1996 Sylvain Cathiard Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Aux Murgers

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  10/16/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote: flawed

  2011 Casual Session 21 @ ES (Extra Space Boon Keng): Alcohol :: 13.5%
  Dark brick red. Green herbs, chalk, dried tea leaves, mineral and touch of spiciness that sum up the kinda matured but perfume and focus bouquet along with the sweet dark cherry note. Fresh entry with mid palate that come a bit dusky and also with muskiness along with ripe black cherry that kick in here that underpinned by the firm structured that formed by the slightly rough tannin and high acid (this led me to 1996). This is a bit lean but the focus is there with that's lingered with sweet and sour aftertaste. This is better than the 1st bottle but I also detected a little bit of TCA in it.

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  7/22/2011 - kmklee wrote:

  nose: apple, spice, earth, red fruit, quite muted
  palate: acidic attack, quite lean, tannin is still evident but not harsh, short finish. not so good. bottle variation?
  
  Open up later, showing better nose, perfumed and gained weight, fruits are showing better, more balanced.

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  3/17/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

  2011 Simple Dinner Series 3 :: Mark visit (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 13.5%
  Aged nose with kinda pungent spice that expose its NSG identity along with earth, pepper, mushroom swirling around the sweet dark cherry core and fur. It was drinking quite beautifully within the first 30mins with some sweet fruits intermixed with secondary note like dried tea leave and then it started to fade in the glass, absent of fruits, volatile acid and oak with lots of bitter tannin with alcohol heat finish. Drink up. Buy - No.

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  3/17/2011 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  2011 Simple Series III: Dinner with Mark Robertson of Goedhuis (Jade Palace, Forum Galleria): This was a big, muscular 1996. Clearly some quality here and I liked it quite a bit, but much of the table found it a bit too brooding and grumpy at the moment. If anything, it showed a little poorly next to an exuberantly youthful 2007 Lucien Le Moine Gevrey 1er Cazetiers. Nonetheless, even though this was a lot tighter, I thought it still had a beautiful nose - all earthy, meaty, sous bois scents spike with ripe vine stems, a twist of licorice and layered over a bed of dark plums and dark cherries. Think NSG spiked with some Vosne wood-spice. The palate was cloaked in nice smooth tannins, quite developed here, but they still provided some grippiness. The flavours were a bit tight though, with subtle tones of dark fruit set against a savoury earth background showing weighty depth and muscular concentration, but not tremendous complexity. There was obviously fresh acidity to hold up the weight of the fruit, which I liked, but this was not the strident 1996 acidity that still shows in some wines from the vintage. In fact, this wine had quite a delicious balance. The finish was long, but also not showing all that much, just some mineral and another twist of stems. Still very young here I think. Compared to the open, giving nature of the Le Moine, this was hard to enjoy fully. Yet I feel that there is just an extra edge of quality here that will take time to unwind. Visit again in 5-6 years' time.

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  3/17/2011 - Dbrane wrote: 87 Points

  Dinner with Goedhuis (Jade Palace, Forum): Quite meaty and sauvage. Stil tannic. I get a lot of soil on the nose. Good extract but felt that the fruit might be fading somewhat as it was rather lean. Balance still there but perhaps lacks a little class to be truly excellent.

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