Decanted an hour at a restaurant. At open this Wes pretty good and at one hour in the decanter it was also okay but then it really shut down or faded - hard to tell but would PNP and allow to warm but not decant next time. A-/?
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A lovely wine. Classic in style. Very lean and obviously from a ‘weaker year’. Feeling like it’s starting to past it’s peak. If you want big and lush wines this is not for you. Still enjoyable but drink up. I wouldn’t hold this much longer
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Crimson brick in color. Earthy & savory aromas of ripe tobacco leaves, reddish berries, hint of florals & underbrush. Very silky in the mouth showing sweet and tart plums, morello cherries, strong note of tobacco, good acidity and a long earthy finish.
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Très belle robe en cours d'évolution entre rubis et Vermillion.
Nez à l'aromatique remarquable aux arômes à la fois primaire, secondaire et tertiraire : cerise burlat, framboise, petits fruits de bois, bois noble bien intégré, minérale, terre léger
La bouche était selon moi à son apogée, à la fois tout en dentelle avec de la fraicheur, minéralité, des saveurs de fruits des bois, et une bonne longueur.
J+1 : Sous bois , sol mouillé , ronce d'une belle finesse
Un grand cru qui est à son apogée qui continuera à se développer sur des arômes tertiaires mais au détriment d'une matière en bouche qui risquera de trop se fondre.
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Decanted 2 hours. Some bricking starting to show in the color. This was really good. It really needs the air to shine but with the 2 hours of air this was showing a great mix of dark fruit, minerals, and elegantly expanding on the palate. Previous bottles have been slightly better with food vs. on their own as a bit more austere - but this bottle was really showing well both with and without food. Very nice. A-
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Nose of dried cranberry, wet rock, spice and a touch of tobacco. Light to medium body, medium plus acid, and light grip to the tannin. It’s a great wine but the fruit is slightly subdued at this point. A wine of nuance, not power. Acid and tannin give this a bit of a hard edge. Otherwise wonderful. Likely on the decline at this point.
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Our thanksgiving wine. Very floral nose, violets and some earthy notes. Youthful, lots of red fruit on the palate, cherries and raspberries, still very bright but starting to get some secondary compote elements. Light bodied, light on the palate, long finish with good acidity and balance.
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2nd bottle of the case. Slight run up on the cork. This took 2 hours to really open and at 2.5 hours was really showing it's stuff. A bit austere, with a nose that is great but the palate takes a lot of air to coax out, this is very 1998 and easily dismissed but with some time/air is very enjoyable for it's elegance and food-friendly style. A-
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PNP. Great nose of dark blue fruits and forest floor. On the palate it is pretty closed at open, and after about 45 minutes in the glass it was showing a bit more but in general pretty austere 1998 that is great on the nose but only good on the palate right now. A-?
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Brian's Birthday Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Nice - best of the four or five bottles I have had so far. This had a really pretty nose, full of perfumy florals, gentle earth, and a lovely lift of spice and quiet minerality, all drifting around. A core of sweet red fruit. Really attractive. The palate was a touch leaner than the nose suggested, but in a really stylish, sinewy way. Here, fine, firm tannins and beautifully integrated acidity framed strong, quietly intense flavours of darker cherries and berries, all underlined with a lithe minerally spine, full of stony inflections. I loved the definition and focus on this, it was clean, pure and effortlessly powerful, all the way into a long, linear finish. Youthful for its age, but drinking well now.
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Sunday lunch at mine (My place, Kent Street): Slight sour black cherry, forest floor, textured delicate tannins, ruby coloured, cloudy, opens in the glass with time, the fruit gains a little almost sweet caramel.
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From Coravin. Had a couple of glasses of this with rather gamey duck breast and puy lentils and it performed considerably better than it did the first time I tried it...Earth, leather, black cherry, a little mushroom, very pleasant...
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PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs -ruby core, mild-moderate bricking -glorious mature but not over-the-hill Burg aromatics of rich full faded cherry sweet forest floor -med acidity, med weight elegant but full earthy faint cherry remnants, still with some mildly dried out med/med- tannins and whisper of oak on the moderately long finish -fully mature, nose outshines the palate, no hurry
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From the 'Lost Cellar'. Another very satisfying bottle of this wine which is a clear cherry red colour with edge browning. The nose is complex with quite striking characters of dark cherry, strawberry, cinnamon and all-spice and elements of citrus closest to biter orange and cumquat. The palate is medium weight with a quite rich core of red fruit balanced by that citrus touch and some persistent slightly assertive tannins. This is a Burgundy of character and quality despite some of the angularity seen in the 98s.
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From a half-bottle. This had a complex nose of spices, mint and chocolate. On the palate there was good ripeness and length and medium acidity. Interestingly there was a slight chocolate flavour on the palate as well.
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Coravin fun - old new arrivals (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. On the nose caramel, leather, coffee, slightly spiritous note, raisins. On the palate contrarily it's a little sharp with nutmeg, caramel, raisins, spice and a little alcohol warmth on the finish. Travels long but a bit meh for me on this tasting.
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Popped and poured. Some bricking on the rim of the glass. Nose was a little muted but the palate was full bodied and well balanced with a good acid backbone. Long finish. I feel like this wine is still fresh will last even longer.
