2012 Domaine Lucien Boillot et Fils Volnay 1er Cru Les Brouillards

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  4/25/2020 - vide Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I see I drank a bottle of this wine two years ago. Since then, it has oxidised somewhat but, paradoxically, emerged as a greater wine = beautiful dark brick but completely perlucid colour; nose of dark fruit, soil and quality rottenness (but perfumed rottenness - the only acceptable type); taste is wonderfully smooth. The quasi farmyard is still there, but behind that is an absolute quality of fruit.
  
  This is a wine (and, actually, a lot of the top wines are like this) that pulls apart our conventional notions of what a "good wine" is. Hence, the almost impossibility of fitting them in to the points system.

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  10/28/2018 - vide wrote: 90 Points

  Dark brooding nose of dark fruit, soft leather and grass; the flavour follows through with the brooding quality. Silky texture and good mouth feel, but rather thin around the edges (a little too much acidity).
  
  Like so many mid-range red Burgundies, this is a gentle ethereal wine, but it is difficult to get excited about it.

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