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Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 90.6 points

  • Birthday lunch (Porcine, Oxford Street): Medium minus intensity aromas shows red berry and sweet spice time and a gentle decant helped this open to show cherry, jubey, pretty notes, very slight volatile underpin and some earthy notes. Juicy, savoury, textured burr, the fruit is a little muted but this is lovely none the less - a little strawberry and raspberry joins the cherry.

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  • 13% alcohol. Good long cork with no more than 2mm of wine penetration. Poured two glasses 15mn ahead in order to provide a modicum of air contact. The colour is translucent, and there is a fair bit of bricking at the rim.
    The nose is nondescript initially, but it becomes much better by the end of the meal; red fruited with good intensity and good depth, including forrest floor. Similarly balanced in the mouth with redcurrant the dominant flavour; simpler than the nose would lead you to expect. Substantial acidity.
    This wine could still evolve into a more complete Burgundy, but at the moment it is somewhat frustrating.
    I shall wait another three years at least before resampling. Maybe open the bottle much earlier the next time.
    I see prices of 60€ or so quoted for current vintages, and frankly I would hesitate to pay even half that.

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  • 13% alcohol. Pretty good cork with hardly any wine penetration. Light ruby colour, translucent throughout and virtually colourless at the edge of the rim.
    Good nose of small red fruit; some depth, but not that much. The mouth is satisfying in a high pitched style, with good energy and plenty of acidity. Elegant, maybe at the expense of a bit more flesh.
    While this bottle is good, possibly even very good, the satisfaction that I derived from it bears no relation to its price tag (56€ according to IDW). At half that, which is probably around what I paid, the bottle just about comes into contention, but frankly I might dither between this and a top Beaujolais.
    Plenty of life left in this wine, so maybe I will have to eat my words in the end...

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  • This wine is developing, the quenching is working a treat! The nose is very savoury and full of smoky bacon crisps. It tastes meaty too, however the fruit is disappearing off into the sunset, mellowing to bramble fruits.

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  • 13% alcohol. Very good cork with about 3mm of uneven wine penetration. Light ruby colour with some thinning at the edge of the rim. Very good nose of wild red berries. The mouth has the same red berries combined with very good grip on the back of superb acidity; no tannins worth talking about. Slightly built but far from insubstantial, a bit like these tiny gymnasts who can carry out amazing exercises.
    Coming just after D.Laurent's Vosne Suchots 2001, the contrast could not be higher; the Rossignol may come across as thin initially by comparison, but in the end it wins out in terms of purity and genuine Burgundy character.
    A repeat purchase potentially depending on price. This is not of such exalted quality that it should command vastly superior prices to the better Givry 1er crus, or indeed the top Morgon or Moulin à V (I know that I am risking excommunication by voicing this opinion, but hopefully I won't have to suffer Giordano B's terrible fate). In fact, the whole Burgundy region needs a price reset in my view. Now, how do I climb down from that soapbox?

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