This wine is fairly easygoing, with dark red fruit, some soft mineral. The quality that stands out the most, would be decay… like decayed forest floor(not rotting), and sweet decayed soil; maybe a little too much. It’s still decent. Would be fun to throw this in with a bunch of other Chambertin…
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Btl #384. Notes after four hours in decanter. Intact but saturated cork. Dark, dusty ruby color with quick legs and a small amount of sediment. Wet wood (not cardboard) and poop are prominent for the first 30 minutes on the nose and then it settles down to dark plum, fig, brambles, and toast. Compared to two years ago, this is coming across like it’s running out of gas and there isn’t going to be enough fruit to carry it long into the future. Throughout the 4 hours of tasting, it never developed up in any way and remained rather flat. 4+10+16+7= 87
Funny, but not too surprising, how I can read Jeff Nowak’s note from 7 years ago and feel exactly the same way about the wine now as he did then: a lovely nose after some initial funk blew off, with a high-pedigree aura, but the palate showed little depth or distinction. The bouquet that is there shows very good persistence and still a small dose of that “Burgundy magic”, but no real fireworks for me. Good appearance in the glass, high cork saturation (typical for MI), no sediment. 4+13+16+8= 91
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6th Annual Wilson School Auction Tasting (A Wine Adventure): . Slow-ox 5 hrs, tasted over 1 hr -dark red no bricking -black fruit gorgeous gentle spice -med acidity, med weight sophisticated stylish dark fruit and spice, good complexity, med tannins -very nice wine still young probably needs a few more years to hit its prime
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my first taste of the wines from the current international wine darling, and i certainly wish mr walker success. decanted and poured between 7 experienced tasters, 4 of which have had a pants load more burgs than me, but none of us got too fired up for this. the easy thing to do is say it's too young, closed, blah, blah, blah. maybe. there was some consensus that it had a sense of place; yet i wasn't one of them. i'd characterize the wine as delicate and frilly and lacking a bottom end which i would expect the wine to build on. i'm hoping it's fine nose will be it's harbinger of eventual pleasure. NR. codicil: I clearly misjudged alex's view of this wine. You could blow me over with a feather as I didn't get the sense of his devotion to it at the table. we are clearly divided on this one, but i'm above kevin.
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Glorious, elegant wine that haunted me for days afterward. Gentle and restrained, this wine whispers with its ethereal floral aroma and lengthy, precise finish. It's exceptional, full stop.
This wine reminded me of Truchot, but more accessible than most of his wines were at this stage of life. I rarely like, let alone love, Grand Cru Burgundy in its youth so this wine was especially confounding to me. While my logical brain must believe this wine will improve, my heart says it will never get better, it will only become different over time. If you can try one at this stage, I recommend doing so. I greatly look forward to drinking this wine again.
I shared the bottle that Kevin drank in the tasting note below, in fact he disliked it so much I got to drink his glass :) It's also worth noting that the last time I drank Truchot with Kevin he hated that too. The man knows what he likes, and this ain't it. But to me, it's flirting with perfection.
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Leiden tasting: last one before the holidays: Nose is beautiful and intoxicating with red fruit and animale, herbal, spicy, tones. Taste also complex, red fruit, feminine kind of wine, wonderfull, round tannins. The midpalate shows vanilla tones that are also present in the finish, but the lovely fruit makes this a balanced wine.
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Beautiful and sensual nose of red fruits light spices, mocha tones, minerality and very complex. Very balanced and round tannins (but present ) and more blackfruit tones in the taste, the wood will need some furhter integration and I have no doubts that it will integrate good, acidity as with many 2009 on the lower side but all in all a very good showing. Not a blockbuster heavy weight Chambertin but very balanced complex stylish one. Still very young and would open the next bottle in 10 years time.
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Much darker fruit profile than the charmes. Wilder, sauvage, meaty, muscular and with extended, spicy tannins no the long finish. Lovely, seamless, pure mouthfeel again. Exactly what a good chambertin should be!
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– barrel sample – – tasted a single glass non-blind over approx. 15 minutes –
NOSE: tight nose; darker fruits than the Charmes and the Les Chaffots; slight minerality. TASTE: ripe; elegant; moderate oak; seemed deep, but reserved; I prefer the Charmes today.
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A mid-weight Chambertin of impeccable balance. Fine yet complex showing notes of sour cherries, dried flowers, Dutch liquorice and a hint of Indian spice. It is sweet and lacy with lovely poise, will definitely put a few of these away for the long term.
