Drinking perfectly well now at its apogee. Perfect showing of a solid 1990 good burgundy vintage. Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, tea, cooked red fruits, toast. Medium acidity and medium tannin. Tannin is smooth and round. It hard to imagine this wine is already >30 years old.
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Immediately accessible after opening but benefited from another hour in the decanter. This is on the feminine side with nice balance and finish. Still no secondary/tertiary notes. This wine should drink well for a couple more decades plus. Probably in its prime and I don’t see how this further improves unless you are looking for more earthy, mushroom flavors and that’s a solid 2 decades away.
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Ripe dark berries, good spices with some forest floor, after 3 + hr in glasses, richer, sweeter, darker berries, layered with oak fully integrated, velvety, perfect to drink now though still have at least 5-10yr life left. ( Tasting blind: guessed good vintage, not too hot/ not high in alcohol, but tasted incredibly youthful for a 1990, also given its weight, complexity, would not have guessed it was a Volnay)
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Dense concentrated dark fruits. Barnyard nose. Ansolutely resolved tannins. Drinking at its peak now and prob for a couple more years! Drink up and enjoy!
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PNP, fill was decent. Nice ripe fruit with a somewhat tannic structure. Mid weight with nice acidity. Plenty of time and life left and probably should have given more air. Well crafted wine!
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This tasted very young and had a pretty dark color... Red berries, cedar, and sous bois on the nose. Good acidity, with bitter orange and tart raspberries on the slightly astringent palate. Good finish.
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Absolutely perfect! This is the second bottle of the case I've opened with the first one being opened ten years prior. The one I opened ten years ago needed more time and I'm glad I waited as this wine and evolved very nicely. Ruby garnet in color, wonderful Burgundian fruit on the nose with velvety intensity on the palate that lingers. Very please with this wine.
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Color typical of the Burgs of the vintage, dark for Pinot but not a hint of warmth. Great fresh Pinot nose, savory and medium long on the palate with fresh acidity as noted by others in CT. Drinking well right now but should hold for a few years and not decline.
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AMAZING! 28 year young Burgundy, still with grip on the palate, no signs of fading color, smells like teen spirit :-). Worthwhile to celebrate my 64th birthday.
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Comte Lafon 1ers (La Trompette, London): Lovely nose. Not overly ripe. A touch of something savoury fresh — tomato leaf is the consensus. Lovely on the palate. Plush, sweet-fruited but a nice line and freshness too. Lovely. Surprisingly fresh acidity on the finish too. ****
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really fantastic, great red fruits, deep red but not dark per se (or maybe that was simply the lift that this wine demonstrated), spice but in the back seat, only thing that kept this from being a 95 or 96 was the fact that it still tasted a bit primary, not young per se but the fruit was so good that it took the wine a little out of balance with the secondary palate flavors (but plenty of acid for balance, yea)
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Perfect levels and cork condition. Dark ruby red, a little funk on the first pour, but blew off quickly. 26yo and this was still not yet ready?? Tasted much better after an hour or so in the glass...red fruits, spices, mocha, truffles on the nose, very intense concentration and dense body with a long finish. I think this still needs time and would warrant a decant next time...
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Sushi Night (Omakase, San Francisco): Still remarkably deep color almost completely to the rim. Approached after 2 hours in decanter. Complex, secondary aromas of pine needles, soy, and subtle red fruit. Solid but by no means heavy for Volnay, and this loosened with more air. Dynamite acidity, still firm tannins, lovely length, fine stone and inner mouth aromatics. Each time I've tasted this, it's been clear it needs more age. While it has progressed quite a bit since 2010, it is still a good 5+ years away from maturity. It has tremendous structure for a 1990 and no overripeness whatsoever. I think the early reviews that described this as Rhône-like or blockish completely misread the potential of this wine; it's just going to take the better part of 40 years to show its inner Volnay!
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decanted in the AM for 90 mins then bk to bottle, had with dinner, good darkish red fruit with really significant acid, and no sweetness to balance, so on the pnp and when returning to bottle i was worried that my dinner guest might not enjoy (I love acid, but this was a but too prominent even for me, and a surprise based on vintage and past bottles), interestingly it continued to round out and gain complexity throughout dinner and by the end had caught up to the performance of the '90 Ridge Monte Bello we had alongside... great bottle but needed lots of air to show its stuff
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Medium ruby color. Nose of plum, anise, iodine, forest floor, violets, schist. Layers of lush, youthful blackberry, dark plum, and black raspberry fruit on the palate complicated by earth and iron filings, plus the barest hint of a certain ethereal lacy quality. Lovely and compelling acidity balancing structured but smoothed tannins. Long finish of red and black raspberry fruit, still sweet and fresh, in perfect balance with grip and iron. Terrific showing, depicting spring more than autumn at this point.
