Ye Paulee (Hao Noodle): 00689/3524, 00/04/08 trio. My favorite, beautiful acidity for a generally very ripe wine, large, composed white and yellow fruit at a graceful balance. Not really big, yet. 95+
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My favorite of the line up. I guess the least DRC Monty like given it's freshness but I love it. Beautiful nose. most balanced with incredible length and richness but with uplifting acidity to not make it feel like you're drinking syrup. Needs time as well to open but a keeper
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My pop note says, "Flint, yellow fruit, pitched!" I'll say, it's that times 1000! This wine was the first opened, and the last sip, I think for everybody, 5 hours later! First, when I say flint, can you picture a flint perception that is juicy? That's about as good as I can describe the flinty, steely mineral perception that this Monty exuded. The yellow fruit was pitched, and pithy. I want to call it rich, but I think everpresent is a better word, as it seemed to take up all space. There was a tactile quality to the fruit, and a very positive ever so slight hint of something tropical.
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This wine is a mineralogist's dream. Just from a whiff of it, it smells like you're going to be drinking a salt lick (big aromatics - no swirling necessary). At least that's what it smells like after some airing out - at first it smelled like a salt mine + a sulfur mine. The palate is consistent. It comes across more solid than liquid to an extent I don't think I've ever experienced in any white Burgundy, though maybe in the occasional riesling; it has that salt-rimmed-tequila thing that some rieslings have, too. If you define the apex Burgundy vineyards as having the ability to aggregate the qualities of the not-quite-apex vineyards without diluting any of them, this qualifies: it has the acuity and precision of Chevalier (at its most precise) combined with the opulence of Batard (at its most opulent). The brassy color in the glass causes someone to remark that on pure sight you might think it's premoxed, but it's not. It does, however, have some of the buttered popcorn/candy corn that the Monty grand crus feature when they're at their ripest, which makes the rapier-like cut all the more remarkable. And it's just as cutting at room temperature. Poured first and finished last - it had enough torque you could get a whole lot out of a short sip and I figured (correctly) it would do nothing but get better and better the longer you could keep it in the glass, so I stretched it out. It didn't change vastly over time, except the first hour or so it took to kick the smack of sulfur, but it's pretty nice to spend a few hours with a daisy-cutter of a Montrachet you can bomb your palate with whenever you feel like it.
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Great Older Wines at the Place to Drink Great Older Wines (Tampa FL): Lemon cured, baked apple, candied lemon peel with incredible density. Unfolding spice and layers of flavors comes across as rich and powerful, while showing a bright minerally finish. Acidity seems fairly moderate here, so I'd expect this is best to enjoy over the medium-term, not to cellar for a decade+.
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DRC M 75-11. Nice flint and flower aromatics. Perfect palate balance between fruit and acidity. Very concentrated, persistent. Great early drinking window wine. (1998/3524)
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DRC Montrachet 2008 - same color profile as the 08, the nose brings the ripe tropical fruits delicious taste and following with sone great freshness, vibrancy
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Romanée-Conti v. La Tâche: [Magnum] Beautiful bouquet of white flowers, lavender, mint, and reduced Chardonnay butter. Immediately you want to compare this to Coche Corton Charlemagne, but it is softer and more floral. On the palate this feels weightless but then sings with flavour for three minutes. Yellow apple, ago, and pineapple. First experience with a DRC Montrachet at this is really quite something. The richness is just amazing.
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Weekend with Eddie - Part 2 (Bouley, NYC): I am so lucky and privilege to try this back to back. As big and expressive but slightly not as kinky as the day before. Expressive nose displaying perfectly ripe orchard yellow pit fruits, also a hint of mango, pineapple and guava, noticeable botrytis, spicy spices, honey and strong presence of mineral. Incredibly concentrated on par with the 09, incredibly layered, sensual dense yet airy, perfect amount of acidity and minerality and long sweet deeply toned spicy finish. Two great bottles back to back, not sure which one I prefer more but I figure it would be unfair not to garner at least one perfect score so this gets it.
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Weekend with Eddie - Part 1 (Marea, New York City): Absolutely stunning, incredibly exotic and perfectly hedonistic wine. Beautiful interplay of tropical yellow fruits, mostly pineapple, Coche like matchstick, exotic spices and botrytis. It strong reminds me Coche CC but a bit kinkier and more exotic with tropical yellow fruits and botrytis. Excellent concentration, quite dense yet air a la D’Yquem, beautifully layered fruits, good acidity and incredibly long exotic finish that ends with very sweet note. This certainly doesn’t fit the mold of classic Montrachet but I can’t complain. Perhaps the most hedonistic white Burgundy of my life.
