underneath is beautiful, crisp cherry fruit. The finish is long and really spicy. This should be gorgeous in another 5 years plus. 92+
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1/21/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Opened and drank over 3hrs. Elegant sweet nose of red fruits. Soft on the palate with a little dryness on the finish. Enjoyable but not as round or complete as the 2002.
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1/18/2012 - jimbomatic wrote: 92 Points
This had a very nice combination of the Dujac stemminess and the sappy, almost candied young red fruit. Still very primary and the youthfulness of the fruit gave it almost a juicy, simple quality despite the range, depth and length of the wine. This will need some time for the fruit to integrate and become a bit less jumpy and overt. Still, nice raw material and a nice look at what could be a pretty intriguing wine in time. Give a minimum of 5 more years until the next go round.
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1/18/2012 - rnellans wrote: 92 Points
Red cherries, spice with hint of herbs on the nose. The 04 Cristom Summers Res (OR) gave it a run for the money side by side. Nice depth and balance. Should improve with time in the bottle.
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8/4/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 92 Points
2011 Casual Session - 12 @ Jade Palace (Jade Palce @ The Forum Shopping Mall): Alcohol :: 13%
Decanted for 1.5hrs and this fan out beautifully. Quite floral and game at first, not expressive but open up nicely with high tone floral note that consist full of essence Pinot note, blue and red cherry aromas with delicate tea leaves sum up the highly seductive, fragrance aromatic profile, really good! Delicate and intense, though lack a bit of layered from the good vintages, this actually provide immense drinking pleasure now compared to the 06 which offer more substances but need more ages to show. This has what I ask from a Pinot: elegance, pure and finesse. Super silky tannin along with subtle sweet fruits, soft, refreshing acidity. Very delicious, focus finish that lingered with autumn leaves and mineral that last for a minute, oh, so elegance, complete and utterly delicious that I keep asking for more!
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1/19/2011 - Siggy wrote: 92 Points
Heidi's 2.0 Kickoff - Red Burgundy FAIL (Heidi's, Minneapolis): Consistent with prior TNs. Notably younger and more structured than the 2000, tasted side-by-side (see TN), with more of a black fruit profile. A bit stern at first, but unwound beautifully over a few hours. Earth, dark fruit, and spice that build to an elegant, long finish. This has the structure to age gracefully for many more years.
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12/11/2010 - BradE wrote:
Great wine, drinking well.
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7/1/2010 - rpfarwell wrote: 90 Points
Good dark fruit and mocha nose, big cherry taste - good acidity but a little too sour for me. long aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel. Drank it over a couple of nights and there were times when it seemed a little thin in the middle. Very good but not quite the bang I was expecting for a grand cru, but then it was an off year for the Cote de Beaune and perhaps it was starting to taper off.
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6/25/2010 - olm2000 wrote: 92 Points
lovely aromatics of minerals and some spice...doesn't translate to the palate as well...narrow coverage for a GC and average length
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4/13/2010 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 95 Points
'88 Northern Rhones at Siggy's: It's traditional to end a night at Siggy's in Burgundy, and he didn't let us down. Popped and poured. Awesome Dujac nose of stemmy dark fruit and coffee aromas. The taste is equally great with great texture and great balance. A perfect way to finish the evening. Thanks Siggy.
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4/7/2010 - MatthewF wrote:
Dark berry nose with an obvious presence of wood. Stemmy, sappy, crushed red berries on the palate with firm structure and nice acidity throughout. Good grip on the medium plus finish.
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2/28/2010 - JOsgood wrote: 95 Points
Super sexy and wonderful. Lovely feminine nose. Silky on the palate with great structure and texture. Elegant and precise. A rockstar wine.
