Beautiful gold color. Powerful nose that bursts out of the glass. Notes of vanilla, lemon pie, flint at first. Then tropical fruit notes of starfruit, passion fruit, banana. Mouth is medium body, buttery with a sharp acidity still. Tastes young. Noble bitters, lemon, minerals melt in a medium+ to long finish. Very nice
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Flickinger dinner at avec River North (Chicago, IL): When they're on, they're on. A fantastic bottle that was almost indistinguishable from the 2017 alongside. Such freshness and electricity here, with oak providing the weight and breadth. Very high acidity, this tastes like it hasn't aged at all since it was bottled. There's a less than average amount of fruit here for this wine, and instead you get more mineral stuffing. A far more convincing bottle than my previous one a few years back.
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Second time of tasting, and once again it delivered. It drinks like a Grand Cru and is great value for money. Tasting profile is as per previous note. 94+
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This is great value for money in the crazily priced market of white Burgundy, and more than holds its own against some of its more illustrious companions. The nose is complex with citrus and hazlenut, (thanks to a fellow reviewer for allowing me to identify that elusive note.) The minerality is superb and exquisitely balanced. Likewise the finish is outstanding and keeps building and building past 30 seconds with lemon and lemon peel notes in complete harmony. 94+
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Deep golden color and nose was initially muted. Needed an hour to open up aromatically but was ready for business on the palate with firm acidity and good balance structurally. Smooth finish and decent length. Shame only managed to get the one bottle. Very good price.
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Similar to earlier notes but this half-bottle did seem to have lost a bit of energy that earlier bottles exhibited. While this is a half-bottle, my experience and that of enfantterrible suggests these ’08s might be at or just beyond peak.
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Pale golden. Initially quite closed and needed air to open up. Then boom! Citrus, spice, mandarin peel and hazelnuts. Very classic PM/M nose. Intensely mineral. Glorious palate with more of the same plus the oily texture of Grand Cru WB. Long saline infused lemon oil to the finish and a nutty finale. Glorious wine.
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Vibrant citrus and minerality on the nose lead to more of the same on the palate. This wine is still quite youthful and energetic, with palpable tension and not the slightest hint of premox. A fine example of Clos de la Mouchere.
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From 375ml bottle, PnP’d. Crisp, fresh, citrusy and layered. Beautifully balanced with creaminess, a touch of oak, butter countered with lemon, mineral and, especially, saline character. Paired exceptionally well with seared halibut with a lemon dill buerre blanc sauce. Truly wonderful. Clos de la Mouchére delivers again!
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from 375, basically pnp and drank over an hour. This is one of the more complex and interesting '08's I've had going back 6 years or so. So complex with fresh lemon and honey notes mixed the the sulfur/gun flint/petrol notes of older wines. So unique and at this age so remarkable. Other vintages I've been drinking, namely '09, have nothing on this. Only to say the Mouchere is the only Boillot wine in the '09's to be drinkable now. Enjoy this now.
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Opened with significant trepidation as the previous bottle opened in June was premoxed. Deep yellow-gold in color. Slightly advanced aromas of butterscotch quickly gives way to orchard pit fruit marmalade, orange-yellow citrus oils, toasted nuts, honeysuckle and florals. Medium bodied palate is on point showing ripe and honeyed yellow peaches and nectarines, good balance of acidity & sweet fruit, hint of mint, florals and a very long lip smacking finish. Despite issues, I keep buying this wine every year (and other H. Boillot white burgs!). This one delivered.
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Popped and poured into Riedel vinum burgundy stems. Served at first a little too cold since we only decided late in the evening to open another bottle. Even too cold this hit me like the one big wave the knocks you over after an hour of jumping over the small ones. My lord what a beautiful nose! All full of white flowers and white peaches and savory pastry dough and do I detect a tiny touch of mint? It was voluptuous in the mouth, especially when it warmed up a bit, with a creaminess along the edges that almost had me smacking my lips like a cartoon character. There's still a touch of oak signature, but it's part of a nice framing structure, not an overlay, and the acid is so on point that you don't at all care about the touch of wood. This is an emotional wine, when it's clean, with its own unique character. 2008 is the oldest vintage I have left now, as I started drinking up my older bottles more quickly when premox started showing up. This '08 was nearly as good as the best '01s and '02s I had back in their day. The only white burgundy I still buy in every vintage despite it all.
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Advanced. A few shades darker than the Pillot Clos St Marc drink alongside. Bruised apples and faint sherry notes. Another poor Boillot, a producer in denial even now.
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Vinous London dinner, January 2020 (La Trompette): Took a while to open up but had a lovely nose with time, with crystallised fruit, smoke and later on vanilla and popcorn. Slightly savoury, with a nice chew to it and good length. Overall a good wine but poor value, and lacked the impact for a higher score.
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Deep yellow/golden color. The nose shows advanced, primarily lemon spice and butterscotch. Medium weight palate, pretty flat without much energy or acidity. Disappointing.
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Same Btl as R&Rler and my wine of the lunch. The color was slightly dark for even an 11yr old white Burg but the wine itself was in excellent shape. I lapped this wine up! It was concentrated and loaded with lip smacking minerality, citrus and stone fruit and some intriguing light herb notes. This was most compelling btl today amongst the 3 other terrific wines we shared.
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Post-Thanksgiving Lunch (Tilia, Mpls): Medium gold color. PNP, drank a glass plus over 45 minutes. This was in a good spot, very fresh and focused, lots of lemon, Meyer lemon, lemon curd, powdery dry extract, with a lot of wet stone minerality on the mid and back end. This was very easy drinking and quite vibrant. 93+pts.
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PNP, golden but bright color. Expressive nose: lemon oil, honeycomb, smoke, pineapple, some nuttiness. Good acidity that lifts, some minerality to follow. Slight salinity on entry. This seems pretty developed and I wouldn't wait any longer. Not overly complex (I think bottle variation is a big factor), but VERY delicious and easy to drink!
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I like the peach skin texture, and the palate is bright, but there’s some new oak showing and I think a few more years in the cellar would make for a better integrated wine. At the Wallicks in Bridgehampton.
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Dinner at the Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): After 2 poor showings 2 years ago ( we sold post that what we had IB) this last lone bottle came to remind us how good white mature burgundy can be . Well evolved but energetic, well assimilated oak, bright wine still though, Apple, soft citrus and so delicious to drink. We would have guess meursault had this been blind. Solid 92-93 and drink now but beaware of bottle variation.
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Christmas Eve Day lunch of homemade seafood pasta, popped and poured and served in Riedel burg stems. This was another totally clean bottle, actually showing a bit tight and sleepy. Very pretty nose, once it woke up, of peaches and honeysuckle. The acid was bright and carried the medium weight body through a delicate and elegant finish. Much more subtle, lean and restrained than an '05 we had recently, though quite similar in profile. If I weren't worried about premox, I'd say this needed another 5 years at least. Still, I can't give up on white burgundies, no matter what the risks. Nothing else will do.
