Definitely requires decanting or at least time to open and the 30 minutes we allowed it to definitely helped. Post that the wine sings and is ever so beautiful now and drew a lot of wows from our unsuspecting friends when this hit their nostrils. Soft smoky, dark cherries, light spice, nice ripe fruit and light use of oak that just adds a nice dimension to the wine. Superb and punches higher than its label. 93 easy and with a proper life ahead too
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Open to drink at Oinoscent during service * bottle open 18.40 tasted 19.45 * The wine shows purity of fresh red cherry fruit, spicy, there is a persistent sour note right in the middle Palate is very juicy, more in balance with the sour fruit, sour cherry, a touch mineral maybe (?), thin oak frame, med bod and finish * 20.40 * The acidity softens up, pomegranate, fresh red cherry, more in balance, some more spices -//- There is a bit of bottle variation here, another bottle we opened at the bar for a customer was far better and did not need so much time
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Given my last bottle I gave this 8+ hours slow ox. Pale cerise. Complex, ever changing nose, initially strawberry confiture, game, animale, mineralite. With time more floral and spice elements, rose, cola, powerful yet feminine, beguiling. Palate lighter end of medium bodied, predominantly flinty mineralite, raspberry, sour red fruits, exceptionally fine grained tannin, high acidity, very long.
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Pale cerise. This was dumb, mute, closed, inexpressive etc etc... There was a kind of red fruited animale thing going on, but really nothing changed over the 5 hours we drank it over, until maybe the last few drops at the end giving very complex spice and heady perfume. But then I’ve always found this unyielding compared to his Morey village wine. Opened at least 10 years too soon, sigh...
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The nose has a meatiness and earth, moss, more earth, and red pinot fruit. This is more savory than fruit driven at this point with the fruit in the background. Nice balance, maybe a bit high in acid for many people, but I like that. Enjoyable, with good depth for a village wine. It has lost some of it s baby fat and has a bit more restraint and focus, and less fruit. A lovely, savory pinot that smells and tastes like Gevrey. This went well with seared duck breast and butternut squash tonight.
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Still quite youthful, but not at all mean to drink right now. Plenty of Gevrey earth, but at no expense of fruit which lean toward supple redder pinot fruits, and some spice on the nose. That said, this is more of a textural and palate pleaser than a perfumed wine at this point.It carries its medium plus bodied size well, with excellent texture/sap especially for a village wine. I really enjoy the supple giving texture of this wine, a trait I seem to get in 07 reds regularly. Overall, very good depth, a nice mix of savory and fruit, quite long and better on day two. Well done. Very enjoyable and would be better in a couple years. 89+pts
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11/21/2023 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Definitely requires decanting or at least time to open and the 30 minutes we allowed it to definitely helped.
Post that the wine sings and is ever so beautiful now and drew a lot of wows from our unsuspecting friends when this hit their nostrils. Soft smoky, dark cherries, light spice, nice ripe fruit and light use of oak that just adds a nice dimension to the wine. Superb and punches higher than its label. 93 easy and with a proper life ahead too
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11/4/2023 - kostaslonis wrote:
Open to drink at Oinoscent during service
* bottle open 18.40 tasted 19.45 *
The wine shows purity of fresh red cherry fruit, spicy, there is a persistent sour note right in the middle
Palate is very juicy, more in balance with the sour fruit, sour cherry, a touch mineral maybe (?), thin oak frame, med bod and finish
* 20.40 *
The acidity softens up, pomegranate, fresh red cherry, more in balance, some more spices
-//-
There is a bit of bottle variation here, another bottle we opened at the bar for a customer was far better and did not need so much time
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8/22/2019 - Pancreatitis wrote:
Given my last bottle I gave this 8+ hours slow ox.
Pale cerise.
Complex, ever changing nose, initially strawberry confiture, game, animale, mineralite. With time more floral and spice elements, rose, cola, powerful yet feminine, beguiling.
Palate lighter end of medium bodied, predominantly flinty mineralite, raspberry, sour red fruits, exceptionally fine grained tannin, high acidity, very long.
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4/8/2018 - Pancreatitis wrote:
Pale cerise. This was dumb, mute, closed, inexpressive etc etc... There was a kind of red fruited animale thing going on, but really nothing changed over the 5 hours we drank it over, until maybe the last few drops at the end giving very complex spice and heady perfume. But then I’ve always found this unyielding compared to his Morey village wine. Opened at least 10 years too soon, sigh...
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11/29/2017 - cct wrote: 89 Points
The nose has a meatiness and earth, moss, more earth, and red pinot fruit. This is more savory than fruit driven at this point with the fruit in the background. Nice balance, maybe a bit high in acid for many people, but I like that. Enjoyable, with good depth for a village wine. It has lost some of it s baby fat and has a bit more restraint and focus, and less fruit. A lovely, savory pinot that smells and tastes like Gevrey. This went well with seared duck breast and butternut squash tonight.
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5/14/2015 - danielk168 wrote: 89 Points
agree mostly with CCT, approachable now but also will keep for a while an excellent effort for a village wine.
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3/13/2013 - cct wrote: 89 Points
Still quite youthful, but not at all mean to drink right now. Plenty of Gevrey earth, but at no expense of fruit which lean toward supple redder pinot fruits, and some spice on the nose. That said, this is more of a textural and palate pleaser than a perfumed wine at this point.It carries its medium plus bodied size well, with excellent texture/sap especially for a village wine. I really enjoy the supple giving texture of this wine, a trait I seem to get in 07 reds regularly. Overall, very good depth, a nice mix of savory and fruit, quite long and better on day two. Well done. Very enjoyable and would be better in a couple years. 89+pts
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