Worried about age with this vintage, so whipped it off sediment just before meal. Nose initially led with English apple juice and acetone; verging on the balsamic that DB likes in old top-end Burgs but to my taste usually means wine is deceased. In the mouth, a lean, if surprisingly dark profile, with lots of reassuring (wine-life-giving and lip-smacking-drinking) freshness. Tart dark cherry, and aniseed. Instead of falling over the edge, it built across the meal. Checking the bottle four hours later, the wine was singing! The aroma was now quite virile – aniseed, charred wood, and notes of cassis and cherry leaf – the palate slighter sweeter via air, but still with lovely freshness. I’ve always found Jadot Moulin to be Cote-de-Nuit in its darker fruit, and indeed that is the flavour direction here, but the vintage leaves the body in Beaune territory. As with the ’97 of this cuvee (a bigger, to me better, wine), the oak has become well integrated at 7+ years. From 87 pts at the start of the meal, it was clearly showing 90+pt Fine Wine qualities later. I’m wavering over actually seeking more of this.
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10/31/2010 - campingfleurie wrote: 90 Points
Worried about age with this vintage, so whipped it off sediment just before meal. Nose initially led with English apple juice and acetone; verging on the balsamic that DB likes in old top-end Burgs but to my taste usually means wine is deceased. In the mouth, a lean, if surprisingly dark profile, with lots of reassuring (wine-life-giving and lip-smacking-drinking) freshness. Tart dark cherry, and aniseed. Instead of falling over the edge, it built across the meal. Checking the bottle four hours later, the wine was singing! The aroma was now quite virile – aniseed, charred wood, and notes of cassis and cherry leaf – the palate slighter sweeter via air, but still with lovely freshness. I’ve always found Jadot Moulin to be Cote-de-Nuit in its darker fruit, and indeed that is the flavour direction here, but the vintage leaves the body in Beaune territory. As with the ’97 of this cuvee (a bigger, to me better, wine), the oak has become well integrated at 7+ years. From 87 pts at the start of the meal, it was clearly showing 90+pt Fine Wine qualities later. I’m wavering over actually seeking more of this.
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7/5/2010 - chbeaumont Likes this wine: 91 Points
Retains decent colour; lush summer fruits on the nose; soft fruit, lovely wine, complete. Utterly drinkable, splendid.
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4/30/2010 - chbeaumont wrote: flawed
Mildly corked.
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8/19/2008 - SimonG wrote:
Beaujolais Offline (Wine-Pages) (Rotisserie Jules, South Ken, London): Slightly lighter and more linear than the 2000. Again, strawberry fruit. Not as long. ***
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5/23/2008 - MLD11 wrote: flawed
corked, bag trick didnt work
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