2009 Domaine de Bellene Beaune 1er Cru Grèves

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  2/7/2022 - alexide Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Having been considerably more patient than the below reviewer before opening my first of these, I can confirm that they are now blossoming, and starting to drink very well indeed...

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  12/1/2012 - campingfleurie Likes this wine: 88 Points

  I've been a fan of '09 red Burgs. Last month Nicolas Potel told me that the serious ones are closing down. My opening this proved that (surprise-surprise) he's right, I'm wrong. Warm red cherry, straw. A slightly dilute cherry to long-kept purple raspberry. Metal. Heat. Old milk chocolate. A big herbal tone. Sawdust. Faintest farmyard. Smoke. These per-sniff different impressions at least proved the class of the wine, but they're not pretty right now: a ripely-flavoured vintage losing its beauty as its blunting tannin rears above its receding flesh. There is some acidity, but not enough to offset the preceding factors at this age. That classic closed-period tasting note phenomenon of 'dilution' is 'apparent' in the palate too. I double-decanted to give it more of a chance, and it did drink better with the meal two hours later. A v limited aroma at that stage (adding a deeper boiled-sweet character), and the palate seemed a little more solid and effective. Improved to 88pts with the meal. Regardless of the now-undeniable closed-period issue (the flavours of this wine will refine and integrate, and it will have notable fruit in maturity), I still find myself craving brighter fruit flavours, stoniness and zippier acidity; reconsidering the better 2008s!

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