2018 Domaine Roblet-Monnot Monthélie Village

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  9/7/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2/14. Now three months after my first drink of this wine.
  Sinfully appealing to smell. A mouthful is more chaotic. The tannins and liquor flavors are a test, especially so as the heat dome vacates and the Riesling withdraws. Impacted, stiff extracts of red berries, cola, cardamom, and poppy. More contact makes it more appealing. So did d'Artagnan steak dinner.
  24 hours later. The smell is "wow." Thick with soil and roots bleeding dense, inky extracts of little berries. Monumental and crystaline. Arresting tannins, wrung deeply from cropped flavor reserves. It's an infant. Engineer, statesman, philosopher. I see a bold future for this. 92-95.

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  6/3/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A wine this plush—with its tangle of complex organic compounds—can be expected to develop in the cellar in ways unruly. For now, it's a well-mannered and aromatic extract. A smell of it is deeply intoned with suggestions of old-growth cherry liquor. Oak is evident in its tension, grain, and un-ironic deliciousness. A conspiracy of pointed, ripe tannins rule the opulent mass before ambient, choral acidity swells quietly. Bitter, inky oils volunteer authority in the direction of cassis, framboise, and star anise. A shaded, nutrient matrix of lithic debris forces a certain gravitational order on the experience. A twilight scent of tidal marsh lofts with finesse. This wine is adorable and serious. It's the antithesis of the pinched style of "important" winemaking that I find too common, well ... everywhere, and most tragically in the Cote d'Or. 91-95. I expect it to be finished developing by 2028.
  
  (I sought this bottle after drinking RM's 2015 Bourgogne HCdB. Glad I did.)

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