1974 Charles Noellat Richebourg

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  9/24/2021 - CTSO Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This is the best wine in the tasting, followed by the 1973 Vienot Richebourg (93) and the 1991 Remoissent Richebourg (91). The color is still very solid. It opened up slowly and after 3 hours it turned into a full and complex Richebourg with flowers and spices packed in a glass. The wine is balanced and long, presenting a lovely drinking experience. A true expression of the terrior and still at its peak. In my view, at par with the 1974 Vega-Sicilia Unico drank a week ago.

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  5/28/2019 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  RSV and Richebourg Dinner + Montrachet and La Tache (Holland Park, Singapore): Delicious again - wooh. Lovely nose. Sarasarapilla root, sweet florals, then bits of mineral, spice and meat, along with drifts of red fruit and bramble. Lovely mature stuff. The palate was delicious, with layers of meat and smoke, floating alongside a superb mouthful of soft red fruit and gentle spice, this trailing away in a quiet but insistent finish of root beer, spice and caramel, underlined with a twist of bramble. Completely soft, mellow and mature, yet nicely still nicely kept up with a decent bit of acidity. Old for sure, but yummy.

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  4/6/2017 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Dinner at ITSPD (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Richebourgs needs time, and this bottle was a great example of just how well they do with age. It had a complex and lovely nose that unfolded from the glass in gentle wafts of spice, earth and meaty accent, and then dried flowers, red cherries and deeper blueberry fruit - a lovely melange of sweet and savoury aromas. The palate was absolutely beautiful as well - soft and silky, with lovely flavours of cream soda and flowers, dark cherry and berries up front, but with a real sense of muscular structure and a minerally spine below, and then a gentle infusion of spiciness throughout - this was a glowingly sweet and beautifully delicious old Burgundy. Great finish too, with bright acidity lifting the sweet fruit and a savoury, minerally pull that filled the back palate. A beautiful wine, drinking at a very satisfying peak.

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