2002 Maison Roche de Bellene Savigny-lès-Beaune Collection Bellenum Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  3/17/2014 - Scott Butler Likes this wine:

  Having little experience with Burgundy, I tasted this at a blind tasting after trying a lower priced Chateau Thiven Cote de Brouilly Burg, and I thought this wine may have been from the new world. Ample fruit compared to the first wine, and the mushroom, earth, and gravel are more in the background. However, once we moved on to the new world stuff, it seemed more possible it was a Burg. Very enjoyable wine, I would consider buying a bottle.

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  8/18/2013 - vilepotabissabinum wrote:

  Starts out quite mushroomy and funky on the nose, but opens up to suggest cranberry and dark fruits, tobacco and earth. Quite juicy and tannic on the palate which is perhaps a little bit rough around the edges. Still, very nice and at a good stage - I'd give it some air though.

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  1/13/2013 - genec Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A bit nervous opening this bottle as my friend told me his was slightly corked. Luckily, this bottle is good. Restrained nose initially but with lovely red berries. Deep colour with browning rim. Soft, ripe, lush, juicy, very slightly alcoholic, then earth and wood at the finish. Excellent structure but I wouldn't go as far as calling it delineated. For sure it out did itself for village wine in terms of its juice, although I did expect a much more fragrant nose from a Savigny Les Beaune. (50+10+13+9+9)

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