Out of mag. Pretty dark berry fruit. Nice purity, particularly on the nose. Still has the 99 Burg austerity and is a bit rough on the palate. Particularly for a D'Ang Ducs. Maybe one day it will come around. Maybe..
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1st of 6 plus 3 magna, opened an hour then decanted 45 minutes, perfect cork and level - Angerville wines take ages to show, but at 23 years I was hopeful, particularly given the fine vintage.....so what a disappointment! dark, translucent ruby with little development; cranberry, plum, touch of earth and sous bois, acid edge; medium, quite long and persistent but no real concentration, acidity gives unbalanced and angular sense, pure certainly, but not very interesting and not enough obvious heft to give assurance of better times ahead, all of which is odd given wine and vintage, hopefully this ok bottle is an outlier, certainly there is no rush to drink, so maybe time will help. VG+ for now (16.5).
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A dark brick red color. Still quite youthful in appearance, but some subtle signs of age. On the nose, it started rather slowly, but blossomed into red fruit and spice on the nose. The palate was silky and while somewhat reserved at first it unfolded into an explosion of raspberry and redcurrant fruit on the mid palate with great balance and structure. This is in a terrific place but shows little signs of slowing down. Drink now or hold. This could last a few more decade easily. Impressive stuff.
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Best of 5 vintages of Clos de Ducs served today. Rounder and more lush than the other wines, but retaining balance and offering depth. Everyone kept coming back to this wine.
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Tight and tannic, even after three hours. Deep red at the center, and a little rust on the edges. Strawberry, cranberry, and earthy notes. Very clean and dense. After 22 years, not sure when this will settle down.
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[Blind] A bit tight and restrained but also not obviously youthful. (Makes sense given my last note in 2019) A very quiet showing although there is beauty here. Black fruited and a little stubborn in terms of expression at the moment. Showing off some nice spice too. Lots of power and lots of life ahead. Cranberry. 92 - 93.
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Decanted for about 1 hr, then drank over the next two. Perfectly resolved sweet tannins, and without a hiccup in terms of any flaws or unpleasantness of any kind. Dark cherry and leather and forest floor on the nose, red fruit and cocoa powder and a hint of tobacco on the pallet. Only thing kept me from saying perfect was a little lack of depth and complexity and perhaps a short finish. But I was perfectly happy drinking this.
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Decanted 6 hours. A very thickly-textured and dense red Burg with wonderful flavors of dark red and blue fruits, violet spice and stony minerals. There is serious structure here and the finish is firm and still tannic. While there is great material here, the wine is just a bit too hard for Burgundy especially Volnay at this point. Try again in the 22nd century...
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Surprisingly dark and wound up. Powerful but closed. Black cherry and tight red cherry. Smells hot and feels over oaked right now. The palate is frustratingly tight as well. Not a great deal of aromatic expression. Muscular. After two hours in a decanter there was a bit more expression, but overall too tense. Primary, good berry fruit primary, but without any sense of earth yet.
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Perfumy nose of violet spice and wet dead leaves. Quite full with excellent intensity and plenty of acidity supporting the ripe dark cherry and blueberry fruit flavors. Quite grippy and somewhat coarse with a powerful mineral crunch showing up on the finish along with a decayed forest floor funk. Still a bit monolithic at this point and it seems to need tons more time. In fact, and this really never happens, I left it corked in the kitchen for 3 days and it hadn’t lost a thing. Crazy and a Burgundy for my grandkids. 92+
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Pure, unforced, ethereal and engaging. Equal parts fruit, mineral, plant matter and earth. Forceful but perfumed, deep and textural. Primary and primal, with just a hint of espresso the only sign of any age. Should live for another 50+ years.
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La Paulée de SF Gala Dinner (Fairmont Hotel, SF CA): From magnum. Very impressive nose of plums, black cherry, florals and earth tones. Very good concentration and finessed tannin. Shows fairly young. Not at all out of place with the elite CdN Grand Crus.
