2005 Bouchard Père et Fils Meursault 1er Cru

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  8/30/2011 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points

  Lovely hazelnut and fresh nut nose. Too much oak for the moment.more time?

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  8/26/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 91 Points

  Grapefruit, mushrooms, figs, chalky nose. Rich lime, butter, caramel roasted nuts, vanilla and lots of oak, and finish of french beans or asparagus.

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  8/26/2011 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  Ming's 30th - a night of 1981 wines and more (Asia Grand, Odeon Towers): Two years down the road, and this was disappointing yet again. Like the last bottle, this was certainly good, but there was just too much oak obscuring it for it to be anything more than that. The nose was awesome stuff - on first sniff, it smelt for all the world like lemon cream biscuits, with a buttery creaminess wed to lemon curd aromas and then ripe, almost tropical fruit notes - with pineapples at the fore, and then tamer scents of apples and pears with just the tiniest touch of flowers at the edges and a curl of smoke. Absolutely lovely, if a bit heavy on the smokey oaky accents. After that, the palate was unfortunately dominated by the oak. There was a nice Meursault richness, lovely balance and focus, and nice, authoritative flavours of lemons and pear, but still far too much oak, so that all the good qualities of the wine were more or less buried under a layer of toast, smoke and sweet vanillin. This needs lots of time yet, at the moment, it is all potential and still a not the most fun to drink - with all that oak, it comes across almost as a very elegantly balanced new world Chardonnay.

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  9/28/2009 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  Dinner at French Kitchen (Central Mall, Singapore): A pretty good wine.... BUT... a major, major disappointment after how well it showed at the Domaine. Nose was as lovely as I remembered it. Delicate floral and honeysuckle notes were mixed with lots of chalky minerality, a touch of lime, juicy melon-flavoured gummies and a slight tropical undertone, all infused with buttery, mushroomy cream notes. Nice and complex without being overstated. The palate was where the letdown was though. Oily textured, a little soft on the acidity for a 2005. It sure was rich and had plenty of good weight, but was rather simple across the flavours profile, with buttery, creamy malolactic notes dominating along with a touch of smoky minerality moving into an integrated, stony finish with quite a bit of oak dancing around. The fruit seems to have receded into hiding somewhere. The quality of the material is evident, but this was a long way away from the complex layers of flavour that we had the last time. One bottle left - I am not going to touch it for years yet.

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  6/10/2009 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Trip to Burgundy; 6/7/2009-6/10/2009 (The Cote d'Or): I was floored by this wine. All of us were actually. Just stunning quality for what is essentially a blend of wines from three 1er Cru plots - Les Boucheres, Poruzot and Les Gouttes d'Or, so much so that it overshadowed an older (and admittedly underperfoming) Chevalier Montrachet that came after. Great value at 35EUR too. Not sure if this is available widely commercially, because I could not find it either on cellartracker or from the local distibutor's list. Good thing we all grabbed some from Bouchard even though we were almost running late from the next appointment. Just the nose on the wine was explosive. Rusty mineral, sweet quince, pears, melons, a little whiff of roquefort laced in there for good measure, and then typical Meursault butter and white flowers. Elsa said osmanthus. It was rich, complex and intriguing. The palate was no let up either. Lots of fresh, ripe white fruit. I got pears, melons, ripe lemons mixed in there and cream of mushroom layered all over. Lovely creamy structure, great balance, a very complete wine indeed. The finish just rounded the wine off perfectly. Long and powerful, it had a nice fresh touch, with an interesting savoury lilt, a touch more butter and a nice nuttiness to round things off.

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