Atlanta Amoureuses & Monty Dinner: Really good; surprisingly so. Lots of depth and well developed without being over oxidized. This is not a lauded producer, but was better than average for the flight.
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M&M (Montrachet & Musigny) at Nicolas. Deep yellow, a lovely matured appearance. The initial bouquet was huge and ripe - toast, heavy oak, honey, caramel, sweetened pineapples and Indian mango. With extended time, this softened and showed nice secondary characteristics - wet stone, gravel, light cream, gingerbread, salted popcorn and marzipan along with a good amount of yellow fruit. On the palate, acidity was present, there was certainly enough fruit and the wine showed best after a couple of hours with a lovely mix of flavours. A good Montrachet, and in a quite perfect drinking window. Lovely beginning to the evening.
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M&M (Montrachet and Musigny) Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Impressive, if not quite as enjoyable as the 1999 Fontaine-Gagnard Monty that was paired alongside. This started out smelling almost like a new world wine, with sweet popcorn oak and yellow fruited aromas galore. With time though, more typical Cote de Beaune aromas of butter, cream and mushrooms, even a touch of smoky, flinty minerality starting floating out as well. Nice enough, but I must say this smelt like something a good decade younger - refilled perhaps. It was very strong on the palate though, with deep, powerful flavours of sweet yellow fruit, almost dried mango-like at points, laced with a deep stream of minerality beneath. The slight new worldly ripeness was there, but it was nicely matched by a great sense of structure and a nice balance. A very muscular wine, but certainly not inelegant. On the midpalate, notes of cream and chalk and some stone fruited tones emerged to take their place amongst the ripe fruit. The finish was long and powerful and persistent as one would expect from a Montrachet, but it just seemed to lack a touch of cut and precision as the wine warmed up. Otherwise, this was quite impressive. A true Montrachet.
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My second and last bottle. This wine took 2 hours to open up. It has toasted nut, durian, rubber, minerals, orange peel, egg custard and burnt caramel. Its so complex if you give it time to show its best. Everyone wow about the wine tonight. It still has acidity to age longer
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Good condition. Nose had caramel, nut, mineral, egg custard and limestone. Palate was rich with overwhelming wet stone and nut fruit. It lacks the montrachet layer. It drinks more like a slightly younger batard. It has life left but unlikely to improve. 92+
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Excellent. Clear, Golden yellow, beautiful nose of dried sugared citrus fruits, evolving as it opened up with lovely honey tones, caramel.... very fine wine
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along 1999 and 1998. This has an impressive nose - pure and multidimensional. Less exuberant and more focused than the younger wines and acidity a bit more in the background. great wine - would probably drink this now.
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I was right to open at 6pm for an 830pm dinner. That allowed the wine to really open. This was an ample wine, wanting to extent beyond your mouth. The best of three bottles opened recently. Such good value.
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Opened but not decanted then drank half contemplatively in small sips over Valentine Night dinner then the rest the following evening. Gorgeous bright bronze gold colour. Nose began as camomile and unfolded multifariously through fresh vanilla pods, mangosteen, custard apple and ultimately into the lightest possible temple smoke and high notes on a piano. Palate is immediately silence-creating: incredibly harmonised like a pebble perfectly rounded by 500 years in a stream, lovely fresh mangosteens blend of custard apple and citric freshness coupled with fresh vanilla pod, all very light in the mouth but incredibly harmonious and multi-layered in a way that is the epitome of "power without weight" and doesn't prepare you for the whispish yet profound resonance and length on the finish. The palate took on slightly extra weight on the second day with some gorgeous light burnt caramel notes, greater minerality and more evident oak set in a quite tannic frame....a hundred levels of sensation on the tongue. This is so beguiling that you can't do other than sip it very slowly and enjoy every caress that it gives. Mmmm.....I am disappearing down a rabbit hole into another world and thinking of quotes by William Blake. What a finale from my final bottle of of an utterly satisfying case.
