from half bottle. darker than i might expect and while not bad, its more advanced than it should be. has a honeyed richness with a hint of butter solids, and still decent acidity to keep it interesting, but it drank best fridge temp as opposed to cellar temp, which in the realm of white burgs tells you something, i think. have had some issues with '14 boillot as well, caveat emptor.
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WOW huge nose of toasted noisette grillee, citrus, mineral, accacia flower, matchstick… Huge tension, loads of citrus, huge mineral, lenght of 60sec, still so young!!
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Hyper décevant le 2018... Oui c'est typique bourgogne mais c'est loin d'etre un vin complet. Ca manque un peu de tout, il ma fait penser à un Meursault village... Déception.
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Beautiful expression of this area. Drank opposite a '16 Drouhin Moouches which had slightly more weight. One of those whites you have to sip and savour. I decabted it and left to become just slighly chilled - improved grealty for this. Plenty of citrus and butterly oak.
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Notable breadth and power, this is a broad shouldered ripe lemon and vanilla (thankfully not sweet) animal. For as beefy as this is, there is poise and focus. It is super yummy and hard to spit indeed. Just when I worry these wines can get a little too burly, they throttle back the intensity just in time and offer a nicely balanced profile of succulent fruit and nervy tension. Great acidity-to-fruit balance. Drinking great even now, though if you are vanilla adverse and are looking for the wood to integrate a bit more, try again in a few years.
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Bitter, green apples on the palate but also a good freshness to balance out the bitterness. Hay, gentle steeped tea and bitter minerals on the finish. Awesome ripeness to the fruits with good acidity that provides a good freshness to everything.
I've only ever tasted a few from HB, but it definitely seems like a producer I can rely on!
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I’ve written a decent amount on this wine, so as a matter of a check-in here, I’ll reaffirm that this is still a fairly brawny wine and will likely always be a less finessed example of P-M, instead drinking more like a broader swathed C-M or Meursault. Aeration is the key to softening its edges so it doesn’t present like a no-neck wrestler type. Yellow lemony fruit abounds, as does some vanilla, lime and orange zest, quince, and white travertine. Finishes a bit angular but certainly flavorful.
Pair with more formidable dishes (a baked and breaded Mexican chicken with spicy red salsa dish worked well) and treat almost as if it is a heftier white Rhone. Drink now with a decant or hold for another few years.
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Drink with appetizers at La Piquette, my favorite French bistro in D.C. - love, love, LOVE this producer and especially love this wine. Drinking beautifully now with no sign of oxidation.
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At 48 degrees, needs a half hour to warm and aerate. Buttered popcorn , vanilla bean, smoked oysters, crushed shells, wet leaves. The overt oak in the nose is mitigated somewhat by the chalky minerality and white pepper which provide some balance. Yet, the meyer lemon, yellow melon and pineapple fruits still seem like they’ve been stored in new oak tupperware: you cant get away from the wood., until this comes up to 57 or so. As it fully aerates, the oak influence fades to background, a fascinating evolution. This would have been 2-3 points higher with a bit more acid and a lot less wood. Served with buttery lobster rolls on brioche buns proved that a great pairing creates its own sweet balance. Serve this to Cali Chard fans, not to lovers of Chablis, Chevalier, and Sancerre.
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This has been consistently outstanding, and this bottle was no exception. Looking forward to seeing how my '19s and '20s compare with the '17s and '18s.
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Popped'n poured with dinner at La Piquette in D.C. I do think that the 2017 will overtake the '18 (as will the '19 and '20, though I've not yet got into my stash from those 2 vintages), this continues to drink beautifully. Very happy this is not Grand Cru price, but it's hard to imagine it not being Grand Cru quality.
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(Lunch, JR & CC.) A profoundly assertive nose of roasted nuts, white fruits, warm spices and cool flowers. So complex for its young age. The palate extends all that and adds layers of intensely laced mouth filling flavours with well balanced touches of salinity and background oak. A broad, lengthy and ethereal finish. Stunningly good.
