Served blind. Just got better and better with air. Savoury nose with almonds and Battenberg sweetness on the nose. Medium to full bodied. Great acidity. Not lean but crisp. A seriously long finish. Shared with SJW in Sablet.
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Firing on all cylinders, this is a wonderful wine. Packed with lemon and peach the palate is buttery with a great overall freshness and a pronounced minerality. The finish is particularly impressive. Highly recommended and it improved with food.
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4th of 6, opened 20 minutes, perfect cork and level, palish gold, unctuous, chalky fruit, mainly tropical with nice citric lift, fullish, v long and complex, quite pure and with decent drive to tad clunky fruit, would benefit from greater minerality as citrus alone brings wine into some sort of balance, no pox, sense of still needing to come together properly and with time in hand to do so pox risk aside. Prospective VF (18.5)......best showing by far!
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3rd of 6, pnp, perfect cork and level, clean bottle at last, pale yellow, leggy; very lemon, some chalk and peach; medium bodied, decent length, not particularly complex and a bit clumsy at this level, the Caillerets in '14 was a better wine, it has the weight of fruit to improve, but really needs more zip. As this is my 1st clean bottle probably best to drink; several grades below PYCM's Chevalier '06 on following night (even though I understand he made this wine for Dad). Just F+ (18).
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Wow what a nose, buttery, creamy and lots of hazelnuts, and it continued to open up. Palate nice and full that mirrors the nose, with layered honey developing. Very long finish of minerals and brioche. Drinking very well yet no rush to open.
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1st of 6, decanted half hour, perfect cork and level - mid yellow, high glycerol; lemony, honeyed, some chalk, some tropical fruit; fullish bodied, rich and long, though properly dry, slightly awkward and almost oversized, tropical fruit, though in many ways like a larger scaled version of their Caillerets, which I prefer for current drinking. Mr W thought bottle flawed and showing incipient premox, though I'm not sure that with more time, this wine will tighten and focus, if so it could be very fine, currently a disappointing very good indeed (17/20).
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Second time tasting this. Intense aroma of honey, butter, sugarcane, coconut, tropical fruit and caramel. It's too young now but it showed the potential of the wine. The palate was so deep, intense and complex but it did not fully open up due to insufficient aeration. It has long life ahead.
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Very oxidized. Thankfully my last bottle of this wine that was sensational in the years shortly after release, then decreasingly interesting or consistent from 2010 forward.
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A 1964 birthday Celebration (Sepia - Chicago IL): Sensational concentration and density, just far more advanced than we should expect. While this was the most disappointing bottle I've had of this wine, it has never been as good the past few years as it was a few years back, which is a little disappointing for Montrachet.
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Gary's Belated Birthday Dinner (Paris Club - Chicago IL): Slightly less exciting vs another bottle from earlier this year, this is showing lots of peach and ripe apple with good spice and power, but this is slightly more advanced than I would expect. Also less energy. Best when first opened and poured, much shorter and less interesting a couple of hours later.
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La Paulée "Warm-up" Dinner (Piperade - San Francisco CA): In a flight with 3 bottles of 2002 Chevalier-Montrachet. Nicely floral with stone fruit aromas and flavors, this also started restrained but picked up weight and intensity from middle to finish. Very elegant and textured, but not as energetic and exciting as a bottle from 2-3 years ago.
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Almost a year later, same event and the same wine... Same result, it is POX. This is a massive wine, truly sausage. A non-POX example would be amazing, if there are any out there. (Le Bernadin)
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SAG (Blind) Tasting (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind alongside Jadot 2002 Chevalier-Montrachet les Demoiselles, but these were so obviously white Burgundy. Aromas of ripe white stone fruit that is completely dominated by incredible floral aromatics, with really lovely mint and freshly cut grass. Palate was more dense, focusing on ripe peach and apricot that seemed subdued and elegant to start, but picked up intensity toward the long finish.
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7/27/2023 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 96 Points
Served blind. Just got better and better with air. Savoury nose with almonds and Battenberg sweetness on the nose. Medium to full bodied. Great acidity. Not lean but crisp. A seriously long finish. Shared with SJW in Sablet.
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8/28/2021 - djhammond Likes this wine: 96 Points
Firing on all cylinders, this is a wonderful wine. Packed with lemon and peach the palate is buttery with a great overall freshness and a pronounced minerality. The finish is particularly impressive. Highly recommended and it improved with food.
