Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 88.8 points

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    3/17/2022 - wrote:

    Quite dark color. Cherries mixed with earth overlayed by present but not overwhelming forest floor aromas. - some oak - all lacking a certain finesse and suggesting an imposing if not rustic palate to come. A little more than medium weight on the palate, with good depth of complex fruit on the darker side of the red spectrum. Very Morey in its flavors. The oak noticeable still. Some gentle sousbois. The fruit sweetened up over an hour. Fine grained tannins - not yet completely resolved. Pretty forthright wine. Though not without interest, it fails to deliver all the detail you would hope for given that Ruchots is surely the finest premier cru in Morey. Very good but not better, which it probably should be given the terroir and vintage. Bought on release.

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    1/20/2013 - Likes this wine: 90 Points

    Started quite tart so decanted and drunk an hour or so later. Pleasant, quite full, well balanced, but, I suspect, on the way down now.

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    9/4/2007 - wrote: 90 Points

    Ready to drink, this medium bodied wine was rich with fruit backed by a nice beam of cherry. The tannins are fully resolved. What is really compelling about this wine is how rich and silky smooth it is. A terrific pour that is ready to drink now.

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    1/9/2005 - wrote: 89 Points

    My first time trying this wine, and it did not disapoint. Sweet, slightly tart cherry fruit dominated with a beautiful background of smoky underbrush, spice, and graphite. A wine that I would have been satisfied just smelling through the night! My only knock would be that it was a little dusty on the finish, but overall was a very good wine.

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  • By Lyle Fass
    7/30/2006, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Frederick Magnien Morey-St-Denis 1er Cru "Les Ruchottes") I am not a big Magnien fan but always love this bottling from him. I bought three bottles of this and this was my last. Loved the first two but have not had it since release. This was just as I remembered but easily the best showing of the three bottles. Great nose of exotic spices, cinnamon, wet earth, some sweet greens (nettles?), and wonderful floral aromas. Great nose. Mature and no sign of any over-oaking. Some other bottles from Magnien that I have tried have had too much oak. This had nary the slightest hint. Palate was very velvety but had that classix Morey spice weaving through it. Tannins were present but ripe and sweet. A great showing for this and a great drink today. What I love about this wine is that it is just so classic and unmistakeably Morey with all of its exotic spice notes.

  • By Lyle Fass
    2/24/2003, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Fredrick Magnien Morey-St-Denis 1er Cru “Les Ruchots”) Morey perfume in full effect. Spice, cinnamon, clove, minerals on the aroma tic nose. Truncuated on the finish but with nice length and a sappy fruit. Young as ever. This has gone into a resting mode. Great potential. Open again in five years.

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