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A private tasting (Restaurant De Ertepeller, Papendrecht. NL): Tasted blind. Mature appearance, red core, sombre colour; deep and spicy and stemmy nose, warm; full-bodied and tannic palate, firm and powerful, not a lot of stuffing, but not without a certain elegance; mature finish, good length.
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This is now a bona fide mature wine, past its fruit and into earthy, mushroomy flavors. It still has that finessed profile it did when it was younger though, with a lean form and wispy, lacy tannins that are pretty much all melded in.
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From the "Lost Cellar' - Deep cherry red colour. This wine had a lovely nose of cherry, raspberry and strawberry with interesting rose, spice and earth touches. There was a fine palate of fruit with lift, interest and drive leading to a delicious touch of citrus and cinnamon on the finish. Probably a pointe at present but no signs of decline. Very fine for this vintage.
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This wine was absolutely stunning tonight. Drinking at peak. Beautiful color and clarity, intoxicatingly perfumed, great purity of fruit with a lovely blend of spice and light earthiness. Each sip was a progression of deep but very elegant fruit to a perfect acidity to blend with the duck confit and soft shell crab we had for our main courses. WOW!
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1st of 4. Mature, autumnal damp leaves, plum, leather. Good balance and good length. Drunk with ham hock gratin and was a lovely match for the salty ham. 4/5
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Color closer to brick reddish brown, definitely ready. It is past its best. Started opening up 45 min after pour, still fantastic. Hints of berries & spices, superb on the pallette. Spicy for sure, a charmer, better than I hoped
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Several steps behind the 2001 served alongside it. Good nose. The palate has wonderful depth with a good dose of tannins and earth. Lacked the beautiful texture and polish of the 2001. Probably better served on its own.
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From the "Lost Cellar". Cherry red with a touch of amber. Lovely nose initially with black cherries, red cherries, redcurrants, asian spice and earth. With time the spice became less pronounced and there was a touch of raisin in the fruit with a citrus finish - fascinating ! Palate mid-weight but Grand Cru intensity with great elegance and a fine finish. A complete and interesting wine albeit without the density or drive of the best.
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Dinner at Yan (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Enjoyable, but this is not one of the strongest Lambrays. Consistent with the bottle I had last year, I found this to be pretty good but not altogether great. It did start with a lovely nose again, with a warm waft of Morey spice alongside a touch of bramble, some funky earth and a little meatiness coming out alongside a core of dark cherries and plum aromas. Masculine yet gentle, this was your typical Clos des Lambrays bouquet – really nice stuff. The palate was a little weaker though. It had a delicious flavor profile of dark cherries and berries draped with a nice meaty earthiness on the midpalate and a warm flush of spice and mineral at the finish. Good balance too, with a real juicy freshness that I liked. However, the wine also showed up some of the weakness of the 1998 vintage. In terms of weight, it was clearly a Grand Cru, showing more breadth and depth than either of the two bottles of NSG 1er Cru Les St Georges (a vineyard oft mentioned as a candidate for elevation to Grand Cru status) that we had on the night. A bit of a contrast with the last bottle, which felt a bit light to me. On the other hand though, this also felt more rustic, lacking the clarity and cut that one would expect of a great Cote de Nuits Grand Cr, or even from one of the better vintages of Clos de Lambrays, so that the structure felt a bit muddied at points. Nevertheless though, a nice wine, in a good place now and drinking quite deliciously. I am not sure it has much more room to improve though.
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Medium reddish brown in color. Over about an 1 h in the glass, airy aromas of underbrush, soy sauce, licorice, dusty red cherries and raspberries and touch of asian spice. Sublime and balanced on the palate, shows silky red fruits, soy, medium acidity on the long mineral laden and spicy finish. Lovely showing.
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This is a real charmer, in an understated aristocratic sort of way. Well past its youth, at least for my bottles, which have clearly come from some damp cellar, to judge by the dilapidated labels. Savoury and succulent, which for me brings out a lip-smacking response to extract the best from the juicy tannins, which are quite prominent. To be picky, I am not sure it really makes the Grand Cru bracket, but it is most enjoyable. dg-
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Closed? Too young? Over the hill? Just not a great vintage? Not a great bottle? This is quite confusing. I've had this wine 3 times and while this wasn't disappointing it didn't sing, and it hasn't developed any nuances or elegance. Personally I'm not a fan of '98 RBs. 90 grudgingly.
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1998 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Cheng Hu Tien, Keong Saik Road, Singapore): Not perfect, but certainly a very good and really quite enjoyable wine – something I guess one could actually say about quite a few other Clos des Lambrays from lesser vintages. I really liked the nose with its deep aromas of sweet dark cherries and dark berry tones nestling amidst wilder aromas of bramble and spice and earth. Very nice. The palate had a nice purity to it, with high-toned cherry notes and more dark berry notes, with a slight dried-fruited edge to it, almost haw-flake-like flavours, all this pierced with soaring acidity – quite surprising given how all the other wines were not exactly markedly fresh or bright. Tannins were very fine too. This was an unusually pure, elegant expression of Clos des Lambrays, and I found it very enjoyable. It did take awhile to get going though, opening slowly to reams of Morey spice blooming out from amidst the dark fruit. Very pretty, and really quite good. My only issue was perhaps a lack of depth on the finish at first, but that too opened up significantly, taking on a long, juicy tail in time. This was quite the charmer, and starting to drink quite well at the moment.