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3/12/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
4th of 6, opened 20 minutes, perfect cork and level, palish gold, unctuous, chalky fruit, mainly tropical with nice citric lift, fullish, v long and complex, quite pure and with decent drive to tad clunky fruit, would benefit from greater minerality as citrus alone brings wine into some sort of balance, no pox, sense of still needing to come together properly and with time in hand to do so pox risk aside. Prospective VF (18.5)......best showing by far!
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9/8/2017 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
3rd of 6, pnp, perfect cork and level, clean bottle at last, pale yellow, leggy; very lemon, some chalk and peach; medium bodied, decent length, not particularly complex and a bit clumsy at this level, the Caillerets in '14 was a better wine, it has the weight of fruit to improve, but really needs more zip. As this is my 1st clean bottle probably best to drink; several grades below PYCM's Chevalier '06 on following night (even though I understand he made this wine for Dad). Just F+ (18).
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7/7/2017 - liber wrote: flawed
2nd of 6, almost orange, POXED!!!!!
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2/5/2016 - Pacalet Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wow what a nose, buttery, creamy and lots of hazelnuts, and it continued to open up. Palate nice and full that mirrors the nose, with layered honey developing. Very long finish of minerals and brioche. Drinking very well yet no rush to open.
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10/17/2015 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points
1st of 6, decanted half hour, perfect cork and level - mid yellow, high glycerol; lemony, honeyed, some chalk, some tropical fruit; fullish bodied, rich and long, though properly dry, slightly awkward and almost oversized, tropical fruit, though in many ways like a larger scaled version of their Caillerets, which I prefer for current drinking. Mr W thought bottle flawed and showing incipient premox, though I'm not sure that with more time, this wine will tighten and focus, if so it could be very fine, currently a disappointing very good indeed (17/20).
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10/11/2015 - esh44 wrote: flawed
Second bottle that's premixed. Ugh.
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7/29/2015 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Second time tasting this. Intense aroma of honey, butter, sugarcane, coconut, tropical fruit and caramel. It's too young now but it showed the potential of the wine. The palate was so deep, intense and complex but it did not fully open up due to insufficient aeration. It has long life ahead.
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1/15/2015 - esh44 wrote: flawed
Ugh, dark color and totally oxidized.
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12/20/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
Very oxidized. Thankfully my last bottle of this wine that was sensational in the years shortly after release, then decreasingly interesting or consistent from 2010 forward.
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9/22/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
A 1964 birthday Celebration (Sepia - Chicago IL): Sensational concentration and density, just far more advanced than we should expect. While this was the most disappointing bottle I've had of this wine, it has never been as good the past few years as it was a few years back, which is a little disappointing for Montrachet.
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7/24/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Gary's Belated Birthday Dinner (Paris Club - Chicago IL): Slightly less exciting vs another bottle from earlier this year, this is showing lots of peach and ripe apple with good spice and power, but this is slightly more advanced than I would expect. Also less energy. Best when first opened and poured, much shorter and less interesting a couple of hours later.
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6/20/2014 - Alex G. wrote:
Controversial wine today, but I enjoyed it. Good but not a standout amongst many fine Montrachet.
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3/14/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
La Paulée "Warm-up" Dinner (Piperade - San Francisco CA): In a flight with 3 bottles of 2002 Chevalier-Montrachet. Nicely floral with stone fruit aromas and flavors, this also started restrained but picked up weight and intensity from middle to finish. Very elegant and textured, but not as energetic and exciting as a bottle from 2-3 years ago.
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5/22/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Almost a year later, same event and the same wine... Same result, it is POX. This is a massive wine, truly sausage. A non-POX example would be amazing, if there are any out there. (Le Bernadin)
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6/5/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Starts with a fresh, alive, lanolin nose, but becomes short due to POX. Really shame. (Chv Blc)
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9/16/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
SAG (Blind) Tasting (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind alongside Jadot 2002 Chevalier-Montrachet les Demoiselles, but these were so obviously white Burgundy. Aromas of ripe white stone fruit that is completely dominated by incredible floral aromatics, with really lovely mint and freshly cut grass. Palate was more dense, focusing on ripe peach and apricot that seemed subdued and elegant to start, but picked up intensity toward the long finish.
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