12/6/2021 - shaftlet wrote:

Gorgeous aromas of rose, coffee, cola, strawberry, rosemary, earth, dried cherry. Medium plus intensity. approachable but tightly wound. This definitely needs a good decant to open up a dense, intense medium plus palate. This has the structure and flavor intensity to go another dozen years. Very impressive. I think this the same fruit as the old Patrick Lesec Selection Domaine St. Martin? St. Martin also produced a Monopole Finottes in Marsanny up until the late 2000s. Now that Monopole is produced by Domaine Bart. Overlap of many of the same Marsannay lieu-dit bottlings too which all seem to have disappeared in the last 10 years and reappeared under the Domaine Bart etiquette.

5/5/2022 - kr522 wrote:

When you think of the best Bordeaux of the last 50 years this has to be on the short list. This is exotic cab franc bringing another level to the wine, it has everything…fresh, exotic, layered. And it kept building over several hours saving its best for last

10/19/2022 - swyang wrote:

Very beautiful and yet far from being fully ready. Really pure scents of great vintage Burgundy, initially one could smell slightly more south and guess as Beaune upon opening. However after about half an hour the spice and earthiness of N.S.G is surfacing with a vigorous and healthy manner. Still very young(surprisingly) and lots of potential. For the time being pure scents of red fruits mingling with red roses as well as other floral elements and on the palate super healthy and shiny texture delivering wonderful tannin, yet to be resolved. A great Les Cailles in the making. Cheers,

2/2/2018 - barolo300 Does not like this wine:

I found this wine to be astringent, unbalanced in terms of acid to fruit character and just generally lacking any charm. I have tried 2 over the last couple of years and frankly don't plan on trying any more. Perhaps things could come together after several more years in bottle, but I can't see that the bones are there for this to be anything special

2/23/2013 - chambolle wrote:

Out of the bottle, the wine is bright gold, rather deeply colored for a wine of this age, but not troublingly so. The nose is an exotic tropical fruit cocktail - there are hints of mango, pineapple, citrus peel, lime. On the palate, the wine is bright, but at the same time it has a sweet, oily edge that verges on unctuous. The finish carries through with this exotic, tropical character, and has an unusual sweet-tart candy character, right down to the chalky quality of that artificial confection. This artificially sweet and tart character becomes increasingly obtrusive as the wine takes in air and warms in the glass. It isn't a wine that makes me want to keep drinking. The first glass is the best there is, and it is downhill from there.

I've been called a "moron" by a certain "rarewineman" for opining that I do not enjoy the 2007 St. Aubin En Remilly bottling from this producer. Maybe I am cognitively challenged, I grant that. However, I do not particularly like this wine either. I find it to be a California chardonnay drinker's idea of white burgundy. It is fat, sweet and cloying to my taste. That said, I can understand the wine's appeal. The wine is undoubtedly rich, and in an odd, almost artificial way (is it acid adjusted?), it does have a bright acidity about it that might pass for "minerality," although this aspect strikes me as poorly integrated with the overall profile of the wine in the mouth and merely contributes to a new world, confected style.

This '08 is certainly far better wine than the '07 En Remilly is at this moment, although I also fear that given another year or two in bottle, the '08 will turn out pretty much the same way - cloying, unduly oxidative (not oxidized, and there is a difference), sweet and leesy, overdone. It simply isn't a wine with a lot of finesse or elegance. It makes me think Kendall-Jackson, or Rombauer, or Sonoma-Cutrer, not St. Aubin or Chassagne or Puligny.

If you like this style, it's not a bad example of it. There is certainly a mouthful of wine here, so if you judge value by horsepower per dollar, it's a "value" and "punches above its weight." But it's not to my taste. It's a Mustang or a Camaro, not a Boxster or an M3. My guess is this wine may have shown very well in barrel and early in its life in bottle. I can't say I like the way it shows four to five years from the harvest.