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375ml, decanted 2 hours. Drunk alongside the 2002, also from a half bottle. The 1999 is richer, deeper and stronger, with a fine perfume from the outset. However, it is still reluctant to show its full colours on the palate; although, with coaxing, it hints at both a complexity and an intensity which promise fine things in the future. Not dumb or recalcitrant, just not really ready yet. Became a little sharp after half an hour in the glass, although it has great length and persistence. My only concern is that there was the vaguest hint of over-ripeness at the back. Leave for another 3 years at least. 94 for now.
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another go, French battery acid. I kinda hope this had a fault that I could not detect or don't know about, but it was awful. seriously, am I missing something with this producer? I'm giving it a score of 84 because maybe I just can't appreciate these wines, but in reality it was worth 55 in my book.
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Superbe aromatique : groseille, feuilles mortes et froissées, agrumes, tabac blond, pivoine, ... Très changeant mais toujours d'une précision incroyable. Bouche droite, calcaire, dure à l'ouverture. Le vin se transforme complètement à table et après 3h d'ouverture. Il prend de l'ampleur et du volume sans perdre cette droiture propre à ce terroir d'après la littérature. Quelle présence tactile accompagnée d'une véritable explosion de saveur ! Fin de bouche qui reste portée par une forme d'austérité et de sensations calcaires mais d'une persistance incroyable, par vague, oscillant entre le fuit, la fleur et les senteurs automnales.
Grand vin auquel il faut savoir accorder du temps pour qu'il se dévoile !
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Angerville Lunch at La Paulée with Guillaume d'Angerville (Rebelle, New York): Medium saturation. Reticent, stemmy aromas with some portiness and volatile acidity. Better on the palate-candied fruit, excellent acidity, and fine grained tannins, but in the end, it was still somewhat disjointed and overripe. People who tried a different bottle found better balance and less pruniness. The most variable and controversial bottle poured. I must say that the overripeness echoed what we found in a bottle of this that we drank in France last year, so there is some reason to be concerned.
part of a Ducs vertical. simple, boring, high acid and low fruit... the house style. it seems a lot of the professionals think time is on it's side, let's hope so because it is a shockingly ordinary wine right now.
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Heritage Blind Tasting (Chicago, IL): Served double-blind. Given that the tannins here were so ornery, and the acid so powerful, I didn't particularly feel that this was Burgundy. There was a light touch of floral quality as well and a slight touch of oak spice as well, so I guessed this was 1988 Gaja Sperss.
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Medium-light garnet. Nose of strawberry, raspberry, sweet spices. Elegant on the palate but with commanding tannins still. This has good aroma and structure for a Volany.
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Some Wines from a Swing Through France-Paris, Chablis, and Champagne; 4/1/2016-4/9/2016: Half bottle. Fully ruby almost to the rim. A blast of portiness right out of the bottle that reappeared after it had been open for about 2 hours. After this initially receded, blackberry and licorice. Medium to lighter weight. The overripe nose did not translate into sweetness or surmaturité in the mouth until most of the bottle was gone. In between, more classic, lean Angerville flavors, replete with black fruit, outstanding acidity, and superb stoniness. Having had this before, it was easy to see that that this was an atypical bottle that was less than pristine. Too bad, since apart from that, it certainly seems to still have a lot of life.
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Cool red fruit on the nose with background soil notes. Rich red and black fruit on the palate although quite light footed. Darker earth on the mid and back palate with shadowy hints of dark savories. A well made wine, but its brooding side still requires more time to fully settle down
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Very nice but could use 5 years or so. A little rough at first and slightly hot but came around nicely after an hour or so. Fairly compact and very long finish with nice dry cherry and menthol notes. Sleek but muscular. Really nice overall.
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Very tight at the start, needed decanting and swirling. Marvelous black fruit on the nose through to the palate. This still needs time but is brilliant wine.
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At Pavillon Ledoyen. Stunning how young this wine is showing at 16 years old, but from the other notes here it looks like this is the rule rather than the exception. Edging into early maturity, this has got a beautiful Volnay nose of raspberry, mineral, and floral perfume. The really interesting part of this is that when you take a deep whiff, it's almost as though there's an early/mid/late nose. So plush and seamless on the palate with a long, long finish. Just excellent. Looking forward to re-visiting this over the coming years but wouldn't bother checking in again for another 5 or so - very good and very slowly evolving.