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Really fine. Beautiful clarity and precision to this bottle. My sense is that it has a few more good years left. I will drink most of my bottles by 2021
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Started out thinking this might be advanced but after an hour of air it became more youthful and full of life. Showing the 08 vintage character (but no botrytis) with ripe citrus fruits and lots of acid. Really nice showing and I don’t think this will get any better. Great acid but getting into more maturish notes now. Lots of dry extract. If I wasn't worried about premox I'd say drink or hold but it's drinking so well so why wait. Excellent.
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I’m still getting used to burgundy whites so I not a raver like some, lovely colour with dome development but heaps more to go , lemony and astringent on the palate with a very long linger, I need to keep away from my few bottles and buy more but this is a very long liver
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Drunk over 3 days and maintained a gorgeous form over that time. This has restored my faith in white burgs but not enough to bring me back in the fold. That is, I still won’t be buying them in 6s and 12s...
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Dinner with the wine group (Son's Addition): Subtly complex nose with stone fruit; palate is full bodied, fresh medium-plus acidity, lovey minerality and salinity; medium finish. Lovely wine. 92 With time, this shows more and more complexity. Wonderful wine, lots of potential. 93-94
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Finally. This bottle was singing. Beautiful bright nose of orchard fruits and white flowers. Pears, apples, peaches with a bit of citrus in the background. Great mineral notes to complement the fruit. Excellent weight and balance in the mouth. I’ll be polishing off the rest of my bottles over the next couple of years
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Slightly oxidised, bitter edge not totally gone but not to the level( Papies 91) of the healthy one we had a few weeks back. Pls pls premox stay away. No rating this time
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Maybe we should have decanted this. Quite tropical, less fatty or oaky than we expected this to be but at almost 10yrs old it probably has assimilated a lot of it. That been said is not really mineral either and its in that in between stage. A good wine, healthy and no issues with premox, just not sure what to make of it. Nicol who tried this blind could not place it further than a chardonnay and definitely not a puligny was her comment. 90-91
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Moderate reduction on the nose. This is a softer and subtler Boillot wine. than most. There are aromas of lemon curd and pear on the nose. The palate doesn't show too much bracing acidity; this is integrated and a little less sharp and piercing. There's a nice fatness on the palate as well. Perhaps it's the modicum of age that this bottle has under its belt that has given it this roundness; in any case, it is delicious now, and if the pox doesn't strike this wine, bound to get better.
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My favorite premier cru white Burg along with the Ramonet Ruchottes.
30 minutes opened. Beautiful pure pale gold color. Rather subdued nose with soft citrus notes, faint banana, fresh spearmint, white flowers and minerals. One sip, holy shit. Incredibly creamy, sensual and seamless in the mouth. Fabulous texture with balanced concentration, grand cru length and weight. Whoa. A kaleidoscope of flavors: Limes, lemons, more limes, spearmint, grapefruit, tangerines, white peach skin, flint. Then a huge wave of intense mineral acidity cut right down the center. Incredible tension. The minerality I can only describe as like beef jerky thing. Maybe it’s me, can’t explain otherwise, just go with it, I eat a lot of jerky. Becomes more citrusy, minerally and minty with a sour note on the back end as if you were sucking on a lemon peel and spearmint wrapped wet stone. OMFG so good. Is this still going in my mouth? Yes, yes it is. Fans out like a Floyd Money Mayweather cash roll. So good. Oh so good. And oh so young. Mouth is still watering. Hasn’t’ hit the second gear in terms of tertiary complexity but will get there in time. Patience required. Lucky to experience a great bottle! 95+
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Pale yellow. Aromatics of lime, peach, white flowers and a hint of matchstick soar from the glass. Medium-bodied in the mouth, with lots of lemons, lime and powdered stone that lead to a very long, minerally finish that seems to linger forever. This is painfully young, but oh so promising. A textbook white Burgundy that is on the upswing. 95.
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pnp from 375ml, first of these that gave me pause. Not oxidized at all but more advanced than others I've had. More yellow fruit, less minerality. Still with the flint finish so while very good, not as exciting as I've recently had.
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Ex domaine from 375ml. Deep yellow gold. This was a rather mainstream wine, either in a closed phase or just not made that well. Muted on the nose, with just the faintest aromas of Chinese pear, lime, minerals, stone and wet grass. Very linear and thin on the palate, one dimensional, fruits were almost non existent. Considering the number of positive reviews this wine has had, I probably caught this on the wrong day.
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Lys strågul. Ren og delikat duft med gule frukttoner og pent integrert fat og det typiske puligny-preget med antydning til flint og kruttrøyk. Fyldig i anslaget, rene toner med innslag av gule plommer og sitrus, godt integrert fat og ren, ganske intens syre. Bredere i fruktbildet enn Leflaive Pucelles 09 som vi hadde ved siden av.
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Lemony, zesty , creamy , buttery and all things nice. Muted on the nose with some citrus and lemony notes the palate really brings this up to the levels you expect from Montrachet. A nice minerally yet lemony fruit driven core balanced by adequate acidity that helps cut the rich buttery feel to just the right level - and a finish that is pleasingly long - ah to have something like this more often - very satisfying !
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Marks duckhouse – La Las, 02 HB, 01 Pavie, CSH, Leflaive, QdC and etc. (Marks duckhouse, Falls Church, Va): Bright ripe yellow fruits, lemon curd, granny smith, banana, sweet spices and mineral. Excellent concentration, strong presence of mineral and acidity, lovely tension and precision and long acid and mineral driven finish. Extremely consistent showing, i.e. quite ripe yet maintains very good tension and precision. Really wonderful showing.
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A small impromptu dinner with Trip B (Eddie V's - Tysons Corner): Really interesting and education to serve along with the 05 Sauzet Batard. Rich yellow pit fruits, lemon curd, sweet spices and mineral. Excellent concentration, dense ripe yellow fruit driven palate impression, good mineral expression, very bright acidity and clean medium to long finish. The fruit expression is not as polished as the Sauzet Batard. It is a riper style of Puligny 1er cru but maintains lovely tension and precision. This wine is incredibly consistent year in and year out.
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First bottle was oxidized, with a dark color, sherry and butterscotch flavors -- basically undrinkable. Second bottle was light yellow in color, with a powerful nose of white flowers, lime and slight reduction. Light- to medium-bodied, with a green apple and mineral character, somewhat Chablis-like in fact. Finishes very long, with a serious lip-smacking cut and a saline-like quality. Tastes very young, and correct bottles will no doubt be great for years to come. Unfortunately, aging this wine at this point in its development is risky, and I intend to drink my remaining two bottles over the next year. Great stuff when not oxidized. 94.