By way of an addendum: I kept this bottle in a cool place for two days after opening. On day two, the sweet, tropical character of the wine remained, but without the brightness of the first day as a counterpoint. Not particularly palatable. By day three, the wine had lost the tutti frutti tropical character, and had become almost muscadet-like, all sharp edges. I admit complete bafflement as to where this wine may be headed. But so far, it hasn't shown me anything I find especially appealing.

8/7/2022 - chambolle Likes this wine:

I first started drinking the Dauvissat La Forest on a regular basis back in the ‘80s, when it was a genuinely ‘under the radar’ gem. Continued buying the wine by the case or two most years and drank it with abandon, although I still have stray bottles going back to 1990 lying around in the cellar.

So now this 2012 is a pricey bottle, it seems. Is it ‘worth’ it? I can’t really say; but it’s damn good wine. Ten years after the vintage, the 2012 looks young… pale greenish straw in the glass. Just opened and poured, the nose is not very forthcoming, the palate is fresh, light, a bit of lemon, a bit of salt. After about two hours and allowed to warm up in the glass, it’s a whole other wine… the nose hints at lavender, some lime leaf, a bit of blood orange. The palate is rounder, richer, leaning a bit in the direction of dried apricot and preserved lemon. Still crisp, saline, chalky at the same time as it has taken on weight. I’d be pretty confident this will be grand 5 or 10 years from now — but it’s no slouch now. As for the ‘pre-mox’ everybody likes to talk about, not a trace here, I assure you.

I seem to recall this 2012 was about $60 on release, which was more than I was accustomed to paying for La Forest, but in retrospect that appears to have been the tail end of the ‘under the radar gem, value proposition’ era for this wine. A bit sad, really. Pretty much year in, year out it’s among the very best 1er cru bottlings from Chablis and not far off from most of the grand cru Chablis you’ll find. This bottle of 2012 certainly did not disappoint.

5/25/2022 - awever Likes this wine:

An almost perfect Chardonnay , drunk at Rutz Berlin

1/2/2017 - Moonie Likes this wine:

From a magnum. Perfection and the essence of what a great CDP should be in all respects. Decanted just 1 hour and really no need as it was drinking beautifully right from the start. I've never understood the need for luxury CDP cuvees, especially when a wine performs as this one did at lunch today.

4/15/2022 - americanstorm Likes this wine:

One hour decant. Ethereal nose of lavender, powder and lemon zest, perhaps a hint of licorice. Tannins are almost totally integrated but still present and very fine. Great mouthfeel and long finish that goes on and on. Dark cherry, rose, a touch of tar. A little port like. Drinking fabulously. One of the finest barolos I have ever had, if not #1 definitely in the top two or 3 but the question of price point should be addressed. I paid slightly over 200 for this bottle and would gladly buy another bottle or two at that price, but no way in hell would I pay the $900+ the current market is pricing it at. I find that to be utterly ridiculous and, personally, i don't think there is a wine on the face of this earth that is worth a thousand dollars a bottle. Speculators and "investors" are destroying the market for actual wine drinkers, kind of sad IMHO. 96 --97

9/28/2019 - Pknut wrote:

Fantastic bottle, and could be used as evidence of the strengths in 2011 White Burgundy. Energy, vigor and acids right from the first sip, with a clear fruited palate. Loved it. Sugarman's birthday at Farida.

2/25/2021 - Pknut wrote:

Same as my last note, from 8/2019. Kept hoping this would open up and show some sweetness of fruit, which is lacking. It's grumpy and lean on the first night. Somewhat softer palate on the second night, rounder, hints of soy, but still lacking in charm and sweetness of fruit. Disappointing.

