A rare treat indeed, this gem delivers its smoke, flowers, cherries, licorice, and herb filled perfume with little effort. The palate follows through as expected with its bright, fresh, earthy, herb, cedar, and tobacco-tinted mid-palate and finish. Drink from 2024-2035.
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Gereiftes Rubin, orange Ränder. Sehr weit entwickelte Nase, kein Vergleich mit dem 83er daneben, Pilze, Waldboden, Unterholz. Im Gaumen rund, gereift, markantes, leicht trocknendes Tannin, nicht wirklich harmonisch was die Säure angeht. Mittellanger Abgang, trocknendes Finale. Natürlich, kein schlechter Wein, jedoch weit weg von dem, was Chave sonst bietet. In diesem Zustand kein Highlight.
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Lightly corked and such a shame, too, because what's underneath the taint is glorious with a remarkable depth of fruit and freshly ground black pepper.
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Chave: "In the name of science" (Chicago, IL): What a wine to be corked. Some at the table didn't think so, but even tasting the wine, it just didn't seem like there was anything I missed.
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Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red center and red/orange rims. The medium intensity nose offered up blueberry, plum, coffee, minerals, menthol, and a leesy note.
In the mouth, this wine was medium bodied with light tannin at first. It developed with air to add weight and tannic punch. It had crisp acidity and very good length.
This bottle was clearly at its peak if not slightly past. Drink up!
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Absolutely stunning wine. This bottle was bought from the domaine in the early eighties and kept in an excellent cellar by the kind host who poored this wine. Vibrant, spicy, harmonious and balanced. Just to sniff the wine was intoxicating, but the taste... incredibly smooth, complex and long. Grand vin.
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A bit funky on the nose at first, but quite fresh and juicy on the palate. Typical Chave raspberry and strawberry fruit. Not a perfect bottle, but a good one with some air.
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Late in the evening without detailed notes but can say this didn't have the supremely elegant and detailed rosy character of the '79 or the booming scorched earth and black olive nose of the '83. Something in between both and still terrific. A touch darker and quieter than either, although still a pristine bottle and distinctly Chave.
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Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red/purple center with oranging rims. The medium+ intensity nose showed black cherries, plums, sage, and black spices.
In the mouth, this was medium bodied with rounded tannin, light acidity, and good length. It improved nicely in the glass to show additional nuances of mocha and clay soil. It had gorgeous balance and length.
While at its peak, this appeared likely to hold at this level for at least 5 years. Enjoy!
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Served from MG, this is extremely, pure, elegant, a Côte-Rôtie leaning version of Hermitage. It goes on and on with no signs of fatigue whatsoever, impeccable balance, Hermitage en danseuse ... #HermitageFest
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Drunk at The Fine Wine Experience Domaine J-L Chave Dinner at Amuse Bouche Hong Kong - From one of, if not the greatest Northern Rhone vintages. Served with 1990 and 1998 but more at home with the '83 and '85. A touch vegetal which could have been TCA.
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My last bottle of this and one which I had on consignment to sell but had "seller's remorse" and called it back before it was sold. Sadly the day it was shipped back was in the middle of a spring heat wave and the bottle arrived off the delivery truck downright hot, so I feared the worst. I decided to give it several months to recover in my cool cellar and hoped for the best. I decanted it at about 5 pm and drank it from about 7-9pm. It was translucent light to medium garnet in color. When decanted it had a decent amount of goopy sediment. On the nose there was a complex array of smells ranging from spices like nutmeg, pepper and clove as well as lavender to cedar, tobacco and fresh earthy mushrooms. There was just a little red fruit left in the nose. The palate was similar with a great mouth feel, silk on the tongue. The wine is so elegant and refined with mostly all the secondary flavors and just a touch of red plum with a long velvety finish. I was glad the wine didn't show any indication of being "cooked" and seemed to withstand the perils of travel ok, though I suspect it would have been a little more complex and chewy with some more fruit had it not suffered from the trip.
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With 30 minutes of decanting, floral, cherries, tobacco, menthol and fresh herbs for days crop up in the nose. Pure silk, soft textured, medium bodied, fresh, lively, spicy, sweet, cherries keep on going on the palate and in the finish. Fully mature, this was a particularly strong bottle of this increasingly hard to find wine.
