Epic night at Capasso. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru. Apperance is clear, pale intenity, ruby colour. Legs.Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with aromas of whole bunch spicy stems, high toned elegant red cherries, underlying stony minerality. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%, superfine medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour itnensity, with flavours of sexy spicy whole bunch stems, very elegant red cherries, red plum, incense. Gets a slight darker tone with black cherry and black plum fruit with more air. Long finish. Excellent quality. Very pretty wine, though there is some dark power within. Definitely a stems inclusion wine, and Dujac in my mind. My guess was 2014/2017 Domaine Dujac Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes. Turns out to be CDLR in a cooler vintage.
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The Roots Fund Charity Wine Dinner (Atelier - Chicago IL): Alongside 2016. Broad array of red fruits, certainly well spiced. Open knit and lacy, this is approachable and fun even though this is precociously young. 2016 is bigger and might become a better wine but certainly not for a while.
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The Roots Fund - Chicago Fundraising Dinner (Atelier - Chicago, IL): 14 and 16 side-by-side in a Paulee style dinner - so it was hard to really assess the wines. I thought the 14 had more enticing whole cluster aromas though the palate was a bit more shut down vs. the more up front 2016. Both wines will benefit from a decade in the cellar.
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3/5/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points
Epic night at Capasso. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru.
Apperance is clear, pale intenity, ruby colour. Legs.Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with aromas of whole bunch spicy stems, high toned elegant red cherries, underlying stony minerality. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%, superfine medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour itnensity, with flavours of sexy spicy whole bunch stems, very elegant red cherries, red plum, incense. Gets a slight darker tone with black cherry and black plum fruit with more air. Long finish.
Excellent quality. Very pretty wine, though there is some dark power within. Definitely a stems inclusion wine, and Dujac in my mind. My guess was 2014/2017 Domaine Dujac Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes. Turns out to be CDLR in a cooler vintage.
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1/25/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
The Roots Fund Charity Wine Dinner (Atelier - Chicago IL): Alongside 2016. Broad array of red fruits, certainly well spiced. Open knit and lacy, this is approachable and fun even though this is precociously young. 2016 is bigger and might become a better wine but certainly not for a while.
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1/25/2024 - Nanda wrote:
The Roots Fund - Chicago Fundraising Dinner (Atelier - Chicago, IL): 14 and 16 side-by-side in a Paulee style dinner - so it was hard to really assess the wines. I thought the 14 had more enticing whole cluster aromas though the palate was a bit more shut down vs. the more up front 2016. Both wines will benefit from a decade in the cellar.
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12/4/2023 - RobinTeo wrote: 95 Points
To follow
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8/27/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Restrained but with lovely subtle detail red and blue fruit, spice and stems. Sweet and well balanced. Not necessarily Gc depth.
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