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White Burgundy/Tuscan Lunch: This is very serious wine - incredibly rich, full but enormously subtle too. All the classic white burgundy traits in an incredibly round, integrated package. Mature but no signs of tiredness at all. This bottle beautiful, but one opened before completely oxidized.
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Excellent. Drank alongside a 1996. Elegant, obvious presence of wood. Wonderful bouquet of Melon, light aromatics. Elegant balance on the palate. Got better in the glass. A complete white.
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Seventh Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Ripe fruit on nose, showing both stone fruit and orchard fruit. Clearly showing some age, but in proportion for what I expected from over 20 years old. Some really good spice coming through in middle and finish with good intensity. Good length.
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Had this at Ozzo Mezzo with Sara's friends. This wine was a bit too light on its feet, although had a hint of the yellow flower, fruit, and minerality. But this was not the exceptional wine that I had anticipated. Maybe too cold or hibernating tonight. Good wine tonight but not at the level of its reputation.
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Classic but basic Montrachet. You cannot go wrong. The 1979 we opened in Dec 2010 was sumptuous, of course 1979 is a better vintage. Frankly, the wines only arrived from France several weeks ago, and I should have been more patient. I am looking forward to tasting my next bottle at least several months from now.
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This was pair with Burrata cheese - most interesting. An aged Montrachet, retained on the nose but nice balance on the palate. Nutty, nice leanish fruits paired well with the cheese. Not as expressive, shy but nicely elegant.
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A near-masterpiece. So clearly Montrachet. Hitting its stride. Everything present and in balance. Extraordinary length; more a permanence than a finish.
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When uncorked it was too cold. As it warmed, the opulence of this wine showed, candied fruits, honey, floral notes all providing aromas that intoxicates. On the palate it did not disappoint with very good length. Its freshness held well and as its complexity developed with the evening.
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Drank with Greg and Sayo over an outstandingly good, light white truffle dinner at Nicholini's in Hong Kong. No detailed notes but this was a high notes of the piano bottle (see my 6/26/2010 tasting note) and it harmonised effortlessly across initial dishes of tagliatelle with white truffle, simple seared Japanese scallop with white truffle etc. through to a light fruit and meringue dessert. The consistent thread was the citrus freshness, complex minerality, fresh zinginess and huge reverb on the back end of the wine......astonishingly good but all in a very elegant understated manner. Utterly gorgeous.
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We drank this over a beautiful, simple Italian dinner at Nicholini's in Hong Kong to celebrate our wedding anniversary and it effortlessly harmonised with every course from white asparagus with summer black truffle and scrambled egg (and home-made buffalo Motzarella), through a shared Papadrelle of Wild Boar, Spagetti Vongole (and a perfect whole Sea Bass roasted in the pizza oven with wild thyme), a plate of Italian cheeses and a special desert of New York Cheese Cake with Home-Made Almond-infused Vanilla Ice Cream.
Lightish bronze gold colour. Immediate nose of nougat, light creme of toffee, fresh melted salty farm butter, fresh-peeled green hazelnuts but also lightly toasted hazelnuts, fresh grated lemon zest....very multi-dimensional and vibrant. Palate is light and very precise acid attack on the front end followed by refreshing cucumber (yes, cucumber) , perfumed fresh-peeled rambutans, sea shells, ozone and loads of flinty minerals, all very light, high toned and incredibly fresh for its age....with freshly grated nutmeg on the back end and some fresh almond nuts ultimately emerging. Enormous but subtle length and a resonance that reverberates inside the head for minutes ......silence-creating and utterly stunning in an understated and very elegant manner.......lemons and oyster shells lingered in the mouth for a couple of hours after we had finished the bottle.
At this age, I think each bottle even from a single case has developed its own personality......this one was very high notes of the piano scale compared to our previous bottle a month ago, which had more Beethoven. Heavenly.