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after reading recent notes, i was pleasantly surprised at how this bottle showed (my first experience). while not as weighty as the '78 jaboulet la chapelle, finish was lengthy; leather on the nose, pronounced acid on the palette. delicious wine. can drink now, but will not be in a rush to finish (though do not see it improving). paired with roast chicken.
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Good ullage. Garnet translucent healthy colour. November bonfire, soil, tilled earth, tertiary, peppery, piped tobacco, cigars and ashtray. It is medium bodied, elegant, light on its feet and complex, as it metamorphoses from one iteration to another. As it evolves the soil notes remain a constant presence, as it ends with gravelly, graphite and coal notes, with a more viscous finish. A great wine and great bottle, with plenty more to give. A memorable wine.
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This was a fine bottle with good ullage. The first whiff gave us bonfire, woodsmoke and soil. The earthy notes prevailed over the course of the evening, in addition to a sprinkling of white pepper. I detected some vegetal notes but they were in the background and not intrusive. This is now a medium bodied wine and the focus is completely tertiary. Several hours in the texture is more viscous and aromas 'ashtray', savoury and hints of tar. A real pleasure to drink.
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A good bottle with the full complement of sweet spice, black fruit and soil notes on the nose. But the nose still did not sparkle in the way I found this wine could as recently as 3 years ago. Displayed above average breadth on the palate but finish is on the shorter side and the wine began to fade after 75 minutes of air time. Consumed with roast quail. Drink now
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Nice spice and plum on the nose, but this turned toward the prunish side with some air time. Overall a somewhat muddled and subdued bottle. Nothing obviously wrong here, but this was below the standard set by this wine in other recent showings. 91-92
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For the third experience in a row, this once great and still good wine is clearly fading. More savory than sweet spice. Slight saline notes and woodsmoke to the nose. Dry dark fruit on the palate, light soil tones, but overall increasingly coming off as somewhat dry and with a shorter finish than before. But all of these comments are relative to what it once was, as this is still quite a solid wine.
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Sweet spice, clove, cocoa, cola, licorice, and pepper on the nose. Dark earth and pepper on the palate with still noticeable tannins but the finish drops off and the back palate is somewhat bitter. This wine is either beginning to fade since I last had it two years ago or this bottle was not perfect. The '78 has long offered a long finish but this was quite short. Still, a great experience driven by the nose and front palate. Paired with duck. 95-
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1st Vivino Int'l chapter in Singapore (Sat. afternoon), Part-1 (Bok's place): Wowsay, this would later proved to be our wine of the afternoon, as well as wine of the day! The nose pretty much jumped out from the glass! Blood, iron, spices/herbs. Palate was simply incredible - forest floor, earth, leather, autumn leaves, tea leaves... the whole gamut of secondary/tertiary flavours that left a long, yet fresh trail as it glided across the palate. Stunning elegance! A revelation! Thank you Christian!
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Chave Dinner (Le Perigord): While the texture is rich and silky, there's an offputting vegetal aspect here and the acidity is poking out. Not very good.
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WOTN! Great bottle showing its maturity over the other bottles. Very well integrated and just singing. More elegance then power compared to the younger vintages.
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MNSC - Alex (Country Club Grill): notorious for its bottle variation, this again was not as good as it should be. decanted half an hour before serving. quite smoky to start with. roasted coffee beans. after an hour or so notes of dried herbs, tea leaves became a little overwhelming.
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Having collected wines for more than 20 years, this is the only time I have ever been able to say that I had a 100 point wine. Drank it at L'Oustalet in Gigondas, it came from the private cellar of Marc Perrin. Drank it over dinner with Marc. We could barely make out the label, but the wine leapt from the glass, it was effusive with spectacular tertiary notes of leather, spice and berries, but with a youthful character. I would never have guessed the age blind. I am one who believes that every wine's enjoyment is 50% nose and 50% taste. This is a wine that I drank with my (ample) nose for 30 minutes before even tasting it. I became high on the smell. The flavors were just as good. This is off the charts and a testament to the importance of proper cellaring. For the sake of comparison, prior to this, I would put my top wines ever tasted as 1966 La Tache, 1990 Beaucastel Homage a Jacques Perrin, 1990 DRC Romanee Conti, and 1985 La Tache. While all of these had high scores, I could not rate one of them 100 points. The 78 Chave takes the cake.
