A Few Miscellaneous Wines in Burgundy, Outside of Meals and Tastings

Tasted Monday, March 18, 2024 - Sunday, March 24, 2024 by Burgundy Al with 247 views

Introduction

I tasted through the red wines first, followed by the whites, but organized my notes on all the wines by the producer.

Flight 1 - Dinner at Restaurant du Square (2 Notes)

Flight 2 - Dinner at Slanted Door (3 Notes)

  • 2018 Guilhem et Jean-Hugues Goisot Saint-Bris Corps de Garde 90 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côtes d'Auxerre, Saint-Bris

    (3/19/2024)

    Citrus and green apple with white pepper, ginger,spring flowers. Wonderfully bright textures keep everything standing up at attention. Very good now.

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  • 2019 Domaine Didier Fornerol Côte de Nuits Villages La Rue des Foins 90 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Côte de Nuits Villages

    (3/19/2024)

    Wonderful richness of the vintage, so well spiced, with the restrained warmth of whole cluster. Great brightness offsetting the ripe balck and red berries, so balanced and so well resolved.

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  • 1996 Maison Chanzy Bouzeron Clos de la Fortune 88 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Bouzeron

    (3/19/2024)

    Glass sent over from the next table. Still wonderfully fresh with the charm the comes with snail’s-pace aging, this is engaging in an enticing and complex manner, yet still clearly lacking to some extent, the ripe fruit to effortlessly pull thst off. Still, very good now.

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Flight 3 - Dinner at Ma Cuisine (2 Notes)

Flight 4 - Dinner at Le Superb (2 Notes)

  • 2019 Domaine Antoine Jobard Puligny-Montrachet Le Trézin Flawed

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet

    (3/22/2024)

    Sadly a terrible restaurant Somm recommendation, this was very reductive to start (which we expected to dissipate) then even more massively reductive two hours later.

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  • 2019 Philippe Livera Gevrey-Chambertin Clos Village 85 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

    (3/22/2024)

    Another underwhelming Somm suggestion tonight. Ultra ripe on all fronts, this has a fine richness but lacks the balance or finesse I want from a from Gevrey lieu-dit, and I frankly don’t see this evolving into anything more exciting. If served blind, I would have thought it a tasty New World Pinot.

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Flight 5 - Dinner at Tan Dinh (4 Notes)

  • 2015 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 94 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru

    (3/23/2024)

    Wonderfully spiced with a rich combination of orchard and stone fruit, yet effortlessly in balance. At a great place now.

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  • 2010 Domaine Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Aux Beaux Bruns 93 Points

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

    (3/23/2024)

    Popped-and-poured, more air would have helped. Started as as charming, earthy, all red, and balanced, this seemed at its peak. This blossomed with air, expanded, and increased in complexity and nuance. More minerality and spice were clear by the end, the earth had faded, and more robust structural support was coming through, too.

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  • 2019 Vincent Dauvissat (René & Vincent) Chablis 1er Cru La Forest 91 Points

    France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru

    (3/23/2024)

    Small glass shared from the next table. Less classically Chablis right now, more opulently 2019, yet a mineral backbones ever-present. Very good tonight, but maybe even better with age.

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  • 2015 Clos des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape 92 Points

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    (3/23/2024)

    Small glass shared from the next table. Enticingly spiced, surprisingly balanced and alluring right now. Rich black fruit with nearly sweet spice, all with just enough structure in the near background. Very tasty now with upside.

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Flight 6 - Odds and Ends (2 Notes)

  • 1975 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Chaignots 92 Points

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

    (3/20/2024)

    We walked into one of my favorite wine stores in the world and were offered a taste of this wonderful wine, great 2cm fill. Some cherry, more cranberry, but even more cranberry sauce from the way the wine has matured, sweetened and faintly madeirized. In no way powerful, but wonderfully complex.

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  • 2022 Henri Magnien Ruchottes-Chambertin 93 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru

    (3/20/2024)

    Small glass. Bright red and black berries with lots of crunchy and wonderfully vibrant structure giving this even further lift. So charming already, even further potential as the faint baby fat fades away, 93-94 points, 2028 forward.

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