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Holding on quite well. Deep gold color. Nutty and dry on the approach with a bitter note of almond skin. It moves to lovely nut oils on the mid-palate and then a bare hint of tropical citrus on the finish. Quite a lot of structure and mineral really. Older bones than I am personally used to in White Burg, but this is lovely and sublime
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Rich golden straw colour. Served slightly warmer than on previous occasions and that was immediately evident on the nose...... forceful but elegant, warm fresh bananas, lychees, lemon zest, Seville orange marmalade but some refreshing quince and fresh rambutan.......very multi-layered and constantantly evolving. The palate is just drop dead gorgeous and immediately silence-creating......mouthfilling, an incredible and unlikely counterpoint of seashell minerality, fresh ozone, sea spray and almost over-ripe fresh apricots, toasted hazelnuts, warm ripe bananas, a touch of Seville marmalade and melted butter all held together by taut acidity in the background. Huge length and catherdral-like resonance inside the head on the finish. Beautiful.....more voluptourous than previous bottles we have drank as a result of the warmer temperture and the gusto with which it was consumed.
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Honeyed golden straw colour. Bang! nose of lemon zest, brine and ozone, toast, brioches, very complex. Gosh...palate is like a steam train hitting you. Full , mouthfillingly, toasty, minerally sea shells with incredible intensity, freshness and balance. Expands exponentially in the head as it warms up. Ooh....I'm in heaven. Absolutely fantastic.
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Three Blind Flights Dinner (Crown Wine Cellars, Hong Kong): Tasted blind but in the knowledge it was my contribution. Slightly richer golden colour but not at all as deep as I'd expected for its age. Wow....... nose is lovely fresh banana and smells very young with no trace of oxidization at all, immediately very layered and complex with hints of fresh lychees and freshly peeled rambutans, a touch of Seville orange marmalade, some quince and some creamy fresh cool butter and just a little hazelnut. The palate is..... gosh....... silence-creating.....extremely elegant, restrained, aloof but steely, like a perfectly sharpened heavy sword that can razor-cut paper, fresh apricot and roast hazelnut, great minerality, some smoky bacon emerges with time and hand warming the glass then the wine suddenly gets even fresher and brighter with an hour or more in the glass and even more so with 3+ hours in the opened bottle. Huge length that just rolls on and on and with a very persistent cathedral-like resonance in the head on the finish. Stunningly good and incredibly youthful for its age.
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Slightly dark yellow colour. Very complex and powerfull nose of roasted hazelnut, toffee, butter with hints of white fruits and apricot. However, despite the richness of the fruit, no impression of oversweetness or jammy character. In the mouth, although mature, there is no hints of oxydation. All the flavours present on the nose explode. Once again, the richness and concentration of dry fruits and yellow fruits is beautifully contrasted by acidity and minerality, which enhance the definition. Finale last forever, with toffee and butter character dominating.
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4/22/2023 - BradE wrote:
Montrachet: Interesting and fun. Our only blind wine.
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4/22/2023 - shifter Likes this wine: 94 Points
Atlanta Amoureuses & Monty Dinner: Really good; surprisingly so. Lots of depth and well developed without being over oxidized. This is not a lauded producer, but was better than average for the flight.
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9/15/2021 - t-slow wrote:
Excellent
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1/12/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
M&M dinner at Nicolas with pals.
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1/12/2017 - justburg wrote: 91 Points
M&M (Montrachet & Musigny) at Nicolas. Deep yellow, a lovely matured appearance. The initial bouquet was huge and ripe - toast, heavy oak, honey, caramel, sweetened pineapples and Indian mango. With extended time, this softened and showed nice secondary characteristics - wet stone, gravel, light cream, gingerbread, salted popcorn and marzipan along with a good amount of yellow fruit. On the palate, acidity was present, there was certainly enough fruit and the wine showed best after a couple of hours with a lovely mix of flavours. A good Montrachet, and in a quite perfect drinking window. Lovely beginning to the evening.