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A rockstar! Rugged and earthy nose, this is a powerful wine that has super-saturated black fruit and impressive intensity. Inky, marvelous... this needs 5 more years to enjoy at its best.
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Some Bottles from a Week in France; 4/14/2013-4/21/2013 (Paris, Northern Burgundy, Alsace): Fortunate enough to drink another bottle a year after having the last one. Still primary full ruby. Actually a whiff of ripe, medicinal black cherry as well as earth and menthol. Light and linear. There is a lot of fruit just waiting to burst forth, but before it gets started, it is rebuffed by dynamite acidity and fine grained dry tannins. Perhaps a bit of evolution over the past year, but I'd still say it needs 10+ years to fully resolve. We saved a good bit of the bottle, so it will be interesting to follow it for a few days.
Second night-While the tannic, earthy background remained, the fruit had risen, becoming redder and less ripe, resulting in much better balance of fruit and acidity. Very beautiful but likely to be as closed and awkward right out of the bottle as it was for us.
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Fine nose of sweet earth, dark cherries, blueberries and violets. Big and powerful for Volnay but finely etched and quite precise. Lovely flavors that echo the nose with an almost spritzy acidity still apparent that burned off albeit stubbornly. I think this will be great down the road but it needs 10 years at least! 92+
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(from demi) Opens slightly funky, but after a few minutes this blows off - leaving... nothing. It is completely closed and introvert. In the mouth it is pleasant enough, but finished with a dramatic wall of brutal tannins. The next day it has softened some, but still this is only in its infancy. I was hoping for a demi to be ready by now, but I would assume it needs at least ten more years, if not more.
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drwine's note pretty much says it all. I like the association to the Frederich Emile but this is more Clos Sainte Hune. Detailed and focussed, lots of mineral, primary, great depth and power, no fatness. Primary to the extreme but still brilliant.
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Random Notes from Travels in France; 4/6/2012-4/14/2012 (Paris, Loire, Alsace): What a thrill to find and drink this. Deep ruby without clearing. Intense perfume of violets and black fruit. No evident wood, all pure fruit. Lean, linear and dry, just beginning to gain some flesh, but essentially strict without any sweetness or excess fat. Gorgeous acidity and an amazing finish which leaves stone dust on the tongue for minutes. Quintessential, pure Volnay. It had much more in common with the Frederic Emile Riesling alongside it than the wood drenched Vosne Suchots we had at lunch. A very great Volnay in the making. Optimally, hold until 2025 for full development, but if like me, you must try one now, that's okay too.
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Red fruit nose, a bit dusty and green. Taste is concentrated and velvety, cherry and raspberry, fine tannins, intense and balanced. Very fine. Long finish. My first Clos des Ducs and I am very impressed.
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d'Angerville dinner at Daniel 10/19/2011 (Daniel): Deep, deep ruby. Lovely, cool nose. Cocoa, coffee, a but of ash, maybe a hint of matchstick (but not unpleasantly so). Glorious nose! Palate again a bolt of velvet, filigreed, precise texture and balance. Cherry and a little turned earth. A baby. Splendid length. Absolutely first-class wine. Later: phenomenal nose. Caramel, cocoa, truffle. Stupendous. Again, effortlessly grand cru-quality in its texture.
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d'Angerville Dinner at Daniel w Guillaume d'Angerville (Restaurant Daniel): Was really looking forward to this wine, but like the 99 Champans and Taillepieds in the flight, this wine was quite the Sphinx. It started off very dungy/stinky, and that burnt off, but after that I could get very little from it - dusty tannins and really earthy, but that it is - it was really closed and monolithic. With the 98 Ducs in a later flight, this wine was the hardest for me to evaluate. Judgement deferred.
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Beautiful, deep nose of sour cherry tobacco and earth. In the mouth very angular and mineral, partly due to the still fierce tannic structure. Even out of half bottle, this is nowhere near ready. A great wine in the making.
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Drank a Chris Doty's angerville ol - great stuff but very austere - a decade to readiness I think, in the meantime it invites admiration more than spreads joy.