2/23/2022 - JimHow wrote:

What to make of this enigma?
When we drank it in its youth, in the early glory days of BWE, we thought it was the next coming.
Dominated by oak, yes, but with a smooth sweetness that whetted the tasted buds, literally generated a salivation that resonates to this day.
Along with the 2000 du Tertre, it eventually became a BWE wine of the year.
And then, for almost two decades, it seemed to disappear from our radar.
Some of us, Marcus and myself included, have noted its less than spectacular evolvement at BWE events.
And maybe it's just as simple as that.
Maybe it just hasn't yet fully evolved.
I gotta say, though, I know what my nearly 30 year experience with Bordeaux wines tells me.
This wine is a bit of a disappointment, a bit of an underachiever.
It still has a long way to go, don't get me wrong.
Tonight, initially, it had that almost medicinal feel that I have experienced, over and over, from the 1989 and 1990 Barons, as they have been crushed, repeatedly, up against my 89/90 Lynch Bages, the last of the great Lynches.
Sometime in the 1990s, the tide turned. Lynch declined, and Pichon Baron rose to new heights.
I'm not sure the evolution was complete by 2000. I'd rate the 2000 Lynch and 2000 Baron about at a tie...
Both 93 points, both excellent, neither anything outstanding.
After that, perhaps starting as early as 2002, everything seemed to change.
It seems like Pichon Baron began to, finally, "realize its terroir."
While Lynch, after 2000, has been one abysmal disappointment after another, continuing the failures of the 1990s, certainly post-1996.
Tonight, this wine began as medicinal, tart, acerbic, like those 89s and 90s of yore.
It evolved, smoothed out, but never rose to any great heights.
What the hell happened here?
I was in Bordeaux in September 2000, the sun was unrelenting, it was clear that this was going to be an epic vintage.
We have tasted many interesting 2000s over the years.
Disappointingly, this 2000 Pichon Baron has been good but not great.
Absolutely nothing compelling or "profound" here.
A strong effort, mind you, and perhaps the beginning of the signs of the excellence that was to come over the next two decades.
But a 93 point wine at best... Still, something to celebrate. But... Excellent, but not great. And well below its early expectations.

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9/5/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:

What was that? There's some reasonable cherry fruit on the nose and a bit of earth, but then...... Hollow on the midpalate, the wine just disappears after the initial bit of fruit, yet it's also somehow slightly extracted and confected on the finish. I couldn't finish my glass. A massively disappointing effort for a 16, which is my favorite vintage since 2010.

1/16/2021 - Nicephoras wrote:

Double blind. Some reduction on the nose, but not obtrusive and blows away reasonably quickly. Nose is a bit tropical, and there's a hint of tropicality on the palate, but this feels correct rather than obtrusive. The palate has great acidity, mostly with white fuit and there's just wonderful tension on the mid-palate, almost grand cru quality. The finish is medium, but good, with some more hints of tropicality. The tropical notes and palate tension made me think this was a big vintage Meursault from a very good producer - a more restrained vintage of PYCM or a Roulot, from 2010 or maybe 2011? Was surprised it was a 2015, as the acidity is considerably greater than what I'm used to in 15. A terrific wine and the finish expanded when we revisited this later in the evening.

3/28/2021 - kingkanu wrote:

The Genius of Domaine d’Eugénie (67@Home Zoom Tasting): There's 20 or so rows of vines here making a 0.5 hectare plot, 40 - 70 years of age. 6 barrels were made, 4 were new. This has a much riper and bigger nose than the other vintages tasted and more obvious ripe fruit, still just about medium body, but a little darker and more concentrated. Ripe dark cherry fruit, some chocolate, mouth filling, succulent and long. this is the only wine of the tasting where the acidity doesn't quite cut through the fruit, quite a change of pace but a stylistic rather than qualitative choice.

7/23/2020 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine:

Glass: Zalto Universal
Popped and poured, drunk over 12 days. Right after opening a very dominant and not pleasant citrus note in the nose an on the palate. Left at least half of the bottle in the fridge and drank if over the next 12 days. On day twelve it started to show, why the guys from MFW rated it with 98 points:
Nose starts to get really complex with some tobacco, woodruff, fresh lime, herbs, slate.
Medium-dry, high-acidity that is still racy, but not as unbalanced as in the first days. Very fresh and young flavors of lime, herbs, stony mineral notes, woodruff and hints of green tobacco leafs. Lots of grip and tension, very dense, concentrated and with lots of extract. Quite long and lingering. Keep it for at least 5+ years to fully shine. 90-91++

2/11/2017 - Ispendtoomuchmoneyonwine Likes this wine:

Fantastic wine minerals wet stone pear slight touch of nuts. Very integrated so there is no dominance of any one element. Super elegant very classy. Tasted much better when less chilled. It reminded me of a Reveneau Chablis.

