Sweet spice, dark fruit and animal on the nose. An extracted wine that excel in a weak vintage. Palate was rich and weighty with lovely sweetness. Although this bottle is so well made, it lacks the usual Engel floralness and delicacy. Engel nailed the 91 vintage.
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Sweet aromas of mature red fruits with a wonderful floral aroma. Well integrated tasty dark red fruit flavors dominate, yet good streak of zippy energy keeps this quite alive in the mouth. Finishes dry and a touch rustic with a lingering bitter dark chocolate and baking spice quality. Fully mature and perhaps slightly too dry for my taste, but holding quite well and performing nicely today.
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Burgundy Dinner - René Engel and 1978s (Formento's - Chicago IL): In Engel flight. Fully mature red cherry with slightly sweet baking spice. Much like the 2002 Echezeaux in the flight, this has nearly prefect balance, even with its moderate weight and length. Burgundy personified. This might have been better a year or three ago, but will drink wonderfully for another 5+ years.
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1/2/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sweet spice, dark fruit and animal on the nose. An extracted wine that excel in a weak vintage. Palate was rich and weighty with lovely sweetness. Although this bottle is so well made, it lacks the usual Engel floralness and delicacy. Engel nailed the 91 vintage.
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4/18/2017 - KenK Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sweet aromas of mature red fruits with a wonderful floral aroma. Well integrated tasty dark red fruit flavors dominate, yet good streak of zippy energy keeps this quite alive in the mouth. Finishes dry and a touch rustic with a lingering bitter dark chocolate and baking spice quality. Fully mature and perhaps slightly too dry for my taste, but holding quite well and performing nicely today.
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4/18/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Burgundy Dinner - René Engel and 1978s (Formento's - Chicago IL): In Engel flight. Fully mature red cherry with slightly sweet baking spice. Much like the 2002 Echezeaux in the flight, this has nearly prefect balance, even with its moderate weight and length. Burgundy personified. This might have been better a year or three ago, but will drink wonderfully for another 5+ years.
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1/23/2017 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
JM dinner. Flight with 1993 Meo Brulees. Achingly pure and polished red fruit. Sweet and nail polish finish.
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