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Hard to imagine enjoying a white burgundy more than this. Minerality and acidity are at the forefront, but there is serious body and bounce to this wine! A hint of white flowers on both nose and palate. Deep fruit. Looong finish with lots of residual complexity. I know there are bad bottles put there, as there are with seemingly all whit burgundies. But this was not one of them.
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2 hrs open, having had this many times over the last 5 years, this is as good as any, orchard fruit, tangerines, grapefruit, lemon, honeyed viscosity, long finish. Wonderful
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There was bottle variation here and an unacceptable rate of oxidation. 20% almost. The good bottles show sparkling white stone fruit with minerals and complexity. A Grand Cru length. There were no undrinkable bottles but the early oxidized bottles had lost their vibrancy and complexity. More nutty nuance. (Cornutt)
Some obvious SO2 on the nose, needs a lengthy exposure to air. And it's worth the wait, with a crystalline, medium rich palate, fabulous laser-like intensity, nice umami, perfect balance, and a beautiful finish with flashes of granite minerality. So fine, so young, tell me I'm the only one.
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We drank the '05 followed by the '08. The 2005 was singing -- white and yellow orchard fruit, layered and complex and a bit feminine. By contrast, the 2008 was drinking big -- similar fruit profile but concentrated and brimming with tannin and extract with a honeysuckle note as well. I think I preferred the '08 this evening based on its full-throttled power. The 2004 was opened first but was premoxed.
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Andrew and Howard's birthday dinner: There was some typical Henri Boillot reduction on nose with an overlay of pear, peach, wet gravel and white flowers. Powerful, driven and rich on the palate but with good precision and acidity (reflecting the vintage). A complex, non-linear flavour profile of stone fruit, citrus and wet river boulders with a hint of chalk. I was at first in Corton then in Puligny. Close to Grand Cru quality. Very good. Years ahead of it.
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Dense and concentrated. Waves of youthful white and yellow orchard fruit. Wow. Drinking so well now. This eclipses many a Grand Cru. Decanted and consumed over 2+ hours.
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Typiquement le blanc qu'il faut carafer... Tendu, boisé, fermé, il lui a fallu du temps pour gagner le relief qui lui manquait. D'une jeunesse insolente, il ira sans doute loin avec sa mineralité saline et sa longueur. Citronné, floral, il ne demande qu'à se complexifier avec le temps. La base est là, c'est un peu austère (profil cylindrique, étiré), meme pour un 08, et finalement, ca fait bien "Puligny”. D'ici deux trois ans, on peut envisager un 93/94?
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Middels dyp strågul - Mye er skjedd ii løpet av en uke under kork: intens duft med sjøtoner/lavvann, et fint flintpreg, sitrus og blomster. Like intens på smak, meget rik og mineralsk, en liten kraftpakke med stor frukt, superb syrlighet og minuttlang ettersmak. Strålende vin som altså trenger mye luft, og som garantert vil vinne på noen flere år i kjelleren.
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Half bottle. Purchased in Burgundy in 2011. Excellent white vintage, the 2008. Lemon veering towards gold color. Nose needs coaxing, but with air yields subtle pear, just ripe white peach, hay field, light touch of oak derivation (light vanilla), and green and red apple aromas. High acidity, balanced with creamy texture. Bright with more green and red apple but even more pronounced lime and lemon peel flavors. Complex. Full bodied and fresh with a lingering long finish. Evolution in full bottle must be slower by comparison, but this was quite delicious shared among three for dinner and ... gone quite quickly. Should have bought more of this!
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Very elegant, linear, and focused, and in contrast to my prior note, this bottle was pretty reticent. Still very good, but not as impressive as the last time around.
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Citrus fruits, high acid, ridiculously long in the mouth. Great wine - but feel free to wait a while before you drink yours, this one has time on its side.
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Tight with white florals and minerality. Develops a fresh and minty character as it opens. White stone fruit. Searing acidity and salinity (which has drinkers thinking Chablis and Grand Cru). Showing the 08 power with great a backbone of acidity but with enough fruit to match. On the second day, this has softened very lightly. Great potential.
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Some smoky mineral reduction greets the nose then she's all pure white peach. It is fresh and dense in the mouth with a chalky base upon which citrus and peach fruits play. It has plenty of dry extract to the finish and is chewy and very long in the mouth. Great stuff.
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Beyond a doubt, the most shut down, closed-for-business white wine I've ever experienced. On day 2 it was revealing nothing. SFA. I'm staying away from this batch for another year or 5
slight amendment. the last glass (of a bottle already opened for 24 hrs+) reveals a hint of what might come. imagine a cool fresh breeze blowing through an underwater cave. impressive. very happy to have another 11 bottles to play with
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Light in colour, flowers, lemon on the nose. Light on the palate, very young, intense flavours, lots of acidity, very long finish. Softened a little over the course of 30 minutes or so. Should have decanted this.
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Casual dinner at Home: Quite a bit of sulphur on the nose at first but that blew off after some time in the glass (again this should be have been decanted). Nose shows more obvious oak whereas the the palate has the perfect framing of wood. Loads of ripe yet crisp citrus notes with bright acids and great minerality. This was quite youthful but very enjoyable. Drink or hold. Excellent. 91+
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Trip’s visit to DC - Capital Grill (Capital Grill at Tysons corner, VA): Fresh but ripe fruit expression, a hint of butter scotch, yellow fruits lemon curd and mineral. Good concentration, sweet fruits and bright acidity. This is ripe, sweet and fat but good dose of minerality and acidity make the wine fresh. Drinking nicely.
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Pop and pour. Great, but certainly not epic. Great acidity, and probably drank it 3-4 years too young. Clean oak application, pears, spicy notes, and a very refreshing beverage with seared sea scallops. Love it, but not worth $80. Update: after an hour of air this got a lot better. Sulfur blew off, fruit came to the forefront, and acid is still making this super fresh. Give it 5 years and I bet this will be a 93-94 pointer. Update: 2 hours later, changed completely. Had great pear, spice, and a really high "delicious factor". Came into balance with the acidity, oak, and fruit, and NO HARD EDGES... Awesome. 93+ Still, too $$.
WES - Fine White Burgundy (LSE Holborn): Clear and bright. Lemon colour. Touch oaky on the nose, a whig of sulphur, melons. Sweet ripe intense fruit on the palate. Good integration.
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Seriously good wine that drinks like a very good Grand Cru. It has some smoky minerals, pure white peach, flint and aniseed to the aroma. It is rich and sappy in the mouth, dripping with orchard fruits but is in no means heavy. There’s a core of cool rock minerality and the wine has great balance and outstanding length.