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From 375ml. So much depth and complexity. This is drinking well now but will benefit from age. This is proof how an excellent producer can make great wine in any year.
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Classic Mouchere. While showing the mineral and acid structure typical of Mouchere in its youth, this was a bit softer and less chiseled than the 2017 we had a few weeks ago. This opened up beautifully, with fruit and white floral notes on the nose, and even some buttered popcorn notes on the palate after an hour or two of air.
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During the La Paulee in Meursault so only brief impressions. Had the 2018 and the 2015 served. Both excellent 95pt wines and very similar. Flinty palate with excellent lemon peel and well judged oak. Creamy and racy, top class.
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Popped'n poured to start a dinner with friends at La Piquette in DC. Initially too cold when poured, but as this came up to temp, it showed beautifully as always. Hoping Boillot has premox issues under control, since I love this vineyard.
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No formal notes but i enjoyed this. Very reduced at first but opened up to show some decent character. Attractive creamy oak, pear fruit, sesame seed, attractive creamy weight, decent acids, good length finish. Excellent.
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Nine red 2006 Burgs (Noize): VERY reduced at first, painfully so really, although luckily 5-10 minutes swirling my glass did help somewhat. That said, the nose remained the weak point, not living up to the exciting experience of swilling and swallowing this electrifying, taut, focused wine. I enjoyed the intense flavours of lime zest and vanilla, and expect this to show brilliantly in 5-10 years' time. No sign of any 2018 flab; it would have been interesting to combine this wine and the (very different) 2015 J-M Boillot we drank it with in a single glass!
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2006 Burgundy with a few additions (Noizé, London): Lemon oil and faint dill edge to the nose. A little hazelnut and some creaminess. Palate is focused, and well balanced although the solarity of vintage is there in the background with a little more alcohol than would be ideal. Later some chalkiness emerges.
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Double decanted an hour before but really opened after another half hour. Matchstick and floral nose. Faint orchard fruit and honeysuckle. Pear juice. Long mineral and matchstick finish. This is a seriously good wine and extremely well balanced Puligny. Almost at Grand Cru levels of concentration and complexity, but needs another few years to get there. 93 now 94-95 in time.
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From split Nose - lovely nose of honey, flowers, nutmeg Mouth - a great combo of rich and zippy, honeyed, cream brûlée, with good pit fruit acidity. Drinks nice now but I can see this getting richer.
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Lots of reduction on the nose before the decant. This took about 1 hour in the glass before it opened up but when it did, beautiful: nose of pear, unripe honeydew, white flowers, touch of vanilla and loads of crushed stones. The palate is dense, concentrated but driven by great minerality. Saline kiss on the finish. If this is Boillot Mouchéres in a warm vintage I'm buying all day.
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First 375 was advanced, this is incredibly good. Riper but with great acidity. Golden fruit. Great palate presence. Mineral. Impresive length. Offers a top experience.
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Accidentally opened, thought it was the 13. Damn those 3 and 8's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Anyhow, nowhere near ready. Tasted like a barrel sample still going through malo. Tons of oak dominating. Store it in the way back of your cellar, needs yeeeears!
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Lovely fresh aromas of green apple, toast white orchid and pear. Good level of acidity which went very well with raclette cheese and crab pasta. Will stock up on this as will keep improving. Will hold off for a few more years. Boillot is my go to white burgundy now more so than Leflaive given the price point.
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tasted in a Puligny/Chassagne blind for customers, I knew them already :)
Opened a bit before, the nose shows intense lactic and creamy aromas, coupled with oak and vanilla, a bit of reduction, and popcorn, med+ intensity...
Palate is vivid and sharp, oak needs more time and integration, a great way to get into that terroir on a warm vintage, power, good acidity, and balance is good, long wine, not showing better than the Blagny 2015 from Matrot... still a very intestine wine, with life ahead of it ! MUCH
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This is lt. yellow in colour, great acidity, intense flavours of citrus primarily lemon, great length. Excellent now, refreshing . The acidity supports and will compliment drinking this with food. This gets more impressive in flavour with each glass. I left a small portion to taste the next day..... Still awesome with full intense citrus flavours and good acidity.
