1996 Domaine du Château de Chorey (Germain) Beaune 1er Cru Les Cras Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  4/2/2024 - Tudz Drkl Likes this wine:

  Nose of herbaceous cherry with some green notes, wet stones and forest floor. There are touches of rosemary, sage, coffee and some tobacco smoke and organic tar mixing with a very red cherry nose. The palate has soft round tannins, balanced acidity and a clean long finish of cherries jubilee. Super delicious!

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  10/19/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote:

  Casual (Mostly) Burg Dinner with Friends (Chloe - Washington DC): Tasted double blind alongside the 2001, knowing it was a vertical. I thought it Gevrey 1er Cru. This 1996 had a charming old wine nose, clearly from a ripe vintage, but I thought it much older (1989?). Less exciting palate was clearly getting tired.

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  1/8/2016 - Ben H. Likes this wine:

  I liked this wine so much. An almost immediate chalky taste and smell once decanted. Some cinnamon. With air, it became more perfume-y and musky. Rich and intense, the texture of the wine finely coating your tongue.

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  10/19/2014 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 91 Points

  No formal notes as this was brought to a restaurant. I found the wine drinking at an accessible point in its evolution, but it's certainly still fairly primary, with maybe some secondary notes there. Overall, still quite tight, and not revealing too much depth. I really loved the balance of the wine throughout, though, including acidity that I think this is going to allow this to continue to improve from here. I'll probably wait at least 5 years before another entry. I consumed a 2009 of this wine just last week and at the time I thought that was one to drink on the younger side (10-30 years), but based upon how this is at 18, perhaps it can go out to 40. The 2009 certainly had more palate texture than this one, but they were equally impressively balanced. Fun to try the old and young so close together in time.

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  11/7/2013 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This is more fruit-forward and less developed than my last bottle but it's still exceptioanlly pretty with a silky, generous texture that's totally the opposite of that tough, lean and mean style that's characterized the '96 vintage for so long. It picks up a more solid and stony presence with air but never loses that pretty, open-knit feel.

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