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Father's day 2013 and I decided to open a couple of treasures just as I did last year. I guess this will be a tradition from now on. Also the 1 year anniversary since I began writing CT notes; figured I use everyone else's notes enough, I should be contributing too!
Color: light, translucent ruby -> diffuse garnet rim. PnP nose was dynamic: explosive bouquet of leather, smoke, bacon and roasted meat and a whole mess of barnyard. Loved it! The kind of nose you open wines hoping to find. The palate was medium-bodied with full, complex flavours. All tertiary components left now; herbs de provence, smoked meat, leather. Deliciously complex, heady flavours with minerals, salinity and iron running through. Unfortunately the finish is a bit short and the acid is starting to poke through. As time went on, this intensified. Probably a little past it's best and definitely time to drink up. Rating the component parts: the nose would get a 97-98 and the palate initially a 90-92 then downgrade to 88 or so as time went on.
As Lord Rayas notes below: DON'T decant this in advance or you'll miss any magic that might be found.
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Light ruby in color, with a nose filled with earth, stone, spice, fresh cherries, smoke, black raspberry and peppery scents. Medium bodied, with soft, refined textures, the wine ends with ripe, lush, spicy, red fruits. This wine is more about the nose than the palate. This is fully mature. If I owned any, I'd drink it sooner than later.
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This was one of the best bottles of 78 I've had. Opened 3 hours before we started tasting it. Wonderfully perfumed nose that was an exotic expression of earthiness and fruit. The palate continued on. Excellent bottle.
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Drunk at dinner at Michael Mina out of what looked like Burgundy glasses.
This wine was still quite young, much more youthful than the last bottle I had (which was rarin' and ready to go). Quite thick and uctuous with light tanin to back things up. Wine was decanted for a two to three hours before we got to it. I think this bottle would have been good at 40 to 50 years of age.
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With Michael Lehmann at a Singer & Foy a survey of 1978 Rhone wines at Zola's. Dark ruby. Nose smells like Kaopectate. Mint. Somewhat bitter on the palate. Acrid fruit. OK, but not special. Last place wine of 11 wines, according to the tasting group; I ranked it ninth. There was speculation this was a bad bottle. 5–10-13–6: 84/100.
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4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
A rare treat indeed, this gem delivers its smoke, flowers, cherries, licorice, and herb filled perfume with little effort. The palate follows through as expected with its bright, fresh, earthy, herb, cedar, and tobacco-tinted mid-palate and finish. Drink from 2024-2035.
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3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 88 Points
Gereiftes Rubin, orange Ränder. Sehr weit entwickelte Nase, kein Vergleich mit dem 83er daneben, Pilze, Waldboden, Unterholz. Im Gaumen rund, gereift, markantes, leicht trocknendes Tannin, nicht wirklich harmonisch was die Säure angeht. Mittellanger Abgang, trocknendes Finale. Natürlich, kein schlechter Wein, jedoch weit weg von dem, was Chave sonst bietet. In diesem Zustand kein Highlight.
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11/30/2022 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 95 Points
My second bottle of 78 Chave, this was kind of similar to the first bottle -- funky and dirty on the nose, but bright and fresh on the palate.
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11/7/2022 - englishman's claret wrote:
Lightly corked and such a shame, too, because what's underneath the taint is glorious with a remarkable depth of fruit and freshly ground black pepper.
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6/23/2022 - acyso wrote: flawed
Chave: "In the name of science" (Chicago, IL): What a wine to be corked. Some at the table didn't think so, but even tasting the wine, it just didn't seem like there was anything I missed.
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10/16/2021 - fclarity wrote: 94 Points
Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red center and red/orange rims. The medium intensity nose offered up blueberry, plum, coffee, minerals, menthol, and a leesy note.
In the mouth, this wine was medium bodied with light tannin at first. It developed with air to add weight and tannic punch. It had crisp acidity and very good length.
This bottle was clearly at its peak if not slightly past. Drink up!
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7/18/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 96 Points
Lots of damp dark soil and spice, deftly balanced by red fruit. Mature but vibrant. Excellent bottle
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5/23/2021 - MauriceE wrote:
Absolutely stunning wine. This bottle was bought from the domaine in the early eighties and kept in an excellent cellar by the kind host who poored this wine. Vibrant, spicy, harmonious and balanced. Just to sniff the wine was intoxicating, but the taste... incredibly smooth, complex and long. Grand vin.
