2005 Dominique Gallois Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Combe aux Moines

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90 points

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  6/24/2021 - PJHaveron Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Really presented nicely. Dark cherry fruit, herb and earth notes with an excellent bouquet, the wine developed beautifully over a couple of hours. Having said that, it still could probably use a bit more time. Finish was a bit truncated but all in all was drinking quite well.

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  11/26/2014 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Day later from memory. Is '05 Red Burgundy the Odell Beckham, Jr. of red wine vintages? Miraculous, balletic, just arriving on the scene with years of excitement ahead? Well, that might be a stretch, but it makes sense to me.
  
  This is the second premier cru '05 I've opened in the past week and both have been fabulous. Crackling with youthful energy, just starting to come around (though in truth this was a little harder out of the bottle than a Morey St. Denis a few days ago), taut, exciting, and seamless from start to finish.
  
  Here the wine is muscular, full-bodied, bursting with dark fruit and only the faintest whisper of development beyond primary characteristics. Bolder where the Morey was more feminine, it needed a good hour before it could be said to be accessible to my guests, but that didn't stop me from gushing about it.
  
  I'm quite torn now over whether to start opening my other '05's or let them all go a little longer. Not expecting much sympathy on that score.

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  4/5/2013 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Dark ruby colored. A big, rich, heady cherry and berry nose, flanked with notes of oak and a little sous bois. Maybe a tad jammy. Serious body and extract, round with sweet ripe red fruits, finishing with a rush of tannin and oak. It's still not quite ready for its coming out party, but should be in a few years, and will clearly be better if/when the woody harshness in the finish softens and the oak integrates. Still, it's impressive enough in a muscular Gevrey way right now.

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  3/28/2011 - tkim42 wrote: 89 Points

  Drank with Nard

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  3/12/2011 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 91 Points

  Medium dark raspberry red color; baked cherry, vanilla, raspberry, berry nose; ripe berry, ripe raspberry, spicy, oak, raspberry liqueur, Cali Pinot-esque; medium-plus finish

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