2002 Dominique Laurent Clos Vougeot Vieilles Vignes "Sui generis"

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  10/29/2023 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  PnP. Normally this much Oak bothers me, because there is often an Oak resin element that overwhelms the fruit. Not this time, just the sweet Oak without the resin. Tannins (from the barrel and fruit) are thick but very pliable and relatively smooth. The ripe cherry fruit is not overwhelmed and gets extended on a 40+ second finish with some black truffles appearing after mid palate. A rather unique Burg that lacks the fabled levels of distinct minerality, but this is no fruit bomb and has an elegance to it that is worth trying.

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  5/13/2023 - Kevnzworld wrote: 95 Points

  PNP at home.
  Good concentration and depth.
  Red fruit , earthy minerality with sous bois and mushrooms .
  Tasty stuff with a long finish and full of complexity

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  10/26/2020 - Xavier94 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This starts off a little aloof but does show some of the makings of sous bois-inflected aromas; truffle, damp red fruit coming through with some vague cabinet spice and wild herbs. There is a "soupy" thickness here that adds volume and intensity, a wine demanding food today (for me). While the material is impression, there is a lack of delineated right now that says this wine just needs more time. a note of toasted oak comes through more on the palate than on the nose. Big style here just closed up some. Try again in 3-5 years to check in. 93-94

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  10/25/2020 - jmoore431 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted blind: medium garnet; nice truffles and dark cherry nose quickly opens up to a more “soupy” deep ripe fruit character with hints of tomato leaf vegetal qualities. Quite open for an’02 GC and very good but not special. I have the ‘99 and ‘03 of this and anticipate those and this ‘02 will improve over the next several years.

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  7/31/2020 - bon vivant wrote: 94 Points

  This smelled great upon opening so it slow oxd for several hrs before dinner. A lovely bottle with lots of extraction, good amount of sap, and a velvety mouth feel that will not score points for finesse and delicacy but was nonetheless very tasty, balanced and had nice layers fro red and black fruit to secondaries of spice, autumn forest and a fairly wide finish. There is definitely a touch of wood but not overdone or detracting unless you are oak fobic, So much more restrained then the wines Laurent produced in the mid 90's. I liked it quite a bit and so did the crew as it disappeared rather fast

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