2/5/2021 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

I have very good news for anybody who really likes this kind of thing. You can buy Ch. La Vieille Cure from Fronsac and get basically the same wine for twenty-five bucks. I honestly had no idea what to expect going into this - I was of course aware it was a TWA darling back in the day, but I can probably count the number of Washington State wines I've had on one hand. Right off the bat, I find myself kind of impressed how Bordeaux-like and NOT California-like it is, complete with the gravely, lead-pencil notes - intensely concentrated fruit to be sure but not far beyond the parameters of many a fine Bordeaux from a rich vintage, and for the most part without the CA-like sucrosity. Well, at least at first. Within about 15 minutes it becomes absolutely dominated by caramelly, brown-sugary oak, really not far off Mollydooker levels, and you can practically visualize the machinery in here that was keeping the fruit sweetness within normal parameters powered by some monkey on a bicycle that's now pedaling furiously trying to keep the whole thing from snapping and it doesn't quite snap, exactly, but it's more like when something goes wrong in your car and you have a few days of, "huh, something smells kinda funny" before you realize you actually have to bring it in to the mechanic and then once you finally bring it in he's just kind of in shock asking you half in pity and half in contempt of your blithe ignorance, "And you were driving it like this for how long?"

1/24/2017 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:

Have to assume this is the payoff of ex-chateau provenance from a vintage I don't think I've ever had a good bottle from. Somehow still ruby red in color and commensurately fresh on the palate albeit lighter in complexion. But it's not lean, actually quite fleshy and billowy, and still has flavors recognizably continuing the theme from the bigger vintages.

7/10/2021 - etyc wrote:

PnP'ed - my 1st JMV red. Woah, this was inky dark-purple/black & opaque. Scents of plums & black cherries (with a slight tinge of heat towards the end) wafted from the glass effortlessly without much need for swirling. This was ripe & luscious on the palate, with notes of chocolate, more plums, black cherries & bits of spice. But wait, is this a Burg/Pinot? It certainly invoked notions of Rhone (with high acidity/freshness albeit), with the concentration that's almost palate staining. A very well-made wine no doubt, but questions abound if I would reach out for another bottle if I want to indulge in a Pinot on a given day, at least in the near term. However, with sufficient ageing, this may be another proposition altogether, which remains to be seen...

2/24/2021 - Montesquieu Likes this wine:

Wine with friends: cigar tobacco, green, earth, on upswing

7/14/2021 - Cailles wrote:

Bordeaux 2000 - 20 Years On - 48 Reds: All tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) It´s a good vintage but not on par with more recent great vintages like 09/10/15/16. Why? A smaller group of top wines reaching lower highs and in general a tad less depth, purity and finesse. 2) Right bank is ready, the left bank still needs time to integrate and open up. 3) Not much tertiary aromas yet - peak drinking window at least 10 years away for most wines. 4) 2000 is a bit a cooler vintage which is great for the right bank (not too much ripeness). 5) Winners? Pomerol with the highest ratings. Le Pin (97+ pts) leading the pack for me (narrowly beating the consensus winner Pavie (97 pts).

More information, top and worst 10 lists, appellation rankings, out- and underperformer from five participants in the story link. As always, in such tastings (lots of wines, not a lot of time per wine, not decanted) the ranking of wines/appellations might be more informative than the scores.

TN: I didn’t like the nose much or found it overly expressive and interesting but on the palate there was a nice red and dark berry-driven fruit expression combined with lots of minerality and a nice creamy texture. The structure will need a bit more time to soften further. This was one of the more open left bank wines but no comparison to the more recent vintages which boast much purer fruit expression and a touch more sexiness and finesse (but a more modern style).

Decanting: This would have certainly gained from 2h+ in the decanter.