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A half bottle. Robust tannic wine, deep coloured, complex nose, not yet very generous to taste. Masculine, unyielding. But pretty clearly going in the right direction. Leave for 2 more years at least. (I have since recalled that the 1999 Lafon Santenots du Milieu was in a similar place last May, and remained fairly dumb even after decanting. But a second decanting transformed it. I shall double decant my next 37.5cl of this Clos des Ducs, and perhaps any other 1999 Volnays which I'm tempted to try in the next year or two. I see that in 2009 Burghound had a very similar experience with the '99 Angerville Taillepieds to mine with the Clos des Ducs. These Volnays have simply shut down after 10 years.)
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Lovely nose of bright red cherries and that Volnay earthiness/marshmallowy thing I like so well. However, very tight on the palate. Left overnight to try again. This clearly needs time and/or air.
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Pristine, youthful medium ruby. An opening volley of sour cherry, smoke, and earth. Then, complex, penetrating cranberry, blackberry, and anise. In the mouth, it starts out dense, tight, and tannic with medium to lighter weight. As it aerates, it becomes much more airy and softens a bit, but there is no gratuitous sweetness or excess fat here. This is young, structured, and lean without being severe or tart. Incredible focus-I usually use the descriptor "laser-like" for high acid white wines, but this would also apply here. Just incredible precision. One of the most intellectually challenging Burgundies I've had recently, in ways this reminded me of drinking Bordeaux as it demanded every bit of one's attention. Fascinating and enjoyable now, but this should be held for another 10 years as it is only inching its way to maturity. Marvelous wine and quintessential Volnay.
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Earth, cherry, blood and chocolate aromas on the nose. Firm palate, with some sweet fruit in the background, the acid structure is a highlight. Powerful and very impressive. Starting to come around to drinking well.
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Massive dose of acid and bright red cherries. Nose is lovely and floral, but the palate is all acid at this phase after open for an hour. Wait several years on this one...
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Clearly infanticide to open this now, but what an enjoyable killing it was. This has a very seductive, pretty nose with floral notes & black raspberries. Minerality & silky tannins to beat the band. The structure & balance here are just amazing. A profound Ducs that has years ahead of it. I would give this another 10 years at least before opening another one, but it was surprisingly delicous tonight.
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bright cherries. Lovely, well integrated nose and not too tight on the palate. Long finish and just very well balanced. Needs time, but quite good after open for 30 minutes or so.
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3/26/2024 - DaleW wrote:
Also young and structured, also still inviting. Vibrant fruit, violets and smoke, very long. A-
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11/23/2022 - The Guzz wrote:
Out of mag. Pretty dark berry fruit. Nice purity, particularly on the nose. Still has the 99 Burg austerity and is a bit rough on the palate. Particularly for a D'Ang Ducs. Maybe one day it will come around. Maybe..
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11/19/2022 - liber wrote: 89 Points
1st of 6 plus 3 magna, opened an hour then decanted 45 minutes, perfect cork and level - Angerville wines take ages to show, but at 23 years I was hopeful, particularly given the fine vintage.....so what a disappointment! dark, translucent ruby with little development; cranberry, plum, touch of earth and sous bois, acid edge; medium, quite long and persistent but no real concentration, acidity gives unbalanced and angular sense, pure certainly, but not very interesting and not enough obvious heft to give assurance of better times ahead, all of which is odd given wine and vintage, hopefully this ok bottle is an outlier, certainly there is no rush to drink, so maybe time will help. VG+ for now (16.5).
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11/7/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote:
A private dinner (Restaurant De Lage Vuursche, Lage Vuursche, NL): Nutty and evolved nose, oxidative, toasted; firm and structured palate, medium weight, tertiary flavours, tired; very good length. Not a perfect bottle. Not rated.
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7/25/2022 - SB5784 Likes this wine: 95 Points
A dark brick red color. Still quite youthful in appearance, but some subtle signs of age. On the nose, it started rather slowly, but blossomed into red fruit and spice on the nose. The palate was silky and while somewhat reserved at first it unfolded into an explosion of raspberry and redcurrant fruit on the mid palate with great balance and structure. This is in a terrific place but shows little signs of slowing down. Drink now or hold. This could last a few more decade easily. Impressive stuff.