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Dead serious Puligny. Vert tart with lots of structure and loads of dry extract. Still just a baby but you could easily mistake this for a grand cru. Finishes very long. 92+
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On dirait que les vins de Boillot ne viennent pas me chercher à l'exception du Charmes-Chambertin grand cru 2008 dégusté plus tôt cette année. Beaucoup de bois au nez et la bouche présente une matière riche et grasse mais sans trop de complexité....j'aurais pu le confondre avec un californien végétarien !
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Plenty of citrus fruit - grapefruits, lemons - and maybe some honey. Still young and just a little tart but developing nicely. No harm drinking it now but it will last several more years.
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Tasted at a mates bar (Geralds Bar) in Melbourne. This is a serious bottle. Brilliant fruit depth and concentration with a lively and energetic backbone of tingly Puligny acid. The oak is a little obvious, but melds quickly in to the wine and provides support to the hefty layers of fruit. The finish is very long and powerfully intense with a final mineral snap. Fantastic stuff.
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Alcohol :: 13.5% The nose is pretty good but still rather tight with lots of oak, creamy vanilla tones up front that masked the underlying chrysanthemum aromas and ripe melon. Very acidic entry, rich palate offered lots of green apple with creamy, persistent finish with alcohol heat. The palate has loose the tension and the elegance, clean style of Boillot and this tasted quite advanced that suggested it may be pre-mox and the alcohol heat link me to the bottle might gone through some heat. I would not say this is flaw as I do not have enough experience with this wine. Buy - Re taste is needed.
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A Spätlese Blind Tasting (Fatty Weng): Pale straw. True to Boillot's style, this was a quintessential Puligny with flowers and yellow fruits with plenty of punchiness though unsurprisingly this was in a awkward phase now with the oak not integrated and acidity poking out. However, I am particularly impressed by the tongue-staining persistence from mid-palate to finish which I think is what BH described as "fans out like a peacock's tail". This had a lot of distinctiveness and persistence at the moment but I hope the grace will emerge with time.
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Makes a very nice first impression with faint minerally and toasty notes accenting rich pear, peach and grapefruit flavours with nice acidity beneath, but after a few sips it starts to feel a little awkward and warm on the back end (despite showing only 13.5% alcohol). Pleasant though not particularly interesting.
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Awesome but a baby. Needs a few years. Was better the second day and day one was amazing. Lots of mineral and acid with a touch of sour that went away after open for a while.
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11/23/2023 - Gridrocker wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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11/23/2023 - Julien D Likes this wine: 92 Points
Beautiful gold color. Powerful nose that bursts out of the glass. Notes of vanilla, lemon pie, flint at first. Then tropical fruit notes of starfruit, passion fruit, banana. Mouth is medium body, buttery with a sharp acidity still. Tastes young. Noble bitters, lemon, minerals melt in a medium+ to long finish. Very nice
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8/19/2023 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Quaffable.
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3/15/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Flickinger dinner at avec River North (Chicago, IL): When they're on, they're on. A fantastic bottle that was almost indistinguishable from the 2017 alongside. Such freshness and electricity here, with oak providing the weight and breadth. Very high acidity, this tastes like it hasn't aged at all since it was bottled. There's a less than average amount of fruit here for this wine, and instead you get more mineral stuffing. A far more convincing bottle than my previous one a few years back.
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12/26/2022 - djhammond Likes this wine: 94 Points
Second time of tasting, and once again it delivered. It drinks like a Grand Cru and is great value for money. Tasting profile is as per previous note. 94+
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9/18/2022 - levicn Likes this wine: 93 Points
醒酒一个小时,淡金黄色,闻香有烤芝麻和小白花的香气,上场的酒温很低,还有些封闭,但一闻味道就知道,这酒稳了,非常的精致。入口酸度很高,酒液很咸,矿物感强烈,奶油,饼干一类的香气,用桶不轻,低温下状态有点紧,小白花和柠檬香气为主,后段植物的微苦绷紧了酒体,展现出很好的结构感,余味满口奶油和细腻白花香气,酒在口中感觉很年轻,你完全想不到这是一支2008年的酒,还有非常长的陈年潜力。教科书般经典的风味,虽然用桶不轻,但酸度高挑,结构感非常漂亮,没有任何油腻肥硕之感,也没有果实生涩的感觉,度的把握刚刚好,做得很精准。酒体扎实,结构紧凑,酒在口中胶质感十足,给人感觉平衡而又高雅,醒酒三个半小时以后状态更加松弛,还有点焦糖和冰糖的香气。
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6/19/2022 - western Does not like this wine:
Deep golden color!!!! The dreaded "Pox' strikes again.
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5/16/2022 - djhammond Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is great value for money in the crazily priced market of white Burgundy, and more than holds its own against some of its more illustrious companions. The nose is complex with citrus and hazlenut, (thanks to a fellow reviewer for allowing me to identify that elusive note.) The minerality is superb and exquisitely balanced. Likewise the finish is outstanding and keeps building and building past 30 seconds with lemon and lemon peel notes in complete harmony. 94+
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12/21/2021 - WKC Likes this wine: 93 Points
Deep golden color and nose was initially muted. Needed an hour to open up aromatically but was ready for business on the palate with firm acidity and good balance structurally. Smooth finish and decent length. Shame only managed to get the one bottle. Very good price.
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11/3/2021 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Similar to earlier notes but this half-bottle did seem to have lost a bit of energy that earlier bottles exhibited. While this is a half-bottle, my experience and that of enfantterrible suggests these ’08s might be at or just beyond peak.
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5/21/2021 - Enfantterrible wrote: 92 Points
Excellent. Very precise. Good acidity. May be near its peak
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5/16/2021 - Geoff7777 wrote:
Pale golden. Initially quite closed and needed air to open up. Then boom! Citrus, spice, mandarin peel and hazelnuts. Very classic PM/M nose. Intensely mineral. Glorious palate with more of the same plus the oily texture of Grand Cru WB. Long saline infused lemon oil to the finish and a nutty finale. Glorious wine.
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2/20/2021 - Jlinfield wrote: 92 Points
Vibrant citrus and minerality on the nose lead to more of the same on the palate. This wine is still quite youthful and energetic, with palpable tension and not the slightest hint of premox. A fine example of Clos de la Mouchere.
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1/15/2021 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
From 375ml bottle, PnP’d. Crisp, fresh, citrusy and layered. Beautifully balanced with creaminess, a touch of oak, butter countered with lemon, mineral and, especially, saline character. Paired exceptionally well with seared halibut with a lemon dill buerre blanc sauce. Truly wonderful. Clos de la Mouchére delivers again!
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7/27/2020 - Louvin Likes this wine: 93 Points
from 375, basically pnp and drank over an hour. This is one of the more complex and interesting '08's I've had going back 6 years or so. So complex with fresh lemon and honey notes mixed the the sulfur/gun flint/petrol notes of older wines. So unique and at this age so remarkable. Other vintages I've been drinking, namely '09, have nothing on this. Only to say the Mouchere is the only Boillot wine in the '09's to be drinkable now. Enjoy this now.
