1990 Henri Jayer Vosne-Romanée

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 94 points

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  1/23/2013 - noppakit s. wrote: 94 Points

  This is special village wine.
  
  Tested along with...
  
  1999 La Grande Rue : Francois Larmache 93-94/100
  1996 RSV : DRC 94/100
  2001 Vosne-Romanee Brulee : Meo Camuzet 93/100
  2007 Richebourg : Domaine Frere & Soeur Gros 93/100
  
  And Henri Jayer is WOTN, great performance, dramatic and takes me back to the old day. Very classic style.
  
  The structure of the great vintage is always amazing and Jayer made it beyond.
  
  Drink now - 2020.............94++/100................

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  11/7/2010 - Lord Rayas wrote: 94 Points

  Burgundy Trip - Day 1 - Lunch (La Colline du Colombier): Young and vibrant with notes of sweet spice and dark berries. Easily the best village wine I've had. Really lovely wine and admittedly my score might have been slightly biased given it's our first red burgundy wine after a 13-hr flight and 4-hr drive!

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  10/2/2006 - jrufusj wrote:

  Damn Good Burgs and a Toast to Hanky J (Keyaki Grill at Capital Tkyu Hotel): Very young looking with beautifully deep red color. Redolent of clove and cinnamon spice, immediately recognizable as Vosne Romanée (but not as a simple village wine!). Vibrant red fruit – cherry, deep raspberry – and sweeter black fruit – blackberry. A sweetness underlying the nose that just screams of perfect ripeness, not a hint of the roasting that some ‘90s can show – incredibly fresh. On the palate, moves into lovely sour cherry, a note of framboise but without any heat, stunning depth and complexity with earth and more spice coming out on the finish. If I had tasted this blind, I never would have pegged it as a village wine. Matt Kramer describes Romanée Conti as a perfect sphere. That’s the image that sticks with me for this wine – all elements in perfect balance with not a pimple or bump. Fresh, long, complex, fruity, spicy, sauve – all in balance. Perhaps the most fitting tribute to a great man was to drink one of his more humble wines and have it steal the evening. Thanks Steve.

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