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4/20/2022 - kr522 wrote:
didn't find this quite so tight or tannic as some, perhaps it is emerging from that stage. i rather enjoyed it
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2/25/2022 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Best of 5 vintages of Clos de Ducs served today. Rounder and more lush than the other wines, but retaining balance and offering depth. Everyone kept coming back to this wine.
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6/28/2021 - BBencz Likes this wine:
Tight and tannic, even after three hours. Deep red at the center, and a little rust on the edges. Strawberry, cranberry, and earthy notes. Very clean and dense. After 22 years, not sure when this will settle down.
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2/25/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points
[Blind] A bit tight and restrained but also not obviously youthful. (Makes sense given my last note in 2019) A very quiet showing although there is beauty here. Black fruited and a little stubborn in terms of expression at the moment. Showing off some nice spice too. Lots of power and lots of life ahead. Cranberry. 92 - 93.
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3/19/2020 - cnichelson Likes this wine: 97 Points
Decanted for about 1 hr, then drank over the next two. Perfectly resolved sweet tannins, and without a hiccup in terms of any flaws or unpleasantness of any kind. Dark cherry and leather and forest floor on the nose, red fruit and cocoa powder and a hint of tobacco on the pallet. Only thing kept me from saying perfect was a little lack of depth and complexity and perhaps a short finish. But I was perfectly happy drinking this.
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1/31/2020 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted 6 hours. A very thickly-textured and dense red Burg with wonderful flavors of dark red and blue fruits, violet spice and stony minerals. There is serious structure here and the finish is firm and still tannic. While there is great material here, the wine is just a bit too hard for Burgundy especially Volnay at this point. Try again in the 22nd century...
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7/30/2019 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 91 Points
Surprisingly dark and wound up. Powerful but closed. Black cherry and tight red cherry. Smells hot and feels over oaked right now. The palate is frustratingly tight as well. Not a great deal of aromatic expression. Muscular. After two hours in a decanter there was a bit more expression, but overall too tense. Primary, good berry fruit primary, but without any sense of earth yet.
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7/9/2019 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Perfumy nose of violet spice and wet dead leaves. Quite full with excellent intensity and plenty of acidity supporting the ripe dark cherry and blueberry fruit flavors. Quite grippy and somewhat coarse with a powerful mineral crunch showing up on the finish along with a decayed forest floor funk. Still a bit monolithic at this point and it seems to need tons more time. In fact, and this really never happens, I left it corked in the kitchen for 3 days and it hadn’t lost a thing. Crazy and a Burgundy for my grandkids. 92+
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5/8/2019 - dream wrote:
Affected bottle
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4/11/2019 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Pure, unforced, ethereal and engaging. Equal parts fruit, mineral, plant matter and earth. Forceful but perfumed, deep and textural. Primary and primal, with just a hint of espresso the only sign of any age. Should live for another 50+ years.
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3/3/2018 - Nanda wrote: 94 Points
La Paulée de SF Gala Dinner (Fairmont Hotel, SF CA): From magnum. Very impressive nose of plums, black cherry, florals and earth tones. Very good concentration and finessed tannin. Shows fairly young. Not at all out of place with the elite CdN Grand Crus.
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12/19/2017 - Remony wrote: 94 Points
375ml, decanted 2 hours. Drunk alongside the 2002, also from a half bottle. The 1999 is richer, deeper and stronger, with a fine perfume from the outset. However, it is still reluctant to show its full colours on the palate; although, with coaxing, it hints at both a complexity and an intensity which promise fine things in the future. Not dumb or recalcitrant, just not really ready yet. Became a little sharp after half an hour in the glass, although it has great length and persistence. My only concern is that there was the vaguest hint of over-ripeness at the back. Leave for another 3 years at least. 94 for now.
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10/29/2017 - felixp Does not like this wine: 84 Points
another go, French battery acid. I kinda hope this had a fault that I could not detect or don't know about, but it was awful.
seriously, am I missing something with this producer?
I'm giving it a score of 84 because maybe I just can't appreciate these wines, but in reality it was worth 55 in my book.