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Unfortunally this wine was over its peak, there was nearly no fruit left, just a hint of the strawberries but most of all there was raisins, moss, earth, a nice forest floor. There was also a nice maturity tone but I had expected more of this wine.
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Ex-chateau bottle, brought it over from my time in France last September. Drinking perfectly with all the hard edges really rounded out. Just liquid satin on the palate with a hint of dustyness. Great floral aromatics but more spring flowers than the rose petals of Vosne-Romanee. Showed a bit of the difficulty of the vintage as the fruit struggled to show up but after about 30 minutes in the glass this was really singing.
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Opened alongside the '01, and while that comes across more meaty and dark fruited, this is much more floral and lighter in its fruit complexion, with a core of pure red berries and a developed savoury earthiness beneath. The tannin here feels more fine grained and there's a lovely silken texture that makes it very appealing to drink now.
Red with bricking around the rims. Slow o'd for 8 h. Aromas of red plums, red cherries, roasted meats, forest floor and wood spices make up a complex and expressive nose. A medium bodied palate follows with tart red plums, perfumy wood spice, wet earth and meat juices. This is driking nicely!
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Taste: Very silky medium body with tart medium+ acidity that is refreshing at the same time. There is a real elegance to the tones of wild roses, red florals, earth, wild spices, and fresh picked berries.
Overall: Some air was needed, but this turned into a real subtle beauty. There is a real sense of refinement on both the nose and palate. While it is drinking beautifully now, it will continue to go further and one wouldn't need to be in a rush to open it.
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Saturday with David White (Domaine Wine Storage & Sun Wah - Chicago, IL): Loved the character of this wine. Great red floral notes blended perfectly with sweet cherry, spices, some brown sugar, and sage. Great complexity with layers of subtle earth, truffle and dried florals. Lovely stuff that's drinking very well.
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Dusty, forest floor nose that I love in Lambrays is here. Really deep and mushroomy. The palate showed a roasted fruit quality that I wasn't totally expecting. Not like it was compromised, but the fruit was too round. There was a marked sweetness to the finish. Lacked depth, too. We drank it, it was decent, but that's all. I haven't had a ton of '98s, so I have no vintage pronouncements to make, I just liked this a bit less than other Lambrays I've had in the '95-'99 run recently.
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Medium burgundy red to blood red, lighter at the rim. Bright pinot nose. Smooth, somewhat sappy on the palate, with lightly dusty tannins and bit of acidity for balance. Drinking well after 30 minute decant.
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Dusty forest floor nose with a hint of bacon. Opened further after 30 minutes with black cherry and floral aromas. On the palate the firm tannins carry the fruit nicely finishing with a dose of lively acidity. Not the depth of fruit as the 99 but a good 98.
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Closed at first, but opened up pretty quickly. Dark coloured but light and fruity; slightly dry finish. Not as well belanced as the 99 had recently, but very good nonetheless. 90.
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light ruby; red fruits, particularly berries dominated aroma, not pronounced enough; red fruits, wet leaves with touch of leather on the palate; medium finish
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Sous commanderie d'Edmonton 2010 Spring Dinner (Jack's Grill, Edmonton): Eight bottles opened, all were extremely consistent. In comparison to the bottle opened one month ago, at this time for whatever reason the Lambray showed significantly better. Far more complexity on the nose. Beautiful red fruit on the palate with soft tannins, very nice balance and reasonable finish. When I last tasted this wine I thought that it was likely past its prime and starting to fade, however, I suspect that the previous bottle misrepresented this wine which is very good and I believe likely has a fair bit of life left in it.
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Jack's Grill tasting dinner: Nice ruby color. On the nose nice red to purple fruit on the nose, not a lot of complexity. Nice fruit on palate reasonable balance but a little bit soft rounded. A pleasant but not spectacular wine, however matched beautifully with lamb dish to be served at Spring Tastevin dinner. I suspect that this wine is at its peak and unlikely to improve with time.
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Dark ruby color. Very little evolution there. The nose is packed with cherry jam and raspberry combined to strong earthy flavours with an autumn hint. In the mouth the wine is still a bit tight, but there is no hints of unpleasant astringency. The powerull tanins are very strongly build and will require more time to be perfectly rounded. Fruit concentration is amazing. The distinctive minerality brings balance and enhance the wine complexity. To revisit in 3/5 years.
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This is gorgeous wine…fragrant, pure and earthy with great shape and proportion. It doesn’t stand out in the crowd yet satiates with all its ethereal tones and superb drinkability.
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A little backward nose in the beginning, but developing very nively. After an hour this really opens up: very good indeed. It shows once again that 1998 is a much better year for Bourgogne than generally presumed.
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This was the wine that was the best drink of the flight, aromas of camphor, red currant, coffe and earth. It was very nicely proportioned in the mouth with good detail and a spicy mouth aroma once swallowed.