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Vice Versa weekend and dinner: A beautiful unfolding of lemon and lime juice, citrus zest, white and green melon rind, orange oil (NOT the termite-killing kind), quince, and wet travertine notes. A broad-shouldered P-M that is packed and stacked, but also holds a lively finesse that permits striking flavor expansion of its citrus and mineral elements. For a warmer vintage, the 2018 Boillot Mouchere is attractively vibrant and is creeping toward similarities to the electric 2017. An excellent P-M. Try the next bottle in another year or two.
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Cooled below cellar temp in fridge and then splash decanted. Absolutely lovely, but a little rich in style for my palate. On the nose: soft vanilla, loads of crushed stone minerality, a touch of noble reduction, and very generous. On the palate: fantastic acidity and density: a touch of honey, but slathered on top of crushed stone and dribbled with citrus. Very good, but blind I likely would have guessed California or Oregon...perhaps it is just the ripeness of the vintage? For the record, this tips the scale at 14.5% ABV, which seems completely over the top for a white burg...but fortunately this doesn't even show a hint of heat.
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Blind tasting comparing the same wine from the 2017 and 2018 vintage. Wines were decanted 3 hours prior to tasting. All 4 wines were wonderful, but in a mild surprise the 18s were preferred over the 17s. The 18s showed better flavor depth and complexity, with the 17s showing a little dilute possibly from the high yields of the vintage (45 to 50 hectoliters per hectare).
Wine B, 2018 H. Biollot PM Clos de la Mouchere. Rank: 2 Full yellow. Initially smells like Coche with a whiff of matchstick, but the flint fades. Pretty nose, more floral and orchard fruit than citrus. Mouth filling without being heavy, good minerality and lift to the medium bodied bone-dry flavors, and more orchard fruit than citrus. Long finish.
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Another bottle opened. Very enjoyable! Refreshing! This will age and get more complex in flavours but I very much enjoy it as it is now. Great acidity, light yellow colour, more apple / pear with a citrus after taste. Great wine.
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1,5 hours decanting time. A very rich nose, hazelnuts/ almonds/ white flowers. In the taste succulent pears and citrus. Almost full-bodied, I would say of GC level. A lot of dry, chalky extract. Just plain delicious with a long finish!
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Ripe citrus and 2018 citrus peel notes on a background of abundant acidity and minerals. Pure and harmonious. Serious and less charming than the Meursault bottlings.
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Straw yellow. Hedonistic nose with Meyer Lemon, zest and white flowers and great minerality. Nice reductive elements. Very good concentration, nice acidity and very harmonic. Slight flabby finish, might be the vintage / alcohol. Regal producer and 1er Cru. I ll wait another 5-7years for the next bottles.
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Pure class right here. Golden in the glass. Powerful aromatics that are purely dominated by oak at this stage - biscuit, char, toast, vanilla. Some tropical fruit under the surface, but tough to get to it with a wine this young. Palate is bold with piercing, trademark acidity. Structurally, everything is done right. It just needs 2-3 more years of aging to start mellowing out. Stunning Chardonnay.
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Another bottle bites the dust! Excellent ...this has gained complexity, a variety of fruit flavours . I never like the nose of this wine because it is biscuity to me. This is a very easy and flavourful wine to drink.
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Second bottle opened .This is just a great tasting Puligny. Drinking well now with great citrus flavours, excellent acidity, long length. Will age well but my few bottles are destined for early demise!
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Somewhat reductive, but below it is clear that the good barrels notes will also have their imprint with both wood and spice tones that lie over cool butter and great yellow fruits. Medium-bodied and quite dense wine with yellow fruit that is fresh and somewhat nervous. There is also clearly cool butter, nutshells and cask spices. Nice fresh and salty finish that creates joy. These will be wonderful things in 7-10 years! Great wine. 93 points.