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9/3/2017 - Marc C Likes this wine: 97 Points
Superbe aromatique : groseille, feuilles mortes et froissées, agrumes, tabac blond, pivoine, ... Très changeant mais toujours d'une précision incroyable. Bouche droite, calcaire, dure à l'ouverture. Le vin se transforme complètement à table et après 3h d'ouverture. Il prend de l'ampleur et du volume sans perdre cette droiture propre à ce terroir d'après la littérature. Quelle présence tactile accompagnée d'une véritable explosion de saveur ! Fin de bouche qui reste portée par une forme d'austérité et de sensations calcaires mais d'une persistance incroyable, par vague, oscillant entre le fuit, la fleur et les senteurs automnales.
Grand vin auquel il faut savoir accorder du temps pour qu'il se dévoile !
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3/9/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Angerville Lunch at La Paulée with Guillaume d'Angerville (Rebelle, New York): Medium saturation. Reticent, stemmy aromas with some portiness and volatile acidity. Better on the palate-candied fruit, excellent acidity, and fine grained tannins, but in the end, it was still somewhat disjointed and overripe. People who tried a different bottle found better balance and less pruniness. The most variable and controversial bottle poured. I must say that the overripeness echoed what we found in a bottle of this that we drank in France last year, so there is some reason to be concerned.
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11/2/2016 - felixp Does not like this wine: 85 Points
part of a Ducs vertical.
simple, boring, high acid and low fruit... the house style.
it seems a lot of the professionals think time is on it's side, let's hope so because it is a shockingly ordinary wine right now.
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10/22/2016 - acyso wrote: 85 Points
Heritage Blind Tasting (Chicago, IL): Served double-blind. Given that the tannins here were so ornery, and the acid so powerful, I didn't particularly feel that this was Burgundy. There was a light touch of floral quality as well and a slight touch of oak spice as well, so I guessed this was 1988 Gaja Sperss.
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10/22/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Heritage 2016 Blind Wine Tasting Challenge - Chicago "Regional" (The Boarding House - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind. I got red fruit, floral notes and black pepper here, all in a still structured package. Elegant and unfolding with upside from here. But I took the completely wrong turn and thought it 1990s Barolo.
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10/8/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
Medium-light garnet. Nose of strawberry, raspberry, sweet spices. Elegant on the palate but with commanding tannins still. This has good aroma and structure for a Volany.
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4/4/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
Some Wines from a Swing Through France-Paris, Chablis, and Champagne; 4/1/2016-4/9/2016: Half bottle. Fully ruby almost to the rim. A blast of portiness right out of the bottle that reappeared after it had been open for about 2 hours. After this initially receded, blackberry and licorice. Medium to lighter weight. The overripe nose did not translate into sweetness or surmaturité in the mouth until most of the bottle was gone. In between, more classic, lean Angerville flavors, replete with black fruit, outstanding acidity, and superb stoniness. Having had this before, it was easy to see that that this was an atypical bottle that was less than pristine. Too bad, since apart from that, it certainly seems to still have a lot of life.
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3/17/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Cool red fruit on the nose with background soil notes. Rich red and black fruit on the palate although quite light footed. Darker earth on the mid and back palate with shadowy hints of dark savories. A well made wine, but its brooding side still requires more time to fully settle down
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3/14/2016 - beatles wrote: flawed
corked
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12/21/2015 - vine farmer wrote:
Very nice but could use 5 years or so. A little rough at first and slightly hot but came around nicely after an hour or so. Fairly compact and very long finish with nice dry cherry and menthol notes. Sleek but muscular. Really nice overall.
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11/19/2015 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points
Very tight at the start, needed decanting and swirling. Marvelous black fruit on the nose through to the palate. This still needs time but is brilliant wine.
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5/14/2015 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points
At Pavillon Ledoyen. Stunning how young this wine is showing at 16 years old, but from the other notes here it looks like this is the rule rather than the exception. Edging into early maturity, this has got a beautiful Volnay nose of raspberry, mineral, and floral perfume. The really interesting part of this is that when you take a deep whiff, it's almost as though there's an early/mid/late nose. So plush and seamless on the palate with a long, long finish. Just excellent. Looking forward to re-visiting this over the coming years but wouldn't bother checking in again for another 5 or so - very good and very slowly evolving.
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9/6/2014 - wineduggery Likes this wine: 92 Points
Unbelievably youthful for a 15-year-old wine. Beautiful acidity and minerality. A great food wine.