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La Paulee Dinner at Recette (Recette): Really quite lovely. Certainly very ripe, with sweet, concentrated blackberry fruit, but without the overripe roasted quality that many wines have in this vintage. Rich and powerful but not heavy. Not super complex, but still excellent.
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Not your typical Santenots and there's definitely more vintage expression than terroir expression in this Volnay. However, it is has well balanced rounded tannins in balance with its acidity and red fruit expression on the palate. I see it developing a nice medium long finish on the end. Beautiful in a word.
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Closed on the nose. This wine is 23 years old? Very large frame, seems to be 6 years old and a Faiveley Mazis or Beze. Structure is huge for its age. Black berry mixture on the palate; mierality and lead\graphite. Tarry or asphalt notes with some bitterness at the end of the palate. Tannins are not out of balance with the fruit, it is just so thoroughly different than what I expect from a Lafon Volney. I think immediately of the debate concerning the 1990 Vogue Musigny and the 1990 Comte Armand Epeneaux.
Can't say I really enjoyed this with cheese on Day 1 -- will have to try it again in the morning with some pork.
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Brought to Marche on Bainbridge Island where popped and poured. Translucent ruby color. Nose of lilting, high-pitched florals, red raspberry, cherry pits. Still structured on the palate with piercing, linear layers of black raspberry, anise, iron, and brambles presented with weightless intensity. Beautiful balance of acidity, fine-grained tannins, and shimmering fruit. Long finish of red mulberry and mineral notes. Still in the middle of its drinking window, this could go on for years.
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Decanted and drank over four hours. Incredibly dense and tight on the nose and palate. Thick, dark rich. Nose of raspberries, wood, spice. Same on the palate. Very tightly wound. Began to open up over time but not much. Tannin outpaced the fruit. Perhaps try this again in 5yrs. It could come around and be amazing. Or not.
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This thing took three hours to open. After a long weekend on call, I made boeuf bourguignon and decanted the wine an hour before serving. Still a very dark ruby. Funky with scents of tobacco and menthol at first (I wondered if it might be corked) but several hours later the nose was pumping sauvage plum notes and smokey black cherry in spades, accompanied by lilac and earth notes. The palate woke up to reveal muscular yet feline layers of raspberry, bing cherry, iron, minerals, and pine forest. Notable freshness and acidity balancing strong structure. Long, vibrant finish of black cherry and mineral. This is indeed a wine for the ages.
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Huge, dense,bright, tart cherry that smooths out after 2 hours and will last forever. This is well matched with meat or game, although delicious on its own as well.
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Moderately dark ruby without the slightest hint of evolution. There is some gentle wood upfront, but you quickly get by that to the core of the wine-licorice, game, pungent cherry fruit. Perhaps a notch bigger than prototypical Volnay but very unlike most 1990s in its focus, clarity, and detail. The mouthwatering tartness of the fruit reminds one of Savigny. In fact, still quite a lot of structure here imparted by both tannin and acidity with a touch of stone thrown in. It continued to unwind and lighten over several hours, finally developing a lovely cinnamon spice note toward the end. When I last had this 5+ years ago, it was harder than hard, and I wondered if it would die a tannic, fruitless death, but in retrospect, I think it just needed more time. While it is very enjoyable now, in truth, it is still too young; I could see it improving for another decade and lasting much longer than that.
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Top Volnay Producers and Vineyards 1971-2006 (Custom House Tavern - Chicago IL): Single blind with Volnay 1er 1971-1990. Ripe black cherry on nose, still showing oak as well as other spice. Quite ripe fruit flavors come through with only modest spice, not really classically Volnay to me. Others liked this better than I did tonight.
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LdC Top Volnay Shootout (Custom House): Medium full red/purple color. Big forward nose of black cherry and boysenberry with some overtones of sulphur and burnt oak. Tight dusty tannic black cherry on the palate with a searing finish. Tough right now but could be upside here?