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7/19/2020 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened with significant trepidation as the previous bottle opened in June was premoxed. Deep yellow-gold in color. Slightly advanced aromas of butterscotch quickly gives way to orchard pit fruit marmalade, orange-yellow citrus oils, toasted nuts, honeysuckle and florals. Medium bodied palate is on point showing ripe and honeyed yellow peaches and nectarines, good balance of acidity & sweet fruit, hint of mint, florals and a very long lip smacking finish. Despite issues, I keep buying this wine every year (and other H. Boillot white burgs!). This one delivered.
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7/18/2020 - winelover1808 wrote: flawed
sadly very corked. :(
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6/13/2020 - devraj wrote: 87 Points
Deep yellow in color. Premox aromas that show hints of tropical fruits, lime and minerals. Could drink a glass or two....
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4/3/2020 - NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:
Popped and poured into Riedel vinum burgundy stems. Served at first a little too cold since we only decided late in the evening to open another bottle. Even too cold this hit me like the one big wave the knocks you over after an hour of jumping over the small ones. My lord what a beautiful nose! All full of white flowers and white peaches and savory pastry dough and do I detect a tiny touch of mint? It was voluptuous in the mouth, especially when it warmed up a bit, with a creaminess along the edges that almost had me smacking my lips like a cartoon character. There's still a touch of oak signature, but it's part of a nice framing structure, not an overlay, and the acid is so on point that you don't at all care about the touch of wood. This is an emotional wine, when it's clean, with its own unique character. 2008 is the oldest vintage I have left now, as I started drinking up my older bottles more quickly when premox started showing up. This '08 was nearly as good as the best '01s and '02s I had back in their day. The only white burgundy I still buy in every vintage despite it all.
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2/18/2020 - sjwshiraz wrote:
Advanced. A few shades darker than the Pillot Clos St Marc drink alongside. Bruised apples and faint sherry notes. Another poor Boillot, a producer in denial even now.
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1/20/2020 - NickA Likes this wine: 91 Points
Vinous London dinner, January 2020 (La Trompette): Took a while to open up but had a lovely nose with time, with crystallised fruit, smoke and later on vanilla and popcorn. Slightly savoury, with a nice chew to it and good length. Overall a good wine but poor value, and lacked the impact for a higher score.
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1/12/2020 - sjwshiraz wrote:
Not poxed. Very fresh. White flowers and a beautifully streak of minerality.
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1/5/2020 - The Guzz wrote: flawed
POXED
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12/27/2019 - llink wrote: 88 Points
Deep yellow/golden color. The nose shows advanced, primarily lemon spice and butterscotch. Medium weight palate, pretty flat without much energy or acidity. Disappointing.
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11/29/2019 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points
Same Btl as R&Rler and my wine of the lunch. The color was slightly dark for even an 11yr old white Burg but the wine itself was in excellent shape. I lapped this wine up! It was concentrated and loaded with lip smacking minerality, citrus and stone fruit and some intriguing light herb notes. This was most compelling btl today amongst the 3 other terrific wines we shared.
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11/29/2019 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Post-Thanksgiving Lunch (Tilia, Mpls): Medium gold color. PNP, drank a glass plus over 45 minutes. This was in a good spot, very fresh and focused, lots of lemon, Meyer lemon, lemon curd, powdery dry extract, with a lot of wet stone minerality on the mid and back end. This was very easy drinking and quite vibrant. 93+pts.
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9/19/2019 - Kettu wrote: 93 Points
PNP, golden but bright color. Expressive nose: lemon oil, honeycomb, smoke, pineapple, some nuttiness. Good acidity that lifts, some minerality to follow. Slight salinity on entry. This seems pretty developed and I wouldn't wait any longer. Not overly complex (I think bottle variation is a big factor), but VERY delicious and easy to drink!
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8/28/2019 - Mivvy wrote: flawed
TCA
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8/2/2019 - Pknut wrote:
I like the peach skin texture, and the palate is bright, but there’s some new oak showing and I think a few more years in the cellar would make for a better integrated wine. At the Wallicks in Bridgehampton.
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3/2/2019 - Papies wrote: 92 Points
Dinner at the Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): After 2 poor showings 2 years ago ( we sold post that what we had IB) this last lone bottle came to remind us how good white mature burgundy can be . Well evolved but energetic, well assimilated oak, bright wine still though, Apple, soft citrus and so delicious to drink. We would have guess meursault had this been blind. Solid 92-93 and drink now but beaware of bottle variation.
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12/24/2018 - NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:
Christmas Eve Day lunch of homemade seafood pasta, popped and poured and served in Riedel burg stems. This was another totally clean bottle, actually showing a bit tight and sleepy. Very pretty nose, once it woke up, of peaches and honeysuckle. The acid was bright and carried the medium weight body through a delicate and elegant finish. Much more subtle, lean and restrained than an '05 we had recently, though quite similar in profile. If I weren't worried about premox, I'd say this needed another 5 years at least. Still, I can't give up on white burgundies, no matter what the risks. Nothing else will do.
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8/16/2018 - Enfantterrible wrote: 92 Points
Really fine. Beautiful clarity and precision to this bottle. My sense is that it has a few more good years left. I will drink most of my bottles by 2021
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7/22/2018 - godx wrote:
Started out thinking this might be advanced but after an hour of air it became more youthful and full of life. Showing the 08 vintage character (but no botrytis) with ripe citrus fruits and lots of acid. Really nice showing and I don’t think this will get any better. Great acid but getting into more maturish notes now. Lots of dry extract. If I wasn't worried about premox I'd say drink or hold but it's drinking so well so why wait. Excellent.
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5/12/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
BBQ and Wine (Chez Whitehead - Northbrook IL): Surprisingly advanced for the vintage. Oxidized or heat damaged? A real disappointment.
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4/5/2018 - FYC wrote:
Darker in color than the 11 Buisson Charles and 14 PYCM. On the palate a hint of apple cider. Some acid but a little flat. Premoxed.
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4/3/2018 - robferguson1 wrote: 93 Points
Good colour but early in secondary , many years to go, best to have without too much chill and lovely and dry and long, great
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3/30/2018 - j@$0n p€++y wrote:
Prior bottles have been fantastic! This one advanced.
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3/15/2018 - robferguson1 wrote: 93 Points
I’m still getting used to burgundy whites so I not a raver like some, lovely colour with dome development but heaps more to go , lemony and astringent on the palate with a very long linger, I need to keep away from my few bottles and buy more but this is a very long liver
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3/2/2018 - paul wrote:
small oxidation but still grand cru elements
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2/25/2018 - DCornutt wrote: flawed
Corked!
