2006 Domaine Denis Bachelet Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (59) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  4/21/2024 - Mleh wrote: 88 Points

  I have recently had several 2016s of the bachelet v.v. And they are excellent, some of the best gevrey I’ve had so I had high hopes for this but it was really underwhelming. I sipped it over 2 hrs and then drank with a quiche Lorraine. Nose was red cherries and palate was pleasant stemmy red cherries. The wine was really quite acidic, which was a bit more balanced with the food but overall not very complex and certainly my nothing like the 2016 in terms of the purity of fruit, lovely earthiness and layers of complex flavor. Bit of a disappointment to be honest.

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  12/31/2023 - GrandeSerataFuori wrote: 86 Points

  Wine 5 of 7 on NYE.
  
  Medium color. Very smooth. This felt flabby/lifeless and little secondary characteristics. Cellar temp was too cold and the wine was a little better as it warmed up. Sad because I was SO excited.
  
  (I've been unhappy with every bottle i've bought from Wine Consigners so far. 6 bottles total.)

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  3/25/2023 - Paul D wrote: 92 Points

  3/6, good cork.
  Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Nose shows pure black cherry, bilberry - notes of violets and also meat and soil. Certainly complex for this level. Medium bodied, pure fruit, touch of meat and liquorice, lovely vibrant acids, frim but fine tannins, nice length. Lovely, this has come round niciely.

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  2/18/2023 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This was absolutely terrific last night, I mean I was blown away! It had an astounding vinous quality, that enhanced already gorgeous, dark red wild cherry fruit. The fruit is crunchy, and rich, also weightless, and so fine. The house seems to get the most perfect balance between fruit, mineral and earth/soil perceptions. What a terrific place right now I believe it will improve for quite a few years to come. If you’re sitting on this, or lucky enough…Evocelles, Corbeaux, or Charmes, give them years, and be happy when you reflect on your cellar knowing they are there.

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  7/29/2022 - fussyeater wrote: 88 Points

  Burgundy WIMPS (La Trompette, London W4): Menthol initially on the nose, quite svelte tannins and improved with time in the glass. Yet this seemed in the words of a fellow diner a bit "meh" as frankly it was underwhelming and insufficiently interesting or enjoyable given the pedigree of the producer. Hard to say if it would have been better in its youth. The bottle was in good nick.

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