Group average: 93.0 pts
Group rank: Shared 20th out of 48

2/20/2021 - wstromb404 Likes this wine:

I’ve always loved Lagrange because although it is not a Leoville, it hits all the St. Julien notes consistently, and has an incredible price point for the quality. This was the oldest vintage I’ve had of Lagrange, and it did not disappoint. The 2-plus hours decant was a necessity, but the cork came out clean and the time opening up made it improve and improve. The nose is not memorable, but the palate is gritty - dark currants, pencil shavings, black pepper - with a fairly long finish. By the time we finished the bottle 3 1/2 hours after opening, it was peaking. I thoroughly enjoyed this wine.

12/24/2020 - MRG73 wrote:

A bit of advice, if you open this, fully decant it and don't touch it for 2 hours. On opening, it is bitter and tight to the point of not being enjoyable. 3 hours after opening the wine drunk well. Super intense and concentrated with a certain inky iodine and salinity to it I have not experienced before. Certainly not a feminine pinot, well and truly at the masculine end of the scale. I would have rated this 95 but for the drying tannins on the finish. Typical of some 05's I guess. I will keep my other bottles for another 5 years.

2/23/2019 - Cailles wrote:

Matter of Taste (Zurich): Chartron Masterclass with JM Chartron and Will Kelley
On the nose the weakest in the line-up with rocks, fresh cut grass and slight reductive notes. On the palate a bit more depth with white fruit, a bit of apple, citrus and some rocky minerality. Fine, soft, fresh - overall a good wine but here too: nothing exceptional.

6/22/2017 - dcwino wrote:

Winos' excellent adventure in France; 6/22/2017-6/27/2017 (All over France): Pop and pour, coiled nose displaying ripe citrus, lemon curd, honey, white flowers, saline, strong mineral a la wet stone and a hint of honey. Excellent concentration, oily, dense and coiled. Bright acidity and a long mineral and honey driven finish. With air, it opens up, displaying generous citrus fruit and honey. The ripeness is in line with the other 09 Raveneaus; however, the wine displays a greater precision and focus. Needs minimum ten more years to reach maturity.

1/1/2019 - sjwshiraz wrote:

Still very young and closed. Needs another 5 years. Should be lovely

10/25/2014 - korum Likes this wine:

Sweet red cherries on the nose. Some earth and sandalwood underneath the cherries. Very nice nose! Sweet / tart flavors. Some bitterness. Concentrated / needs time. Is it just a little forced? Time will tell.

8/31/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:

Some VA, but very 96. The fruit can't possibly make up for the prominent acidity. Of our (unexpected!) 96 horizontal this night, the vintage definitely shone through.

6/8/2020 - Derek Darth Taster wrote:

Drank in Grassl Cru. Given generous air-time. Re-tasted again after 2 days of air in glass container in chiller and still good!
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of garden soil earth, floral violet, pretty red cherries, strawberries, light red spice, touch of deeper dark red and blue fruit. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), firm chewy medium+ tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of red cherries, strawberries, tart red plum, savoury garden earth, light spice, and then a darker core of concentrated ripe fruit - emerging black cherry and blueberry. Juicy long finish.
Very good quality. Lovely Beaune. Serious stuff. Probably just about entering a window. Ageing along well.

4/25/2020 - Gaudissabois Johan wrote:

GAUDISSABOIS JOHAN wrote : great wine. Up to now one of the best 2005's I have enjoyed so far. Beginning to open up completely. Not lightweight as is sometimes the trouble with this famous CLOS (the 2002 was disappointing).

5/28/2020 - jeffreylubowski Likes this wine:

Am I the only one that drinks this wine? Anyway, four years later and my last notes were wrong. I wanted to wait five years and yet here we are, and this bottle is a little tired. Stored in my wine fridge the whole time. It's not bad by any means but a muted version of everything I noted before. And a 2010 should be still poppin. I still have one left. Let's give it another five years just to see if it turns around.

