2010 Domaine Chandon de Briailles Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile des Vergelesses

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  3/30/2024 - cerobo Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Pale red with touch of browning at the rim. Developed on the nose, this wine is at its peak (or just past it). Lovely sappy mid palate with forest floor notes, secondary characters with a hint of varnish on the finish. Really enjoyable wine.

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  1/12/2024 - DougLee wrote: 92 Points

  Translucent ruby. Nose of fresh-cut tart berry, forest floor, soaring violets, sea air, iron filament. Layers of crisp, snappy red raspberry cut with pliant iron granules and powdered earth. Bright acidity and firm but fine-grained tannin. Longer finish of crunchy red fruit grounded in sweet earth. Delicious and transparent.

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  12/24/2023 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Day later from memory. Brought this to a BYOB restaurant featuring venison and pheasant. Was hoping the bottle age would match the gamy qualities and was not disappointed.
  
  Restaurant light wasn't optimal but the color was a transparent red with beautiful layers lightening towards the rim. Full maturity seemed likely. Nose full of ripe "pinot" fruit, sour cherry, sous bois for weeks. Gently expressive on the palate, again that distinctive fruit that was scratching my memory for comparisons, and soft but not at all flat or flabby impression on the long finish.
  
  It took me awhile but then I had it. This wine was a throwback to my earliest exposure to Burgundy 40+ years ago. At that time there were maybe four critics in the world whose books you could read to help understand wine: Schoonmaker, Lichine, Broadbent, and Coates. In my struggles to put labels on what I tasted, I followed Broadbent like he was a holy prophet and he described this mature pinot flavor as "beetroot." I never actually understood what this meant, only learned to recognize it when it appeared.
  
  Whether it's a stylistic shift in the wines over time or I'm not drinking enough fine aged Burgundy (likely), I haven't experienced this unmistakable fruit signature in a long time.
  
  The farming and handling by this very authentic domain, committed to biodynamics and self-described "neo-classical" winemaking, resulted in a beautiful wine that for me was like a reunion with an old friend.

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  12/23/2023 - Eric wrote:

  Utterly beautiful, showing very well. Gorgeously pure fruit, subtle, silky.

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  10/26/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 91 Points

  Planning Session III (Chloe by Vincent, Mpls): Dark red color. PNP, drank a glass over an hour. Sappy cherry, black cherry, darker fruit builds, a little herbal edge, dense and more full bodied, nice round tannins and and texture. Showing well, but I suspect there's more to come.

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