Decanted. After two hours really opened up into an intense, excellent wine. Beautiful nose of red fruit, cinnamon, roses, combined with a perfectly balanced palate of cherry and raspberry. Long long tart cherry finish. Gorgeous bottle, much better than the last one.
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Initially beautiful, fine wine with red fruit aromas and silky tannins. With time, though, evolved into a strange wine, smelling of sweet caramel, not great at that point.
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At Jade Palace over a blinded Gevrey vs MSD Grand Cru theme. Colour was a beautiful ruby red, looking very vibrant and pure. Nose was very minerally, with a sweet perfume. Pure and elegant. Palate was fresh, clean, with wild strawberries, rose petals and violets. (Where is the MSD profile?) Make no mistake, this is an elegant wine, with lovely finesse and purity, but for all the fuss from the rest of the group, I struggled to find a more structured, meaty and dense wine and the complexity seemed to be absent as well. Nonetheless, an enjoyable bottle.
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Bam. This was spot on. The aromatics just kept coming and developing and growing as the wine opened over the course of a couple of hours. Likewise the texture that started out as gorgeous developed into a sublime combination of supremely rich and incredibly light. This still carries pristine red primary fruit but there is an underpinning of earth and a pick up of minerals in the finishing tannins. This is probably as good as it will be in this incarnation as a young wine but there could be a second act as an older one that is equally special if different. Right now this was glorious. Paired perfectly with Sudan Farm rack of lamb with a Morel mushroom sauce and green garlic pesto risotto. Just amazing to think what I purchased this wine for ten years ago. Sigh.
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Mid garnet to sculler ruby core. Seemingly less evolved than last year's bottle from the same case. Lovely nose, slightly smokey with a faint meatiness and some autumnal notes underlain by a cherry minerality. Silky smooth with good definition and mineral bite wrapped in silkiness. Beautifully fragrant. ****
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Rousseau and de Vogue (Sydney, Australia): This is drinking superbly well right now. Truffles, earth and a smidgen of smoke on the nose. Palate is balanced and very savoury, with textural interest and a good length.
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Holiday wines (mainly Burg with some fizz); 7/29/2011-8/17/2011: A mid garnet in colour, a little paler at rim but a decent colour throughout. Gorgeous nose, smokey, soy, a touch of rare beef and some autumnal notes. Silky smooth attack that carries through the mid palate. Nice definition and richness. Builds in the glass and gets fatter and leggier as the bottle progresses. Beguiling nose and sensuous palate. Yum! Really lovely and so much better than my previous experience with this. ****1/2
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Tasted alongside Rousseau Clos de Beze and Charmes from same year this was the least preferred but still very enjoyable all the same. Shows a tighter grain to the tannin than the previously mentioned wines and less generosity/depth to the savoury like flavours. Not disappointing though and a classy effort.
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The cork was really flimsy upon opening and smelled like a Hershey chocolate bar. At first pour, the wine was a bit gamy with lots of strawberry and cherry on the nose. The first taste was pure raspberry and cherry with a little earthy overtone...no chocolate. The finish was a little short and uninspiring. I felt at first that this bottle was a giant waste of money. As the wine opened up over a couple hours it transformed into a monster...Jekyll and Hyde. The nose opened up and became super complex with floral overtones and a clove balance. The taste started to display an underlying chocolate flavor that intermingled with the sweet and tart raspberry. And the finish began to reveal multifaceted tannins and chocolate. It lasted for 45 seconds. This wine really needed a decant, so if you plan on drinking now...decant for at least an hour. This wine will easily last for 10 more years and will gain more depth and complexity. I'll hold my next bottle for a few years.
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Bourogne in the Fall (Oslo): Closed. For me this was difficult to read (also possibly because it was the last of 24 bottles). However, it is rather restrained and stuctured, and promises a lot.
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Clos De La Roche Dinner (The Ledbury, London): Clos de la Roche Dinner - mix of strawberries and cherries on the nose. this wine was bright and lively in the mouth, fruit was great blend of sweetness and acidity. medium weight , medium long. it is in a very nice place right now but should continue to improve for many years. not as good as the 01 from the first flight but these two are food back to back CdR's from Rousseau
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Hello. Brilliant aromatics of super-precise raspberry and blackberry accented by tangerine rind and a touch of foresty floor. Wonderfully transparent flavors in the mid-palate. Sort of like eating a purely ripe raspberry one little section at a time. Great bursts of mid-palate flavor that are sweet and compelling but completely well balanced. Sublime sort of texture that seemed to swirl and change from sip to sip. Sometimes it showed a little more medium bodied and sometimes seemed to be rich and velvety. In any case the wine was always long, supple and very generous on the finish with a distinct racy, stony note to the very back of the wine. I would say that given the sort of ever-changing nature of the wine that there is still a good deal of evolution going on and this will be a star for years to come. That being said this was certainly no crime to drink and thoroughly enjoy now.
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Jeff & LIsa’s: Very light red color; “twizzler” and light sild berry nose; Light, but silky entry, very elegant, lots of structure, nice balance--lots of class, hint of spice, no signs of age, very good, but lacks flair.
