Tour du Monde (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Tasting, brief note. Heavily reduced to start, impossible to get past SO2. Re-tasted after 2 hours in a decanter, and it was an different and lovely wine. Ripe black cherries and berries with sweet tannins and lots of mineral notes. Not close to its peak drinking window, but showing the same 91-93 point potential I recall from when tasted from barrel in 2013.
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Day Three in Burgundy: Rousseau, Marchand, Dugat, Jadot (Cote d'Or): Barrel tasting at domaine. 100% new oak. Always a personal favorite, I think the two parcels must be very complementary. Fat black fruit aromas with meaty spice, some fruit, some oak. Spice and mineral start with black cherry and blackberry flavors. Long and powerful with great balance already. Huge fruit from the start. Very good, in fact probably as good as the LSJ for me today.
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10/28/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Tour du Monde (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Tasting, brief note. Heavily reduced to start, impossible to get past SO2. Re-tasted after 2 hours in a decanter, and it was an different and lovely wine. Ripe black cherries and berries with sweet tannins and lots of mineral notes. Not close to its peak drinking window, but showing the same 91-93 point potential I recall from when tasted from barrel in 2013.
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7/3/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Day Three in Burgundy: Rousseau, Marchand, Dugat, Jadot (Cote d'Or): Barrel tasting at domaine. 100% new oak. Always a personal favorite, I think the two parcels must be very complementary. Fat black fruit aromas with meaty spice, some fruit, some oak. Spice and mineral start with black cherry and blackberry flavors. Long and powerful with great balance already. Huge fruit from the start. Very good, in fact probably as good as the LSJ for me today.
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