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Complex and giving from an aromatic perspective offering smells of pristine red fruits, minerals, smoked meats and earth. There is good detail in the mouth with crunchy red fruit flavours and plenty of earth. The structural elements and linear nature of the palate suggests a wine that could do with a bit more bottle age but it is a wonderful drink now with roasted breast of pigeon.
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Simple but sophisticated. The only real sign of age is that the fruit complexion is, well, sorta burgundy, not the radiance of a wine just released. Other than that, this is a young'un, the aromas mild and floral. Where it shows its breed is in the finesse of the tannin and its plush palate presence. Softly knit but also sappy and sticky. This is practically Musignyesque in elegance.
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Again opened for Rick's B-day (celebrated late) and this wine did not disappoint! Opened, tasted, vacvined and began drinking 24 hours later. I only hope I can stay away from the last 4 I have for several years.
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Drunk alongside the Fourrier CSJ 2003, the two wines were much more similar to each other than one would expect. This was leaner than the Fourrier and it had more grip. Both were richly fruity, red fruity, with spice and minerals - this is already lovely and I'm not sure that it's going to improve much
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popped and poured at SSam bar- not the best glass for burg. earthy, peppery nose with cherries and raspberries. Lightweight, elegant and persistent palate with more pepper and baking spices with pure cherry fruit. wonderful earthiness as well. terrific wine with loads of life left.
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Very nice nose of earth and dark fruits...just beginning to develop some secondary flavors but with a very nice core of fruit that hangs on the palate. Look for this to improve over the next 15 years.
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drinking extremely well, although we did decant it for about an hour before drinking. Tasted even better at the end suggesting that this wine is still not anywhere near peak. Drank with Wilhelms and Meyers at Rick's B-day party.
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Refined, black cherry and tobacco, balanced, classy oak, but it's all very much in the background at the moment - very nice, but I'm sure there's more to come
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3/16/2024 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 96 Points
Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, ripe red fruits, spices, toast. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin.
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11/19/2023 - hprphf wrote: 92 Points
Ye Paulee (Hao Noodle): Blind. Earthy with sweet dark fruit. 92
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8/21/2023 - MC wrote:
Decanted an hour at a restaurant. At open this Wes pretty good and at one hour in the decanter it was also okay but then it really shut down or faded - hard to tell but would PNP and allow to warm but not decant next time. A-/?
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3/11/2023 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 90 Points
A lovely wine. Classic in style. Very lean and obviously from a ‘weaker year’. Feeling like it’s starting to past it’s peak. If you want big and lush wines this is not for you. Still enjoyable but drink up. I wouldn’t hold this much longer
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10/29/2022 - devraj Likes this wine: 92 Points
Crimson brick in color. Earthy & savory aromas of ripe tobacco leaves, reddish berries, hint of florals & underbrush. Very silky in the mouth showing sweet and tart plums, morello cherries, strong note of tobacco, good acidity and a long earthy finish.
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9/8/2022 - François1986 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Très belle robe en cours d'évolution entre rubis et Vermillion.
Nez à l'aromatique remarquable aux arômes à la fois primaire, secondaire et tertiraire : cerise burlat, framboise, petits fruits de bois, bois noble bien intégré, minérale, terre léger
La bouche était selon moi à son apogée, à la fois tout en dentelle avec de la fraicheur, minéralité, des saveurs de fruits des bois, et une bonne longueur.
J+1 : Sous bois , sol mouillé , ronce d'une belle finesse
Un grand cru qui est à son apogée qui continuera à se développer sur des arômes tertiaires mais au détriment d'une matière en bouche qui risquera de trop se fondre.
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2/7/2021 - MC wrote:
Decanted 2 hours. Some bricking starting to show in the color. This was really good. It really needs the air to shine but with the 2 hours of air this was showing a great mix of dark fruit, minerals, and elegantly expanding on the palate. Previous bottles have been slightly better with food vs. on their own as a bit more austere - but this bottle was really showing well both with and without food. Very nice. A-
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1/31/2021 - ONEFIVE Likes this wine:
Nose of dried cranberry, wet rock, spice and a touch of tobacco. Light to medium body, medium plus acid, and light grip to the tannin. It’s a great wine but the fruit is slightly subdued at this point. A wine of nuance, not power. Acid and tannin give this a bit of a hard edge. Otherwise wonderful. Likely on the decline at this point.
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11/26/2020 - suilesor25 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Our thanksgiving wine. Very floral nose, violets and some earthy notes. Youthful, lots of red fruit on the palate, cherries and raspberries, still very bright but starting to get some secondary compote elements. Light bodied, light on the palate, long finish with good acidity and balance.
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2/3/2020 - MC wrote:
2nd bottle of the case. Slight run up on the cork. This took 2 hours to really open and at 2.5 hours was really showing it's stuff. A bit austere, with a nose that is great but the palate takes a lot of air to coax out, this is very 1998 and easily dismissed but with some time/air is very enjoyable for it's elegance and food-friendly style. A-
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1/25/2020 - MC wrote:
PNP. Great nose of dark blue fruits and forest floor. On the palate it is pretty closed at open, and after about 45 minutes in the glass it was showing a bit more but in general pretty austere 1998 that is great on the nose but only good on the palate right now. A-?
