2011 Maison Ilan Mazoyères-Chambertin

Community Tasting Notes (29) Median Score: 92 points

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  1/11/2023 - peternelson Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was showing quite nicely, with a little herbal note, good fruit, elegance, nicely perfumed and aromatic with exotic spice. Guessed Vosne 1er. Finally an Ilan that I like! EH b-day at my place.

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  11/7/2022 - Chrisinroch wrote: flawed

  Cloudy and stinky. Spoiled

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  7/4/2022 - Jay Soif wrote: 92 Points

  This bottle was excellent, well integrated, balanced, maybe at its peak. Went perfectly with roast duck.

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  2/26/2022 - Deepdrop Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nose of mushroom, tilled earth and static charge (like the air after a lightening storm). Cherry, iron, and herbs combine nicely on a fairly long finish. Seems like some serious bottle variation based on prior notes posted here. No green notes for me.

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  7/24/2021 - Phredd Does not like this wine: 86 Points

  On the pop and pour, this is quite dark in the glass. I’ve had a lot of Oregon Pinot recently, and this is darker and denser than most of those. The nose is very funky, with loads of barnyard and cheese, a good heap of green pepper, and maybe just a bit of steamy, stewed cherries in behind. The front end of the palate has a bit more of the red fruit, but the mid-palate still had a lot of both the green and the barnyard. There is structure here, and a fair amount of acidity, although the wine still comes across as a little burly. The finish lasts a good long while, but it is not entirely balanced. I try to use the same scale as most publications, which makes the 86 equivalent to roughly “you can drink this, but you’d probably prefer to have something better”. Given that I paid, direct from the winery, $102 all-in (price, shipping, and tax), that makes this one of the poorest values I’ve ever had. 2011 was a below-average vintage, so I’ll have to hope 2012 and 2013 came off a bit better.

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