This bottle showed the best of the three. Could be because LSG, even in a off-vintage, needs plenty of time to reveal itself. Or, could be because I decanted this one right before serving it, and it did bring out the best in the aromatics - they really popped about 20 minutes after decanting. Spices, bright red and black fruit, a savory soil and mineral sense, just a complete and very attractive nose. On the palate it showed that spherical and seamless-ness that I love - a harmonious and balanced wine. There were 30-45 minutes of great, and then the wine began to tail off so, you know, plan accordingly.
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Opened and poured a taste, left in bottle for a half hour and decanted off the sediment as dinner was put on the table. This is a very good wine, perhaps not a great Les Saint Georges, but an absolutely lovely wine. The nose, especially after a half hour in the decanter, is wonderfully harmonious and spherical - something I remember from other vintages of this wine. It’s possible to pick out aromas of bright red currant-like fruit and also darker fruit, like plum. Also savory things like soil, menthol, and under-wood. But the overall sensation is one of balance and harmony. This follows through on the palate too, which shows vibrant acidity and is very lively, and also an unmistakable grace and delicacy. It’s just a delicious wine, and a classic example of how red burgundy can be so beguiling in its power without weight, in its grace and harmony and focus. I got none whatsoever of the 2004 green taint here, I’m happy to say.
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An odd wine with slight effervescence and funk on top of an otherwise elegant structure with dark fruit and resolved tannins. Not offering a rating, but not certain it was flawed. Starting to brown on the rim.
Evidence of very slight leak. Mature and open with a bright acid edge, good depth and concentration. Put on some weight after a couple hours. No real evidence of underripe fruit. This turned brown after a day, but still retained most of its character. Possibly not a representative bottle, but seems like it is closer to the end than the beginning of its drinking window.
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This wine seesawed between showing signs of 2004 character initially being marked by notes of green meanies and even pyrazines (ladybird taint). After 30 minutes these largely blew off leaving a very complex mature wine with strong pain d’epices but still some fruit. I have had a lot of bottle variation and the bad bottles are very bad, but this one turned the corner and was excellent.
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Slow-ox 30 minutes, tasted over 1.5 hrs, bottle from secondary market -murky dark red mild bricking -expressive enchanting rich full warm earthy cherry tomato faint oak -med/med+ acidity gives an almost citrus orange peel tang on the finish, med weight enveloping full palate with faded cherry iron earth sousbois, med/med- tannins that are thankfully not dried out like many '04s, faint oak on moderately long finish -robust complex virile solidly old school and satisfying drinking beautifully now square on its mature plateau
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Straight from the bottle this showed a surprisingly mature deep brick core fading to a clear warm rim. Initial fugitive wafts - bacon fat? mint? parted to reveal dark ripe berries and consommé. In the mouth a joyously luxurious satin texture passes the weightless wooded fruit through every part of the palate: the fascinating play of flavours sings for minutes. After about an hour all traces of vapourousness had gone, the wine had put on weight and richness and yet still rewarded continual interrogation. One of the greatest NSGs I've had. Drunk to César Franck at G's birthday.
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Garnet color with a ruby rim that seemed advanced for this vintage; Blind I might have guessed this to be a 80-90s Burgundy with no hint to the vintage or vineyard. Dried strawberry fruit. There is no hint of the vintage greeness that ruined several of our other Chevillon wines. This seemed a bit advanced and dry for its age. Decanted about an hour with good results and followed from the opening.
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Deep garnet with minimal to no clouding. Expressive nose of young red cherries and strawberry with new leather, developing into dried cherry and cranberry with more air time. Textural with big tannins. Underbrush and damp soil emerge on the nose and palate with gravelly minerals. Notes of spent coffee grounds and sweet espresso. Faint spiciness, dried ginger. Pleasant surprise, great drinker.
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Although totally uncharacteristic of NSG or the vintage, this was outstanding! Very aged in color and nose; celery seed with nice very mature fruit. Could have passed as a 1978! Some odd quirk to this.
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Unescapable herbal notes with raw greens, gingseng and touch of tree bark. But given this was a powerful nsg, this vintage combo works well to give an otherwise tannic rich meaty weighty wine a lighter touch.
