1964 Domaine Jaboulet-Vercherre Beaune 1er Cru Clos de l'Ecu

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  6/24/2015 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  John and I had had a big day of wine tasting so restricted ourselves to one bottle at dinner at Ma Cuisine in Beaune ... Pierre explained that Jaboulet-Vercherre were a negociant in Beaune in those days and that the site here is now owned by Faiveley. The colour was a good red brown for the age. The l'Ecu had a lovely bouquet of old leather, dry brushwood and clay, with a strong tartufo nero note. With time, a cherry liqueur nuance emerged, which John attributed to a hot ferment. On the palate, the wine was very much alive with plenty of relatively bright, red fruit character. The flavour spectrum was secondary, not tertiary. It was a lovely old bottle with plentiful preserved red berries, cigar, dry underbrush and dusty earth flavours, but nothing like mushroomy or vegetal flavours. John detected a pruney character but, as someone who prefers more primary fruit flavours than me, was pleasantly surprised by the fruit (still) evident here. In fact he speculated that it might be possible that some Rhone varieties had added into the wine (given the Beaune train station being on the train line to Lyon)! I was very satisfied with this mellow old bottle, putting it a little behind the 1964 Chanson from a couple of nights before ... However, this bottle could have easily gone another 5-10 years in the cellar ...

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