1988 Domaine René Engel Clos Vougeot

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  9/23/2021 - hungrybram Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Kaleidoscopic autumnal nose, beautiful. Palate is fully open, showing gentle dried red fruits, mints, secondary flavors - all presented in the elegance and texture of Rene Engel. Amazing stuff, as good as burgundy can get and definitely better than 99.99% of Clos Vougeots in the market

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  1/12/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points

  RE dinner. Towards the ripe end of spectrum. (1097/6000)

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  3/11/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points

  Parisian Escape; 3/10/2017-3/12/2017: Well this is super alive and vibrant. Serious punch of red cherry. This lead to a spirited debate regarding the Vosne-Clos-Vougeot boarder, and you can definitely appreciate a lot of vosne yeast and spice here. Young and fresh with a lot of cranberry. Great freshness and well-integrated acidity. Pure and concentrated cranberry throughout. Young, could have been confused for a '97 or good '96.

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  5/19/2016 - justburg wrote: 98 Points

  Rene Engel dinner at Les Amis. My wine of the year so far, this was a brilliantly produced wine. Very pure ruby red, vibrant but no bricking at all. In fact, this showed so young I thought this was one of the GEs. An absolutely sensational wild nose of Arabic spice, freshly plucked wild blueberries, strawberry jam, red kiwi, white truffle, scorched earth, delicate smoke and new leather. This was an ethereal wine - there was purity of fruit, tannin and acid, rusticity yet the wine maintained an element of elegance and purity. The palate was tremendously complex and long, almost Musigny like in terms of the elegance yet with the firmness and structure of a good Chambertin. This was such a wild and exotic wine, with copious layers of red and blue fruit, truffle, brown sugar, new leather and cigar box. What was amazing about this wine was that each time I visited it, there were different characteristics present and I obviously wouldn't be able to remember all, but at each stage, I experienced the wildness, the spice, the complexity, the elegance and the never ending finish of pure Pinot fruit. In my mind, this is the perfect representation of Burgundy at its utmost peak, a defining moment in appreciating the very best of Rene Engel.

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  2/18/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Light red, tawny rim. All pungent anise and soil-could not be mistaken for anything but a mature Burgundy. Very '88 in its uncompromisingly lean focus. The antithesis of a fruit bomb. Drink over the short term before it becomes attenuated.

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