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Dinner at Yan (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Lovely. This is really coming into its own now. The green meanies from youth have faded somewhat, leaving behind a really elegant expression of Les St Georges. On the nose, gentle wafts of red plums and soft berry notes drifted out of the glass alongside a subtle earthiness, some minerally notes and just that hint of boiled herb and a stalky, flowery lilt that made it seemed almost Chambolle-like. I just loved the palate on this too. There was still a hint of sinew in its structure, but otherwise, this had a velvety elegance that belied the terroir, with lovely freshness and purity showing in its flavours of dark cherries and wild berries, all seasoned with a little spice and stony mineral. That floral character on the nose showed up again on the finish along with a little twist of orange peel and a little honeyed glow, just before a gentle chew of fine tannins set in right at the very end. Such a lovely wine, at a brilliant place now, although it still has the structure and balance to go on for a long time yet.
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Possibly a bad bottle? Not corked but in a bad place compared to the vaucrains from same vintage/ producer - not only green but thin and acidic, unpleasant.
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Darker than the other 2004s and with more matter and stuffing. The acidity is sticking out a little yet it seems a little tired on the palate. It had a lovely long finish though (the vineyard battling against the vintage?).
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In a perfect spot now. Much better than 2 years ago. Very sweet and open nose of dark mature fruit. Tannins resolved and perfectly integrated. Succulent and fresh. None of the vintage greeness here! Very good length.
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10th Burgundy tasting prt 2 (Rotterdam, Netherlands): We started our trio of high-end 2004’s with a medium intense, translucent ruby core and a clearly bricking rim. The slightly beyond medium intense nose has a distinctly green element to it –indeed more so than the neck glass poured out two hours earlier– and shows notes of pine resin & green herbs, but also red currant and with more time in the glass roasted meat and dried porcini. Much to my surprised this NSG primus inter pares is no more than medium bodied, which –paired with pronounced acidity and slightly grippy medium tannins– makes for a nervously styled drinking experience. Unlike the nose, the medium-plus intense black fruit flavours provide reasonable mid-palate balance and all but drown out the green flavours. There is some séve to the blueberry flavours, but also an inky edge of licorice, which continues on the 20-25 second finish. While clearly a lighter year for this cuvée, it’s not altogether unpleasant. However, I’m digging up my other bottles for autumn consumption. This bottle was worth 89 points to me, but we all know how variable 2004s can be from one bottle to the next...........................................TN Mike de Lange.
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Consumed over two nights, note recorded on day 2. Chevillon is a bellwether producer for me. I've been buying and drinking the wines since the '99 vintage (all except the shunned '03's of Europe in its entirety). I find them to be great expressions of NSG as well as vintage influences. His Les-St. Georges and Vaucrains are typically of Grand Cru quality, IMHO. What this particular wine is telling me, though, isn't what I expected. Yes, I might have opened this a tad on the early side, though the BH himself suggests the window is officially open in 2012 and he's a stickler for no gun jumping. The nose features attractive red berry fruit and warm earth notes. But there's a little bit of a green thing poking through, suggesting a potential under-ripeness I wouldn't expect. In the mouth it's a leaner and more elegant style than riper vintages, and while very classy and balanced, it's a bit sharp and prickly, the acid showing through. I'm not good enough to know if this will further resolve, but I suspect what I'm tasting here is a hallmark of the vintage, and that even in the hands of a perennial favorite, it's part of the overall transparency and wonder of good Burgundy that you get the signature of the land and the season in the same package. I'm going to wait a few years for the next '04 to see what happens.
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Nice colour showing some browning on meniscus. Has some green/herbaceous characters on nose but not off putting in the extreme. big ripe fruit with good acid/tannin balance, perhaps slightly jammy.
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Popped and poured. Light medium red with some browning on the edge. Initially rather closed on the nose with some hints of NSG spice and iron. On the palate - medium weight, a very interesting animale quality and some acidity/drying tannins on the finish; could be past its prime but will wait and see. AFter 30 minutes or so this has opened, put on more weight on the palate, and complexity in the flavors, with the finish smoothing out as well; not over the hill yet! Nice wine from an off vintage showing that the best vineyards still produce.
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Popped and poured. Medium deep ruby; little or no browning. Classic Nuits on the nose with deep fruit melded with iron and spicy notes. Lovely balance on the palate; smooth and almost velvety with a goes down like water lightness although still good intensity. Tannins largely resolved. Much more elegant than NSG and Chevillon often are, except for Les Saint Georges. Lovely wine, ready to drink but not a rush.
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This has opened up nicely sincle last visit. Very concentrated nose of mushrooms, dark red fruit, vegatiation and that typical Chevillon sweet pungent undertones. Nice balance, still a bit lean, but good finish.
