Lunch: This pours medium ruby, a touch cloudy, with some flecks of pink and a watery rim. The nose on opening is dominated my menthol, but after about an hour unfurls to show fresh cherry, grapefruit rind, rose petals, a whisp of ginger, dry dusty soil, sandalwood, fresh thyme, a touch of integrating oak, and some of that menthol still lingering. The palate is also lovely with cherry and grapefruit dominating the texture turning to medium minus tannin and medium acid and then a long finish that fans out nicely revealing much of the complexity to come with further bottle age. All in all this is lovely and elegant stuff. It did need some air to really show what it had and while this early peak was pleasurable I think there is a long life ahead with much more positive development to be had. We only followed this for about two hours and I can't help but feel we might have gotten more aromatic complexity with even more air. A taster commented that this showing was Burgundy meets New Zealand which I agree with. Given the prices of these wines now I have to say this is poor QPR, but it's still fun and important to try wines from the tippy top producer.
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Classic and beautiful... despite people's low impression of the vintage, and this being the lowest (at the time) offering from DRC, this was delicious.
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(Romanée-Conti Echézeaux) Medium-plus cherry colour, shading to ruby at the rim. An understated nose of pure cherries and faint vanilla. Nice volume in the mouth, showing good sap. There’s good acidity and very well covered tannin. There is a lovely length to this wine, also tinged with vanilla. A wine that is very ‘2000’ in its bright and pretty fruit profile and one you could certainly enjoy at a relatively young age, say in another 4 or 5 years. But I’m sure the more patient amongst you will be amply rewarded.
(DRC Echezeaux) Dark cherries, asian spices, mulberries, spicy oak and underbrush on the bright expansive nose.
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2/27/2024 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Lacks the nuance and lift, even on a relative basis, of some of the better wines from the Domaine in 2000
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1/21/2024 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 94 Points
Light body. Some bricking on the rim. Beautiful balance and harmony. Spice and depth. This was light, subtle and elegant.
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11/11/2022 - Wine Canuck wrote: 94 Points
Lunch: This pours medium ruby, a touch cloudy, with some flecks of pink and a watery rim. The nose on opening is dominated my menthol, but after about an hour unfurls to show fresh cherry, grapefruit rind, rose petals, a whisp of ginger, dry dusty soil, sandalwood, fresh thyme, a touch of integrating oak, and some of that menthol still lingering. The palate is also lovely with cherry and grapefruit dominating the texture turning to medium minus tannin and medium acid and then a long finish that fans out nicely revealing much of the complexity to come with further bottle age. All in all this is lovely and elegant stuff. It did need some air to really show what it had and while this early peak was pleasurable I think there is a long life ahead with much more positive development to be had. We only followed this for about two hours and I can't help but feel we might have gotten more aromatic complexity with even more air. A taster commented that this showing was Burgundy meets New Zealand which I agree with. Given the prices of these wines now I have to say this is poor QPR, but it's still fun and important to try wines from the tippy top producer.
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9/12/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points
200 Burgundy Grand Crus from vintage 2000, 4-day blind tasting (Singapore): Rich fruit here with cola, beautiful, soft, elegant, aromatic, nice and polished. Did not hold up for long in the glass, drink up.
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1/30/2022 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
Classic and beautiful... despite people's low impression of the vintage, and this being the lowest (at the time) offering from DRC, this was delicious.
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