1998 Domaine Méo-Camuzet Echezeaux Les Rouges du Bas

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  5/7/2013 - Barry Rothof wrote: 93 Points

  Burgundy Lunch @ ZARZO (Eindhoven , Netherlands): This bottle was sourced directly ex-cellar about a month ago. It has a firmly medium intense ruby core with very little clearing at the rim. The nose pairs medium intense notes of pomegranate and dried red cherry to more evolved leather, integrated oak and fresh porcini. My first Méo Grand Cru seems lighter than its actual medium-plus body and showcases nearly pronounced flavours of dried red cherry, leather, earl grey tea and integrated oak spices like cardamom and cloves. Considering the foursquare vintage, its impeccable balance and refined texture are all the more impressive and structurally spoken, its really quite grippy medium tannins are of very high quality while the near pronounced acidity is buffered into near oblivion. When the finish fans out like the proverbial game bird’s tail and takes a leasurely 35-40 seconds to start fading, I have to award 93 points –the highest I ever gave to this often maligned Grand Cru– and believe me when I say that this wine has the materials and structure to improve over the next decade. In short; a really impressive wine from a domaine I used to regard as overoaked, overpriced and overrated. TN ....................... Mike de Lange.

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  8/15/2012 - MatthewF wrote:

  Popped and poured. A pretty mix of red and black cherry on the nose and palate with some nice spice and earth notes as well. The biggest nit was that the wood stands out a little bit at this time. Medium body and finish. Some structure remaining, but overall fairly integrated.

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  7/2/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: 92 Points

  Very individual: strong fruit that is very ripe - candied cherry nose with a shock of acidity and lots of succulent. The taste also has candied cherry, and a strong, bitter chocolate taste. Mellow attack, but the concern is that the fruit is a bit disjointed.

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  9/11/2009 - salil wrote: 95 Points

  Phenomenal - this starts out with amazing aromatics that combine sappy red fruited flavours, rose petals, violets, earth, spices and leathery notes and then in the mouth it's all silken elegance, more red fruits, flowers and earthy flavours that just float over the tongue with bright acidity giving it lots of freshness and energy and an incredible persistence and length to the flavours. Wow!

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