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[IWFS-Vic DRC Montrachet, Various RSV & d'Yquem Dinner at Vue de Monde] Pale to medium pale straw color, slight golden tint. Ripe white peach grapefruit bouquet brimming with honeyed botrytis notes amidst mineral, nectarine, orange peel, pineapple, mango & fully absorbed oak. Medium full plus, deep, intense, quite dense & weighty with lots of mouth-coating extracts, seamlessly enmeshed with stone, citrus & tropical fruit flavors against a firm acidity backbone; plush without being overly opulent, powerful without going over the top; excellent transparency & immaculate poise. Long well-delineated finish. (96.5)
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A profound bottle for me. I have had a few DRC Montys, and never found them to my style. This was unbelievable, on the nose, spice, pear, white peach, apple, pineapple, apricot, caramel, an unbelievable cacophony of smells. In the mouth, huge, rich unctuous, bracing, yet balanced acidity. Sweetness, lush. This has changed my definition of great chardonney. I always said Chevalier was my favorite, not anymore.
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Nineteen vintages of DRC Montrachet: The 2008 was very, very good. Full, rich, but for me just a touch short on sophistication. A few had it in their top 5 of the night.
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The 2008 Domaine de la Romanée Conti Le Montrachet Grand Cru had more struck match than a box of Redheads. It breathed up to be the wine of the bracket the second time round. It was so rich and intense with sappy fruit that stained the palate. It oozed minerality on the finish and length of flavour was outrageous.
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Was no slouch but perhaps just a notch below the 04 and 07. It had an aroma of smoky minerals, spearmint, pure white peach and grilled nuts. It was dense and sweet, loaded with dry extract and finishing with chalky precision.
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DRC Dinner 1 (Sydney, Australia): Explosive and quite incredible multi-dimensional aromas - honey and graphite, pear, pineapple, orange peel, vanilla, an elusive wisp of smoke and with time the nose took on an additional set of floral notes.
The intensity on the palate is at another level to any white wine I've tried previously, there is a richness that fills your mouth and yet it has the most stunning minerality and acidity that provided the wine with definition, drive and clarity.
The wine just got better and better the longer it was in the glass, I kept some for as long as I could resist throughout the evening and it just continued to reveal more layers every time I went back to it. I don't know what a wine like this will be like in 10 years time, I only know that I thought it was brilliant already.
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Absolut beeindruckend und faszinierend wie sich dieser Wein im Glas entwickelte. Anfangs gerösteter Reis,Quittenaromen,über Honig bis man auf einmal das Gefühl hat vor einer Bäckerei zu stehen die gerade frisches Brot aus dem Ofen holt. Dann leichter Butter, Vanille,Zitrus und Pfirsich. Gut ausbalancierte Säure,herrliche Struktur inkl.langen eleganten Abgang.Grosser Montrachet. For me greatest wine from 2008 DRC.
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2008 Domaine De La Romanee-Conti Tasting (Beltramo's, Menlo Park Ca.): The most anticipated wine of the tasting for me. As soon as I put my nose in the glass I said..."are you kidding me???" "How rich is this nose?" The color was a brilliant metallic yellow, with a green tinge. The nose was HUGE...buttery and spiced tropical fruits, smoky butterscotch, exotic honey, lemons and minerals. In the mouth, the fruit is full, rich, sweet....yet this huge wall of minerals and spice hit you as well. The fruit is really sweet(some botrytis?), a lot sweeter than I thought it would be. So complex....toasted marshmallow, green apple skins, lemon honey butter, spice. To be honest...there was just a tad bit more buttery popcorn and sweet fruit to this than I wanted. But with all that wonderful fresh acidity and ton of minerality...I can see how that fruit needs to be that rich...so that in 10+ years this thing will be off the charts. Could go three digits. Unreal!
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Aubert describes this wine as "One of the most mineral Montrachets made"! Such a pure and crisp wine, sweet notes of grapefruit, acacia, hazelnut. This is serious and wise, very ripe and yet still nice acidity. Ripeness gives it the sense of age. Oak notes on the finish.
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2/24/2024 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
Flawed bottle that felt advanced. (2118/3524)
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11/19/2023 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 96 Points
Rich and with good weight. Less defined than the best bottles though. 96-97
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11/19/2023 - hprphf wrote: 95 Points
Ye Paulee (Hao Noodle): 00689/3524, 00/04/08 trio. My favorite, beautiful acidity for a generally very ripe wine, large, composed white and yellow fruit at a graceful balance. Not really big, yet. 95+
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3/25/2022 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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7/9/2021 - fcxj wrote: flawed
Weak showing for this wine. Popcorn aromatics, but color is creeping into orange. This bottle needs to be drunk. (02580/3524)
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10/17/2020 - WIBA Likes this wine: 98 Points
My favorite of the line up. I guess the least DRC Monty like given it's freshness but I love it. Beautiful nose. most balanced with incredible length and richness but with uplifting acidity to not make it feel like you're drinking syrup. Needs time as well to open but a keeper
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10/19/2019 - fcxj wrote: 98 Points
Stellar. Simply love the evolution. Has the weight, acidity to go long distance. Wish I owned this. (1970/3524)
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4/15/2019 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 95 Points
Another wonderful experience of DRC Montrachet. Good year, bad year.....seems not very important.