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11/9/2019 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Brian's Birthday Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Nice - best of the four or five bottles I have had so far. This had a really pretty nose, full of perfumy florals, gentle earth, and a lovely lift of spice and quiet minerality, all drifting around. A core of sweet red fruit. Really attractive. The palate was a touch leaner than the nose suggested, but in a really stylish, sinewy way. Here, fine, firm tannins and beautifully integrated acidity framed strong, quietly intense flavours of darker cherries and berries, all underlined with a lithe minerally spine, full of stony inflections. I loved the definition and focus on this, it was clean, pure and effortlessly powerful, all the way into a long, linear finish. Youthful for its age, but drinking well now.
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9/14/2019 - larsth wrote: 93 Points
Consistent note - mature wine at peak with sois bois, earthy and mushroom flavours. Balanced and elegant. Very nice.
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8/4/2019 - chatters wrote:
Sunday lunch at mine (My place, Kent Street): Slight sour black cherry, forest floor, textured delicate tannins, ruby coloured, cloudy, opens in the glass with time, the fruit gains a little almost sweet caramel.
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4/3/2019 - devraj Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dark red fruits, with savory and sweet dark plums and cherries with graphite and forest-floor.
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2/14/2019 - chatters wrote:
From Coravin. Had a couple of glasses of this with rather gamey duck breast and puy lentils and it performed considerably better than it did the first time I tried it...Earth, leather, black cherry, a little mushroom, very pleasant...
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2/14/2019 - Cote d'Or wrote:
PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs
-ruby core, mild-moderate bricking
-glorious mature but not over-the-hill Burg aromatics of rich full faded cherry sweet forest floor
-med acidity, med weight elegant but full earthy faint cherry remnants, still with some mildly dried out med/med- tannins and whisper of oak on the moderately long finish
-fully mature, nose outshines the palate, no hurry
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1/7/2019 - drjb Likes this wine: 93 Points
From the 'Lost Cellar'. Another very satisfying bottle of this wine which is a clear cherry red colour with edge browning. The nose is complex with quite striking characters of dark cherry, strawberry, cinnamon and all-spice and elements of citrus closest to biter orange and cumquat. The palate is medium weight with a quite rich core of red fruit balanced by that citrus touch and some persistent slightly assertive tannins. This is a Burgundy of character and quality despite some of the angularity seen in the 98s.
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10/15/2018 - cliftonng Likes this wine: 93 Points
From a half-bottle. This had a complex nose of spices, mint and chocolate. On the palate there was good ripeness and length and medium acidity. Interestingly there was a slight chocolate flavour on the palate as well.
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8/1/2018 - chatters wrote:
Coravin fun - old new arrivals (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. On the nose caramel, leather, coffee, slightly spiritous note, raisins. On the palate contrarily it's a little sharp with nutmeg, caramel, raisins, spice and a little alcohol warmth on the finish. Travels long but a bit meh for me on this tasting.
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6/17/2018 - larsth wrote: 93 Points
Fully agree with some other recent tasters - this is now mature at peak with sois bois, earthy and mushroom flavours. Balanced and elegant.
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5/20/2018 - corktaint Likes this wine: 92 Points
Popped and poured. Some bricking on the rim of the glass. Nose was a little muted but the palate was full bodied and well balanced with a good acid backbone. Long finish. I feel like this wine is still fresh will last even longer.
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3/18/2018 - Dehrmann Likes this wine: 90 Points
drank before 03 which showed much better
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2/26/2018 - dvansteenderen Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tasted blind. Pirate wine in this Chambolle-Musigny tasting. Not identified as such. Very classy however, but not a great Grand Cru...
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2/26/2018 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points
A private tasting (Restaurant De Ertepeller, Papendrecht. NL): Tasted blind. Mature appearance, red core, sombre colour; deep and spicy and stemmy nose, warm; full-bodied and tannic palate, firm and powerful, not a lot of stuffing, but not without a certain elegance; mature finish, good length.
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1/18/2018 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Very spicy, floral nose. There's some earth and crunchy red fruits. It is mid-weight, nicely balanced and drinking very well right now.
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11/29/2017 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is now a bona fide mature wine, past its fruit and into earthy, mushroomy flavors. It still has that finessed profile it did when it was younger though, with a lean form and wispy, lacy tannins that are pretty much all melded in.
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7/31/2017 - drjb Likes this wine: 93 Points
From the "Lost Cellar' - Deep cherry red colour. This wine had a lovely nose of cherry, raspberry and strawberry with interesting rose, spice and earth touches. There was a fine palate of fruit with lift, interest and drive leading to a delicious touch of citrus and cinnamon on the finish. Probably a pointe at present but no signs of decline. Very fine for this vintage.
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6/18/2017 - chbeaumont wrote: 90 Points
Dark; stolid, gruff nose; more showing on the palate, old leather, good depth & weight, firm. Lacks the flair of a recent '02
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6/17/2017 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 91 Points
Wine-Pages Glasgow Festival of Wine Post Offline (The Western Club, Glasgow): Slightly murky, slightly stinky, earthy sous bois on the nose.
Silky palate. Very poised, though slightly more of a handsome masculinity than a femine elegance. A very pleasing wine.
