1996 Domaine Chandon de Briailles Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile des Vergelesses

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  6/6/2021 - lightning wrote:

  Smelled tired with unattractive dried prune, the palate was waifish, shrill acidity (the hallmark of 1996?), thin and without much fruit left. Further air didn't improve things, with the acid continuing to stick out.
  
  From a bottle alleged to have excellent provenance, professional cellared and through the official importer at the time. Clean cork, although weak. Don't think there were any faults with the bottle. Pretty disappointing given the producer and the great Ile des Vergelesses vineyard.

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  1/10/2021 - cct wrote: 93 Points

  A lovely, mature nose of undergrowth, red licorice, red pinot fruit, and violet. It's graceful, yet deep and intense on the palate with more of the same. It comes across as power carried by a near weightless frame with a cashmere like texture. Drinking at absolute peak. Very long on back end. An understated beautiful wine. Delicious.

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  6/24/2020 - jmoon Likes this wine: 89 Points

  A bit thin on opening but fattened after an hour to be an enjoyable soft lovely burg

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  8/11/2017 - Vinomark wrote: 91 Points

  Has come around nicely with aging and nice sappy, elegant red fruited Burg.

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  7/19/2015 - pjaines Likes this wine:

  This is a proper grown-ups wine - so much refinement, complexity and less-is-more elegance. Very fined boned but the years have given this a touch of meaty hung-game and funky cherry on the nose - there is a lurking sweetness on the nose that comes up on the palate as acidic and tarte - they work well together. Needs food (a nice fatty duck would be brilliant) as the acidity really starts to show after 2 hours.
  
  As a side note I drank from both a Zalto Burgundy glass and a Spiegelau Burgundy glass - the Zalto really accentuated the game and perfume, whereas the Spiegelau brought out the fruit.

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