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2/28/2010 - the godfather wrote: 95 Points
Burg of the night, rocked with wild mushroom risotto. Super sexy wine that seems to be at the top of it's game. I've only had CSD a few times, but love the elegance of this vineyard
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1/14/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 88 Points
Lac Dujac (Braeburn): Without a doubt leaner than the '98 in both the intensity and the sweetness of the fruit; in terms of fruit, this seems to show as much skin as flesh. And the word "bony" again seems apropos—here's another '01 that seems to stretch the material too thin over the frame. It gets better with air, and I liked it better than the Echezeaux, since even though it seems a little hollow it still conveys a sense of dimension; maybe bottle age will manage to color in the rest.
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11/20/2009 - psmith wrote:
Big, sappy, stemmy wine. Deep, forward red and black fruits. Fuller palate - mostly red. Well structured. Very nice.
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10/26/2009 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
Christie's Private Pre-Sale Tasting and Dinner (Amsterdam): Fabulously fragrant, Chambolle-like. Of the highest quality, still young, great style, finesse and length.
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3/9/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This wine polarized the table. It received the most votes for wine of the flight but several people were worried by its level of bret. I thought it had an intoxicating perfume of cherries and meat with that sappy whole bunch lift that one associates with Dujac. The palate was lacy and fine with sneaky power and a tight, minerally finish.
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1/30/2009 - olm2000 wrote: 92 Points
very good but not a wow burg in my book
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10/23/2008 - Alex G. wrote:
Seriously good juice. Opulent fruit backed by a well-defined structure and excellent minerality. This one is ON tonight. B+
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6/24/2008 - Alex G. wrote:
Sexy, opulent, and well-balanced. Not the most complex Burgundy, at least at this stage of evolution. Nevertheless, it's very tough for any palate not to enjoy this wine. I am loathe to use the term since it's been beaten to death by you-know-who, but it applies here: hedonistic. Strongly recommended. B+
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6/23/2008 - kstoddard wrote: 92 Points
G7 (Alex): Strawberry, cola, earth and plumb. Nice acidity and balance. Good depth of fruit in the mid palate. Very complex finish. My favorite red of the flight.
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6/23/2008 - jeff nowak wrote: 93 Points
a general discussion of the wine being closed, and a strong opinion that the dujac ethos expressed in this wine lacks a sense of place. my experience isn't enough to comment on the terroir. all i know is that i enjoyed the wine, and felt it was the most intellectual in the tasting. i see this developing, shedding it's plumpness, and rounding out/improving. it will never be a delicate wine of nuance, but it's certainly fun to drink.
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6/10/2008 - Siggy wrote: 93 Points
Tasting Group Dinner (Craig's House): Second time I've had this. More so than the first bottle, this was fairly closed and only hinting at its true character. Layered, perfumed dark fruit, earth, and spice. Terrific flavor concentration. Velvety, minerally texture, framed judiciously by new oak. A well-balanced and structured wine that needs several more years to unravel.
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4/5/2008 - BradE wrote:
Spring comes to Minneapolis.: Gorgeous wine, drinking amazingly well now. Wish I had this in my cellar - if you do, be glad.
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1/18/2008 - dream wrote: 93 Points
A surprisingly full-bodied Clos St. Denis for Dujac considering the vintage. Its loaded with sweet dark cherry and blueberry fruit which is balanced by zingy fresh acidity. Finishes quite concentrated although the flavors are still primary and possesses a beautiful round and silky texture. Poised to be a top Dujac bottling with another 5 or more years of aging required. 93+
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11/21/2006 - mjj1066 wrote:
@ Fifth Floor w/CMM. Nose is full of the vegatative stem-character and filled out with deep and dark fruit. Overall mid-palette structure is refined and has silky mouthfeel. Complex finish that lasts.
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4/9/2005 - beachbum wrote: 93 Points
Tasting at Wine and Cheese Show - The highlights: Deep red, but not dark. Lovely nose is singing dark fruit, complexity. Still very primary but there is good effort in both the mid pallette and the finish. Some very plush tannins can be picked up, but this is going to be stinky great pinot in 5 to 10 years. Nice.
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