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A bottle that brought up a long discussion. A fairly dark colour for an 18 year old Burgundy. Nice fruit in taste and smell and a load of tannins. Originally seen as a 2002 or 1999 Vosne R in style (blind tasting), we concluded (at 2am in the morning) it still has so many tannins (after nearly 20 years of ageing) something's wrong with the structure. Over-extracted and over-oaked? Not sure if it will ever lose these tannins.
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Deep oxblood red, slight paler rim and a touch of browning. Fresh, fruity, and slightly herbal nose – doesn’t seem anything like its age. Rich round and long – but with good fresh acidity - delicious. Lots of oak and tannin still suggests it has years ahead of it still. ****
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1990 Burgundies (NYC): Light medium red color. Only the slightest hint of lightening on the rim. Interesting funky/barnyard and spice on the nose. Some spice on the palate, but I got more nose than palate flavors from this wine. Elegant and well balanced.
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1/9/2024 - ajrez Likes this wine: 94 Points
Perfect spot, needs about 60-90 minutes of air then it’s beautiful
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1/24/2023 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 96 Points
Drinking perfectly well now at its apogee. Perfect showing of a solid 1990 good burgundy vintage. Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, tea, cooked red fruits, toast. Medium acidity and medium tannin. Tannin is smooth and round. It hard to imagine this wine is already >30 years old.
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3/29/2022 - N.Bonaparte wrote: 94 Points
Immediately accessible after opening but benefited from another hour in the decanter. This is on the feminine side with nice balance and finish. Still no secondary/tertiary notes. This wine should drink well for a couple more decades plus. Probably in its prime and I don’t see how this further improves unless you are looking for more earthy, mushroom flavors and that’s a solid 2 decades away.
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5/22/2020 - WineAddicts_RN74 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Ripe dark berries, good spices with some forest floor, after 3 + hr in glasses, richer, sweeter, darker berries, layered with oak fully integrated, velvety, perfect to drink now though still have at least 5-10yr life left. ( Tasting blind: guessed good vintage, not too hot/ not high in alcohol, but tasted incredibly youthful for a 1990, also given its weight, complexity, would not have guessed it was a Volnay)
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3/27/2020 - LB88 wrote: 93 Points
Dense concentrated dark fruits. Barnyard nose. Ansolutely resolved tannins. Drinking at its peak now and prob for a couple more years! Drink up and enjoy!
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4/2/2019 - SommStags Likes this wine:
PNP, fill was decent. Nice ripe fruit with a somewhat tannic structure. Mid weight with nice acidity. Plenty of time and life left and probably should have given more air. Well crafted wine!
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4/1/2019 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 92 Points
This tasted very young and had a pretty dark color... Red berries, cedar, and sous bois on the nose. Good acidity, with bitter orange and tart raspberries on the slightly astringent palate. Good finish.
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11/4/2018 - wendt wrote: 94 Points
Absolutely perfect! This is the second bottle of the case I've opened with the first one being opened ten years prior. The one I opened ten years ago needed more time and I'm glad I waited as this wine and evolved very nicely. Ruby garnet in color, wonderful Burgundian fruit on the nose with velvety intensity on the palate that lingers. Very please with this wine.
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7/22/2018 - Sharmajd wrote: 93 Points
Color typical of the Burgs of the vintage, dark for Pinot but not a hint of warmth. Great fresh Pinot nose, savory and medium long on the palate with fresh acidity as noted by others in CT. Drinking well right now but should hold for a few years and not decline.
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1/23/2018 - gsb88 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Delish!
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1/14/2018 - Palmiet Likes this wine:
AMAZING! 28 year young Burgundy, still with grip on the palate, no signs of fading color, smells like teen spirit :-). Worthwhile to celebrate my 64th birthday.
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9/7/2017 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
Comte Lafon 1ers (La Trompette, London): Lovely nose. Not overly ripe. A touch of something savoury fresh — tomato leaf is the consensus. Lovely on the palate. Plush, sweet-fruited but a nice line and freshness too. Lovely. Surprisingly fresh acidity on the finish too. ****
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7/11/2017 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 94 Points
really fantastic, great red fruits, deep red but not dark per se (or maybe that was simply the lift that this wine demonstrated), spice but in the back seat, only thing that kept this from being a 95 or 96 was the fact that it still tasted a bit primary, not young per se but the fruit was so good that it took the wine a little out of balance with the secondary palate flavors (but plenty of acid for balance, yea)
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12/24/2016 - ricemanhk Likes this wine:
Perfect levels and cork condition. Dark ruby red, a little funk on the first pour, but blew off quickly. 26yo and this was still not yet ready?? Tasted much better after an hour or so in the glass...red fruits, spices, mocha, truffles on the nose, very intense concentration and dense body with a long finish. I think this still needs time and would warrant a decant next time...
