1996 Alain Hudelot-Noëllat Richebourg

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 94.2 points

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  9/15/2023 - LB88 wrote: flawed

  Not a great representation as there was a hint of cork taint which never really blew away. Cork was perfect and came out in one piece. On the palate the wine was still alive but the taint just took away the pleasure.

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  11/24/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points

  During the La Paulee in Meursault, so only brief impressions. From MAG. Complex nose here, garnet color, tertiary notes with autumn leaves, cured meat, red fruit. Nice, fully ready.

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  7/3/2019 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I think this wine suffered from my own lofty expectations for it. The wine was good, very good. But for some reason I was expecting more from a Richebourg. Good spice, dark fruits, well balanced. There was nothing not to like. Maybe lacking a little complexity. The wine got better over time. 96 acid was in check. Really enjoyable and from a great part of the plot.

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  5/16/2018 - HowardNZ wrote:

  Salty Pidgin with Simon and friends (Brooklyn, Wellington, NZ): I paired the two Richebourgs, serving them double blind. Both were double decanted about three hours before serving. Most of us preferred the 1996 over the 2002 on the night. ‘More aromatic’, as Blair said. Vosne mixed spices, red cherries, raspberries and touches of strawberries, dry brushwood and floral perfumes. Accessible, open and expressive on palate. Beautifully balanced and proportioned. The 1996 acidity, fruit and tannins are now well aligned. Not a hair out of place. ‘A lovely core of red berry fruit’ said Nick. Layers of flavour. Superb. The final glass the next day was just as good. My second WoTN.

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  2/4/2017 - justburg wrote: 96 Points

  Vosne lunch at Garibaldi. En Magnum. Deep ruby red, just a touch of bricking at the rim. This was a truly spectacular bottle of Burgundy. Absolute fireworks on the nose with a melange of wild, rich, opulent and balanced characteristics. The nose was just ridiculously good, better than any other wine I've had in the past year. It was exotic, wild, rich, fresh and complex with wild cherries, wild blueberries, arabic spice, ginger spice, pepper, cigar box, incense, smoke, woodspice, vanilla, pomegranate and candy floss. Basically each time I visited this wine, it evolved, changed and took on different characteristics, but all were spectacular. I would have loved to score this closer to 98 (which is the highest I've ever rated), but the palate struggled slightly to meet the perfect standards from the bouquet. There was great balance, good acidity with copious amounts of red and blue fruit, very fresh and rich, the secondary characteristics - truffle, smoke, incense, leather took some coaxing, but appeared with more time. Just seemed to lack the complexity, length and mouthfeel of a top top Richebourg (DRC, Leroy), but no doubting this was the best wine I've ever had from Hudelot Noellat. The question is would it be better with an additional 10 years? It certainly will be different, but might not necessarily be better. I'm glad to have caught this wine at a perfect stage of its life.

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