4/30/2020 - Topper wrote:

Provided by a friend, this is a wine I wouldn't buy. It is sweet, floral, pretty and easy to drink without much to recommend itself in terms of complexity or gravitas. I can get approximately the same amount of pleasure from a can of cherry coke for a lot less than $100. Also, some retailers will require you to buy this wine in order to get the more highly allocated Mugnier wines because they have to buy this in order to get their own allocations. I understand their plight but have trouble with the concept for my own cellar.

7/2/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Served blind. Didn’t think it was Burgundy... so firm and tannic. When told it was, then clearly 2005. So much here, but give this another decade in the cellar.

7/23/2020 - jwsmith wrote:

Just think 16 is a one dimensional vintage big and in you face like 05

2/27/2019 - Collector1855 wrote:

Tasted blind. Wow, WOTN and candidate for the best white I ever had, people at the table were blown away by the complexity of this. Aromas go far beyond Chard, citrus, stone fruit, herbs, flowers, dried meat. There is also a barnyardy, Rousseau-Pinot side to this nose within the off the Charts complexityof this wine. I am speechless.

12/12/2015 - bjlcrucrazy Likes this wine:

From half bottle. Cork total mess had to filter into decanter. Light color and elegant. Initial nose tertiary with saddle, sandlewood, game, cigar box, tar on nose and then gradually red fruits start to emerge, especially raspberry. This was still beautiful even from half bottle!!! Had it on it's own without food

12/21/2018 - Bob H wrote:

From a bottle opened last night.

Fairly neutral nose.

Good tension on the palate, decent persistence - not bad, although I would have to say that as a vintage, 2014 was better young/on release than it is today.

11/3/2012 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

I've been patiently waiting for this vintage to start opening up (it seems to enjoy giving hints and teases and then changing its mind), so it was a pretty neat trick to see this one open up right in the glass. At first this was lean, acidic, and even a little flat, with a little leafy/minty thing going on that wasn't unpleasant in itself but seemed to bespeak something that hadn't quite crossed the ripeness finish line. Well, it was amazing to see how much this built in depth and richness over the course of the bottle. By the end, the lean, autumnal orchard fruit had fleshed out, turning noticeably sweeter, fuller, and glossier, as well as picking up a deep blue/black complexion. Where did all this extra material come from?? It's like all the stuff the vintage was hiding so long just spilled right out. And along with the fruit came the stony minerality that this piece of Pernand does so well. Even with all this stuff going on, though, it remained slender and with a silky finesse.

3/29/2019 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Seems like a different wine than the previous 2 or 3 vintages. Is this the first vintage that they made all by themselves? I am told they purchased the estate in 2015, so it’s been a couple of them totally under their watch. More cream soda and not too much oak on the nose and palate. Cream soda Chardonnay. Drinks very nicely and surely my favorite vintage so far 2014-2017.

11/17/2017 - sawira wrote:

Last bottle. Supremely delicious. Fully mature, no pox, brilliant Chablis. Super saline, hints of butterscotch (from age, not pox), bright ripe lemon fruit, super long finish. A gem.

10/3/2014 - La Cave d'Argent wrote:

Purchased upon release and cellared in pristine fashion, this bottle was double-decanted, allowing two hours in decanter prior to funneling back into the cleaned bottle. It was then presented to our tasting group in double-blind fashion. My taste was non-blind. The wine retains a youthful, deep ruby/red color. On the nose, it shows aromas of ripe boysenberries, tobacco, raisins and damp earth. There is additionally a component of volatile acidity which pushes the limit of tolerance. On the palate, it is full-bodied, massively extracted and packed with dark fruit; however, there is substantial alcoholic heat which becomes front-and-center even at a serving temperature of 55-60°F. Listed as 14.5%, I suspect that the true A.B.V. of this wine is substantially higher. Solid in the middle, it closes with impressive length, but this length (unfortunately) comes at the cost of enduring more heat. Even at this stage there will be fans of well-cellared bottles such as this one. To my palate, it is over-ripe and has become disjointed. Drink now-2015.