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Very green on the nose and palate initially, though issue receded a little with food. Good for the vintage but certainly one of the weaker examples of this wine.
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2004 Red Burgundies (Brooklyn): A remarkable aromatic contrast with the other 1er crus and indeed with most of the rest of the lineup; just from the sweet-and-savory fruit-sauce aroma you can tell that this has perfect, flawless ripeness and plenty else to offer. Hey, it's probably the first wine so far actually to smell of fruit! And it tastes rich but also weightless and silken, and it envelops and caresses the palate like a true grand cru. Couldn't spit one drop of this.
Popped and poured; light ruby red - clear to the rim. On the palate very fresh but with classic NSG depth and spice, not at all heavy, with smooth tannins on the finish.
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Lovely nose, a bit closed on the palate initially, although over time this developed a classic Les Saint Georges elegance. Nice drinking now, better in a couple of years as the flavors integrate.
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On the nose, delicate red cherry fruit and baking spices. As it aired, a wild, slightly disjointed element began to emerge on the nose. On the palate, fairly well-balanced, with solid underlying acidity. Bright red cherry fruit and baking spices. Rather light-bodied and feminine. Nice, but IMO not a great value at the going rate ($100). Where deeply discounted or direct imported this would be worth considering.
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6/19/2023 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
This bottle showed the best of the three. Could be because LSG, even in a off-vintage, needs plenty of time to reveal itself. Or, could be because I decanted this one right before serving it, and it did bring out the best in the aromatics - they really popped about 20 minutes after decanting. Spices, bright red and black fruit, a savory soil and mineral sense, just a complete and very attractive nose. On the palate it showed that spherical and seamless-ness that I love - a harmonious and balanced wine. There were 30-45 minutes of great, and then the wine began to tail off so, you know, plan accordingly.
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11/9/2020 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
Opened and poured a taste, left in bottle for a half hour and decanted off the sediment as dinner was put on the table. This is a very good wine, perhaps not a great Les Saint Georges, but an absolutely lovely wine. The nose, especially after a half hour in the decanter, is wonderfully harmonious and spherical - something I remember from other vintages of this wine. It’s possible to pick out aromas of bright red currant-like fruit and also darker fruit, like plum. Also savory things like soil, menthol, and under-wood. But the overall sensation is one of balance and harmony. This follows through on the palate too, which shows vibrant acidity and is very lively, and also an unmistakable grace and delicacy. It’s just a delicious wine, and a classic example of how red burgundy can be so beguiling in its power without weight, in its grace and harmony and focus. I got none whatsoever of the 2004 green taint here, I’m happy to say.
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7/14/2020 - Matt T wrote: flawed
An odd wine with slight effervescence and funk on top of an otherwise elegant structure with dark fruit and resolved tannins. Not offering a rating, but not certain it was flawed. Starting to brown on the rim.
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1/12/2020 - Matt T wrote: 92 Points
Evidence of very slight leak. Mature and open with a bright acid edge, good depth and concentration. Put on some weight after a couple hours. No real evidence of underripe fruit. This turned brown after a day, but still retained most of its character. Possibly not a representative bottle, but seems like it is closer to the end than the beginning of its drinking window.
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8/8/2019 - ccn wrote: 91 Points
This wine seesawed between showing signs of 2004 character initially being marked by notes of green meanies and even pyrazines (ladybird taint). After 30 minutes these largely blew off leaving a very complex mature wine with strong pain d’epices but still some fruit. I have had a lot of bottle variation and the bad bottles are very bad, but this one turned the corner and was excellent.
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8/6/2019 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
Slow-ox 30 minutes, tasted over 1.5 hrs, bottle from secondary market
-murky dark red mild bricking
-expressive enchanting rich full warm earthy cherry tomato faint oak
-med/med+ acidity gives an almost citrus orange peel tang on the finish, med weight enveloping full palate with faded cherry iron earth sousbois, med/med- tannins that are thankfully not dried out like many '04s, faint oak on moderately long finish
-robust complex virile solidly old school and satisfying drinking beautifully now square on its mature plateau
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4/9/2017 - sfwineguy wrote: 88 Points
Very drying on the back end. Disappointing for a Chevillon. Perhaps more reflective of the vintage than the producer or the vineyard.