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9/17/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote:
Still going strong - burly wine, impressive.
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5/13/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
A rockstar! Rugged and earthy nose, this is a powerful wine that has super-saturated black fruit and impressive intensity. Inky, marvelous... this needs 5 more years to enjoy at its best.
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4/19/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Some Bottles from a Week in France; 4/14/2013-4/21/2013 (Paris, Northern Burgundy, Alsace): Fortunate enough to drink another bottle a year after having the last one. Still primary full ruby. Actually a whiff of ripe, medicinal black cherry as well as earth and menthol. Light and linear. There is a lot of fruit just waiting to burst forth, but before it gets started, it is rebuffed by dynamite acidity and fine grained dry tannins. Perhaps a bit of evolution over the past year, but I'd still say it needs 10+ years to fully resolve. We saved a good bit of the bottle, so it will be interesting to follow it for a few days.
Second night-While the tannic, earthy background remained, the fruit had risen, becoming redder and less ripe, resulting in much better balance of fruit and acidity. Very beautiful but likely to be as closed and awkward right out of the bottle as it was for us.
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3/7/2013 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points
Fine nose of sweet earth, dark cherries, blueberries and violets. Big and powerful for Volnay but finely etched and quite precise. Lovely flavors that echo the nose with an almost spritzy acidity still apparent that burned off albeit stubbornly. I think this will be great down the road but it needs 10 years at least! 92+
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10/19/2012 - ktrh wrote:
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Opens slightly funky, but after a few minutes this blows off - leaving... nothing. It is completely closed and introvert. In the mouth it is pleasant enough, but finished with a dramatic wall of brutal tannins.
The next day it has softened some, but still this is only in its infancy. I was hoping for a demi to be ready by now, but I would assume it needs at least ten more years, if not more.
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9/18/2012 - mike wrote: 94 Points
drwine's note pretty much says it all. I like the association to the Frederich Emile but this is more Clos Sainte Hune. Detailed and focussed, lots of mineral, primary, great depth and power, no fatness. Primary to the extreme but still brilliant.
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4/12/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:
Random Notes from Travels in France; 4/6/2012-4/14/2012 (Paris, Loire, Alsace): What a thrill to find and drink this. Deep ruby without clearing. Intense perfume of violets and black fruit. No evident wood, all pure fruit. Lean, linear and dry, just beginning to gain some flesh, but essentially strict without any sweetness or excess fat. Gorgeous acidity and an amazing finish which leaves stone dust on the tongue for minutes. Quintessential, pure Volnay. It had much more in common with the Frederic Emile Riesling alongside it than the wood drenched Vosne Suchots we had at lunch. A very great Volnay in the making. Optimally, hold until 2025 for full development, but if like me, you must try one now, that's okay too.
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4/11/2012 - Remony wrote: 91 Points
Still shut down, tannic and unyielding. 37.5cl. Will be lovely, but this is taking an age to come round. So are all my other 1999 Volnays.
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3/3/2012 - Burgaddict wrote: 92 Points
Red fruit nose, a bit dusty and green. Taste is concentrated and velvety, cherry and raspberry, fine tannins, intense and balanced. Very fine. Long finish. My first Clos des Ducs and I am very impressed.
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10/19/2011 - Matt Neel wrote:
d'Angerville dinner at Daniel 10/19/2011 (Daniel): Deep, deep ruby. Lovely, cool nose. Cocoa, coffee, a but of ash, maybe a hint of matchstick (but not unpleasantly so). Glorious nose! Palate again a bolt of velvet, filigreed, precise texture and balance. Cherry and a little turned earth. A baby. Splendid length. Absolutely first-class wine. Later: phenomenal nose. Caramel, cocoa, truffle. Stupendous. Again, effortlessly grand cru-quality in its texture.
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10/19/2011 - Seth Rosenberg wrote:
d'Angerville Dinner at Daniel w Guillaume d'Angerville (Restaurant Daniel): Was really looking forward to this wine, but like the 99 Champans and Taillepieds in the flight, this wine was quite the Sphinx. It started off very dungy/stinky, and that burnt off, but after that I could get very little from it - dusty tannins and really earthy, but that it is - it was really closed and monolithic. With the 98 Ducs in a later flight, this wine was the hardest for me to evaluate. Judgement deferred.