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1/12/2017 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
M&M (Montrachet and Musigny) Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Impressive, if not quite as enjoyable as the 1999 Fontaine-Gagnard Monty that was paired alongside. This started out smelling almost like a new world wine, with sweet popcorn oak and yellow fruited aromas galore. With time though, more typical Cote de Beaune aromas of butter, cream and mushrooms, even a touch of smoky, flinty minerality starting floating out as well. Nice enough, but I must say this smelt like something a good decade younger - refilled perhaps. It was very strong on the palate though, with deep, powerful flavours of sweet yellow fruit, almost dried mango-like at points, laced with a deep stream of minerality beneath. The slight new worldly ripeness was there, but it was nicely matched by a great sense of structure and a nice balance. A very muscular wine, but certainly not inelegant. On the midpalate, notes of cream and chalk and some stone fruited tones emerged to take their place amongst the ripe fruit. The finish was long and powerful and persistent as one would expect from a Montrachet, but it just seemed to lack a touch of cut and precision as the wine warmed up. Otherwise, this was quite impressive. A true Montrachet.
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11/29/2016 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
My second and last bottle. This wine took 2 hours to open up. It has toasted nut, durian, rubber, minerals, orange peel, egg custard and burnt caramel. Its so complex if you give it time to show its best. Everyone wow about the wine tonight. It still has acidity to age longer
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7/23/2016 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Good condition. Nose had caramel, nut, mineral, egg custard and limestone. Palate was rich with overwhelming wet stone and nut fruit. It lacks the montrachet layer. It drinks more like a slightly younger batard. It has life left but unlikely to improve. 92+
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7/16/2015 - kenv Likes this wine: 88 Points
White Burgundy Blind: Dead or Alive? (Home of Chef Andrew Plummer, East Greenbush, NY): Amber color. No nose. Lightly oxidized, but still appealing. Now that I see the vintage, this one is probably right for its age, not premoxed.
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2/5/2015 - t-slow Likes this wine:
Excellent. Clear, Golden yellow, beautiful nose of dried sugared citrus fruits, evolving as it opened up with lovely honey tones, caramel.... very fine wine
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1/24/2015 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points
along 1999 and 1998. This has an impressive nose - pure and multidimensional. Less exuberant and more focused than the younger wines and acidity a bit more in the background. great wine - would probably drink this now.
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3/5/2014 - Dubie wrote: 93 Points
I was right to open at 6pm for an 830pm dinner. That allowed the wine to really open. This was an ample wine, wanting to extent beyond your mouth. The best of three bottles opened recently. Such good value.
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2/15/2014 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 97 Points
Opened but not decanted then drank half contemplatively in small sips over Valentine Night dinner then the rest the following evening. Gorgeous bright bronze gold colour. Nose began as camomile and unfolded multifariously through fresh vanilla pods, mangosteen, custard apple and ultimately into the lightest possible temple smoke and high notes on a piano. Palate is immediately silence-creating: incredibly harmonised like a pebble perfectly rounded by 500 years in a stream, lovely fresh mangosteens blend of custard apple and citric freshness coupled with fresh vanilla pod, all very light in the mouth but incredibly harmonious and multi-layered in a way that is the epitome of "power without weight" and doesn't prepare you for the whispish yet profound resonance and length on the finish. The palate took on slightly extra weight on the second day with some gorgeous light burnt caramel notes, greater minerality and more evident oak set in a quite tannic frame....a hundred levels of sensation on the tongue. This is so beguiling that you can't do other than sip it very slowly and enjoy every caress that it gives. Mmmm.....I am disappearing down a rabbit hole into another world and thinking of quotes by William Blake. What a finale from my final bottle of of an utterly satisfying case.
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5/7/2013 - abh wrote:
White Burgundy/Tuscan Lunch: This is very serious wine - incredibly rich, full but enormously subtle too. All the classic white burgundy traits in an incredibly round, integrated package. Mature but no signs of tiredness at all. This bottle beautiful, but one opened before completely oxidized.