8/1/2010 - theusualsuspect wrote:

This is not a great modern Corton Charlemagne, but it is an excellent old style Corton Charlemagne. A certain austerity - long since gone in white burgundy - coupled with a very long minerally, indeed somewhat dry, finish. Big fruit and wood are not what this wine is aboout. . Nearing pale gold in color. Nice toasty nose. A narrow, if you will, finish that just sits there for a good long time. No butter, no oak, just an intense sort of white flower note that really carries.
As they say, won't see the likes of this again. Where are the oysters? Add that since 1985 it has never seen a temperature above 53 degrees.
There was a time when Corton Charlemagne was a singular wine, and this wine really reflects that. Today, Corton Charlemagne is basically another modern style chardonnay with new oak in the lead.
Louis Latour and Coche Dury led that charge.

2/19/2012 - Fatty Cat wrote:

Mid Feb 2012 in restaurant "Schwarzwaldstube, Traube Tonbach": golden amber color; grapefruit, apple, minerals; mellow acid on the palate; medium/full body; smooth texture.

Maybe my rating is a bit too enthusiastic but the wine went perfectly with the oyster dish.

4/7/2019 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

Super-juicy and undeveloped on day one, has that shrillness of a wine fresh off its fermentation. Much better the next day when it fleshes out a little and picks up a layer of chalk and beach sand.

1/25/2019 - Eudemis Likes this wine:

13% alcohol. Very good long dense cork. The colour is surprisingly light for a wine of that age, but I am delighted to see it as it almost guarantees lack of oxidation. Carafed 30mn ahead; a full hour would have been better.
The nose has plenty of yellow fruit, delivered in a restrained way. Nothing showy or blousy here; no oak in evidence either, and no butter thankfully. The mouth is even better, as elegant as you will get from chardonnay, with a slightly understated quality; some (not unpleasant) slightly bitter notes in the aftertaste. Went well with prawns and black sole.
All that being said, would I be prepared to pay the current rate for this wine (I am just going by the general market trend for Meursault Perrières, rather than the prices of this particular producer, whose wines I no longer have a source for) ? The answer has to be a resounding NO. The value has gone completely from the wines of the Côte d'Or in my view. No problem, move on to the next region(s), and very good their produces are too.

3/16/2018 - TashNYC wrote:

Improved from last time we had it. Good red fruit -- cherries and currants -- with smoke, tobacco and a little earth. I don't find this as mature as some do. Perhaps it will drink a little better with some more time?

9/28/2018 - Enfantterrible wrote:

The sulphur still remains. Behind that, there’s an amazing mix of lemon lime, peach, cream, and mineral. Beautiful stuff

Ok this is ridiculous. Accidentally left the bottle open for 24 hours. Now it’s drinking perfectly. Have never experienced this with any white wine. Keep remaining bottles for at least 3 more years

5/12/2016 - mattyboy_ wrote:

I didn't like this as much as the rest of the group. Seemed rather simple and fruit forward. I must say I don't drink much California wine but I do appreciate an old school Napa cab/bordeaux blend. This was too modern/new school for me. Rich, round, supple and soft, highly polished. No charm or character. (***)

5/5/2014 - Wine Fool Likes this wine:

(Decanted for three hours and consumed over two days.) I have tasted most of the Bouchard Le Cortons going back to the 1998 vintage and been impressed. (This is especially true of the great 2005, which is currently in a sullen phase and may remain there for some time.) But the 2010 Le Corton is in a class by itself. It has a dark but limpid cherry color. With much swirling, candied red fruit, smoke, violet and animal scents rise from the bowl. Impressively deep, sweet and sappy flavors of raspberries, cherries, pomegranates, licorice, minerals and earth coat the mid-palate and follow through on the long, tangy finish. The flavors are big and vibrant yet remain very stylish and precise. This creates a wonderful tension on the palate. The tannins are pronounced but very suave. (By the way, though much too early to consider food parings, this wine's earthiness kept putting me in mind of unembellished roasted squab.) Is it as good as, say, the 2010 Domaine Faiveley Corton “Clos des Cortons” Faiveley? Perhaps not but it is certainly nipping at its heels, and at half the price! This is a wonderful red Burgundy that needs at least a dozen years to really bloom. I cannot wait. 95+ points for now.