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This is a classic Boillot Clos. Slight biscuit nose, good acidity, light yellow colour, some apple,pear and less citrus flavour, good length. Very refreshing and drinking well now. . There is such an intensity of flavours to this wine that gives this wine a long length on the palate. Give this wine some time after opening and you will be very pleased with the complexity and flavours it delivers.
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Initially reductive elements make for dodgy fruit delivery, with flavors of matchstick and leek jam overriding the yellow citrus, white melon, kumquat, and chalk notes itching to push through. Broad shouldered and a bit angular, as the 14.5% ABV flexes more than its skin can handle in its current state. Packed with seemingly good stuffing, but it’s a bit of a brute right now. Cellar for a few years and allow for some finesse to develop.
Less of a citrus/spritely/zesty animal when compared to the more zingy 2017. The 2018 is more clunky next to its zippy and vivacious sibling. 92-94+ points for the moment. It's going to take some concentrated transformative effort for the 2018 to reach the upper end of my scoring range based on this go-around. Try the 2018 again in 2023+.
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light golden colour, slight floral nose, mild acidity, a very fat wine with lots of fruit ,great length, 14.5% alcohol, so much flavour but lacks some acidity. Enjoyable now but will this age? Does it matter?
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“I contain multitudes” - Dry, lemon, salty, briary, chalky-mineral, herbaceous and eminently food-friendly. With airtime light lemon and pineapple fruit comes to the fore. Love it. Wish I had bought more.
I have been enjoying the 2017 and wanted to try the 2018. Brilliant effort. Lemon zest and curd, Pear, lots of floral elements, A hint of honeysuckle, beautiful minerality and Savory notes with nice fresh acidity. Perfect on a hot, sunny June 1st. You will not be disappointed with this.
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Big nose of honey, brown sugar, white flowers, and stones. Plush but still refined with excellent complexity. So stony/spicy on the palate. Very long. Delicious.
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4/19/2024 - Hanibal wrote: flawed
corked
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4/19/2024 - soyhead wrote:
from half bottle. darker than i might expect and while not bad, its more advanced than it should be. has a honeyed richness with a hint of butter solids, and still decent acidity to keep it interesting, but it drank best fridge temp as opposed to cellar temp, which in the realm of white burgs tells you something, i think. have had some issues with '14 boillot as well, caveat emptor.
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2/11/2024 - Philippe_C wrote: 98 Points
WOW huge nose of toasted noisette grillee, citrus, mineral, accacia flower, matchstick… Huge tension, loads of citrus, huge mineral, lenght of 60sec, still so young!!
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1/29/2024 - Goodwine4ever wrote: 91 Points
Hyper décevant le 2018...
Oui c'est typique bourgogne mais c'est loin d'etre un vin complet.
Ca manque un peu de tout, il ma fait penser à un Meursault village...
Déception.
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12/26/2023 - mjdixon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautiful expression of this area. Drank opposite a '16 Drouhin Moouches which had slightly more weight.
One of those whites you have to sip and savour.
I decabted it and left to become just slighly chilled - improved grealty for this.
Plenty of citrus and butterly oak.
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11/15/2023 - csimm wrote: 96 Points
Notable breadth and power, this is a broad shouldered ripe lemon and vanilla (thankfully not sweet) animal. For as beefy as this is, there is poise and focus. It is super yummy and hard to spit indeed. Just when I worry these wines can get a little too burly, they throttle back the intensity just in time and offer a nicely balanced profile of succulent fruit and nervy tension. Great acidity-to-fruit balance. Drinking great even now, though if you are vanilla adverse and are looking for the wood to integrate a bit more, try again in a few years.
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11/11/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 96 Points
Duck, duck, abortion!; 11/11/2023-11/17/2023: Awesome struck matchstick note, and aromas of fresh and golden green apples with fresh pears.
Bitter, green apples on the palate but also a good freshness to balance out the bitterness. Hay, gentle steeped tea and bitter minerals on the finish. Awesome ripeness to the fruits with good acidity that provides a good freshness to everything.
I've only ever tasted a few from HB, but it definitely seems like a producer I can rely on!