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6/7/2017 - bankermd wrote: 95 Points
This wine was absolutely stunning tonight. Drinking at peak. Beautiful color and clarity, intoxicatingly perfumed, great purity of fruit with a lovely blend of spice and light earthiness. Each sip was a progression of deep but very elegant fruit to a perfect acidity to blend with the duck confit and soft shell crab we had for our main courses. WOW!
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5/2/2017 - nstow wrote: 90 Points
1st of 4. Mature, autumnal damp leaves, plum, leather. Good balance and good length. Drunk with ham hock gratin and was a lovely match for the salty ham. 4/5
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2/28/2017 - WinoRick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Silky & delicious.
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6/27/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Monday Cellar Visits in Burgundy - Clos de Tart, Lambrays, Bonneau du Martray and Perrot-Minot (Cote d'Or): Tasting at the domaine. Served to us blind. Seemed very firm and structured with slightly backward red and black fruit, making me think this from 1996. Good balance. Good overall.
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1/16/2016 - burgundian Likes this wine: 93 Points
Color closer to brick reddish brown, definitely ready. It is past its best. Started opening up 45 min after pour, still fantastic. Hints of berries & spices, superb on the pallette. Spicy for sure, a charmer, better than I hoped
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11/25/2015 - JOsgood wrote: 92 Points
Several steps behind the 2001 served alongside it. Good nose. The palate has wonderful depth with a good dose of tannins and earth. Lacked the beautiful texture and polish of the 2001. Probably better served on its own.
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11/10/2015 - drjb Likes this wine: 93 Points
From the "Lost Cellar". Cherry red with a touch of amber. Lovely nose initially with black cherries, red cherries, redcurrants, asian spice and earth. With time the spice became less pronounced and there was a touch of raisin in the fruit with a citrus finish - fascinating ! Palate mid-weight but Grand Cru intensity with great elegance and a fine finish. A complete and interesting wine albeit without the density or drive of the best.
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11/7/2015 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Dinner at Yan (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Enjoyable, but this is not one of the strongest Lambrays. Consistent with the bottle I had last year, I found this to be pretty good but not altogether great. It did start with a lovely nose again, with a warm waft of Morey spice alongside a touch of bramble, some funky earth and a little meatiness coming out alongside a core of dark cherries and plum aromas. Masculine yet gentle, this was your typical Clos des Lambrays bouquet – really nice stuff. The palate was a little weaker though. It had a delicious flavor profile of dark cherries and berries draped with a nice meaty earthiness on the midpalate and a warm flush of spice and mineral at the finish. Good balance too, with a real juicy freshness that I liked. However, the wine also showed up some of the weakness of the 1998 vintage. In terms of weight, it was clearly a Grand Cru, showing more breadth and depth than either of the two bottles of NSG 1er Cru Les St Georges (a vineyard oft mentioned as a candidate for elevation to Grand Cru status) that we had on the night. A bit of a contrast with the last bottle, which felt a bit light to me. On the other hand though, this also felt more rustic, lacking the clarity and cut that one would expect of a great Cote de Nuits Grand Cr, or even from one of the better vintages of Clos de Lambrays, so that the structure felt a bit muddied at points. Nevertheless though, a nice wine, in a good place now and drinking quite deliciously. I am not sure it has much more room to improve though.
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10/8/2015 - chbeaumont wrote: 90 Points
This is a leaner, tougher wine. Leathery, some depth & a tangy presence. V. long. Better with a double decant?
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12/6/2014 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium reddish brown in color. Over about an 1 h in the glass, airy aromas of underbrush, soy sauce, licorice, dusty red cherries and raspberries and touch of asian spice. Sublime and balanced on the palate, shows silky red fruits, soy, medium acidity on the long mineral laden and spicy finish. Lovely showing.
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9/21/2014 - Jeff W wrote:
This is a real charmer, in an understated aristocratic sort of way. Well past its youth, at least for my bottles, which have clearly come from some damp cellar, to judge by the dilapidated labels. Savoury and succulent, which for me brings out a lip-smacking response to extract the best from the juicy tannins, which are quite prominent. To be picky, I am not sure it really makes the Grand Cru bracket, but it is most enjoyable. dg-
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6/7/2014 - essconsults wrote: 90 Points
Closed? Too young? Over the hill? Just not a great vintage? Not a great bottle? This is quite confusing. I've had this wine 3 times and while this wasn't disappointing it didn't sing, and it hasn't developed any nuances or elegance. Personally I'm not a fan of '98 RBs. 90 grudgingly.
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4/30/2014 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
1998 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Cheng Hu Tien, Keong Saik Road, Singapore): Not perfect, but certainly a very good and really quite enjoyable wine – something I guess one could actually say about quite a few other Clos des Lambrays from lesser vintages. I really liked the nose with its deep aromas of sweet dark cherries and dark berry tones nestling amidst wilder aromas of bramble and spice and earth. Very nice. The palate had a nice purity to it, with high-toned cherry notes and more dark berry notes, with a slight dried-fruited edge to it, almost haw-flake-like flavours, all this pierced with soaring acidity – quite surprising given how all the other wines were not exactly markedly fresh or bright. Tannins were very fine too. This was an unusually pure, elegant expression of Clos des Lambrays, and I found it very enjoyable. It did take awhile to get going though, opening slowly to reams of Morey spice blooming out from amidst the dark fruit. Very pretty, and really quite good. My only issue was perhaps a lack of depth on the finish at first, but that too opened up significantly, taking on a long, juicy tail in time. This was quite the charmer, and starting to drink quite well at the moment.