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1/21/2018 - Enfantterrible wrote: 92 Points
Drunk over 3 days and maintained a gorgeous form over that time. This has restored my faith in white burgs but not enough to bring me back in the fold. That is, I still won’t be buying them in 6s and 12s...
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12/20/2017 - aagrawal wrote: 93 Points
Dinner with the wine group (Son's Addition): Subtly complex nose with stone fruit; palate is full bodied, fresh medium-plus acidity, lovey minerality and salinity; medium finish. Lovely wine. 92
With time, this shows more and more complexity. Wonderful wine, lots of potential. 93-94
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12/17/2017 - Enfantterrible wrote: 92 Points
Finally. This bottle was singing. Beautiful bright nose of orchard fruits and white flowers. Pears, apples, peaches with a bit of citrus in the background. Great mineral notes to complement the fruit. Excellent weight and balance in the mouth. I’ll be polishing off the rest of my bottles over the next couple of years
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11/25/2017 - Papies wrote:
Slightly oxidised, bitter edge not totally gone but not to the level( Papies 91) of the healthy one we had a few weeks back. Pls pls premox stay away. No rating this time
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10/23/2017 - Papies wrote: 91 Points
Maybe we should have decanted this.
Quite tropical, less fatty or oaky than we expected this to be but at almost 10yrs old it probably has assimilated a lot of it. That been said is not really mineral either and its in that in between stage. A good wine, healthy and no issues with premox, just not sure what to make of it. Nicol who tried this blind could not place it further than a chardonnay and definitely not a puligny was her comment. 90-91
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10/12/2017 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
Moderate reduction on the nose. This is a softer and subtler Boillot wine. than most. There are aromas of lemon curd and pear on the nose. The palate doesn't show too much bracing acidity; this is integrated and a little less sharp and piercing. There's a nice fatness on the palate as well. Perhaps it's the modicum of age that this bottle has under its belt that has given it this roundness; in any case, it is delicious now, and if the pox doesn't strike this wine, bound to get better.
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9/22/2017 - j@$0n p€++y wrote: 95 Points
My favorite premier cru white Burg along with the Ramonet Ruchottes.
30 minutes opened. Beautiful pure pale gold color. Rather subdued nose with soft citrus notes, faint banana, fresh spearmint, white flowers and minerals. One sip, holy shit. Incredibly creamy, sensual and seamless in the mouth. Fabulous texture with balanced concentration, grand cru length and weight. Whoa. A kaleidoscope of flavors: Limes, lemons, more limes, spearmint, grapefruit, tangerines, white peach skin, flint. Then a huge wave of intense mineral acidity cut right down the center. Incredible tension. The minerality I can only describe as like beef jerky thing. Maybe it’s me, can’t explain otherwise, just go with it, I eat a lot of jerky. Becomes more citrusy, minerally and minty with a sour note on the back end as if you were sucking on a lemon peel and spearmint wrapped wet stone. OMFG so good. Is this still going in my mouth? Yes, yes it is. Fans out like a Floyd Money Mayweather cash roll. So good. Oh so good. And oh so young. Mouth is still watering. Hasn’t’ hit the second gear in terms of tertiary complexity but will get there in time. Patience required. Lucky to experience a great bottle! 95+
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7/4/2017 - DCornutt wrote: flawed
Oxidized. This had such promise.
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3/14/2017 - J o e wrote: 95 Points
Pale yellow. Aromatics of lime, peach, white flowers and a hint of matchstick soar from the glass. Medium-bodied in the mouth, with lots of lemons, lime and powdered stone that lead to a very long, minerally finish that seems to linger forever. This is painfully young, but oh so promising. A textbook white Burgundy that is on the upswing. 95.
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1/16/2017 - Louvin Likes this wine: 91 Points
pnp from 375ml, first of these that gave me pause. Not oxidized at all but more advanced than others I've had. More yellow fruit, less minerality. Still with the flint finish so while very good, not as exciting as I've recently had.
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1/14/2017 - justburg wrote: 87 Points
Ex domaine from 375ml. Deep yellow gold. This was a rather mainstream wine, either in a closed phase or just not made that well. Muted on the nose, with just the faintest aromas of Chinese pear, lime, minerals, stone and wet grass. Very linear and thin on the palate, one dimensional, fruits were almost non existent. Considering the number of positive reviews this wine has had, I probably caught this on the wrong day.
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12/3/2016 - GuWin wrote: 92 Points
Lys strågul. Ren og delikat duft med gule frukttoner og pent integrert fat og det typiske puligny-preget med antydning til flint og kruttrøyk. Fyldig i anslaget, rene toner med innslag av gule plommer og sitrus, godt integrert fat og ren, ganske intens syre. Bredere i fruktbildet enn Leflaive Pucelles 09 som vi hadde ved siden av.
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8/3/2016 - boses Likes this wine: 92 Points
Lemony, zesty , creamy , buttery and all things nice. Muted on the nose with some citrus and lemony notes the palate really brings this up to the levels you expect from Montrachet. A nice minerally yet lemony fruit driven core balanced by adequate acidity that helps cut the rich buttery feel to just the right level - and a finish that is pleasingly long - ah to have something like this more often - very satisfying !
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7/10/2016 - pakabear Likes this wine: 93 Points
Toast on the nose, somewhat mute overall, extracted palate, sour lemon, pineapple and tropical fruits. Really nice length and acidity.
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7/9/2016 - dcwino wrote: 94 Points
Marks duckhouse – La Las, 02 HB, 01 Pavie, CSH, Leflaive, QdC and etc. (Marks duckhouse, Falls Church, Va): Bright ripe yellow fruits, lemon curd, granny smith, banana, sweet spices and mineral. Excellent concentration, strong presence of mineral and acidity, lovely tension and precision and long acid and mineral driven finish. Extremely consistent showing, i.e. quite ripe yet maintains very good tension and precision. Really wonderful showing.
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6/23/2016 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points
A small impromptu dinner with Trip B (Eddie V's - Tysons Corner): Really interesting and education to serve along with the 05 Sauzet Batard. Rich yellow pit fruits, lemon curd, sweet spices and mineral. Excellent concentration, dense ripe yellow fruit driven palate impression, good mineral expression, very bright acidity and clean medium to long finish. The fruit expression is not as polished as the Sauzet Batard. It is a riper style of Puligny 1er cru but maintains lovely tension and precision. This wine is incredibly consistent year in and year out.
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6/17/2016 - J o e wrote: 94 Points
First bottle was oxidized, with a dark color, sherry and butterscotch flavors -- basically undrinkable. Second bottle was light yellow in color, with a powerful nose of white flowers, lime and slight reduction. Light- to medium-bodied, with a green apple and mineral character, somewhat Chablis-like in fact. Finishes very long, with a serious lip-smacking cut and a saline-like quality. Tastes very young, and correct bottles will no doubt be great for years to come. Unfortunately, aging this wine at this point in its development is risky, and I intend to drink my remaining two bottles over the next year. Great stuff when not oxidized. 94.