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10/22/2023 - csimm wrote:
I’ve written a decent amount on this wine, so as a matter of a check-in here, I’ll reaffirm that this is still a fairly brawny wine and will likely always be a less finessed example of P-M, instead drinking more like a broader swathed C-M or Meursault. Aeration is the key to softening its edges so it doesn’t present like a no-neck wrestler type. Yellow lemony fruit abounds, as does some vanilla, lime and orange zest, quince, and white travertine. Finishes a bit angular but certainly flavorful.
Pair with more formidable dishes (a baked and breaded Mexican chicken with spicy red salsa dish worked well) and treat almost as if it is a heftier white Rhone. Drink now with a decant or hold for another few years.
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10/22/2023 - VINNICK Likes this wine: 93 Points
Terrific wine. Has a funky note that blows off with time in the glass.
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10/14/2023 - ATBridge wrote: flawed
OXIDIZED
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10/6/2023 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drink with appetizers at La Piquette, my favorite French bistro in D.C. - love, love, LOVE this producer and especially love this wine. Drinking beautifully now with no sign of oxidation.
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9/3/2023 - OenoEd wrote: 92 Points
At 48 degrees, needs a half hour to warm and aerate. Buttered popcorn , vanilla bean, smoked oysters, crushed shells, wet leaves. The overt oak in the nose is mitigated somewhat by the chalky minerality and white pepper which provide some balance. Yet, the meyer lemon, yellow melon and pineapple fruits still seem like they’ve been stored in new oak tupperware: you cant get away from the wood., until this comes up to 57 or so. As it fully aerates, the oak influence fades to background, a fascinating evolution. This would have been 2-3 points higher with a bit more acid and a lot less wood. Served with buttery lobster rolls on brioche buns proved that a great pairing creates its own sweet balance. Serve this to Cali Chard fans, not to lovers of Chablis, Chevalier, and Sancerre.
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7/23/2023 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
This has been consistently outstanding, and this bottle was no exception. Looking forward to seeing how my '19s and '20s compare with the '17s and '18s.
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4/29/2023 - Vas19 wrote: 91 Points
From 375. A pretty serious bottle of white burg, great complexity but for me this is missing acid, and comes off a little too round and fat.
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4/8/2023 - KVM wrote:
This wine is a little reduced, then fragrant, plush, complex and so lovely. Fresh.
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4/1/2023 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped'n poured with dinner at La Piquette in D.C. I do think that the 2017 will overtake the '18 (as will the '19 and '20, though I've not yet got into my stash from those 2 vintages), this continues to drink beautifully. Very happy this is not Grand Cru price, but it's hard to imagine it not being Grand Cru quality.
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3/3/2023 - Stoic Warrior Likes this wine:
(Lunch, JR & CC.) A profoundly assertive nose of roasted nuts, white fruits, warm spices and cool flowers. So complex for its young age. The palate extends all that and adds layers of intensely laced mouth filling flavours with well balanced touches of salinity and background oak. A broad, lengthy and ethereal finish. Stunningly good.
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12/20/2022 - UFGators Likes this wine: 95 Points
From 375ml. So much depth and complexity. This is drinking well now but will benefit from age. This is proof how an excellent producer can make great wine in any year.
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12/15/2022 - weezie Likes this wine: 94 Points
See prior note.
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11/25/2022 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Classic Mouchere. While showing the mineral and acid structure typical of Mouchere in its youth, this was a bit softer and less chiseled than the 2017 we had a few weeks ago. This opened up beautifully, with fruit and white floral notes on the nose, and even some buttered popcorn notes on the palate after an hour or two of air.
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11/24/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points
During the La Paulee in Meursault so only brief impressions. Had the 2018 and the 2015 served. Both excellent 95pt wines and very similar. Flinty palate with excellent lemon peel and well judged oak. Creamy and racy, top class.
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11/17/2022 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped'n poured to start a dinner with friends at La Piquette in DC. Initially too cold when poured, but as this came up to temp, it showed beautifully as always. Hoping Boillot has premox issues under control, since I love this vineyard.