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Clear light ruby. Fine nose of cherry and violets. Cherry on the palate. Over time, earth and licorice elements. Not tannic and ready to drink. A nice bottle, but lacking the intensity and weight one expects in a grand cru burgundy.
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Ruby red in appearance. Lovely aromatics of sweet red fruit. At first this was all mid-weight cherries and raspberries with hints of milk chocolate around the edges. As time went on this put on some weight and stiffened up giving the mid-palate a bit more heft and infused it with graphite edges to the fairly firm, if still not especially concentrated mid-palate. Tannins are present toward the back end. Everything about this wine has a stately sort of grand cru character to it and to say the least it is very well made however the concentration/depth/complexity aspect of the wine is off a notch. All that being said this is a very good wine that will hold for several more years while not necessarily improving greatly. For those expecting to be thrilled, this won't do it but it is a very nice wine if one's expectations aren't through the roof.
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Light and somewhat drawn in colour - contrasted to the light and crystaline colour of an 00 Truchot CdlR a few days ago. Bright fruit, but very simply and mono-chromatic. Good acids and a slight Roche-y mossy core made it good w/ dinner, but not terribly interesting. A weak wine even the context of the vintage.
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Had this wine on two previous occasions and starting to drink well now. Clear, light ruby color and an uplifting nose of violets, cherries and earthtones. Nice glycerin levels but lacks a bit of follow through in the mouth and the wine faded in the galss after about half and hour. Grand cru style but only premier cru weight. May have a little bit of upside with further bottle age but won't bet on it.
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10/25/2019 - Hanibal wrote: 90 Points
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7/30/2018 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted. After two hours really opened up into an intense, excellent wine. Beautiful nose of red fruit, cinnamon, roses, combined with a perfectly balanced palate of cherry and raspberry. Long long tart cherry finish. Gorgeous bottle, much better than the last one.
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1/25/2018 - Burgundy63 wrote: 90 Points
Only just made it fruit very slightly gone - But came into its own after about 1 hour
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5/28/2016 - steinersing wrote: 91 Points
Initially beautiful, fine wine with red fruit aromas and silky tannins. With time, though, evolved into a strange wine, smelling of sweet caramel, not great at that point.
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6/28/2014 - justburg wrote: 89 Points
At Jade Palace over a blinded Gevrey vs MSD Grand Cru theme. Colour was a beautiful ruby red, looking very vibrant and pure. Nose was very minerally, with a sweet perfume. Pure and elegant. Palate was fresh, clean, with wild strawberries, rose petals and violets. (Where is the MSD profile?) Make no mistake, this is an elegant wine, with lovely finesse and purity, but for all the fuss from the rest of the group, I struggled to find a more structured, meaty and dense wine and the complexity seemed to be absent as well. Nonetheless, an enjoyable bottle.
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4/14/2014 - jimbomatic wrote: 94 Points
Bam. This was spot on. The aromatics just kept coming and developing and growing as the wine opened over the course of a couple of hours. Likewise the texture that started out as gorgeous developed into a sublime combination of supremely rich and incredibly light. This still carries pristine red primary fruit but there is an underpinning of earth and a pick up of minerals in the finishing tannins. This is probably as good as it will be in this incarnation as a young wine but there could be a second act as an older one that is equally special if different. Right now this was glorious. Paired perfectly with Sudan Farm rack of lamb with a Morel mushroom sauce and green garlic pesto risotto. Just amazing to think what I purchased this wine for ten years ago. Sigh.
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7/25/2012 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
Mid garnet to sculler ruby core. Seemingly less evolved than last year's bottle from the same case. Lovely nose, slightly smokey with a faint meatiness and some autumnal notes underlain by a cherry minerality. Silky smooth with good definition and mineral bite wrapped in silkiness. Beautifully fragrant. ****
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3/7/2012 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Rousseau and de Vogue (Sydney, Australia): This is drinking superbly well right now. Truffles, earth and a smidgen of smoke on the nose. Palate is balanced and very savoury, with textural interest and a good length.
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11/16/2011 - fizz wrote: 92 Points
Colour is still dense garnet. Rounded and intense wine with rich red and blue spectrum fruit. Elegant and impeccably balanced with a long finish.
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8/10/2011 - SimonG wrote:
Holiday wines (mainly Burg with some fizz); 7/29/2011-8/17/2011: A mid garnet in colour, a little paler at rim but a decent colour throughout. Gorgeous nose, smokey, soy, a touch of rare beef and some autumnal notes. Silky smooth attack that carries through the mid palate. Nice definition and richness. Builds in the glass and gets fatter and leggier as the bottle progresses. Beguiling nose and sensuous palate. Yum! Really lovely and so much better than my previous experience with this. ****1/2
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12/19/2010 - AJ72 wrote: 89 Points
Tasted alongside Rousseau Clos de Beze and Charmes from same year this was the least preferred but still very enjoyable all the same. Shows a tighter grain to the tannin than the previously mentioned wines and less generosity/depth to the savoury like flavours. Not disappointing though and a classy effort.
