1991 Mongeard-Mugneret Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Petits Monts

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  12/21/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points

  Right out of the gate this seals the deal for me that Les Petits Monts is a grand cru vineyard in all but name. The expressive bouquet of clove, cinnamon, and five-spice screams Vosne-Romanée but it's the mouthfeel where the wine really distinguishes itself, combining scale and finesse. It has the breadth to seep into the outer peripheries of the palate that other wines don't reach but does so with the sense of weightlessness that manages to convey flavor and texture with the delivery mechanism utterly refusing to betray any of the sundry physical stuff out of which it's made (except for the tannins which are pure lace). In mouthfeel this has a serious and immediate resemblance to the 1991 Drouhin Musigny I enjoyed a few weeks ago but the flavors are typically Vosne and the fruit somewhat plummier and more advanced. Differences in storage conditions could account for this as well as for the fact that this wine, excellent as it was, peaked within about three hours and started to show the effects of oxidation with some stewed vegetable characteristics.

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