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11/16/2022 - Paul D wrote: 92 Points
No formal notes but i enjoyed this. Very reduced at first but opened up to show some decent character. Attractive creamy oak, pear fruit, sesame seed, attractive creamy weight, decent acids, good length finish. Excellent.
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11/16/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nine red 2006 Burgs (Noize): VERY reduced at first, painfully so really, although luckily 5-10 minutes swirling my glass did help somewhat. That said, the nose remained the weak point, not living up to the exciting experience of swilling and swallowing this electrifying, taut, focused wine. I enjoyed the intense flavours of lime zest and vanilla, and expect this to show brilliantly in 5-10 years' time. No sign of any 2018 flab; it would have been interesting to combine this wine and the (very different) 2015 J-M Boillot we drank it with in a single glass!
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11/16/2022 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 89 Points
2006 Burgundy with a few additions (Noizé, London): Lemon oil and faint dill edge to the nose. A little hazelnut and some creaminess. Palate is focused, and well balanced although the solarity of vintage is there in the background with a little more alcohol than would be ideal. Later some chalkiness emerges.
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10/10/2022 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Double decanted an hour before but really opened after another half hour. Matchstick and floral nose. Faint orchard fruit and honeysuckle. Pear juice. Long mineral and matchstick finish. This is a seriously good wine and extremely well balanced Puligny. Almost at Grand Cru levels of concentration and complexity, but needs another few years to get there. 93 now 94-95 in time.
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7/9/2022 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
It's probably bordering on criminal that this is not a Grand Cru. But if it was, I wouldn't be able to afford it. So better for me that it isn't.
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6/12/2022 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped'n and poured with dinner at La Piquette in DC. Love this producer and this vinyard. Still young; would have been even better with a decant.
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6/4/2022 - soyhead wrote:
From split
Nose - lovely nose of honey, flowers, nutmeg
Mouth - a great combo of rich and zippy, honeyed, cream brûlée, with good pit fruit acidity. Drinks nice now but I can see this getting richer.
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5/14/2022 - philmtl Likes this wine:
May 2022 - Lunch with Peter & friends (Tian Fu): Double decanted 1 hour before service.
Lots of reduction on the nose before the decant. This took about 1 hour in the glass before it opened up but when it did, beautiful: nose of pear, unripe honeydew, white flowers, touch of vanilla and loads of crushed stones. The palate is dense, concentrated but driven by great minerality. Saline kiss on the finish. If this is Boillot Mouchéres in a warm vintage I'm buying all day.
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3/22/2022 - DCornutt wrote:
First 375 was advanced, this is incredibly good. Riper but with great acidity. Golden fruit. Great palate presence. Mineral. Impresive length. Offers a top experience.
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3/19/2022 - j@$0n p€++y wrote:
Accidentally opened, thought it was the 13. Damn those 3 and 8's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Anyhow, nowhere near ready. Tasted like a barrel sample still going through malo. Tons of oak dominating. Store it in the way back of your cellar, needs yeeeears!
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1/4/2022 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
Excellent! Needs about an hour to fully express all its flavours. This is such a bargain compared to the Montrachet.
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12/24/2021 - WKC Likes this wine: 92 Points
Lovely fresh aromas of green apple, toast white orchid and pear. Good level of acidity which went very well with raclette cheese and crab pasta. Will stock up on this as will keep improving. Will hold off for a few more years. Boillot is my go to white burgundy now more so than Leflaive given the price point.
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11/19/2021 - Stanrocks Likes this wine: 92 Points
tasted in a Puligny/Chassagne blind for customers, I knew them already :)
Opened a bit before, the nose shows intense lactic and creamy aromas, coupled with oak and vanilla, a bit of reduction, and popcorn, med+ intensity...
