2009 Domaine Francois Lamarche Vosne-Romanée

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89 points

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  1/5/2021 - Necowine wrote: 87 Points

  From glass. Typical advancement of color. Ash and cabbage on the nose - not promising. Fruitless, soft palate of leather, graphite and ash, and a subtle note of game on the tail end. Certainly still alive, and fresh. "Where to Buy" lists this available from wine-searcher for $794.24, which even accounting for the likely decimal error is still too much.

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  4/12/2019 - 87tellub Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium to dark garnet. Nose is lovely smelling fruit, sweet spice, red flowers, and lightly smoky and warm. Palate has good weight to it, would call it medium to full. Comes off as meaty on the palate at first, but there is also a good fruit showing that says cherry, blueberry and strawberry. This wine has good bones. Plus acidity as it is a lip smacker. Nose is lovely and delicate and makes you want to come back; the palate is a bit darker, deeper and heavier, so quite an interesting dichotomy. For a village wine that is 10 years old this just seems so amazing. But then you think about the cost and it should be really good, thankfully it delivers.

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  11/4/2016 - western Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Remarkable improvement since 1st bottle 4 yrs ago. Nose offers up small black fruit, spice, leather and wood.
  Wine more integrated with nice balance of fruit, tannins and mineral acidity.Not my favourite Village from 09 Vintage.

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  10/31/2015 - campingfleurie Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Thanks to the note from XA below, I paused my perception that ‘09s were awkwardly closed at the moment...
  
  Immediately, one of those affirmations that Vosne is real. Smiling taut blackcurrant quickly yields to quite intense red and black cherry. The superb, clean, bright, natural, concentrated, ripe fruit quality is revelatory in fleetingly evoking the liqueur character I dislike in hot-climate wines; begging the question of whether such are forlornly trying to imitate Vosne! This has a little integrated clip of acid attached to that characteristic; even if the ripeness calls for the fridge to enhance that pique of mouthwatering delight. Back to the nose, which is a meld rather than a set of components at the moment, but certainly includes subtle spice and red earth. Indeed, another surprise is that Lamarche’s distinctive red-leather oak is so well integrated at this age. That’s not the case in some of their ‘08s or ‘10s at the moment: I think the ripeness of the vintage is balancing well, and their 'oaking hand' was judicious with this level of wine this year. In the mouth: profoundly elegant. You could no more separate out the structural elements than you could pull the wine apart: it’s strong; a superior silk. That’s its substance too: light, firm silk; no dense, fleshy irrelevance. The wine’s concentration - and this drinker’s desire for contemplation - slow the drinking at the moment. Like a 1999, this will journey from blacker to redder fruit with age. It’ll lighten gracefully, and drink better and better. The balance and elegance will push drinking beyond the short-medium term I bought for. So it’ll do the job of protecting the ’09 Lamarche 1er and GCs I loved so much at E-P; and much more.

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  6/17/2015 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 Points

  A private dinner (Restaurant De Gieser Wildeman *, Noordeloos, Netherlands): Open and fragrant nose, lovely Vosne typicity, Asian spice, red earth, ripe and complex fruit, hint of sous-bois, mineral freshness, warmth from the perfectly integrated wood, very good harmony and depth; silky and seductive palate, rounded and supple, elegant stuffing of ripe fruit, velvety tannins provide grip, medium body, ripe but balancing acidity, lively and gentle, nothing overdone; good to very good length. Excellent village, drinking beautifully.

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