Bu face au Clos des Ducs. Le Clos est nettement plus évolué mais on ne sait pas si c’est la règle ou l’exception. Le Champans paraît encore assez jeune, primaire, avec assez de tannins qui se sont toutefois vraisemblablement assouplis par rapport à ce qu’on s’attend avec le millésime. N’a pas encore atteint le sommet de sa complexité je crois donc aucune presse à le boire.
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Two consistent bottles of this, very pleasant, open, accessible, straightforwardly pleasurable. Would agree with the 2019 note that there is not much power or weight here, a very soft and short wine. Fading red cherry. At least it’s resolved and integrated and is easy drinking. 91+
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gets 10 points extra for a decent, even a little enticing, nose. Quite floral. But then you get hit with a wall of coarse tannins, background hiding some fruit, but after 17 years, only a despot would assume this will ever come into balance. A poorly made wine, ridiculously over-extracted, par for the course with this Domaine. The Emperor and his clothes strikes again!!
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Marquis d'Angerville Tasting and Lunch (Restaurant Fitzgerald *, Rotterdam, NL): Very big vintage with lots of fruit, still needs more time but on the right path, sexy and spicy, has a bit of alcoholic heat, absolutely no excess extraction or rusticity, teeht staining tannins but retains a certain delicacy, very good resonance and length.
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2005 Volnay Premier Cru Tasting and Lunch (San Francisco): Ruby. An unappealing mix of fennel and brett on the nose. Oh my, what a mess with surmaturité (caramel and prune), some oxidation, and a dry, gritty finish. I have clicked it off as a flawed bottle, and I certainly hope that is the case. At any rate, out of balance, grossly disappointing, and clearly the worst wine of the tasting.
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(Marquis d'Angerville Volnay Champans) A wide nose but not so deep. This shows as a cross between the previous two wines but with considerable better length. Very nice indeed.
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12/31/2023 - Mazy Likes this wine: 91 Points
Bu face au Clos des Ducs. Le Clos est nettement plus évolué mais on ne sait pas si c’est la règle ou l’exception. Le Champans paraît encore assez jeune, primaire, avec assez de tannins qui se sont toutefois vraisemblablement assouplis par rapport à ce qu’on s’attend avec le millésime. N’a pas encore atteint le sommet de sa complexité je crois donc aucune presse à le boire.
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12/24/2023 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 91 Points
Two consistent bottles of this, very pleasant, open, accessible, straightforwardly pleasurable. Would agree with the 2019 note that there is not much power or weight here, a very soft and short wine. Fading red cherry. At least it’s resolved and integrated and is easy drinking. 91+
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12/31/2022 - felixp Does not like this wine: 80 Points
gets 10 points extra for a decent, even a little enticing, nose. Quite floral.
But then you get hit with a wall of coarse tannins, background hiding some fruit, but after 17 years, only a despot would assume this will ever come into balance.
A poorly made wine, ridiculously over-extracted, par for the course with this Domaine.
The Emperor and his clothes strikes again!!
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11/8/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 Points
Marquis d'Angerville Tasting and Lunch (Restaurant Fitzgerald *, Rotterdam, NL): Very big vintage with lots of fruit, still needs more time but on the right path, sexy and spicy, has a bit of alcoholic heat, absolutely no excess extraction or rusticity, teeht staining tannins but retains a certain delicacy, very good resonance and length.
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6/19/2022 - drwine2001 wrote: flawed
2005 Volnay Premier Cru Tasting and Lunch (San Francisco): Ruby. An unappealing mix of fennel and brett on the nose. Oh my, what a mess with surmaturité (caramel and prune), some oxidation, and a dry, gritty finish. I have clicked it off as a flawed bottle, and I certainly hope that is the case. At any rate, out of balance, grossly disappointing, and clearly the worst wine of the tasting.
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