Palate is vivid and sharp, oak needs more time and integration, a great way to get into that terroir on a warm vintage, power, good acidity, and balance is good, long wine, not showing better than the Blagny 2015 from Matrot... still a very intestine wine, with life ahead of it ! MUCH
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10/6/2021 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
This is lt. yellow in colour, great acidity, intense flavours of citrus primarily lemon, great length. Excellent now, refreshing . The acidity supports and will compliment drinking this with food. This gets more impressive in flavour with each glass. I left a small portion to taste the next day..... Still awesome with full intense citrus flavours and good acidity.
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8/10/2021 - Baron Samedi wrote:
An expansive style of PM; multilayered w plenty of acidity - almost New World-like. Interesting to drink.
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7/27/2021 - csimm wrote: 96 Points
Vice Versa weekend and dinner: A beautiful unfolding of lemon and lime juice, citrus zest, white and green melon rind, orange oil (NOT the termite-killing kind), quince, and wet travertine notes. A broad-shouldered P-M that is packed and stacked, but also holds a lively finesse that permits striking flavor expansion of its citrus and mineral elements. For a warmer vintage, the 2018 Boillot Mouchere is attractively vibrant and is creeping toward similarities to the electric 2017. An excellent P-M. Try the next bottle in another year or two.
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6/26/2021 - Aravind Asok wrote:
Cooled below cellar temp in fridge and then splash decanted. Absolutely lovely, but a little rich in style for my palate. On the nose: soft vanilla, loads of crushed stone minerality, a touch of noble reduction, and very generous. On the palate: fantastic acidity and density: a touch of honey, but slathered on top of crushed stone and dribbled with citrus. Very good, but blind I likely would have guessed California or Oregon...perhaps it is just the ripeness of the vintage? For the record, this tips the scale at 14.5% ABV, which seems completely over the top for a white burg...but fortunately this doesn't even show a hint of heat.
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6/1/2021 - llink wrote: 93 Points
Blind tasting comparing the same wine from the 2017 and 2018 vintage. Wines were decanted 3 hours prior to tasting. All 4 wines were wonderful, but in a mild surprise the 18s were preferred over the 17s. The 18s showed better flavor depth and complexity, with the 17s showing a little dilute possibly from the high yields of the vintage (45 to 50 hectoliters per hectare).
Wine B, 2018 H. Biollot PM Clos de la Mouchere. Rank: 2
Full yellow. Initially smells like Coche with a whiff of matchstick, but the flint fades. Pretty nose, more floral and orchard fruit than citrus. Mouth filling without being heavy, good minerality and lift to the medium bodied bone-dry flavors, and more orchard fruit than citrus. Long finish.
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5/7/2021 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
Another bottle opened. Very enjoyable! Refreshing!
This will age and get more complex in flavours but I very much enjoy it as it is now. Great acidity, light yellow colour, more apple / pear with a citrus after taste.
Great wine.
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4/29/2021 - dvansteenderen Likes this wine: 95 Points
1,5 hours decanting time. A very rich nose, hazelnuts/ almonds/ white flowers. In the taste succulent pears and citrus. Almost full-bodied, I would say of GC level. A lot of dry, chalky extract. Just plain delicious with a long finish!
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4/29/2021 - blacktruffle Likes this wine: 94 Points
Ripe citrus and 2018 citrus peel notes on a background of abundant acidity and minerals. Pure and harmonious. Serious and less charming than the Meursault bottlings.
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4/25/2021 - osordal wrote: 93 Points
Straw yellow. Hedonistic nose with Meyer Lemon, zest and white flowers and great minerality. Nice reductive elements. Very good concentration, nice acidity and very harmonic. Slight flabby finish, might be the vintage / alcohol. Regal producer and 1er Cru. I ll wait another 5-7years for the next bottles.
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4/10/2021 - grapenomad wrote: 94 Points
Pure class right here. Golden in the glass. Powerful aromatics that are purely dominated by oak at this stage - biscuit, char, toast, vanilla. Some tropical fruit under the surface, but tough to get to it with a wine this young. Palate is bold with piercing, trademark acidity. Structurally, everything is done right. It just needs 2-3 more years of aging to start mellowing out. Stunning Chardonnay.
