2010 Domaine Lafouge Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru La Chapelle Rouge

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  11/19/2021 - DougLee wrote: 92 Points

  Dark ruby. Nose of fresh berry, tea leaves, iodine, alpine flowers. Crisp layers of young, structured black cherry and dark red plum fruit jetting across the tongue with vitality and zip. Brisk acidity and firm but harmonious tannin. Long finish of fresh, pure red fruit cut with hawthorn and fine earth. Really good.

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  4/6/2021 - DaleW wrote:

  Quite structured, air does it a lot of good, spicy edge to the black cherry fruit, with some smoke and a bacon edge that seems almost Rhonish. Only a couple left, will hold for a bit. B for now, I think B+/ A- potential

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  4/5/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Needed lots of air to open up. Then a fairly strict wine with good intensity and delicious dark cherry fruit along with really lovely spice notes. Lean but flavorful with potent acidity and a complex finish with note of minerals and more of those red and blue spices. It’s structure suggests further aging but I don’t know if the fruit will make it.

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  2/24/2021 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

  I am still trying to figure out whether there is any point to aging these. This opened with interesting semi-mature mushroomy scents that suggested the answer might be yes, then it kind of turned mute and left a wine that was perfectly open-knit from a structural perspective but which had lost the luster that makes Lafouge such a joy to drink young without picking up anything to make up for what it lost.

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  9/3/2019 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Don't know why I thought this would be more or less ready to drink. I was wrong, and that makes it a lot harder to assess its full potential.
  
  The color is an attractive pale magenta that looks inviting in and of itself. Nose full of ripe red berry and pencil shaving-like minerality. Pretty fruit on the palate, but turns sour quickly, not in a bad way, but just to indicate assertive onboard acidity. I'm going to set this aside for a while and come back. I suspect I will be glad I did.
  
  Ok, so I confined the 2nd half of the bottle to the fridge overnight to see what would happen, and we're roughly 24 hours later. Very interesting changes afoot. The minerality I experienced is still present but has been largely integrated without any sacrifice in the appeal of the fruit, which has perhaps migrated a bit more towards ripe black cherry. No question it is now rounder on the palate and more pleasant to drink but there's still a bundle of tart acidity that I find engaging and will no doubt subside with additional bottle age. Net net, still too soon to open a good 2010 1er cru even if the appellation is relatively humble Auxey-Duresses, unless you're more interested in assessing its potential than experiencing maturity. A good decant is in order if you simply can't help yourself.

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