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7/16/2023 - Charlie Carnes wrote:
This wine is fairly easygoing, with dark red fruit, some soft mineral. The quality that stands out the most, would be decay… like decayed forest floor(not rotting), and sweet decayed soil; maybe a little too much. It’s still decent. Would be fun to throw this in with a bunch of other Chambertin…
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10/21/2021 - fingers wrote: 87 Points
Btl #384. Notes after four hours in decanter. Intact but saturated cork. Dark, dusty ruby color with quick legs and a small amount of sediment. Wet wood (not cardboard) and poop are prominent for the first 30 minutes on the nose and then it settles down to dark plum, fig, brambles, and toast. Compared to two years ago, this is coming across like it’s running out of gas and there isn’t going to be enough fruit to carry it long into the future. Throughout the 4 hours of tasting, it never developed up in any way and remained rather flat. 4+10+16+7= 87
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10/4/2019 - fingers wrote: 91 Points
Funny, but not too surprising, how I can read Jeff Nowak’s note from 7 years ago and feel exactly the same way about the wine now as he did then: a lovely nose after some initial funk blew off, with a high-pedigree aura, but the palate showed little depth or distinction. The bouquet that is there shows very good persistence and still a small dose of that “Burgundy magic”, but no real fireworks for me. Good appearance in the glass, high cork saturation (typical for MI), no sediment.
4+13+16+8= 91
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5/4/2019 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
6th Annual Wilson School Auction Tasting (A Wine Adventure): .
Slow-ox 5 hrs, tasted over 1 hr
-dark red no bricking
-black fruit gorgeous gentle spice
-med acidity, med weight sophisticated stylish dark fruit and spice, good complexity, med tannins
-very nice wine still young probably needs a few more years to hit its prime
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3/14/2013 - DCornutt wrote:
If you don't like this wine, please sell your leftovers to me. Fabulous.
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10/5/2012 - jeff nowak wrote:
my first taste of the wines from the current international wine darling, and i certainly wish mr walker success. decanted and poured between 7 experienced tasters, 4 of which have had a pants load more burgs than me, but none of us got too fired up for this. the easy thing to do is say it's too young, closed, blah, blah, blah. maybe. there was some consensus that it had a sense of place; yet i wasn't one of them. i'd characterize the wine as delicate and frilly and lacking a bottom end which i would expect the wine to build on. i'm hoping it's fine nose will be it's harbinger of eventual pleasure. NR. codicil: I clearly misjudged alex's view of this wine. You could blow me over with a feather as I didn't get the sense of his devotion to it at the table. we are clearly divided on this one, but i'm above kevin.
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10/5/2012 - Alex G. wrote:
Glorious, elegant wine that haunted me for days afterward. Gentle and restrained, this wine whispers with its ethereal floral aroma and lengthy, precise finish. It's exceptional, full stop.
This wine reminded me of Truchot, but more accessible than most of his wines were at this stage of life. I rarely like, let alone love, Grand Cru Burgundy in its youth so this wine was especially confounding to me. While my logical brain must believe this wine will improve, my heart says it will never get better, it will only become different over time. If you can try one at this stage, I recommend doing so. I greatly look forward to drinking this wine again.
I shared the bottle that Kevin drank in the tasting note below, in fact he disliked it so much I got to drink his glass :) It's also worth noting that the last time I drank Truchot with Kevin he hated that too. The man knows what he likes, and this ain't it. But to me, it's flirting with perfection.
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7/5/2012 - Burgaddict wrote: 93 Points
Leiden tasting: last one before the holidays: Nose is beautiful and intoxicating with red fruit and animale, herbal, spicy, tones. Taste also complex, red fruit, feminine kind of wine, wonderfull, round tannins. The midpalate shows vanilla tones that are also present in the finish, but the lovely fruit makes this a balanced wine.
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7/5/2012 - gvdb wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful and sensual nose of red fruits light spices, mocha tones, minerality and very complex. Very balanced and round tannins (but present ) and more blackfruit tones in the taste, the wood will need some furhter integration and I have no doubts that it will integrate good, acidity as with many 2009 on the lower side but all in all a very good showing. Not a blockbuster heavy weight Chambertin but very balanced complex stylish one. Still very young and would open the next bottle in 10 years time.
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5/11/2011 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Much darker fruit profile than the charmes. Wilder, sauvage, meaty, muscular and with extended, spicy tannins no the long finish. Lovely, seamless, pure mouthfeel again. Exactly what a good chambertin should be!
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10/23/2010 - grafstrb wrote:
– barrel sample –
– tasted a single glass non-blind over approx. 15 minutes –
NOSE: tight nose; darker fruits than the Charmes and the Les Chaffots; slight minerality.
TASTE: ripe; elegant; moderate oak; seemed deep, but reserved; I prefer the Charmes today.
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10/14/2010 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A mid-weight Chambertin of impeccable balance. Fine yet complex showing notes of sour cherries, dried flowers, Dutch liquorice and a hint of Indian spice. It is sweet and lacy with lovely poise, will definitely put a few of these away for the long term.
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