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3/22/2014 - MWiking wrote: 87 Points
Unfortunally this wine was over its peak, there was nearly no fruit left, just a hint of the strawberries but most of all there was raisins, moss, earth, a nice forest floor. There was also a nice maturity tone but I had expected more of this wine.
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3/13/2014 - drwine2001 wrote:
Clos des Lambrays-Fifteen Vintages (2011 to 1919) at 2014 La Paulee; 3/13/2014-3/15/2014 (Various Locations, San Francisco): Same shade as the '99. Fragrant and full of pine needles. Lusher attack than the younger wine with ripe red/black fruit entry but grippy, astringent, dry feel at the end from wood tannins. Less complex and more awkward than the 1999-bigger but not better.
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1/19/2014 - rnellans wrote: 94 Points
Nice nose with some secondary. Nice structure with some dusty tannins. Loved the palate. Still good fruit. Needs more time in the cellar.
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6/18/2013 - Pikkle wrote: 93 Points
Ex-chateau bottle, brought it over from my time in France last September. Drinking perfectly with all the hard edges really rounded out. Just liquid satin on the palate with a hint of dustyness. Great floral aromatics but more spring flowers than the rose petals of Vosne-Romanee. Showed a bit of the difficulty of the vintage as the fruit struggled to show up but after about 30 minutes in the glass this was really singing.
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3/28/2013 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Opened alongside the '01, and while that comes across more meaty and dark fruited, this is much more floral and lighter in its fruit complexion, with a core of pure red berries and a developed savoury earthiness beneath. The tannin here feels more fine grained and there's a lovely silken texture that makes it very appealing to drink now.
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3/3/2013 - devraj Likes this wine: 92 Points
Red with bricking around the rims. Slow o'd for 8 h. Aromas of red plums, red cherries, roasted meats, forest floor and wood spices make up a complex and expressive nose. A medium bodied palate follows with tart red plums, perfumy wood spice, wet earth and meat juices. This is driking nicely!
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1/12/2013 - KeithAkers wrote: 93 Points
David White comes to town (Domaine Wine Storage and Sun-Wah BBQ, Chicago IL): Nose: This was a little subdued at first, but blossomed into a gorgeous lambrays with perfumed tones of walking through a rose patch, red fruits, cherries, fresh picked berries, and some wild spices.
Taste: Very silky medium body with tart medium+ acidity that is refreshing at the same time. There is a real elegance to the tones of wild roses, red florals, earth, wild spices, and fresh picked berries.
Overall: Some air was needed, but this turned into a real subtle beauty. There is a real sense of refinement on both the nose and palate. While it is drinking beautifully now, it will continue to go further and one wouldn't need to be in a rush to open it.
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1/12/2013 - tooch wrote: 93 Points
Saturday with David White (Domaine Wine Storage & Sun Wah - Chicago, IL): Loved the character of this wine. Great red floral notes blended perfectly with sweet cherry, spices, some brown sugar, and sage. Great complexity with layers of subtle earth, truffle and dried florals. Lovely stuff that's drinking very well.
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12/30/2012 - decaturwinedude Likes this wine: 89 Points
Dusty, forest floor nose that I love in Lambrays is here. Really deep and mushroomy. The palate showed a roasted fruit quality that I wasn't totally expecting. Not like it was compromised, but the fruit was too round. There was a marked sweetness to the finish. Lacked depth, too. We drank it, it was decent, but that's all. I haven't had a ton of '98s, so I have no vintage pronouncements to make, I just liked this a bit less than other Lambrays I've had in the '95-'99 run recently.
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7/12/2012 - tastevin-seattle wrote:
not ready yet. lots of promise.
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8/14/2011 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 88 Points
A private tasting and dinner (Leiden): Like the Mugnier Bonnes Mares 1998 fully mature, but more life to it. Not a great bottle.
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5/22/2011 - ArtF wrote: 92 Points
Medium burgundy red to blood red, lighter at the rim. Bright pinot nose. Smooth, somewhat sappy on the palate, with lightly dusty tannins and bit of acidity for balance. Drinking well after 30 minute decant.
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5/7/2011 - BurgFixx Likes this wine: 91 Points
Dusty forest floor nose with a hint of bacon. Opened further after 30 minutes with black cherry and floral aromas. On the palate the firm tannins carry the fruit nicely finishing with a dose of lively acidity. Not the depth of fruit as the 99 but a good 98.
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5/1/2011 - rpenn77 wrote: 94 Points
Excellent rich pinot noir. Cherry notes, great finish.
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9/22/2010 - Burgfreak wrote:
Closed at first, but opened up pretty quickly. Dark coloured but light and fruity; slightly dry finish. Not as well belanced as the 99 had recently, but very good nonetheless. 90.