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10/16/2016 - Regina Likes this wine: 92 Points
Straight from the bottle this showed a surprisingly mature deep brick core fading to a clear warm rim. Initial fugitive wafts - bacon fat? mint? parted to reveal dark ripe berries and consommé. In the mouth a joyously luxurious satin texture passes the weightless wooded fruit through every part of the palate: the fascinating play of flavours sings for minutes. After about an hour all traces of vapourousness had gone, the wine had put on weight and richness and yet still rewarded continual interrogation. One of the greatest NSGs I've had. Drunk to César Franck at G's birthday.
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8/23/2016 - Winetex wrote: 90 Points
Garnet color with a ruby rim that seemed advanced for this vintage; Blind I might have guessed this to be a 80-90s Burgundy with no hint to the vintage or vineyard. Dried strawberry fruit. There is no hint of the vintage greeness that ruined several of our other Chevillon wines. This seemed a bit advanced and dry for its age. Decanted about an hour with good results and followed from the opening.
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2/3/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points
Deep garnet with minimal to no clouding. Expressive nose of young red cherries and strawberry with new leather, developing into dried cherry and cranberry with more air time. Textural with big tannins. Underbrush and damp soil emerge on the nose and palate with gravelly minerals. Notes of spent coffee grounds and sweet espresso. Faint spiciness, dried ginger. Pleasant surprise, great drinker.
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12/17/2015 - jmoore431 wrote: 92 Points
Although totally uncharacteristic of NSG or the vintage, this was outstanding! Very aged in color and nose; celery seed with nice very mature fruit. Could have passed as a 1978! Some odd quirk to this.
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11/10/2015 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points
Unescapable herbal notes with raw greens, gingseng and touch of tree bark. But given this was a powerful nsg, this vintage combo works well to give an otherwise tannic rich meaty weighty wine a lighter touch.
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11/7/2015 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Yan (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Lovely. This is really coming into its own now. The green meanies from youth have faded somewhat, leaving behind a really elegant expression of Les St Georges. On the nose, gentle wafts of red plums and soft berry notes drifted out of the glass alongside a subtle earthiness, some minerally notes and just that hint of boiled herb and a stalky, flowery lilt that made it seemed almost Chambolle-like. I just loved the palate on this too. There was still a hint of sinew in its structure, but otherwise, this had a velvety elegance that belied the terroir, with lovely freshness and purity showing in its flavours of dark cherries and wild berries, all seasoned with a little spice and stony mineral. That floral character on the nose showed up again on the finish along with a little twist of orange peel and a little honeyed glow, just before a gentle chew of fine tannins set in right at the very end. Such a lovely wine, at a brilliant place now, although it still has the structure and balance to go on for a long time yet.
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12/24/2014 - ccn wrote: flawed
Possibly a bad bottle? Not corked but in a bad place compared to the vaucrains from same vintage/ producer - not only green but thin and acidic, unpleasant.
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3/8/2014 - petergc wrote: 90 Points
Showing pretty well, full of deep raspberry flavours but with some backbone. Lasted well where some burgundies thin out pretty rapidly
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2/11/2014 - western Likes this wine: 91 Points
Last bottle very enjoyable, lady bug flavors not apparent
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12/18/2012 - WillersC wrote: 88 Points
Darker than the other 2004s and with more matter and stuffing. The acidity is sticking out a little yet it seems a little tired on the palate. It had a lovely long finish though (the vineyard battling against the vintage?).
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7/28/2012 - UTPK wrote:
In a perfect spot now. Much better than 2 years ago. Very sweet and open nose of dark mature fruit. Tannins resolved and perfectly integrated. Succulent and fresh. None of the vintage greeness here! Very good length.
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6/24/2012 - Barry Rothof wrote: 89 Points
10th Burgundy tasting prt 2 (Rotterdam, Netherlands): We started our trio of high-end 2004’s with a medium intense, translucent ruby core and a clearly bricking rim. The slightly beyond medium intense nose has a distinctly green element to it –indeed more so than the neck glass poured out two hours earlier– and shows notes of pine resin & green herbs, but also red currant and with more time in the glass roasted meat and dried porcini. Much to my surprised this NSG primus inter pares is no more than medium bodied, which –paired with pronounced acidity and slightly grippy medium tannins– makes for a nervously styled drinking experience. Unlike the nose, the medium-plus intense black fruit flavours provide reasonable mid-palate balance and all but drown out the green flavours. There is some séve to the blueberry flavours, but also an inky edge of licorice, which continues on the 20-25 second finish. While clearly a lighter year for this cuvée, it’s not altogether unpleasant. However, I’m digging up my other bottles for autumn consumption. This bottle was worth 89 points to me, but we all know how variable 2004s can be from one bottle to the next...........................................TN Mike de Lange.
