2005 Domaine du Chateau de Meursault Beaune 1er Cru Cent-Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  5/16/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 Points

  Tenth and eleventh bottle from a full case purchased at the estate in 2007. Tenth bottle maderised. Eleventh bottle on fine form, just a little bit more evolved than the ninth bottle tasted in February 2021, just a touch softer with a hint of tertiary development. This suits this fresh and structured wine well, it is a little more generous, even if the bitters from the cranberry and redcurrant fruit remain very grippy, and the unforgiving finish is tight and drying. With food it's fine, and to be completely fair, it was cheap as chips at the time, Euro 17 a bottle did not exactly break the bank...

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  2/19/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 Points

  Ninth bottle from the same case as the previous (maderised) one. This one is fine. It's fresh and tannic like you'd expect from a 2005, slightly dusty, with still quite primary fruit (cranberry, red cherry), and with a certain generosity on the palate that stops it from being austere. Dried fruit on the stemmy finish, good length. It's not a very complex wine, and I don't think that more age will improve this. I estimate that will continue to soften for another 3-5 years and then peacefully fade away.

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  2/19/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: flawed

  Eighth bottle from a case purchased at the estate in 2008. Pristine bottle, but an unusually brown colour, and almost completely maderised aromas.

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  4/23/2018 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 89 Points

  Almost two years since my previous tasting note and this continues to develop at a snail’s pace. Lively and quite youthful appearance. It is a little more open and relaxed than two years ago and there seems to be more cherry fruit on the slightly dusty nose now, next to the cranberries and mineral freshness. The palate remains very tannic however, with mature flavours of dried berries and black tea. Drying finish. It will last of course, but it will always be on the tough side, a fate which it shares with many other 2005’s unfortunately. It was relatively inexpensive when I bought it ten years ago at the Domaine (€ 17), but I guess the old adage about Burgundy still holds true: “You may not get what you paid for, but you will certainly not get what you didn’t pay for.” Amen to that.
  
  As an afterthought: the wine becomes much more palatable if enjoyed a bit too warm, say at 18°C - 20°C rather than at the customary 16°C. The palate comes across as fuller and the tannins seem more velvety. It’s just a nicer drink that way.

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  6/3/2016 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 89 Points

  A second bottle - this one is correct. Tough and tannic, energetic and structured, cranberries and minerals, still tight and bright, quite primary even if the flavours are starting to display a hint of nutty evolution, good length. I really wonder whether this has the stuffing which it needs to match the fierce tannins, which, I fear, may leave the wine high and dry in the end.

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