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8/22/2010 - burgburgburg wrote: 89 Points
light ruby; red fruits, particularly berries dominated aroma, not pronounced enough; red fruits, wet leaves with touch of leather on the palate; medium finish
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4/22/2010 - DWG wrote: 90 Points
Sous commanderie d'Edmonton 2010 Spring Dinner (Jack's Grill, Edmonton): Eight bottles opened, all were extremely consistent. In comparison to the bottle opened one month ago, at this time for whatever reason the Lambray showed significantly better. Far more complexity on the nose. Beautiful red fruit on the palate with soft tannins, very nice balance and reasonable finish. When I last tasted this wine I thought that it was likely past its prime and starting to fade, however, I suspect that the previous bottle misrepresented this wine which is very good and I believe likely has a fair bit of life left in it.
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3/10/2010 - DWG wrote: 85 Points
Jack's Grill tasting dinner: Nice ruby color. On the nose nice red to purple fruit on the nose, not a lot of complexity. Nice fruit on palate reasonable balance but a little bit soft rounded. A pleasant but not spectacular wine, however matched beautifully with lamb dish to be served at Spring Tastevin dinner. I suspect that this wine is at its peak and unlikely to improve with time.
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3/9/2010 - winenutnyc wrote:
fantastic- drinking beautifully right now- return to the good lambrays
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12/30/2009 - John Nezlek wrote: 93 Points
Part of a dinner out -- $125 off the menu. Very impressive. Very flavorful. Just a beautiful wine. I guess it could get better, but it was fine now.
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12/25/2009 - Geoffrey Carter wrote: 88 Points
Not the best bottle I have had. Not bad, but it just wasn't coming together.
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11/2/2009 - jpijg wrote: 92 Points
Dark ruby color. Very little evolution there. The nose is packed with cherry jam and raspberry combined to strong earthy flavours with an autumn hint. In the mouth the wine is still a bit tight, but there is no hints of unpleasant astringency. The powerull tanins are very strongly build and will require more time to be perfectly rounded.
Fruit concentration is amazing. The distinctive minerality brings balance and enhance the wine complexity.
To revisit in 3/5 years.
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9/19/2009 - MauriceE wrote: 93 Points
This was outstanding again: very fine nose of red fruit. Even more impressive than last time. A delight on the palate, very good balance. Lovely.
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9/9/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This is gorgeous wine…fragrant, pure and earthy with great shape and proportion. It doesn’t stand out in the crowd yet satiates with all its ethereal tones and superb drinkability.
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7/11/2009 - MauriceE wrote: 93 Points
A little backward nose in the beginning, but developing very nively. After an hour this really opens up: very good indeed. It shows once again that 1998 is a much better year for Bourgogne than generally presumed.
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3/9/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This was the wine that was the best drink of the flight, aromas of camphor, red currant, coffe and earth. It was very nicely proportioned in the mouth with good detail and a spicy mouth aroma once swallowed.
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1/8/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Complex and giving from an aromatic perspective offering smells of pristine red fruits, minerals, smoked meats and earth. There is good detail in the mouth with crunchy red fruit flavours and plenty of earth. The structural elements and linear nature of the palate suggests a wine that could do with a bit more bottle age but it is a wonderful drink now with roasted breast of pigeon.
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1/6/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points
Simple but sophisticated. The only real sign of age is that the fruit complexion is, well, sorta burgundy, not the radiance of a wine just released. Other than that, this is a young'un, the aromas mild and floral. Where it shows its breed is in the finesse of the tannin and its plush palate presence. Softly knit but also sappy and sticky. This is practically Musignyesque in elegance.
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9/22/2008 - etirer wrote: 93 Points
Again opened for Rick's B-day (celebrated late) and this wine did not disappoint! Opened, tasted, vacvined and began drinking 24 hours later. I only hope I can stay away from the last 4 I have for several years.
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6/2/2008 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Drunk alongside the Fourrier CSJ 2003, the two wines were much more similar to each other than one would expect. This was leaner than the Fourrier and it had more grip. Both were richly fruity, red fruity, with spice and minerals - this is already lovely and I'm not sure that it's going to improve much
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9/14/2007 - winenutnyc wrote:
popped and poured at SSam bar- not the best glass for burg. earthy, peppery nose with cherries and raspberries. Lightweight, elegant and persistent palate with more pepper and baking spices with pure cherry fruit. wonderful earthiness as well. terrific wine with loads of life left.
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10/21/2006 - Alpine wrote: 93 Points
Very nice nose of earth and dark fruits...just beginning to develop some secondary flavors but with a very nice core of fruit that hangs on the palate. Look for this to improve over the next 15 years.
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8/16/2006 - etirer wrote: 94 Points
drinking extremely well, although we did decant it for about an hour before drinking. Tasted even better at the end suggesting that this wine is still not anywhere near peak. Drank with Wilhelms and Meyers at Rick's B-day party.
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1/6/2006 - Chuck Miller wrote: 92 Points
Firm tannins and good structure, hold.
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11/12/2005 - Rupert wrote: 89 Points
Refined, black cherry and tobacco, balanced, classy oak, but it's all very much in the background at the moment - very nice, but I'm sure there's more to come
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