2005 Burgundy Nite

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Tasted Thursday, July 26, 2012 by Keith Levenberg with 618 views

Flight 1 (1 Note)

  • 2010 Edmond Vatan Sancerre Clos la Néore 90 Points

    France, Loire Valley, Upper Loire, Sancerre

    Very different from the 2009. I imagine the alcohol must be lower, although I forgot to note the %, but in spite of that this comes across as the richer wine. The fruit flavors are deeper and the texture has an almost oily richness to it. The aromatics are pretty much as clean as can be with a scent that you could easily find in something from Bath & Body Works.

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Flight 2 (3 Notes)

  • 2005 Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos de la Maréchale

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru

    Probably the most smooth and drinkable of the wines today. Sweet five-spice scents and something caramelly on the nose; maybe that's the oak talking because I noticed a touch of woodiness on the palate and some brown sugar sweetness on the back end, but from a textural perspective this is extremely refined and gentle. Whatever primary fruit might have been here has turned into something non-fruity, leaving the general complexion of fruit but no actual fruit, if that makes any sense, and it's pretty deep and blackish in tone despite the wine's physical lightness.

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  • 2005 Domaine Truchot-Martin Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Sentiers

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru

    Surprise, surprise, the most difficult wine on the table and sadly the one that ended the night with the most leftover in the bottle. It's the type of closed that's more accurately called dumb: it's not that it's tight, tannic, inside-out, or harsh, it's just that it's showing almost nothing at all. The nose is almost totally mute, all you get is a vague sense of something dusty. If I might've expected it to stand out from the other wines on account of Truchot's usual light touch, that wasn't the case here; maybe the rich vintage has kind of pumped it up. There's a tenderness to this which is easy to appreciate but unfortunately this one was a waste to open at this moment.

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  • 2005 Domaine Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Véroilles

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru

    Ravishing aroma, easily the most impressive and powerful wine of the night, not that those two things need necessarily go hand in hand. I predicted this to be the most tannic and closed but in fact it had so much fruit concentration that it didn't seem tannic at all. The fruit was dark and rich but on the back end it almost seemed cool, with a mildly spearminty thing giving it lift.

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Flight 3 (3 Notes)

  • 2005 Domaine Ponsot Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Cuvée des Alouettes

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru

    Spritzy, and it needed a Mollydooker shake. After that it was pure fruit, with a burst of sweet berry flavor as if it were a pinot noir reduction sauce except it didn't come across thick in weight or verge over the line into being candied.

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  • 2005 Hubert Lignier Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Les Chaffots

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru

    Interesting contrast to the Combottes, this was by far the more red-fruited of the two and even had a touch of anise to it as well as something mealy. But that's not to say it was light and easy as this was one seriously solid wine, like Burgundy cast in concrete.

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  • 2005 Hubert Lignier Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

    Pitch-black fruit complexion, a sharp contrast to the red-fruited Chaffots, and also easier to drink than the Chaffots as it was just a bit more saturating and less boxy. The acid was as much of a factor as the tannin in the structure here which made this a nicely linear Lignier.

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