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2/4/2019 - BradE wrote:
DRC Montrachet. February 2019.: A very good vintage, that for some reason I rated lower than my table mates. Likely its flighting with 07 and 01!
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8/24/2018 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 98 Points
My pop note says, "Flint, yellow fruit, pitched!" I'll say, it's that times 1000! This wine was the first opened, and the last sip, I think for everybody, 5 hours later! First, when I say flint, can you picture a flint perception that is juicy? That's about as good as I can describe the flinty, steely mineral perception that this Monty exuded. The yellow fruit was pitched, and pithy. I want to call it rich, but I think everpresent is a better word, as it seemed to take up all space. There was a tactile quality to the fruit, and a very positive ever so slight hint of something tropical.
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8/24/2018 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 99 Points
This wine is a mineralogist's dream. Just from a whiff of it, it smells like you're going to be drinking a salt lick (big aromatics - no swirling necessary). At least that's what it smells like after some airing out - at first it smelled like a salt mine + a sulfur mine. The palate is consistent. It comes across more solid than liquid to an extent I don't think I've ever experienced in any white Burgundy, though maybe in the occasional riesling; it has that salt-rimmed-tequila thing that some rieslings have, too. If you define the apex Burgundy vineyards as having the ability to aggregate the qualities of the not-quite-apex vineyards without diluting any of them, this qualifies: it has the acuity and precision of Chevalier (at its most precise) combined with the opulence of Batard (at its most opulent). The brassy color in the glass causes someone to remark that on pure sight you might think it's premoxed, but it's not. It does, however, have some of the buttered popcorn/candy corn that the Monty grand crus feature when they're at their ripest, which makes the rapier-like cut all the more remarkable. And it's just as cutting at room temperature. Poured first and finished last - it had enough torque you could get a whole lot out of a short sip and I figured (correctly) it would do nothing but get better and better the longer you could keep it in the glass, so I stretched it out. It didn't change vastly over time, except the first hour or so it took to kick the smack of sulfur, but it's pretty nice to spend a few hours with a daisy-cutter of a Montrachet you can bomb your palate with whenever you feel like it.
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8/24/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 97 Points
Great Older Wines at the Place to Drink Great Older Wines (Tampa FL): Lemon cured, baked apple, candied lemon peel with incredible density. Unfolding spice and layers of flavors comes across as rich and powerful, while showing a bright minerally finish. Acidity seems fairly moderate here, so I'd expect this is best to enjoy over the medium-term, not to cellar for a decade+.
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3/25/2017 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
DRC M 75-11. Nice flint and flower aromatics. Perfect palate balance between fruit and acidity. Very concentrated, persistent. Great early drinking window wine. (1998/3524)
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12/23/2016 - RaphaelMalago Likes this wine: 95 Points
DRC Montrachet 2008 - same color profile as the 08, the nose brings the ripe tropical fruits delicious taste and following with sone great freshness, vibrancy
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12/6/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 97 Points
Romanée-Conti v. La Tâche: [Magnum] Beautiful bouquet of white flowers, lavender, mint, and reduced Chardonnay butter. Immediately you want to compare this to Coche Corton Charlemagne, but it is softer and more floral. On the palate this feels weightless but then sings with flavour for three minutes. Yellow apple, ago, and pineapple. First experience with a DRC Montrachet at this is really quite something. The richness is just amazing.
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4/16/2016 - dcwino wrote: 100 Points
Weekend with Eddie - Part 2 (Bouley, NYC): I am so lucky and privilege to try this back to back. As big and expressive but slightly not as kinky as the day before. Expressive nose displaying perfectly ripe orchard yellow pit fruits, also a hint of mango, pineapple and guava, noticeable botrytis, spicy spices, honey and strong presence of mineral. Incredibly concentrated on par with the 09, incredibly layered, sensual dense yet airy, perfect amount of acidity and minerality and long sweet deeply toned spicy finish. Two great bottles back to back, not sure which one I prefer more but I figure it would be unfair not to garner at least one perfect score so this gets it.
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4/15/2016 - dcwino wrote: 99 Points
Weekend with Eddie - Part 1 (Marea, New York City): Absolutely stunning, incredibly exotic and perfectly hedonistic wine. Beautiful interplay of tropical yellow fruits, mostly pineapple, Coche like matchstick, exotic spices and botrytis. It strong reminds me Coche CC but a bit kinkier and more exotic with tropical yellow fruits and botrytis. Excellent concentration, quite dense yet air a la D’Yquem, beautifully layered fruits, good acidity and incredibly long exotic finish that ends with very sweet note. This certainly doesn’t fit the mold of classic Montrachet but I can’t complain. Perhaps the most hedonistic white Burgundy of my life.