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3/5/2011 - jlemerond wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful, deep nose of sour cherry tobacco and earth. In the mouth very angular and mineral, partly due to the still fierce tannic structure. Even out of half bottle, this is nowhere near ready. A great wine in the making.
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1/28/2011 - lozatron wrote:
Drank a Chris Doty's angerville ol - great stuff but very austere - a decade to readiness I think, in the meantime it invites admiration more than spreads joy.
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12/13/2010 - Remony wrote: 92 Points
A half bottle. Robust tannic wine, deep coloured, complex nose, not yet very generous to taste. Masculine, unyielding. But pretty clearly going in the right direction. Leave for 2 more years at least. (I have since recalled that the 1999 Lafon Santenots du Milieu was in a similar place last May, and remained fairly dumb even after decanting. But a second decanting transformed it. I shall double decant my next 37.5cl of this Clos des Ducs, and perhaps any other 1999 Volnays which I'm tempted to try in the next year or two. I see that in 2009 Burghound had a very similar experience with the '99 Angerville Taillepieds to mine with the Clos des Ducs. These Volnays have simply shut down after 10 years.)
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12/11/2010 - psmith wrote:
Meaty, tannic, robust wine. Dark fruit. Tar. Very firm. Masculine styling. Nice.
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5/18/2010 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
D'Angerville Clos des Ducs - vertical 1978 - 2005 (Institute of Directors, London): Quiet on the nose, but huge richness on the palate, weighty, not really expressive yet, but I'd trust this to grow and grow
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3/28/2010 - 60ouvrees wrote:
Wow, incredible potential here. This got better and better with air and should develop into a great wine.
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1/25/2010 - rnellans wrote: 94 Points
Dark fruits, earthy, spice. Rich. Nice balance with good acid and some dusty ripe tannins.
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11/11/2009 - toomuchwine wrote: 91 Points
Lovely nose of bright red cherries and that Volnay earthiness/marshmallowy thing I like so well. However, very tight on the palate. Left overnight to try again. This clearly needs time and/or air.
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5/10/2009 - drwine2001 wrote:
Pristine, youthful medium ruby. An opening volley of sour cherry, smoke, and earth. Then, complex, penetrating cranberry, blackberry, and anise. In the mouth, it starts out dense, tight, and tannic with medium to lighter weight. As it aerates, it becomes much more airy and softens a bit, but there is no gratuitous sweetness or excess fat here. This is young, structured, and lean without being severe or tart. Incredible focus-I usually use the descriptor "laser-like" for high acid white wines, but this would also apply here. Just incredible precision. One of the most intellectually challenging Burgundies I've had recently, in ways this reminded me of drinking Bordeaux as it demanded every bit of one's attention. Fascinating and enjoyable now, but this should be held for another 10 years as it is only inching its way to maturity. Marvelous wine and quintessential Volnay.
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7/26/2008 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Earth, cherry, blood and chocolate aromas on the nose. Firm palate, with some sweet fruit in the background, the acid structure is a highlight. Powerful and very impressive. Starting to come around to drinking well.
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4/18/2008 - toomuchwine wrote: 91 Points
Massive dose of acid and bright red cherries. Nose is lovely and floral, but the palate is all acid at this phase after open for an hour. Wait several years on this one...
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5/28/2007 - TWaldmann wrote:
Clearly infanticide to open this now, but what an enjoyable killing it was. This has a very seductive, pretty nose with floral notes & black raspberries. Minerality & silky tannins to beat the band. The structure & balance here are just amazing. A profound Ducs that has years ahead of it. I would give this another 10 years at least before opening another one, but it was surprisingly delicous tonight.
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2/22/2007 - toomuchwine wrote: 92 Points
bright cherries. Lovely, well integrated nose and not too tight on the palate. Long finish and just very well balanced. Needs time, but quite good after open for 30 minutes or so.
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9/22/2006 - mdefreitas wrote: 88 Points
Dinner Party at Home w/ Pinots & d'Yquem (Milford): Hard and ungiving. The pieces are there for great development, but this is in a closed state right now.
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