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4/22/2021 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 95 Points
A bit funky on the nose at first, but quite fresh and juicy on the palate. Typical Chave raspberry and strawberry fruit. Not a perfect bottle, but a good one with some air.
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11/28/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Expressive and a good bottle, if not slightly obtuse as these can come.
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11/2/2020 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Late in the evening without detailed notes but can say this didn't have the supremely elegant and detailed rosy character of the '79 or the booming scorched earth and black olive nose of the '83. Something in between both and still terrific. A touch darker and quieter than either, although still a pristine bottle and distinctly Chave.
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8/29/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Mid-range intensity. Still a lot of variability with these. Better after 2 hours
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2/13/2020 - fcxj wrote: 80 Points
Stems are brown and palate is lean. Drink up soon.
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12/21/2019 - Kemo Sabe wrote: flawed
0 for 2 on 78s as this was also corked along w the 78 Blanc....
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12/10/2019 - fclarity wrote: 96 Points
Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red/purple center with oranging rims. The medium+ intensity nose showed black cherries, plums, sage, and black spices.
In the mouth, this was medium bodied with rounded tannin, light acidity, and good length. It improved nicely in the glass to show additional nuances of mocha and clay soil. It had gorgeous balance and length.
While at its peak, this appeared likely to hold at this level for at least 5 years. Enjoy!
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6/18/2019 - beatles wrote: 96 Points
Served from MG, this is extremely, pure, elegant, a Côte-Rôtie leaning version of Hermitage. It goes on and on with no signs of fatigue whatsoever, impeccable balance, Hermitage en danseuse ...
#HermitageFest
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1/30/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points
Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage vertical (Singapore): Very complex nose of ripe berries, herbs, pine, some coconut. The palate stays medium and fresh. A strong performance.
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8/18/2018 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. Nose a little subdued but good palate. Full and almost a little too ripe. 94-
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3/31/2018 - fcxj wrote: 70 Points
Purchased and cellared by friend’s dad, and bottle looked good. Sadly quite over the hill.
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3/14/2018 - KoalaHK wrote:
Drunk at The Fine Wine Experience Domaine J-L Chave Dinner at Amuse Bouche Hong Kong - From one of, if not the greatest Northern Rhone vintages. Served with 1990 and 1998 but more at home with the '83 and '85. A touch vegetal which could have been TCA.
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9/3/2017 - oldwines Likes this wine: 94 Points
My last bottle of this and one which I had on consignment to sell but had "seller's remorse" and called it back before it was sold. Sadly the day it was shipped back was in the middle of a spring heat wave and the bottle arrived off the delivery truck downright hot, so I feared the worst. I decided to give it several months to recover in my cool cellar and hoped for the best. I decanted it at about 5 pm and drank it from about 7-9pm. It was translucent light to medium garnet in color. When decanted it had a decent amount of goopy sediment. On the nose there was a complex array of smells ranging from spices like nutmeg, pepper and clove as well as lavender to cedar, tobacco and fresh earthy mushrooms. There was just a little red fruit left in the nose. The palate was similar with a great mouth feel, silk on the tongue. The wine is so elegant and refined with mostly all the secondary flavors and just a touch of red plum with a long velvety finish. I was glad the wine didn't show any indication of being "cooked" and seemed to withstand the perils of travel ok, though I suspect it would have been a little more complex and chewy with some more fruit had it not suffered from the trip.
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1/7/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
With 30 minutes of decanting, floral, cherries, tobacco, menthol and fresh herbs for days crop up in the nose. Pure silk, soft textured, medium bodied, fresh, lively, spicy, sweet, cherries keep on going on the palate and in the finish. Fully mature, this was a particularly strong bottle of this increasingly hard to find wine.
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10/3/2016 - DrGiggles Likes this wine: 93 Points
after reading recent notes, i was pleasantly surprised at how this bottle showed (my first experience). while not as weighty as the '78 jaboulet la chapelle, finish was lengthy; leather on the nose, pronounced acid on the palette. delicious wine. can drink now, but will not be in a rush to finish (though do not see it improving). paired with roast chicken.
