Guessed this to be a Grand Cru (tasted blind). One of the more accommodating Maison bottlings chez Leroy tasted in recent memory. People really do LOVE this vintage; A very virile but elegant nose of beef stock, briary scents, pine forest wood, definitive gamey notes give way to more classic sous bois/mossy suggestions with air time. Fantastic ripeness and layering still. Good compromise between fruit density and sous bois complexity. Grand Cru showing in my book. This was on form today! Bravo.
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Solid garnet color; effusive, deep dark fruited nose; spice and soil-driven nose, very rich and dark, tremendous depth, pine needle-covered earth; just keeps blossoming in the glass with violets, richness and depth. Kept going for hours. Tasting partner called it gran crus. I’m scoring it that way. 94+
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9/14/2020 - Xavier94 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Guessed this to be a Grand Cru (tasted blind). One of the more accommodating Maison bottlings chez Leroy tasted in recent memory. People really do LOVE this vintage; A very virile but elegant nose of beef stock, briary scents, pine forest wood, definitive gamey notes give way to more classic sous bois/mossy suggestions with air time. Fantastic ripeness and layering still. Good compromise between fruit density and sous bois complexity. Grand Cru showing in my book. This was on form today! Bravo.
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9/13/2020 - jmoore431 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Solid garnet color; effusive, deep dark fruited nose; spice and soil-driven nose, very rich and dark, tremendous depth, pine needle-covered earth; just keeps blossoming in the glass with violets, richness and depth. Kept going for hours. Tasting partner called it gran crus. I’m scoring it that way. 94+
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5/2/2014 - McKraftyWino Likes this wine: 90 Points
youthful. floral. pleasant starter wine for dinner
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4/26/2014 - McKraftyWino wrote: flawed
bad bottle...have 11 more to see if it's just one or all
funky nose, just not right
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5/23/2009 - MPB54 wrote: 88 Points
Probably past its peak but still drinking nicely. Last bottle:(
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