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5/25/2016 - pablopilot wrote: 96 Points
Hard to imagine enjoying a white burgundy more than this. Minerality and acidity are at the forefront, but there is serious body and bounce to this wine! A hint of white flowers on both nose and palate. Deep fruit. Looong finish with lots of residual complexity. I know there are bad bottles put there, as there are with seemingly all whit burgundies. But this was not one of them.
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5/8/2016 - Louvin Likes this wine: 94 Points
2 hrs open, having had this many times over the last 5 years, this is as good as any, orchard fruit, tangerines, grapefruit, lemon, honeyed viscosity, long finish. Wonderful
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3/24/2016 - etyc Likes this wine:
Beautiful nose of white flowers & chalk. Good precision on the palate, with the flavours fanning out towards the end. Great!
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3/3/2016 - Atltastevin wrote:
There was bottle variation here and an unacceptable rate of oxidation. 20% almost. The good bottles show sparkling white stone fruit with minerals and complexity. A Grand Cru length. There were no undrinkable bottles but the early oxidized bottles had lost their vibrancy and complexity. More nutty nuance. (Cornutt)
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2/10/2016 - xuaeinw wrote: 90 Points
Wait several more years.
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2/8/2016 - alanr wrote: 94 Points
Some obvious SO2 on the nose, needs a lengthy exposure to air. And it's worth the wait, with a crystalline, medium rich palate, fabulous laser-like intensity, nice umami, perfect balance, and a beautiful finish with flashes of granite minerality. So fine, so young, tell me I'm the only one.
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1/3/2016 - BurgAndy wrote:
We drank the '05 followed by the '08. The 2005 was singing -- white and yellow orchard fruit, layered and complex and a bit feminine. By contrast, the 2008 was drinking big -- similar fruit profile but concentrated and brimming with tannin and extract with a honeysuckle note as well. I think I preferred the '08 this evening based on its full-throttled power. The 2004 was opened first but was premoxed.
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12/9/2015 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
Andrew and Howard's birthday dinner: There was some typical Henri Boillot reduction on nose with an overlay of pear, peach, wet gravel and white flowers. Powerful, driven and rich on the palate but with good precision and acidity (reflecting the vintage). A complex, non-linear flavour profile of stone fruit, citrus and wet river boulders with a hint of chalk. I was at first in Corton then in Puligny. Close to Grand Cru quality. Very good. Years ahead of it.
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11/29/2015 - BurgAndy wrote:
Dense and concentrated. Waves of youthful white and yellow orchard fruit. Wow. Drinking so well now. This eclipses many a Grand Cru. Decanted and consumed over 2+ hours.
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10/25/2015 - jerhardt wrote: 92 Points
Intense, viscous, and complex. This is open and ready to go, and honestly I would be nervous about holding a lot longer. Drink soon.
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9/14/2015 - Raage wrote: 92 Points
Typiquement le blanc qu'il faut carafer... Tendu, boisé, fermé, il lui a fallu du temps pour gagner le relief qui lui manquait.
D'une jeunesse insolente, il ira sans doute loin avec sa mineralité saline et sa longueur. Citronné, floral, il ne demande qu'à se complexifier avec le temps. La base est là, c'est un peu austère (profil cylindrique, étiré), meme pour un 08, et finalement, ca fait bien "Puligny”.
D'ici deux trois ans, on peut envisager un 93/94?
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8/30/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Great finesse and restraint. Perfumed aromatics of white flowers and white peach. Classic Puligny. Rocky detail, fabulous clarity and superb cut.
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4/24/2015 - soyhead wrote:
from magnum
nose - grapefruit meets ham
mouth - tart, mid to full bodied, lively, hint of smoke
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4/11/2015 - GuWin wrote: 92 Points
Middels dyp strågul - Mye er skjedd ii løpet av en uke under kork: intens duft med sjøtoner/lavvann, et fint flintpreg, sitrus og blomster. Like intens på smak, meget rik og mineralsk, en liten kraftpakke med stor frukt, superb syrlighet og minuttlang ettersmak.
Strålende vin som altså trenger mye luft, og som garantert vil vinne på noen flere år i kjelleren.
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3/17/2015 - Vinomark wrote: 93 Points
Aging ao very gracefully & regret this is my final.
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2/19/2015 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 93 Points
Half bottle. Purchased in Burgundy in 2011. Excellent white vintage, the 2008. Lemon veering towards gold color. Nose needs coaxing, but with air yields subtle pear, just ripe white peach, hay field, light touch of oak derivation (light vanilla), and green and red apple aromas. High acidity, balanced with creamy texture. Bright with more green and red apple but even more pronounced lime and lemon peel flavors. Complex. Full bodied and fresh with a lingering long finish. Evolution in full bottle must be slower by comparison, but this was quite delicious shared among three for dinner and ... gone quite quickly. Should have bought more of this!
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2/18/2015 - AtoZ wrote:
Same as always. A bit sharp tonight on its own.
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2/16/2015 - jerhardt wrote: 91 Points
Very elegant, linear, and focused, and in contrast to my prior note, this bottle was pretty reticent. Still very good, but not as impressive as the last time around.
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2/7/2015 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Citrus fruits, high acid, ridiculously long in the mouth. Great wine - but feel free to wait a while before you drink yours, this one has time on its side.
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1/8/2015 - DCornutt wrote:
Absolutely stunning and very young. Precise. Chiseled but with great volume. Long finish.
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1/3/2015 - xuaeinw wrote: 93 Points
Intense and powerful. Very enjoyable now, but should develop for several more years.
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12/20/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 91 Points
Took about 2 hours to get going. Quite nice citrus and wet stone. Lean and precise.
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11/14/2014 - thierrynz wrote:
Tight with white florals and minerality. Develops a fresh and minty character as it opens. White stone fruit. Searing acidity and salinity (which has drinkers thinking Chablis and Grand Cru). Showing the 08 power with great a backbone of acidity but with enough fruit to match. On the second day, this has softened very lightly. Great potential.
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11/12/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Some smoky mineral reduction greets the nose then she's all pure white peach. It is fresh and dense in the mouth with a chalky base upon which citrus and peach fruits play. It has plenty of dry extract to the finish and is chewy and very long in the mouth. Great stuff.
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10/25/2014 - jerhardt wrote: 93 Points
a seriously good, grand cru quality wine. I didn't find this remotely shut down, and will have my remaining bottles on deck for mid term drinking.
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10/4/2014 - Vinomark wrote: 91 Points
Quite good but needs more time or a good few hour decant.