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2/14/2016 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 96 Points
Good ullage. Garnet translucent healthy colour. November bonfire, soil, tilled earth, tertiary, peppery, piped tobacco, cigars and ashtray. It is medium bodied, elegant, light on its feet and complex, as it metamorphoses from one iteration to another. As it evolves the soil notes remain a constant presence, as it ends with gravelly, graphite and coal notes, with a more viscous finish. A great wine and great bottle, with plenty more to give. A memorable wine.
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2/13/2016 - MEKWINE Likes this wine: 96 Points
This was a fine bottle with good ullage. The first whiff gave us bonfire, woodsmoke and soil. The earthy notes prevailed over the course of the evening, in addition to a sprinkling of white pepper. I detected some vegetal notes but they were in the background and not intrusive. This is now a medium bodied wine and the focus is completely tertiary. Several hours in the texture is more viscous and aromas 'ashtray', savoury and hints of tar. A real pleasure to drink.
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1/29/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
A good bottle with the full complement of sweet spice, black fruit and soil notes on the nose. But the nose still did not sparkle in the way I found this wine could as recently as 3 years ago. Displayed above average breadth on the palate but finish is on the shorter side and the wine began to fade after 75 minutes of air time. Consumed with roast quail. Drink now
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1/12/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 91 Points
Nice spice and plum on the nose, but this turned toward the prunish side with some air time. Overall a somewhat muddled and subdued bottle. Nothing obviously wrong here, but this was below the standard set by this wine in other recent showings. 91-92
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10/20/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
For the third experience in a row, this once great and still good wine is clearly fading. More savory than sweet spice. Slight saline notes and woodsmoke to the nose. Dry dark fruit on the palate, light soil tones, but overall increasingly coming off as somewhat dry and with a shorter finish than before. But all of these comments are relative to what it once was, as this is still quite a solid wine.
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5/26/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points
Sweet spice, clove, cocoa, cola, licorice, and pepper on the nose. Dark earth and pepper on the palate with still noticeable tannins but the finish drops off and the back palate is somewhat bitter. This wine is either beginning to fade since I last had it two years ago or this bottle was not perfect. The '78 has long offered a long finish but this was quite short. Still, a great experience driven by the nose and front palate. Paired with duck. 95-
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3/7/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:
1st Vivino Int'l chapter in Singapore (Sat. afternoon), Part-1 (Bok's place): Wowsay, this would later proved to be our wine of the afternoon, as well as wine of the day! The nose pretty much jumped out from the glass! Blood, iron, spices/herbs. Palate was simply incredible - forest floor, earth, leather, autumn leaves, tea leaves... the whole gamut of secondary/tertiary flavours that left a long, yet fresh trail as it glided across the palate. Stunning elegance! A revelation! Thank you Christian!
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1/10/2015 - jhngo Likes this wine: 99 Points
Iron blood smoked meats yet light ethereal. has crunchy acids. sharp edges rustic. an amazing wine. wow.
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12/14/2014 - Lord Rayas wrote: 92 Points
MNSC - Alex (Chiu Tang): opened for 2hrs before serving. notes of dried leaves. rather herbal. good but not great.
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11/20/2014 - coremill wrote: 84 Points
Chave Dinner (Le Perigord): While the texture is rich and silky, there's an offputting vegetal aspect here and the acidity is poking out. Not very good.
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11/10/2014 - Le Musigny wrote:
WOTN! Great bottle showing its maturity over the other bottles. Very well integrated and just singing. More elegance then power compared to the younger vintages.
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4/3/2014 - Lord Rayas wrote: 92 Points
MNSC - Alex (Country Club Grill): notorious for its bottle variation, this again was not as good as it should be. decanted half an hour before serving. quite smoky to start with. roasted coffee beans. after an hour or so notes of dried herbs, tea leaves became a little overwhelming.