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4/7/2021 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
Another bottle bites the dust! Excellent ...this has gained complexity, a variety of fruit flavours . I never like the nose of this wine because it is biscuity to me.
This is a very easy and flavourful wine to drink.
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3/3/2021 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
Second bottle opened .This is just a
great tasting Puligny. Drinking well now with great citrus flavours, excellent acidity, long length. Will age well but my few bottles are destined for early demise!
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2/21/2021 - Andre Brattland wrote: 93 Points
Somewhat reductive, but below it is clear that the good barrels notes will also have their imprint with both wood and spice tones that lie over cool butter and great yellow fruits. Medium-bodied and quite dense wine with yellow fruit that is fresh and somewhat nervous. There is also clearly cool butter, nutshells and cask spices. Nice fresh and salty finish that creates joy. These will be wonderful things in 7-10 years! Great wine. 93 points.
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1/9/2021 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
This is a classic Boillot Clos. Slight biscuit nose, good acidity, light yellow colour, some apple,pear and less citrus flavour, good length. Very refreshing and drinking well now. . There is such an intensity of flavours to this wine that gives this wine a long length on the palate.
Give this wine some time after opening and you will be very pleased with the complexity and flavours it delivers.
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12/24/2020 - LB88 wrote: 93 Points
Needs a lot of air but this is very good and would get a whole lot better.
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12/7/2020 - Syoo Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pear, vanila,...Mature, very good
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11/8/2020 - csimm wrote: 94 Points
Initially reductive elements make for dodgy fruit delivery, with flavors of matchstick and leek jam overriding the yellow citrus, white melon, kumquat, and chalk notes itching to push through. Broad shouldered and a bit angular, as the 14.5% ABV flexes more than its skin can handle in its current state. Packed with seemingly good stuffing, but it’s a bit of a brute right now. Cellar for a few years and allow for some finesse to develop.
Less of a citrus/spritely/zesty animal when compared to the more zingy 2017. The 2018 is more clunky next to its zippy and vivacious sibling. 92-94+ points for the moment. It's going to take some concentrated transformative effort for the 2018 to reach the upper end of my scoring range based on this go-around. Try the 2018 again in 2023+.
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10/24/2020 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
light golden colour, slight floral nose, mild acidity, a very fat wine with lots of fruit ,great length, 14.5% alcohol, so much flavour but lacks some acidity. Enjoyable now but will this age? Does it matter?
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10/7/2020 - Pinot_Geek wrote: 93 Points
“I contain multitudes” -
Dry, lemon, salty, briary, chalky-mineral, herbaceous and eminently food-friendly. With airtime light lemon and pineapple fruit comes to the fore. Love it. Wish I had bought more.
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9/9/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Henri Boillot Clos de la Mouchère Vertical with Bonus Bottles (My home - Chicago IL): Alongside the 2017. Even more floral and clearly more ripe. Less density or complexity than the '17, but so enticing already tonight. Better to hold a year or two, and enjoy medium term, 2022-2030.
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8/29/2020 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 94 Points
A really great wine but a big step under the fabulous 2017
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6/18/2020 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 94 Points
A bit too warm on the serving bit classic burgundy in a traditional style. I like this on the nose, the palate and the finish. Ability to age.
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6/1/2020 - Brian of Mull Likes this wine: 94 Points
I have been enjoying the 2017 and wanted to try the 2018. Brilliant effort. Lemon zest and curd, Pear, lots of floral elements, A hint of honeysuckle, beautiful minerality and Savory notes with nice fresh acidity. Perfect on a hot, sunny June 1st. You will not be disappointed with this.
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5/17/2020 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very good but in my opinion a little too rich, it lacks the superior touch of finesse of 2017
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3/26/2020 - The Guzz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Big nose of honey, brown sugar, white flowers, and stones. Plush but still refined with excellent complexity. So stony/spicy on the palate. Very long. Delicious.
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3/21/2020 - Philippe_C wrote: 96 Points
Mineral nose, hint of honey, very saline and high tension... Very mineral, saline, citrus, very high tension, great great Burgundy.
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