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10/26/2016 - Burgnick wrote: flawed
Cork tainted.
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9/10/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
Sushi Night (Omakase, San Francisco): Still remarkably deep color almost completely to the rim. Approached after 2 hours in decanter. Complex, secondary aromas of pine needles, soy, and subtle red fruit. Solid but by no means heavy for Volnay, and this loosened with more air. Dynamite acidity, still firm tannins, lovely length, fine stone and inner mouth aromatics. Each time I've tasted this, it's been clear it needs more age. While it has progressed quite a bit since 2010, it is still a good 5+ years away from maturity. It has tremendous structure for a 1990 and no overripeness whatsoever. I think the early reviews that described this as Rhône-like or blockish completely misread the potential of this wine; it's just going to take the better part of 40 years to show its inner Volnay!
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2/6/2016 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 93 Points
decanted in the AM for 90 mins then bk to bottle, had with dinner, good darkish red fruit with really significant acid, and no sweetness to balance, so on the pnp and when returning to bottle i was worried that my dinner guest might not enjoy (I love acid, but this was a but too prominent even for me, and a surprise based on vintage and past bottles), interestingly it continued to round out and gain complexity throughout dinner and by the end had caught up to the performance of the '90 Ridge Monte Bello we had alongside... great bottle but needed lots of air to show its stuff
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11/29/2015 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Medium ruby color. Nose of plum, anise, iodine, forest floor, violets, schist. Layers of lush, youthful blackberry, dark plum, and black raspberry fruit on the palate complicated by earth and iron filings, plus the barest hint of a certain ethereal lacy quality. Lovely and compelling acidity balancing structured but smoothed tannins. Long finish of red and black raspberry fruit, still sweet and fresh, in perfect balance with grip and iron. Terrific showing, depicting spring more than autumn at this point.
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6/14/2015 - ljl wrote: 94 Points
Very dark. Still young. Blackberry and mushrooms on the palate
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3/1/2015 - coremill wrote:
La Paulee Dinner at Recette (Recette): Really quite lovely. Certainly very ripe, with sweet, concentrated blackberry fruit, but without the overripe roasted quality that many wines have in this vintage. Rich and powerful but not heavy. Not super complex, but still excellent.
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12/7/2014 - Sharmajd wrote: 93 Points
Not your typical Santenots and there's definitely more vintage expression than terroir expression in this Volnay. However, it is has well balanced rounded tannins in balance with its acidity and red fruit expression on the palate. I see it developing a nice medium long finish on the end. Beautiful in a word.
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11/13/2013 - ricknat1 wrote: 91 Points
let breathe in bottle for 2 hours. Big round, well balanced, strong fruit but not bright. Dry without or with less decant. long life ahead of it
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9/20/2013 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Lafon Santenots 1969-2005 (La Trompette, Chiswick, London): Smooth, dense, very structured
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8/26/2013 - Purduke Does not like this wine:
Closed on the nose. This wine is 23 years old? Very large frame, seems to be 6 years old and a Faiveley Mazis or Beze. Structure is huge for its age. Black berry mixture on the palate; mierality and lead\graphite. Tarry or asphalt notes with some bitterness at the end of the palate. Tannins are not out of balance with the fruit, it is just so thoroughly different than what I expect from a Lafon Volney. I think immediately of the debate concerning the 1990 Vogue Musigny and the 1990 Comte Armand Epeneaux.
Can't say I really enjoyed this with cheese on Day 1 -- will have to try it again in the morning with some pork.
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9/9/2012 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Brought to Marche on Bainbridge Island where popped and poured. Translucent ruby color. Nose of lilting, high-pitched florals, red raspberry, cherry pits. Still structured on the palate with piercing, linear layers of black raspberry, anise, iron, and brambles presented with weightless intensity. Beautiful balance of acidity, fine-grained tannins, and shimmering fruit. Long finish of red mulberry and mineral notes. Still in the middle of its drinking window, this could go on for years.
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8/23/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Decanted and drank over four hours. Incredibly dense and tight on the nose and palate. Thick, dark rich. Nose of raspberries, wood, spice. Same on the palate. Very tightly wound. Began to open up over time but not much. Tannin outpaced the fruit. Perhaps try this again in 5yrs. It could come around and be amazing. Or not.
