Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 91.7 points

  • This pours light ruby in the glass, minimal if any bricking. The nose is lifted and elegant, showing dried cranberry, raspberry, rose petals, forest undergrowth, white mushroom, grapefruit zest, dried ginger, and fresh thyme. The palate enters on pure tart red fruit accented with touches of citrus. Tannin is low, acid is medium plus. The finish is moderate in length and nicely balanced closing on bitter herbs and dried ginger. All in all this is lovely stuff that is developing nicely. While complexity is modest the profile is pure elegance and is immaculate. Just gorgeous and thoroughly enjoyable.

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  • Boxing Day wines at Domaine: A lovely bottle of at peak Vosne 1er with plenty of lush fruit that is filled with spice. Nice black tea and earth notes adding complexity. Should hold at this level for a decade.

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  • Needed its time in the glass to open up but post like 30 minutes this was at good form. Well evolved, soft and earthy, soft red fruits. Elegant and classy on the nose and albeit lacks a weight in the mid palate this is good old school Burgundy. Maybe past its peak fruit wise but still very solid 92

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  • Needs 8-10 years in the cellar, and I say this with confidence because we drank a fully mature 1995 Suchots next to it and the difference was startling. The 02 is clearly a fantastic wine - really special I think. Lush fruit in a well focused package with great balance and minerality, showing hints of the star anise and other spices that will make this such a joy down the road. Just clearly an excellent wine. But it was tight still, clenched up, hardly any secondary development as of yet. I wish I had more, and I'd forget about this one for a while.

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  • This showed good Vosne typicity, but the palate needs more time to develop. The fruit can still relax and the tannins soften a bit.

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  • as expected I failed to sense TCA but it clearly wasn't showing like a Beaumont from an excellent vintage with 15 years bottle age. spicey more than anything. shame

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  • Hudelot-Noellat, a Favorite Producer (The Wolf, Oakland): Just slightly corked: only the more tca-sensitive were put off by it. Still showed some round, dark beautiful fruit. But was clamped and inconsistently muted. At times during the night the must seemed to blow off but then it'd be back. I wonder if Sycamore's 12/26/15 bottle had a tad of the same flaw. I bet a clean bottle of this would be great and best enjoyed over the next few years.

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  • Spicy, a little sandalwood, red and black cherries, some backbone, I quite enjoy. A-/B+

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  • Another beautiful Vosne 1er Cru, albeit several decades younger than the Charles Noellat. This too had a lovely nose, with drifts of earth and mineral around a deep core of plums and dark cherry aromas, then layers of Vosne spiciness, and a little floral note. Served blind, no one had any doubt this was a Vosne-Romanee based on that nose alone. It was still quite youthful on the palate, tightly packed, with plenty of fruit and a structure of fine-boned tannins still clearly at the fore. It was really impressive though - with a beautiful clarity and elegance to its palate-coating flavours of black cherries infused with a real mouthful of fragrant Vosne wood spices. There was still so much packed inside this bottle. Pure Hudelot Noellat though, and a lovely expression of Beauxmonts - beautiful depth, great balance, and wonderful finish to boot. A fantastic wine, just starting to show well, but with a long life ahead of it yet.

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  • As Slaton mentioned below, this bottle requires gentle aeration to come out of its shell. With a few hours open at cellar temperature, this opened up to reveal good Vosne typicity in its aromatics and a firm, grippy mineral palate. It's certainly a wine that requires care and attention from the taster though.

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  • Score reflects the bottle's high points more than anything else, as it was quite uneven. At its worst, it was borderline sour, certainly tart. At its best, earthy, spicy and nicer (i.e., not sour/tart) fruit. Just when you think its opened up and hit its stride, though, it barrels into another speed bump. Perplexing and disappointing, really. Save the last one for a couple of years and hope for more.....

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  • As other drinkers have recently noted, this initially presents as slightly past peak, with little fruit remaining but plenty of maturing savory notes plus tertiary caramel, mushroom and soy flavors creeping in around the edges. But with gentle aeration over a couple of hours it finds another gear and delights the drinker with sweet red fruit, Indian spices, mushroom broth, excellent length and various other treats. Absolutely amazing and why we drink Burgundy.

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  • hay and strawberry on the nose. very elegant, silky, feminine and supple. Not much earth or funk - solid acidity - gained weight and perfume as it opened. medium length finish. Not going to get better IMHO so drink now. if there was more intensity to the fruit I would rate this higher.

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  • La Paulée de San Francisco - The Verticals (The Fairmont - San Francisco CA): Tasting, brief note. Good combination of red and black fruit with earthy aromas and flavors. Moderate spice and intensity. Good textures, length and finesse. Best now.

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  • La Paulée de San Francisco 2014 Verticals Tasting (The Fairmont, San Francisco): Intoxicating perfume, showing some maturity, excellent mix of maturing red/black fruit.

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  • Impressions from the 2014 La Paulee Verticals Tasting (Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco): Pale, browning-mature looking. Subtle red fruit. Light weight but sappy with significant wood char at its base. Would not wait if you own it, seems fully developed and at risk for having the wood take over. Very good now, the best of the vintages here.

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  • A little muted at first, showing but a faint espresso note and a glimpse of fruit but really got going with air. Only mid-weight with nice balance. The red and black fruits are laced with anise and there some meat and earth in the background. It is lacy with fine, minerally acidity and decent cut to the finish.

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  • For those who don’t have children under the age of 10, let me explain a little about Dora the explorer. She is a kid’s cartoon character who speaks ‘Spanglish’ in an annoyingly, whining, American accent and travels around with her sidekick boots the monkey (who has the same voice just an octave lower). Well there’s a fox called Swiper who tries to steal things while Dora and Boots chant ‘Swiper no swiping’! For the sake of this tasting note let’s pretend that ‘Swiper’ is brettanomyces . The wine has a pleasant aroma of pomegranate, earth, game and aniseed. In the mouth, weight has been shed from its skeleton as is customary for a wine during a period of slumber, but ‘Swiper’ has swooped on the bones devouring all remaining flesh to leave a wiry, metallic frame. It is ok with food but I think we should all join in with Dora and boots and scream ‘Swiper no swiping’!

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  • Dinner for Burg Week 3: 2002 (Chicago): Medium ruby, slightly dull at the rim. Immediately identifiable from the nose as Vosne, this wine is all about spices and a clean streak of stone, there are only suggestions of fruit underneath the other aromas. Light bodied and pure silk texture with incredible minerally focus on the mid palate--vibrant acidity and fine tannins show brilliant cut and then allow a spicy complexity to open back up on the long finish. A superbly structured wine that demands years in the cellar to brood on its firm core: great potential, only a glimpse of which is detectable now.

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