Community Tasting Note

• bevetroppo Likes this wine: 89 points

  August 2, 2016 - Not as sprightly as I might have hoped for an '05 Premier Cru, this shows dark kirsch-like fruit in the nose mixed with leafy, earthy and minty notes. Enough so that I consulted "When Wine" only to see that it is a leaf day. It's hard to tell how much, if any, of the property is or was farmed biodynamically-I saw conflicting reports online, and the property's own website mentions lutte raisonnee with minimal intervention, so who knows, but this is leafy.
  
  It's deep and satisfying on the palate, with dark red fruits dominating, wood and mint flavors, and a soft, rich texture extending into mostly resolved tannins.
  
  I'm going to try to revisit this tomorrow when the biodynamic clock may have ticked forward and out of leaf mode, but I often make that pledge and then forget, so I'll have to live with what it's telling me tonight.

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3 Comments

• Chrisinroch commented:

  12/11/16, 7:33 PM - Not..sure..if serious.

• bevetroppo commented:

  12/11/16, 8:00 PM - Serious...about...biodynamics and leaf days? Nah. I don't think there's credible evidence for any of it beyond some potential benefits of sustainable farming. But you can't deny you've got some very important domains doing it and they know more than I do. So I remain agnostic not atheistic.

• Chrisinroch commented:

  12/12/16, 1:08 PM - Ok, clever note, then.

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