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3/3/2012 - bevetroppo wrote: 90 Points
Consumed over two nights, note recorded on day 2. Chevillon is a bellwether producer for me. I've been buying and drinking the wines since the '99 vintage (all except the shunned '03's of Europe in its entirety). I find them to be great expressions of NSG as well as vintage influences. His Les-St. Georges and Vaucrains are typically of Grand Cru quality, IMHO. What this particular wine is telling me, though, isn't what I expected. Yes, I might have opened this a tad on the early side, though the BH himself suggests the window is officially open in 2012 and he's a stickler for no gun jumping. The nose features attractive red berry fruit and warm earth notes. But there's a little bit of a green thing poking through, suggesting a potential under-ripeness I wouldn't expect. In the mouth it's a leaner and more elegant style than riper vintages, and while very classy and balanced, it's a bit sharp and prickly, the acid showing through. I'm not good enough to know if this will further resolve, but I suspect what I'm tasting here is a hallmark of the vintage, and that even in the hands of a perennial favorite, it's part of the overall transparency and wonder of good Burgundy that you get the signature of the land and the season in the same package. I'm going to wait a few years for the next '04 to see what happens.
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2/8/2012 - western wrote: 89 Points
Nice colour showing some browning on meniscus. Has some green/herbaceous characters on nose but not off putting in the extreme. big ripe fruit with good acid/tannin balance, perhaps slightly jammy.
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12/20/2011 - rosenst1 wrote: 91 Points
Popped and poured. Light medium red with some browning on the edge. Initially rather closed on the nose with some hints of NSG spice and iron. On the palate - medium weight, a very interesting animale quality and some acidity/drying tannins on the finish; could be past its prime but will wait and see. AFter 30 minutes or so this has opened, put on more weight on the palate, and complexity in the flavors, with the finish smoothing out as well; not over the hill yet! Nice wine from an off vintage showing that the best vineyards still produce.
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3/13/2011 - rosenst1 wrote: 92 Points
Popped and poured. Medium deep ruby; little or no browning. Classic Nuits on the nose with deep fruit melded with iron and spicy notes. Lovely balance on the palate; smooth and almost velvety with a goes down like water lightness although still good intensity. Tannins largely resolved. Much more elegant than NSG and Chevillon often are, except for Les Saint Georges. Lovely wine, ready to drink but not a rush.
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12/23/2010 - UTPK wrote:
This has opened up nicely sincle last visit. Very concentrated nose of mushrooms, dark red fruit, vegatiation and that typical Chevillon sweet pungent undertones. Nice balance, still a bit lean, but good finish.
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8/23/2010 - don_quichotte wrote: 89 Points
Very green on the nose and palate initially, though issue receded a little with food. Good for the vintage but certainly one of the weaker examples of this wine.
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8/23/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points
2004 Red Burgundies (Brooklyn): A remarkable aromatic contrast with the other 1er crus and indeed with most of the rest of the lineup; just from the sweet-and-savory fruit-sauce aroma you can tell that this has perfect, flawless ripeness and plenty else to offer. Hey, it's probably the first wine so far actually to smell of fruit! And it tastes rich but also weightless and silken, and it envelops and caresses the palate like a true grand cru. Couldn't spit one drop of this.
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7/11/2010 - rosenst1 wrote: 90 Points
Lovely balance; still a bit restrained. Perhaps not as good as the last bottle, but somewhat
overwhelmed by the food it was consumed with.
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2/19/2010 - rosenst1 wrote: 91 Points
Popped and poured; light ruby red - clear to the rim. On the palate very fresh but with classic NSG depth and spice, not at all heavy, with smooth tannins on the finish.
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4/25/2009 - rosenst1 wrote: 91 Points
Lovely nose, a bit closed on the palate initially, although over time this developed a classic
Les Saint Georges elegance. Nice drinking now, better in a couple of years as the flavors integrate.
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12/31/2006 - Ben Andersen wrote:
On the nose, delicate red cherry fruit and baking spices. As it aired, a wild, slightly disjointed element began to emerge on the nose. On the palate, fairly well-balanced, with solid underlying acidity. Bright red cherry fruit and baking spices. Rather light-bodied and feminine. Nice, but IMO not a great value at the going rate ($100). Where deeply discounted or direct imported this would be worth considering.
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