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1/13/2016 - AHVinoFile Likes this wine: 96 Points
[IWFS-Vic DRC Montrachet, Various RSV & d'Yquem Dinner at Vue de Monde] Pale to medium pale straw color, slight golden tint. Ripe white peach grapefruit bouquet brimming with honeyed botrytis notes amidst mineral, nectarine, orange peel, pineapple, mango & fully absorbed oak. Medium full plus, deep, intense, quite dense & weighty with lots of mouth-coating extracts, seamlessly enmeshed with stone, citrus & tropical fruit flavors against a firm acidity backbone; plush without being overly opulent, powerful without going over the top; excellent transparency & immaculate poise. Long well-delineated finish. (96.5)
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12/27/2015 - Margauxguy wrote: 99 Points
A profound bottle for me. I have had a few DRC Montys, and never found them to my style. This was unbelievable, on the nose, spice, pear, white peach, apple, pineapple, apricot, caramel, an unbelievable cacophony of smells. In the mouth, huge, rich unctuous, bracing, yet balanced acidity. Sweetness, lush. This has changed my definition of great chardonney. I always said Chevalier was my favorite, not anymore.
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9/25/2015 - BradE wrote:
Nineteen vintages of DRC Montrachet: The 2008 was very, very good. Full, rich, but for me just a touch short on sophistication. A few had it in their top 5 of the night.
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9/18/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
The 2008 Domaine de la Romanée Conti Le Montrachet Grand Cru had more struck match than a box of Redheads. It breathed up to be the wine of the bracket the second time round. It was so rich and intense with sappy fruit that stained the palate. It oozed minerality on the finish and length of flavour was outrageous.
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6/19/2015 - Corgi wrote: 95 Points
Very rich in flavor, stays on palate for a long time. Balanced. Buttery and a little taste of banana. Stayed consistent throughout the night.
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10/9/2012 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Was no slouch but perhaps just a notch below the 04 and 07. It had an aroma of smoky minerals, spearmint, pure white peach and grilled nuts. It was dense and sweet, loaded with dry extract and finishing with chalky precision.
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8/11/2012 - CamWheeler Likes this wine: 98 Points
DRC Dinner 1 (Sydney, Australia): Explosive and quite incredible multi-dimensional aromas - honey and graphite, pear, pineapple, orange peel, vanilla, an elusive wisp of smoke and with time the nose took on an additional set of floral notes.
The intensity on the palate is at another level to any white wine I've tried previously, there is a richness that fills your mouth and yet it has the most stunning minerality and acidity that provided the wine with definition, drive and clarity.
The wine just got better and better the longer it was in the glass, I kept some for as long as I could resist throughout the evening and it just continued to reveal more layers every time I went back to it. I don't know what a wine like this will be like in 10 years time, I only know that I thought it was brilliant already.
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11/2/2011 - winelegends.net wrote: 97 Points
Absolut beeindruckend und faszinierend wie sich dieser Wein im Glas entwickelte.
Anfangs gerösteter Reis,Quittenaromen,über Honig bis man auf einmal das Gefühl hat vor einer Bäckerei zu stehen die gerade frisches Brot aus dem Ofen holt.
Dann leichter Butter, Vanille,Zitrus und Pfirsich.
Gut ausbalancierte Säure,herrliche Struktur inkl.langen eleganten Abgang.Grosser Montrachet.
For me greatest wine from 2008 DRC.
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5/18/2011 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
2008 Domaine De La Romanee-Conti Tasting (Beltramo's, Menlo Park Ca.): The most anticipated wine of the tasting for me. As soon as I put my nose in the glass I said..."are you kidding me???" "How rich is this nose?" The color was a brilliant metallic yellow, with a green tinge. The nose was HUGE...buttery and spiced tropical fruits, smoky butterscotch, exotic honey, lemons and minerals. In the mouth, the fruit is full, rich, sweet....yet this huge wall of minerals and spice hit you as well. The fruit is really sweet(some botrytis?), a lot sweeter than I thought it would be. So complex....toasted marshmallow, green apple skins, lemon honey butter, spice. To be honest...there was just a tad bit more buttery popcorn and sweet fruit to this than I wanted. But with all that wonderful fresh acidity and ton of minerality...I can see how that fruit needs to be that rich...so that in 10+ years this thing will be off the charts. Could go three digits. Unreal!
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11/15/2010 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points
Aubert describes this wine as "One of the most mineral Montrachets made"! Such a pure and crisp wine, sweet notes of grapefruit, acacia, hazelnut. This is serious and wise, very ripe and yet still nice acidity. Ripeness gives it the sense of age. Oak notes on the finish.
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