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1/27/2014 - Mr Pinot Noir Likes this wine: 100 Points
Having collected wines for more than 20 years, this is the only time I have ever been able to say that I had a 100 point wine. Drank it at L'Oustalet in Gigondas, it came from the private cellar of Marc Perrin. Drank it over dinner with Marc. We could barely make out the label, but the wine leapt from the glass, it was effusive with spectacular tertiary notes of leather, spice and berries, but with a youthful character. I would never have guessed the age blind. I am one who believes that every wine's enjoyment is 50% nose and 50% taste. This is a wine that I drank with my (ample) nose for 30 minutes before even tasting it. I became high on the smell. The flavors were just as good. This is off the charts and a testament to the importance of proper cellaring. For the sake of comparison, prior to this, I would put my top wines ever tasted as 1966 La Tache, 1990 Beaucastel Homage a Jacques Perrin, 1990 DRC Romanee Conti, and 1985 La Tache. While all of these had high scores, I could not rate one of them 100 points. The 78 Chave takes the cake.
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12/8/2013 - Lord Rayas wrote: 90 Points
Juliano's MNSC (China Tang): another disappointing bottle. beefy and thick with little charm.
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6/16/2013 - BVal wrote: 93 Points
Father's day 2013 and I decided to open a couple of treasures just as I did last year. I guess this will be a tradition from now on. Also the 1 year anniversary since I began writing CT notes; figured I use everyone else's notes enough, I should be contributing too!
Color: light, translucent ruby -> diffuse garnet rim. PnP nose was dynamic: explosive bouquet of leather, smoke, bacon and roasted meat and a whole mess of barnyard. Loved it! The kind of nose you open wines hoping to find. The palate was medium-bodied with full, complex flavours. All tertiary components left now; herbs de provence, smoked meat, leather. Deliciously complex, heady flavours with minerals, salinity and iron running through. Unfortunately the finish is a bit short and the acid is starting to poke through. As time went on, this intensified. Probably a little past it's best and definitely time to drink up. Rating the component parts: the nose would get a 97-98 and the palate initially a 90-92 then downgrade to 88 or so as time went on.
As Lord Rayas notes below: DON'T decant this in advance or you'll miss any magic that might be found.
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11/29/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Light ruby in color, with a nose filled with earth, stone, spice, fresh cherries, smoke, black raspberry and peppery scents. Medium bodied, with soft, refined textures, the wine ends with ripe, lush, spicy, red fruits. This wine is more about the nose than the palate. This is fully mature. If I owned any, I'd drink it sooner than later.
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7/1/2012 - Lord Rayas wrote: 90 Points
Julian's dinner with Chris/Jacky (Julian's home): opened a whopping 8 hours before drinking. a real shame cos it was definitely over breathed and lost much of its bouquet.
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12/21/2011 - Le Musigny wrote:
This was one of the best bottles of 78 I've had. Opened 3 hours before we started tasting it. Wonderfully perfumed nose that was an exotic expression of earthiness and fruit. The palate continued on. Excellent bottle.
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12/29/2010 - Lord Rayas wrote: 95 Points
Alex's dinner with Julian/Ada, David/Jeannie, PN/Esther (The Mirror): Lovely nose of smoke, tar and grilled game meat. Some of our party found the barnyard taste a bit overwhelming but I thought it's a beautiful expression of Chave's terroir.
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10/5/2009 - austincarty wrote: flawed
Opened 10/3/09. Not ullaged. Clear bright red. Bitter and undrinkable.
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8/17/2009 - Tantamnt wrote: flawed
Corked!
Sad, last bottle was glorious. Hopefully the next, from my own cellar will be great again.
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7/30/2008 - BradE wrote: flawed
DOA.
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2/2/2008 - BradE wrote:
Probably not a representative bottle.
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7/17/2005 - skwid wrote:
Drunk at dinner at Michael Mina out of what looked like Burgundy glasses.
This wine was still quite young, much more youthful than the last bottle I had (which was rarin' and ready to go). Quite thick and uctuous with light tanin to back things up. Wine was decanted for a two to three hours before we got to it. I think this bottle would have been good at 40 to 50 years of age.
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2/12/2005 - Eric wrote:
Rhônes and dinner with Robert Parker (Baltimore, MD): no note
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5/7/1990 - MicklethePickle wrote: 84 Points
With Michael Lehmann at a Singer & Foy a survey of 1978 Rhone wines at Zola's. Dark ruby. Nose smells like Kaopectate. Mint. Somewhat bitter on the palate. Acrid fruit. OK, but not special. Last place wine of 11 wines, according to the tasting group; I ranked it ninth. There was speculation this was a bad bottle. 5–10-13–6: 84/100.
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