Community Tasting Note
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campingfleurie wrote: 90 points
April 29, 2012 - (From auction, so a chance of over-warm storage or some such issue.) Two hours of air. Nose is of wet tobacco, leather, raisins, bacony brett - a v different expression of classicism to the '96 St Pierre consumed recently. It's also less mature / integrated; so less compelling. In the mouth, prominent acidity initially makes the wine feel light. Relatively resolve tannin and questionable concentration makes it feel loose. However, the acidity continues to curl around, assert and promise more. The largely non-fruit flavour profile has good persistence. After lots more air, the wine feels more rounded and a little more mouth filling, but most importantly the acidity is now crackling and delicious, and it melds v well with the oxidative sweetness. Rather lovely: to many tastes I'd be underrating it at 90-91, 90. It'll age on this acidity, so will live a long time - another 10-15 years. The absence of fruit is a negative to me; but I realise it's quite possible that this wine will do more for me if the nose comes to integrate and fuzz-out; and there's clearly a chance of that. It's also possible that it'll decline to my tastes from here: as with the '95 Haut Bailly, this wine makes me favour the relative modernity of the Wilmers-ownership era at this estate.
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