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8/8/2012 - winecowboy wrote: 90 Points
Nice grip. Lycee and exotic
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1/19/2012 - t-slow wrote: 94 Points
Excellent. Drank alongside a 1996. Elegant, obvious presence of wood. Wonderful bouquet of Melon, light aromatics. Elegant balance on the palate. Got better in the glass. A complete white.
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12/2/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Seventh Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Ripe fruit on nose, showing both stone fruit and orchard fruit. Clearly showing some age, but in proportion for what I expected from over 20 years old. Some really good spice coming through in middle and finish with good intensity. Good length.
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7/30/2011 - lean88j wrote: 93 Points
Had this at Ozzo Mezzo with Sara's friends. This wine was a bit too light on its feet, although had a hint of the yellow flower, fruit, and minerality. But this was not the exceptional wine that I had anticipated. Maybe too cold or hibernating tonight. Good wine tonight but not at the level of its reputation.
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6/24/2011 - t-slow wrote: 90 Points
Disappointing. Very restraint, muted. Took a long time to open up a little. Light on the palate.
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6/22/2011 - Lord Rayas wrote: 91 Points
Dinner at Eric's with Roland and Mr. Y: very fresh for its age. zesty with complex minerals. perhaps a little lean on the finish.
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5/15/2011 - Dubie wrote: 91 Points
Classic but basic Montrachet. You cannot go wrong. The 1979 we opened in Dec 2010 was sumptuous, of course 1979 is a better vintage. Frankly, the wines only arrived from France several weeks ago, and I should have been more patient. I am looking forward to tasting my next bottle at least several months from now.
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4/8/2011 - t-slow wrote: 95 Points
This was pair with Burrata cheese - most interesting. An aged Montrachet, retained on the nose but nice balance on the palate. Nutty, nice leanish fruits paired well with the cheese. Not as expressive, shy but nicely elegant.
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3/20/2011 - Vinomane wrote: 94 Points
A near-masterpiece. So clearly Montrachet. Hitting its stride. Everything present and in balance. Extraordinary length; more a permanence than a finish.
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12/26/2010 - t-slow wrote: 94 Points
I thought this bottle was a shade less exciting than the previous. It was not as showy.
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12/22/2010 - t-slow wrote: 95 Points
When uncorked it was too cold. As it warmed, the opulence of this wine showed, candied fruits, honey, floral notes all providing aromas that intoxicates. On the palate it did not disappoint with very good length. Its freshness held well and as its complexity developed with the evening.
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11/26/2010 - Goldstone wrote: 96 Points
Drank with Greg and Sayo over an outstandingly good, light white truffle dinner at Nicholini's in Hong Kong. No detailed notes but this was a high notes of the piano bottle (see my 6/26/2010 tasting note) and it harmonised effortlessly across initial dishes of tagliatelle with white truffle, simple seared Japanese scallop with white truffle etc. through to a light fruit and meringue dessert. The consistent thread was the citrus freshness, complex minerality, fresh zinginess and huge reverb on the back end of the wine......astonishingly good but all in a very elegant understated manner. Utterly gorgeous.
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6/26/2010 - Goldstone wrote: 96 Points
We drank this over a beautiful, simple Italian dinner at Nicholini's in Hong Kong to celebrate our wedding anniversary and it effortlessly harmonised with every course from white asparagus with summer black truffle and scrambled egg (and home-made buffalo Motzarella), through a shared Papadrelle of Wild Boar, Spagetti Vongole (and a perfect whole Sea Bass roasted in the pizza oven with wild thyme), a plate of Italian cheeses and a special desert of New York Cheese Cake with Home-Made Almond-infused Vanilla Ice Cream.