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1/3/2014 - Enfantterrible wrote:
Beyond a doubt, the most shut down, closed-for-business white wine I've ever experienced. On day 2 it was revealing nothing. SFA. I'm staying away from this batch for another year or 5
slight amendment. the last glass (of a bottle already opened for 24 hrs+) reveals a hint of what might come. imagine a cool fresh breeze blowing through an underwater cave. impressive. very happy to have another 11 bottles to play with
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10/8/2013 - Mivvy wrote:
Light in colour, flowers, lemon on the nose. Light on the palate, very young, intense flavours, lots of acidity, very long finish. Softened a little over the course of 30 minutes or so. Should have decanted this.
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8/31/2013 - godx wrote: 91 Points
Casual dinner at Home: Quite a bit of sulphur on the nose at first but that blew off after some time in the glass (again this should be have been decanted). Nose shows more obvious oak whereas the the palate has the perfect framing of wood. Loads of ripe yet crisp citrus notes with bright acids and great minerality. This was quite youthful but very enjoyable. Drink or hold. Excellent. 91+
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6/12/2013 - AtoZ wrote: 91 Points
A bit tight big n oaky tonight. Needs 3-4 years.
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5/17/2013 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points
Trip’s visit to DC - Capital Grill (Capital Grill at Tysons corner, VA): Fresh but ripe fruit expression, a hint of butter scotch, yellow fruits lemon curd and mineral. Good concentration, sweet fruits and bright acidity. This is ripe, sweet and fat but good dose of minerality and acidity make the wine fresh. Drinking nicely.
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5/5/2013 - RyanJames Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pop and pour. Great, but certainly not epic. Great acidity, and probably drank it 3-4 years too young. Clean oak application, pears, spicy notes, and a very refreshing beverage with seared sea scallops. Love it, but not worth $80.
Update: after an hour of air this got a lot better. Sulfur blew off, fruit came to the forefront, and acid is still making this super fresh. Give it 5 years and I bet this will be a 93-94 pointer.
Update: 2 hours later, changed completely. Had great pear, spice, and a really high "delicious factor". Came into balance with the acidity, oak, and fruit, and NO HARD EDGES... Awesome. 93+ Still, too $$.
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3/25/2013 - hadwin Likes this wine: 92 Points
WES - Fine White Burgundy (LSE Holborn): Clear and bright. Lemon colour. Touch oaky on the nose, a whig of sulphur, melons. Sweet ripe intense fruit on the palate. Good integration.
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3/25/2013 - tendring Likes this wine: 90 Points
Wine Education Service - Fine White Burgundy (LSE): Medium green gold.
Mineral nose, then tropical fruit kicks in, quite complex.
Mineral taste, good balance, full, great length.
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10/27/2012 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Gevreys with friends (Chez Jane): Finely oaked, deep, spicy, but focused, gorgeous
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10/24/2012 - Bourolo wrote: 92 Points
Did not make notes when drinking but this still needs some time in the cellar.
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9/5/2012 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Seriously good wine that drinks like a very good Grand Cru. It has some smoky minerals, pure white peach, flint and aniseed to the aroma. It is rich and sappy in the mouth, dripping with orchard fruits but is in no means heavy. There’s a core of cool rock minerality and the wine has great balance and outstanding length.
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8/9/2012 - Tavastgatan wrote: 92 Points
Dead serious Puligny. Vert tart with lots of structure and loads of dry extract. Still just a baby but you could easily mistake this for a grand cru. Finishes very long. 92+
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4/12/2012 - Pedro the Lion wrote: 88 Points
On dirait que les vins de Boillot ne viennent pas me chercher à l'exception du Charmes-Chambertin grand cru 2008 dégusté plus tôt cette année. Beaucoup de bois au nez et la bouche présente une matière riche et grasse mais sans trop de complexité....j'aurais pu le confondre avec un californien végétarien !
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12/22/2011 - AlanM68 wrote: 93 Points
Plenty of citrus fruit - grapefruits, lemons - and maybe some honey. Still young and just a little tart but developing nicely. No harm drinking it now but it will last several more years.
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11/26/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Nuts, citrus, honey. Medium/full bodied, clean, fresh, round, citrus, honey, pear and apple finish.
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9/19/2011 - RHalligan wrote: 94 Points
Tasted at a mates bar (Geralds Bar) in Melbourne. This is a serious bottle. Brilliant fruit depth and concentration with a lively and energetic backbone of tingly Puligny acid. The oak is a little obvious, but melds quickly in to the wine and provides support to the hefty layers of fruit. The finish is very long and powerfully intense with a final mineral snap. Fantastic stuff.
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6/11/2011 - mwanasheria wrote: 95 Points
From .375. A really good bottle. Pear, peach, grapefruit, nice acid and minerality. A great great bottle.
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5/16/2011 - Rupert wrote:
Introducing my work colleagues to wine (Hawksmoor, Spitalfields, London): Gorgeous, spicy oak, finer than a forthnight ago, the fruit less soft, this was exciting
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5/1/2011 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Weighty, serious puligny, the oak spicy but restrained, the fruit surprisingly fat and sweet
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1/13/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Alcohol :: 13.5%
The nose is pretty good but still rather tight with lots of oak, creamy vanilla tones up front that masked the underlying chrysanthemum aromas and ripe melon. Very acidic entry, rich palate offered lots of green apple with creamy, persistent finish with alcohol heat. The palate has loose the tension and the elegance, clean style of Boillot and this tasted quite advanced that suggested it may be pre-mox and the alcohol heat link me to the bottle might gone through some heat. I would not say this is flaw as I do not have enough experience with this wine. Buy - Re taste is needed.
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1/13/2011 - Dbrane wrote: 89 Points
A Spätlese Blind Tasting (Fatty Weng): Pale straw. True to Boillot's style, this was a quintessential Puligny with flowers and yellow fruits with plenty of punchiness though unsurprisingly this was in a awkward phase now with the oak not integrated and acidity poking out. However, I am particularly impressed by the tongue-staining persistence from mid-palate to finish which I think is what BH described as "fans out like a peacock's tail". This had a lot of distinctiveness and persistence at the moment but I hope the grace will emerge with time.
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1/13/2011 - salil wrote: 86 Points
Makes a very nice first impression with faint minerally and toasty notes accenting rich pear, peach and grapefruit flavours with nice acidity beneath, but after a few sips it starts to feel a little awkward and warm on the back end (despite showing only 13.5% alcohol). Pleasant though not particularly interesting.
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10/20/2010 - drfibb wrote: 94 Points
Awesome but a baby. Needs a few years. Was better the second day and day one was amazing. Lots of mineral and acid with a touch of sour that went away after open for a while.
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5/31/2010 - ricknat1 wrote: 92 Points
At the Domaine: Also rich but with acidic undertones
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