WineBerserkers Bay Area Burgundy Tasting (Bella Trattoria, San Francisco): Nose was decently expressive, showing slightly buttery popcorn, minerals and raw hazelnuts. Well developed, dark gold colour. Palate started fairly big and become hollow. Flavours of almond, some minerals, some oak, vanilla, orange peel/citrus zest. Decent acidity and short finish ending with a little bitter wood. Lacked balance. This didn’t have the power one usually expects from Corton-Charlie and was less ripe tasting then I would have expected from the vintage.
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Burgundy Tasting (San Francisco): I was disappointed in this - I always love CC when I get a chance to taste, but this bottle was somehow lacking. The nose was an inviting mix of oak and fruit, but the mid palate seemed both clunky and off-balance, and then it vanished. The acid appeared to have been somehow removed from the experience. Weird. Not familiar with the producer, so perhaps it is a vintage issue...? I hope it's bottle variation and we just got an off one.
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WineBerserkers Bay Area Burgundy Tasting (Bella Trattoria, San Francisco): Deeper golden-orange color; rich, biscuity, honey, toasty; slight oak, vanilla, secondary notes, thins out on the midpalate; medium finish. Nice nose, disappointing on the palate, seems overall like not complex enough to be of grand cru quality, relatively low acid for burgundy (though not as much as the average California chard). 88
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1/20/2014 - kultcha wrote:
WineBerserkers Bay Area Burgundy Tasting (Bella Trattoria, San Francisco): Nose was decently expressive, showing slightly buttery popcorn, minerals and raw hazelnuts. Well developed, dark gold colour. Palate started fairly big and become hollow. Flavours of almond, some minerals, some oak, vanilla, orange peel/citrus zest. Decent acidity and short finish ending with a little bitter wood. Lacked balance. This didn’t have the power one usually expects from Corton-Charlie and was less ripe tasting then I would have expected from the vintage.
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1/20/2014 - tarheel17 wrote:
Burgundy Tasting (San Francisco): I was disappointed in this - I always love CC when I get a chance to taste, but this bottle was somehow lacking. The nose was an inviting mix of oak and fruit, but the mid palate seemed both clunky and off-balance, and then it vanished. The acid appeared to have been somehow removed from the experience. Weird. Not familiar with the producer, so perhaps it is a vintage issue...? I hope it's bottle variation and we just got an off one.
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1/20/2014 - aagrawal wrote: 88 Points
WineBerserkers Bay Area Burgundy Tasting (Bella Trattoria, San Francisco): Deeper golden-orange color; rich, biscuity, honey, toasty; slight oak, vanilla, secondary notes, thins out on the midpalate; medium finish. Nice nose, disappointing on the palate, seems overall like not complex enough to be of grand cru quality, relatively low acid for burgundy (though not as much as the average California chard). 88
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