Lightish bronze gold colour. Immediate nose of nougat, light creme of toffee, fresh melted salty farm butter, fresh-peeled green hazelnuts but also lightly toasted hazelnuts, fresh grated lemon zest....very multi-dimensional and vibrant. Palate is light and very precise acid attack on the front end followed by refreshing cucumber (yes, cucumber) , perfumed fresh-peeled rambutans, sea shells, ozone and loads of flinty minerals, all very light, high toned and incredibly fresh for its age....with freshly grated nutmeg on the back end and some fresh almond nuts ultimately emerging. Enormous but subtle length and a resonance that reverberates inside the head for minutes ......silence-creating and utterly stunning in an understated and very elegant manner.......lemons and oyster shells lingered in the mouth for a couple of hours after we had finished the bottle.
At this age, I think each bottle even from a single case has developed its own personality......this one was very high notes of the piano scale compared to our previous bottle a month ago, which had more Beethoven. Heavenly.
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6/20/2010 - Eric wrote: 91 Points
Holding on quite well. Deep gold color. Nutty and dry on the approach with a bitter note of almond skin. It moves to lovely nut oils on the mid-palate and then a bare hint of tropical citrus on the finish. Quite a lot of structure and mineral really. Older bones than I am personally used to in White Burg, but this is lovely and sublime
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5/22/2010 - Goldstone wrote: 95 Points
Rich golden straw colour. Served slightly warmer than on previous occasions and that was immediately evident on the nose...... forceful but elegant, warm fresh bananas, lychees, lemon zest, Seville orange marmalade but some refreshing quince and fresh rambutan.......very multi-layered and constantantly evolving. The palate is just drop dead gorgeous and immediately silence-creating......mouthfilling, an incredible and unlikely counterpoint of seashell minerality, fresh ozone, sea spray and almost over-ripe fresh apricots, toasted hazelnuts, warm ripe bananas, a touch of Seville marmalade and melted butter all held together by taut acidity in the background. Huge length and catherdral-like resonance inside the head on the finish. Beautiful.....more voluptourous than previous bottles we have drank as a result of the warmer temperture and the gusto with which it was consumed.
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4/17/2010 - Goldstone wrote: 95 Points
Honeyed golden straw colour. Bang! nose of lemon zest, brine and ozone, toast, brioches, very complex. Gosh...palate is like a steam train hitting you. Full , mouthfillingly, toasty, minerally sea shells with incredible intensity, freshness and balance. Expands exponentially in the head as it warms up. Ooh....I'm in heaven. Absolutely fantastic.
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3/20/2010 - Goldstone wrote: 95 Points
Three Blind Flights Dinner (Crown Wine Cellars, Hong Kong): Tasted blind but in the knowledge it was my contribution. Slightly richer golden colour but not at all as deep as I'd expected for its age. Wow....... nose is lovely fresh banana and smells very young with no trace of oxidization at all, immediately very layered and complex with hints of fresh lychees and freshly peeled rambutans, a touch of Seville orange marmalade, some quince and some creamy fresh cool butter and just a little hazelnut. The palate is..... gosh....... silence-creating.....extremely elegant, restrained, aloof but steely, like a perfectly sharpened heavy sword that can razor-cut paper, fresh apricot and roast hazelnut, great minerality, some smoky bacon emerges with time and hand warming the glass then the wine suddenly gets even fresher and brighter with an hour or more in the glass and even more so with 3+ hours in the opened bottle. Huge length that just rolls on and on and with a very persistent cathedral-like resonance in the head on the finish. Stunningly good and incredibly youthful for its age.
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3/20/2010 - jpijg wrote: 98 Points
Slightly dark yellow colour. Very complex and powerfull nose of roasted hazelnut, toffee, butter with hints of white fruits and apricot. However, despite the richness of the fruit, no impression of oversweetness or jammy character. In the mouth, although mature, there is no hints of oxydation. All the flavours present on the nose explode. Once again, the richness and concentration of dry fruits and yellow fruits is beautifully contrasted by acidity and minerality, which enhance the definition.
Finale last forever, with toffee and butter character dominating.
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