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11/18/2010 - presterjohn wrote:
Light, tannic, soft
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5/7/2010 - jonradus wrote: 94 Points
The cork was really flimsy upon opening and smelled like a Hershey chocolate bar. At first pour, the wine was a bit gamy with lots of strawberry and cherry on the nose. The first taste was pure raspberry and cherry with a little earthy overtone...no chocolate. The finish was a little short and uninspiring. I felt at first that this bottle was a giant waste of money. As the wine opened up over a couple hours it transformed into a monster...Jekyll and Hyde. The nose opened up and became super complex with floral overtones and a clove balance. The taste started to display an underlying chocolate flavor that intermingled with the sweet and tart raspberry. And the finish began to reveal multifaceted tannins and chocolate. It lasted for 45 seconds. This wine really needed a decant, so if you plan on drinking now...decant for at least an hour. This wine will easily last for 10 more years and will gain more depth and complexity. I'll hold my next bottle for a few years.
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9/24/2009 - LWI wrote: 91 Points
Bourogne in the Fall (Oslo): Closed. For me this was difficult to read (also possibly because it was the last of 24 bottles). However, it is rather restrained and stuctured, and promises a lot.
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6/2/2009 - reichken wrote: 91 Points
Clos De La Roche Dinner (The Ledbury, London): Clos de la Roche Dinner - mix of strawberries and cherries on the nose. this wine was bright and lively in the mouth, fruit was great blend of sweetness and acidity. medium weight , medium long. it is in a very nice place right now but should continue to improve for many years. not as good as the 01 from the first flight but these two are food back to back CdR's from Rousseau
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3/2/2009 - jimbomatic wrote: 92 Points
Hello. Brilliant aromatics of super-precise raspberry and blackberry accented by tangerine rind and a touch of foresty floor. Wonderfully transparent flavors in the mid-palate. Sort of like eating a purely ripe raspberry one little section at a time. Great bursts of mid-palate flavor that are sweet and compelling but completely well balanced. Sublime sort of texture that seemed to swirl and change from sip to sip. Sometimes it showed a little more medium bodied and sometimes seemed to be rich and velvety. In any case the wine was always long, supple and very generous on the finish with a distinct racy, stony note to the very back of the wine. I would say that given the sort of ever-changing nature of the wine that there is still a good deal of evolution going on and this will be a star for years to come. That being said this was certainly no crime to drink and thoroughly enjoy now.
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9/15/2008 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Jeff & LIsa’s: Very light red color; “twizzler” and light sild berry nose; Light, but silky entry, very elegant, lots of structure, nice balance--lots of class, hint of spice, no signs of age, very good, but lacks flair.
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9/4/2008 - cos82 wrote: 89 Points
Clear light ruby. Fine nose of cherry and violets. Cherry on the palate. Over time, earth and licorice elements. Not tannic and ready to drink. A nice bottle, but lacking the intensity and weight one expects in a grand cru burgundy.
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4/22/2008 - jimbomatic wrote: 90 Points
Ruby red in appearance. Lovely aromatics of sweet red fruit. At first this was all mid-weight cherries and raspberries with hints of milk chocolate around the edges. As time went on this put on some weight and stiffened up giving the mid-palate a bit more heft and infused it with graphite edges to the fairly firm, if still not especially concentrated mid-palate. Tannins are present toward the back end. Everything about this wine has a stately sort of grand cru character to it and to say the least it is very well made however the concentration/depth/complexity aspect of the wine is off a notch. All that being said this is a very good wine that will hold for several more years while not necessarily improving greatly. For those expecting to be thrilled, this won't do it but it is a very nice wine if one's expectations aren't through the roof.
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2/13/2008 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Light and somewhat drawn in colour - contrasted to the light and crystaline colour of an 00 Truchot CdlR a few days ago. Bright fruit, but very simply and mono-chromatic. Good acids and a slight Roche-y mossy core made it good w/ dinner, but not terribly interesting. A weak wine even the context of the vintage.
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10/5/2007 - SimonG wrote:
Morey St Denis Offline (Angelus, Bayswater, London): Polish, varnish, high toned. Rounded and still quite polished. Tight fruit. Better than the year might suggest. ***
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10/5/2007 - Paul D wrote:
Lots of Morey - UK Wine Pages Morey St. Denis Offline (Angelus, London): Very light colour, wide rim. Charming and alluring pure strawberry fruit, nice enough, pretty, but a bantamweight (even for the year) and lacking in any real complexity or interest. Disappointing.
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4/9/2007 - cortoncharlie wrote: 90 Points
Had this wine on two previous occasions and starting to drink well now. Clear, light ruby color and an uplifting nose of violets, cherries and earthtones. Nice glycerin levels but lacks a bit of follow through in the mouth and the wine faded in the galss after about half and hour. Grand cru style but only premier cru weight. May have a little bit of upside with further bottle age but won't bet on it.
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