Today, subsequent to my Dec 23 2022 Coravin tasting of this bottle I pulled the cork and we drank the last 90% of the bottle. On first pouring there was nothing in the nose. A few minutes in the glass this began to show the red berry fruit, fruit perfume in a Côtes de Nuits sense. Sparkling red cherry to cranberry fruit, some caramel; just beginning to mature. Almost firm finish. Long.
So 9 months after first small Coravin glassful this showed no sensation of oxidation or VA development.
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Just stunning now! And for a non-single vineyard wine, a level of depth and concentration that is exceptional. On the nose, dark berries and some oak, with tart cherry and a hint of Gevrey rusticity-and hints of refined sinews. The palate is the knockout, with a sophistication emanating from a deep, solid core of purple fruit, tart cherry, a hint of cranberry, and some added Gevrey forest floor. I so wanted the Vosne-like pheasant plumes of floral fruit that never emerged, as the fruit was so rich and teasingly refined--but it remained a wine of younger vines and Gevrey in tone. One could almost swallow, as Mugnier has become au courant of late, the current stratospeheric retail cost. Saldy my only bottle.
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Magnum, from young vine Ruchottes. Absolutely stunning sweet aromatics, spicy, lifted. Not a surprise I usually prefer this to the regular Ruchottes bottling. 94
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Extracted a glass with Coravin Dec 23, 2022: Medium red centre, mahogany edge. Cherry fruit, no oak apparent in the shy bouquet. Fruit is maturing with a little leather noted . Very long finish. Despite the delicate rather than concentrated nature of this, it really has an impact, enveloping all of the palate and lingering forever.
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Young vine Ruchottes and neck-and-neck with the Lafon for WOTN. Very fragrant and so well put-together. Has that quality of the best 2010s where everything seems like it's in precisely the right place.
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8/18/2023 - KVM wrote:
Today, subsequent to my Dec 23 2022 Coravin tasting of this bottle I pulled the cork and we drank the last 90% of the bottle.
On first pouring there was nothing in the nose. A few minutes in the glass this began to show the red berry fruit, fruit perfume in a Côtes de Nuits sense. Sparkling red cherry to cranberry fruit, some caramel; just beginning to mature. Almost firm finish. Long.
So 9 months after first small Coravin glassful this showed no sensation of oxidation or VA development.
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5/13/2023 - Sotto325 wrote: 95 Points
Just stunning now! And for a non-single vineyard wine, a level of depth and concentration that is exceptional. On the nose, dark berries and some oak, with tart cherry and a hint of Gevrey rusticity-and hints of refined sinews. The palate is the knockout, with a sophistication emanating from a deep, solid core of purple fruit, tart cherry, a hint of cranberry, and some added Gevrey forest floor. I so wanted the Vosne-like pheasant plumes of floral fruit that never emerged, as the fruit was so rich and teasingly refined--but it remained a wine of younger vines and Gevrey in tone. One could almost swallow, as Mugnier has become au courant of late, the current stratospeheric retail cost. Saldy my only bottle.
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3/3/2023 - hprphf Likes this wine: 94 Points
Magnum, from young vine Ruchottes. Absolutely stunning sweet aromatics, spicy, lifted. Not a surprise I usually prefer this to the regular Ruchottes bottling. 94
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12/23/2022 - KVM wrote:
Extracted a glass with Coravin Dec 23, 2022:
Medium red centre, mahogany edge. Cherry fruit, no oak apparent in the shy bouquet. Fruit is maturing with a little leather noted . Very long finish. Despite the delicate rather than concentrated nature of this, it really has an impact, enveloping all of the palate and lingering forever.
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5/22/2022 - rc@ughey wrote: 94 Points
Young vine Ruchottes and neck-and-neck with the Lafon for WOTN. Very fragrant and so well put-together. Has that quality of the best 2010s where everything seems like it's in precisely the right place.
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