2007 Domaine Marc Roy Gevrey-Chambertin Cuvée Alexandrine

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  4/26/2019 - Wine Ratings wrote:

  Beautuful nose, muted palate - loads of potential here, but it definitey feels like I jumped the gun. I gave this plenty of time and air to come around; it just never really seemed to get out of second gear. Alexandrine Roy is the 4th generation winemaker at the domaine, with a reputation as a dedicated farmer and absolute perfectionist. She prefers the route of minimal intervention/extraction, resulting in very elegant and thoughtful wines. Her Cuvée Alexandrine is a special offering is made using only millerandage grapes (‘shot berries’, or small but highly concentrated grapes); that concentration was certainly evident on the nose through intense red plum, ripe raspberry, licorice root, tobacco and cedar forest. Wave after wave of spice rolled through - nutmeg, tajin, allspice, tumeric - while the wine carried an overall floral/potpourri character. Some of this carried over to the palate, but generally it was tamer, tarter red fruit and subtler spiciness. This certainly seems to have all the makings of an excellent sip, and a great value wine - it’s just not quite there yet.

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  12/11/2016 - Vinomark wrote: 91 Points

  Young and needs more time. Really really good juice but in 2020+ a
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  10/19/2014 - Vinsant Likes this wine:

  Nice sip with quail stuffed with squash. Jammy red fruits, rose, earth, truffle, citrus rind, chalk, white pepper, and light spice. Big but gentle. Really shined with prosciutto/fig/mozz/basil app. Full flavored with a decent long finish. Not lithe but gentle on the palate...wanted more when I noticed the bottle was drained. Wouldn't be in a hurry to open if I had more but its in a nice fruit/earth stage right now on pop and pour.

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  2/14/2014 - NoSwill wrote: 89 Points

  Marvelous big nose of truffles, forest floor. On the palate farily full bodied wtih tart fruit and hints of brett and oak.

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  1/19/2010 - amateurwino wrote: 91 Points

  Made from grapes from six specially selected parcels with especially small berries; fuller than the other Roy wines tasted today; again, tart fruit that seems to be emblematic of the vintage. Good floral and earth, like the other wines from this domaine, but this bottling is slightly more successful than the others. Tannic, way early for this wine. 90-92.

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