Timuquana BYO (TCC): Fruit and lightness and spices. This is drinking well. Very nice and easy and a good change of pace from some of the bigger wines we had this night. It’s more one-dimensional in style and missing that next level of depth from some of the best ones.
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Celebrating a birthday (Seasons 52): Out of a magnum. This was fresh and herbal and lower fruit and more in the woodsy style. Drinking pretty well. Nice pairing with more structured seafood (e.g. shrimp and grits).
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Cork broke as I was opening the bottle which tells me it was time to uncork this bottle. We drank it with a 2009 Volnay-Santenots, and to me it was interesting to taste the constancy of this particular wine, 20 years apart: tastes change, the wine remains the same.
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Medium red color with brownish rim. Took an hour to open up, full of lively dark red fruit, still fresh with slight secondary flavors, plummy with dried meat. Very robust for a 88 Volnay, drinking beautifully but no rush to finish up.
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Dark purple color. This is a big wine for its age with big dark fruit, oak, herbs and spices. This is still young which is impressive. The weight was there but the transperency of the wine was not particularly deep. I would give this more time.
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This really surprised to the upside. I've always found this bottling a little tough and unfriendly, and on top of that it's an '88, but the texture here was totally smooth and open-knit - refined, even.
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SAG (Blind) Tasting (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Tasted blind. Big dense and tannic. Didn't show particularly "Volnay" to me, not showing really interesting spice. I'm not sure the vintage was generally as successful in Volnay vs. Cote de Nuits based on my limited experience with 1988 Volnay in the past few years.
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Nice nose with toffee, chanterelle mushrooms, apricot, forest floor, gravel, mint and eucalyptus. The wine melts in the mouth with good tannins and some meaty aromas.
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Medium garnet ruby. Broad paler rim showing quite some development. On first opening rather farmyardy, but this soon recedes to show deep plum and redcurrant fruit. Still, very mature on the nose - with touches of gamey meat. Mouth entry is crisp, with fresh acidic red fruit and real earthiness as well as a touch of game. Full and earthy on the mid-palate with a long, floral touched, spicy redcurrant finish. Firm tannic structure showing on the finish, but not prominent. ***
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Floral and femimine start shows good Volnay character. Palate was less forthcoming with good red fruit behind lots of acidity and tannins. Still fresh enough that I'd expect this to evolve nicely and improve over the next 5-10 years.
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1/13/2024 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Timuquana BYO (TCC): Fruit and lightness and spices. This is drinking well. Very nice and easy and a good change of pace from some of the bigger wines we had this night. It’s more one-dimensional in style and missing that next level of depth from some of the best ones.
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11/16/2023 - hprphf wrote: flawed
Premier Cru Table (The Fifth Avenue Hotel): Magnum, corked.
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7/7/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Celebrating a birthday (Seasons 52): Out of a magnum. This was fresh and herbal and lower fruit and more in the woodsy style. Drinking pretty well. Nice pairing with more structured seafood (e.g. shrimp and grits).
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1/8/2018 - Tim2 wrote: 92 Points
Still lots of plentiful fruit.
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8/20/2017 - Tim2 wrote: 90 Points
Cork broke as I was opening the bottle which tells me it was time to uncork this bottle. We drank it with a 2009 Volnay-Santenots, and to me it was interesting to taste the constancy of this particular wine, 20 years apart: tastes change, the wine remains the same.
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10/3/2015 - Pacalet Likes this wine: 92 Points
Medium red color with brownish rim. Took an hour to open up, full of lively dark red fruit, still fresh with slight secondary flavors, plummy with dried meat. Very robust for a 88 Volnay, drinking beautifully but no rush to finish up.
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10/3/2015 - Burgnick wrote: 90 Points
Dark purple color. This is a big wine for its age with big dark fruit, oak, herbs and spices. This is still young which is impressive. The weight was there but the transperency of the wine was not particularly deep. I would give this more time.
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1/28/2014 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points
This really surprised to the upside. I've always found this bottling a little tough and unfriendly, and on top of that it's an '88, but the texture here was totally smooth and open-knit - refined, even.
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9/16/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 86 Points
SAG (Blind) Tasting (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Tasted blind. Big dense and tannic. Didn't show particularly "Volnay" to me, not showing really interesting spice. I'm not sure the vintage was generally as successful in Volnay vs. Cote de Nuits based on my limited experience with 1988 Volnay in the past few years.
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6/2/2010 - silvercup wrote:
Nice nose with toffee, chanterelle mushrooms, apricot, forest floor, gravel, mint and eucalyptus. The wine melts in the mouth with good tannins and some meaty aromas.
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1/1/2008 - HandPickedBurgundy wrote:
Medium garnet ruby. Broad paler rim showing quite some development. On first opening rather farmyardy, but this soon recedes to show deep plum and redcurrant fruit. Still, very mature on the nose - with touches of gamey meat. Mouth entry is crisp, with fresh acidic red fruit and real earthiness as well as a touch of game. Full and earthy on the mid-palate with a long, floral touched, spicy redcurrant finish. Firm tannic structure showing on the finish, but not prominent. ***
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7/1/2006 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Floral and femimine start shows good Volnay character. Palate was less forthcoming with good red fruit behind lots of acidity and tannins. Still fresh enough that I'd expect this to evolve nicely and improve over the next 5-10 years.
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7/9/2005 - Russell Faulkner wrote: 93 Points
David Pope Mature Wines Offline: More aged than the 1990 last month. Still concentrated and rich, great tannin profile. Tiniest spritz, great finish.
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