Popped and poured. Dark golden color. Lush, ripe peach aromas with tropical and oak hints. Same fruit flavors. At a very good place now, but fresher than you should expect from a 1997 today. Long and persistent, ripe on finish, even if just modestly nuanced. Better with more air.

Ripe peach aromas with lots of power, still showing some new oak that needs to integrate. Ripe apple and peach flavors with lots of fat, powerful character. Dense, big fruit with an ever-so-slight bitter edge on finish. Better 2014 or later.

Dark color. Ripe apple aromas with both some mature and sweet hints. Big-scaled and powerful on palate, picking up complexity and density with more time in glass. Great ripe fruit throughout, with some elegant spice emerging on finish. Better than another bottle from a few months ago.

Lemon, apple aromas with background spice. Lean and elegant palate with some nut butter hints I really like. Moderate length and intensity, this is a finesse-driven Meursault Charmes.

Plum aromas with rich spice. Plum and black currant flavors, dense and meaty on palate. Good balance start to finish, with some firmness emerging at end. Will continue to improve with more time in cellar.

An unusual bottle, more advanced than another from last year. Cassis, plum, black cherry aromas, well framed with new oak to start. Same fruit flavors to start, moderate density and length, but the wine became shorter and less fresh after about 2 hours in galss. Perhaps 90 points when first tasted, then 89 or 90 points several hours later.

Briefly decanted before serving. Great perfume and spice to start, accompanied by exciting black fruit aromas. Dense plum flavors but not very forward or forthcoming. More tannic than expected, also rather compact, possibly shut down? Although i haven't had this wine in several years, the flavors weren't as interesting as I recall from before.

Plum, cassis , lots of spice giving a slightly sweet touch. Some interesting barnyard hints. Dense on palate, very good balance. Elegant tannins throughout.