Wine Tasted at Acker Auction (Marea - New York NY): In 04/80/76 vertical. Alluring nose shows rich red cherry and berry, sweet spice and black truffle. Similar flavors with equally alluring textures and a long finish, with a charming weightlessness carrying it into the sunset. Some tasters preferred this over the 1976, but the latter's density and heft gave it the nod from me.
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JK's 50th Birthday: 001763/4408. One of the best vintages for the Domaine, and this is no exception. Heavenly aromatics, perfect balance, sweet, rich, chewy, dimensional. Crazy, my favorite today. 97-98
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first time was a terribly heat damaged 2001 from god knows where, to say it was disappointing would be the understatement of the year. This time, a 1980 DRC Romanee Conti. The original purchaser's cellar was less than 20 miles away from the restaurant and was stored perfectly since release. I kept my expectations low as to tamper expectations.
Some wines are pretty tough to put into words - I'm usually taking notes on my phone as I'm tasting through wine and I update it as the wine changes through the night, but with this wine the note just kept getting longer and longer as the superlatives grew.
Decanted for sediment - decanted back into the bottle 15 minutes or so later then popped again around 1.5 hours later.
The wine is complete to say the least, over three hours it elevated and gained more and more as subtle nuisance layered itself in and built onto the base.
The nose is the very essense of sous bois perfection with baked spice, cedar, the sweetest resolved cherry - all subtle and floating in an ethereal presense that haunts YOUR VERY SOUL. As you smell the wine, the emotion empties out from you.
On the palate - simply, it is the most perfect balance of pure wild strawberry fruit and sweet earth that you get from aged burgundy, it is the dictionary picture of that combo that we seek from aged burgundy. It's interlaced with supple acidity that carries the flavor profile all through your mouth. There was one point I was asked what I thought about the wine but I couldn't respond as the wine had so completely saturated my tastebuds that I kept swallowing all the saliva that was being generated by the flavor explosions of fruit, black tea leaves, sweet earth - except it all just felt so "weightless" and seamless.
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2018 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium – Kelly, RJ, Justin and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/7/2018-11/11/2018 (Villa D’este, Lake Como): Another perfectly mature DRC nose. Beautifully integrated complex nose displaying subtle clean bright red fruit, raspberry water, sous bois, strong spearmint, grilled cep, a hint of truffle, grilled fat, cola and mineral. Perfectly integrated weightless palate, reminiscence of candied red fruit, silky and sensual, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, and a seamless clean candied red fruit driven finish with strong spearmint at the end. For some tasters, this is the wine of the tasting. For my palate, spearmint is a very minor distraction.
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11/20/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
Wine Tasted at Acker Auction (Marea - New York NY): In 04/80/76 vertical. Alluring nose shows rich red cherry and berry, sweet spice and black truffle. Similar flavors with equally alluring textures and a long finish, with a charming weightlessness carrying it into the sunset. Some tasters preferred this over the 1976, but the latter's density and heft gave it the nod from me.
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11/20/2021 - hprphf Likes this wine: 98 Points
JK's 50th Birthday: 001763/4408. One of the best vintages for the Domaine, and this is no exception. Heavenly aromatics, perfect balance, sweet, rich, chewy, dimensional. Crazy, my favorite today. 97-98
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5/10/2021 - clayfu wrote:
first time was a terribly heat damaged 2001 from god knows where, to say it was disappointing would be the understatement of the year. This time, a 1980 DRC Romanee Conti. The original purchaser's cellar was less than 20 miles away from the restaurant and was stored perfectly since release. I kept my expectations low as to tamper expectations.
Some wines are pretty tough to put into words - I'm usually taking notes on my phone as I'm tasting through wine and I update it as the wine changes through the night, but with this wine the note just kept getting longer and longer as the superlatives grew.
Decanted for sediment - decanted back into the bottle 15 minutes or so later then popped again around 1.5 hours later.
The wine is complete to say the least, over three hours it elevated and gained more and more as subtle nuisance layered itself in and built onto the base.
The nose is the very essense of sous bois perfection with baked spice, cedar, the sweetest resolved cherry - all subtle and floating in an ethereal presense that haunts YOUR VERY SOUL. As you smell the wine, the emotion empties out from you.
On the palate - simply, it is the most perfect balance of pure wild strawberry fruit and sweet earth that you get from aged burgundy, it is the dictionary picture of that combo that we seek from aged burgundy. It's interlaced with supple acidity that carries the flavor profile all through your mouth. There was one point I was asked what I thought about the wine but I couldn't respond as the wine had so completely saturated my tastebuds that I kept swallowing all the saliva that was being generated by the flavor explosions of fruit, black tea leaves, sweet earth - except it all just felt so "weightless" and seamless.
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11/15/2018 - steinersing wrote: 97 Points
Aromatics and nose very attractive. Open and pure. Just not as long as the top vintages.
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11/10/2018 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
2018 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium – Kelly, RJ, Justin and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/7/2018-11/11/2018 (Villa D’este, Lake Como): Another perfectly mature DRC nose. Beautifully integrated complex nose displaying subtle clean bright red fruit, raspberry water, sous bois, strong spearmint, grilled cep, a hint of truffle, grilled fat, cola and mineral. Perfectly integrated weightless palate, reminiscence of candied red fruit, silky and sensual, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, and a seamless clean candied red fruit driven finish with strong spearmint at the end. For some tasters, this is the wine of the tasting. For my palate, spearmint is a very minor distraction.
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6/24/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Musique & Vin Festival BYO Dinner with Musicians (1243 Bourgogne Society - Beaune): Late night, small glass, brief note. Spice galore with pure red cherry and berry. Incredibly well balanced. Thanks, Omar!
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