Community Tasting Note

• Arinbraghe Likes this wine: 87 points

  December 8, 2013 - From a 375 ml bottle. For me this is one of those "I love you but I'm not in love with you" Burgundies. Starts out with a muted little nose of soil and red fruits, but mostly smells of... not much in particular. In the mouth there's evidence right away of the producer's high style and consummate balance, but you're forced to look too hard for something rave-worthy. Very Beaune, with more red fruits juxtaposed (and initially losing ground) to a lean, gravelly-textured rigidity that keeps the wine from being simple and one-dimensional, but hardly makes it lovable. With air time, it fleshes out and shows a bit more personality, red fruits fattening (they could hardly become more svelte!) and balancing out the marble-mouth minerality. But there's a distinct bitterness to the finish, almost rude at first and then more subtle as the wine grows with air. It would be easier to overlook if it weren't so prominent from the start, but you detect it straightaway and keep looking for it (and finding it) over the course of the bottle. Problem with 375's is, you don't get much wine to work with - even with modest pours the bottle's gone in under an hour. Not sure where we caught this in its life-cycle but I don't believe there's a swan hiding here that will come out with more age, at least not in this bottle format.

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