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1/3/2012 - DougLee wrote: 94 Points
This thing took three hours to open. After a long weekend on call, I made boeuf bourguignon and decanted the wine an hour before serving. Still a very dark ruby. Funky with scents of tobacco and menthol at first (I wondered if it might be corked) but several hours later the nose was pumping sauvage plum notes and smokey black cherry in spades, accompanied by lilac and earth notes. The palate woke up to reveal muscular yet feline layers of raspberry, bing cherry, iron, minerals, and pine forest. Notable freshness and acidity balancing strong structure. Long, vibrant finish of black cherry and mineral. This is indeed a wine for the ages.
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11/21/2011 - SanFranSoxFan04 Likes this wine: 92 Points
I like the nose with its mild funk. Great acid and tanin moss, old oak, good.
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9/16/2011 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Huge, dense,bright, tart cherry that smooths out after 2 hours and will last forever. This is well matched with meat or game, although delicious on its own as well.
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8/28/2011 - Margauxguy wrote: 94 Points
Very good to great. Silky smooth, expressive, lovely in all respects
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5/18/2011 - Dubie wrote: 89 Points
Very closed, austere. Frankly, any "clos" wine really needs at least 30y in the bottle to open up...
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11/14/2010 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Delicious, true powerhouse, dense, red fruits. Drinking very well now
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9/17/2010 - drwine2001 wrote:
Moderately dark ruby without the slightest hint of evolution. There is some gentle wood upfront, but you quickly get by that to the core of the wine-licorice, game, pungent cherry fruit. Perhaps a notch bigger than prototypical Volnay but very unlike most 1990s in its focus, clarity, and detail. The mouthwatering tartness of the fruit reminds one of Savigny. In fact, still quite a lot of structure here imparted by both tannin and acidity with a touch of stone thrown in. It continued to unwind and lighten over several hours, finally developing a lovely cinnamon spice note toward the end. When I last had this 5+ years ago, it was harder than hard, and I wondered if it would die a tannic, fruitless death, but in retrospect, I think it just needed more time. While it is very enjoyable now, in truth, it is still too young; I could see it improving for another decade and lasting much longer than that.
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1/11/2010 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points
Top Volnay Producers and Vineyards 1971-2006 (Custom House Tavern - Chicago IL): Single blind with Volnay 1er 1971-1990. Ripe black cherry on nose, still showing oak as well as other spice. Quite ripe fruit flavors come through with only modest spice, not really classically Volnay to me. Others liked this better than I did tonight.
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1/11/2010 - winefool wrote: 91 Points
LdC Top Volnay Shootout (Custom House): Medium full red/purple color. Big forward nose of black cherry and boysenberry with some overtones of sulphur and burnt oak. Tight dusty tannic black cherry on the palate with a searing finish. Tough right now but could be upside here?
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12/10/2009 - Rupert wrote:
WIMPS December Indulgence - burgundy table (The Ledbury, London): Dark, monolithic, but a lots of ripe cherry kirsch fruit, this too finished spirity
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4/18/2009 - Ary wrote:
A bottle that brought up a long discussion. A fairly dark colour for an 18 year old Burgundy. Nice fruit in taste and smell and a load of tannins. Originally seen as a 2002 or 1999 Vosne R in style (blind tasting), we concluded (at 2am in the morning) it still has so many tannins (after nearly 20 years of ageing) something's wrong with the structure. Over-extracted and over-oaked? Not sure if it will ever lose these tannins.
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1/1/2006 - HandPickedBurgundy wrote:
Deep oxblood red, slight paler rim and a touch of browning. Rich round and long – delicious. Lots of oak and tannin.
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5/19/2005 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Dark, spicy nose, fruit really pure, very integrated oak giving spicyness, very youthful,
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1/1/2005 - HandPickedBurgundy wrote:
Deep oxblood red, slight paler rim and a touch of browning. Fresh, fruity, and slightly herbal nose – doesn’t seem anything like its age. Rich round and long – but with good fresh acidity - delicious. Lots of oak and tannin still suggests it has years ahead of it still. ****
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10/26/1998 - mdefreitas wrote: 90 Points
1990 Burgundies (NYC): Light medium red color. Only the slightest hint of lightening on the rim. Interesting funky/barnyard and spice on the nose. Some spice on the palate, but I got more nose than palate flavors from this wine. Elegant and well balanced.
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