12/7/2022 - mattyboy_ Likes this wine:

Drank in Zalto Burg glass. Pop and pour. Deep and brooding. Big baked cherry and cabinet spice hits you in the face. Wow! Just spectacular. This vineyard is a sleeper as it abuts right next to Bonnes Mares. You can taste the pedigree. A wine that will reaffirm why Burgundy is the best. Thrilling bottle.
In a great place right now, why wait any longer - ready to drink now.

12/6/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:

Ruby. Some varietal olive and dill. Lean, tannic, mineral, and saline without a great deal of fruit expression. When I tasted this at the domain shortly after bottling, I had high hopes for it, but I must say that it has not yet fleshed out into something more than it was in its early days. FWIW, this was the Dressner bottling.

8/26/2022 - Paul D wrote:

At lunch in Marlow. No formal note. Intense, lemony, slight touch of mineral. Youthful. Linear with decent depth, crisp acids, good length finish.

4/21/2022 - MJReb wrote:

Dark red fruited, saline, spicy, leather and soil. High density and with a good length. Drank alongside a Cras 09 of Roumier, this one was more complete and a step above.

2/18/2022 - MJReb wrote:

Drunk over 2 days: dark cherries, black berries, lots of earth and salt, a complicated year chez Gouges with wines quite reduced, this is still on the young side, but pretty good already.

12/16/2021 - chablis28 wrote:

Just hit a pre-moxed btl 20 minutes ago so turned right around and opened my last of 5.... with trepidation :) This blt also had a heart pounding deep gold but zero signs of destruction on neither the nose nor palate.

Complete & utter Dauvissat serenity!! Both btls from the exact same winery case?

9/14/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine:

A wonderful village wine with flowers, violets, red currants and minerals. Punching way above its weight. Better than many prem cru or even grand cru of many producers. 90-91

11/6/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:

Oxidized. Unfortunately, this was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back after having 2 consecutive bottles of oxidized 2008 Dauvissat Grand Crus. No more.

10/20/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:

Medium yellow. Superb citrus/broth balance on both the nose and the palate. Beautiful texture, medium to full body without any undue oakiness. Unfolded wonderfully in the glass, adding a smoky note. Dynamite bottle of Chablis at its peak.

Pure lemon peel and soil the second night with slightly more wood showing.

10/2/2021 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Souper ABC (à la maison): Je ne suis pas le plus grand fan de cette cuvée, mais cette bouteille m’a renversé… Une couleur de vieux vin, qui paraît oxydée, comme certains vieux vins de Bourgogne. Nez complexe et intrigant, des épices (safran, cannelle), pommes au sirop. Dense et très concentré, un vin de texture onctueuse, d'une profondeur exceptionnelle, avec une finale sur des amers nobles, des amandes grillées. La longueur est sidérante! C’est de loin le meilleur chenin sec que j’ai pris. Grand vin. 95 pts

Les amis étaient en Bourgogne!

10/1/2021 - MJReb wrote:

Jesus Christ, the same situation as with the last one some days ago: oxidized, but drinkable. Have another 2 of my case of 12 which I will check in short time. This wine has been so good until 2 years ago.

8/22/2021 - d'Artagnan wrote:

J’avais un certain préjugé avant de l'ouvrir, le premier MdT du domaine, ils n’ont pas encore mis le vignoble à leur main, le millésime est exotique, etc, etc. Comme toujours, la vérité est dans le verre!

Nez iodé discret. Un peu de lime. Bouche ample, avec la puissance du crû. Il montre plus de gras qu’attendu pour l’appellation, un fruit plus mûr, mais tout cela est sans doute dû au millésime.

Il a beaucoup évolué avec l’air, comme la plupart des vins du domaine. Après une heure trente d’ouverture il devient beaucoup plus classique, on ne dirait plus un 2013. La finale vole le show: saline, complexe et longue. Une transformation spectaculaire! Mes attentes sont largement surpassées, il est magnifique. 93 pts

8/17/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:

Poured straight out of the bottle into a decanter and agitated vigorously. Deep yellow with some orange. All bouillon and algal tones at first-like strolling through a tide pool. Then more lemon, and finally, after 2 hours, honey and truffle. Similarly savory, vegetal palate with medium weight, outstanding feel and cling, excellent acidity and limestone. Superb maturing Chablis that would have been easy to write off as oxidized if one had not given it time. I wish we could have opened and decanted it earlier to give it a chance to show its very best, but it is squarely at its apogee.

7/13/2021 - MJReb wrote:

Ripe fruit, mainly apple and some citrus, quite large, less tension compared with the last one.

4/16/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:

Opened 3 hours before pouring. Deep, primary ruby almost all the way to the meniscus. Menthol and violet with high toned secondary notes. Medium weight with a great soil base, crisp but not cranky acidity, reticent, tangy dark red and black fruit that unwinds over time, light herbs, and a late note of bitter chocolate. Still on the youthful side although the aromatics are more developed. This is an outstanding, enormously satisfying 2008 that has more than enough flesh to buffer the strict acidity of the year. Barthod's Cras always needs time, and I expect that this will be even better in 5 or more years.

4/15/2021 - VincentMorey wrote:

A long crazy stressful work week, resulted in popping a Vincent Dauvissat Forest 2015 a touch early for dinner. Decanted for about 30 minutes prior and by the time it was taken to the restaurant, it was ready to roll. The aromas were quite precious on this one, and even if the wine glass was not held up to the nose, I could smell it with reasonable distance. It is true what they say that with age (for this 5+ just barely on the 6th year mark), that the honey like texture develops and becomes richer, and this was a clear notable aspect compared to the 2017 tasted last year.

However there were things that really left me wanting more. This wine was great sipping by itself. It was too smooth, and failed to pair with sushi (really good at that) compared to other Chablis village or Premier Cru. The Dauvissat Vaillons 2014 was a far better and more complex wine than this (and I think I might like Vaillons more than Forest). And I will withhold judgement until I try their even more rare Montee De Tonnerre.

In terms of the aromas and textures, rich honey, but without the sweetness, some nuttiness like almond and lemon pith, and perhaps a bit of meyer lemon in the vein of a light aromatic bitterness. Despite this wonderful texture, it was missing quite a bit of complexity that I would have otherwise expected, but I also can understand if this is the style. And if that's the case perhaps Forest is just not my thing, despite it being so sought after by collectors and fans. But perhaps also with the reviews of others, this may not necessarily get that much better with age for this particular vintage.

4/15/2021 - WoodieBayArea wrote:

honestly I love this wine in many vintages, but the 2015 has too much '15 typicity... my wife knows virtually nothing about vineyards, producers or vintages, but I bet that she would ask me to open a different bottle and I was spot on... this has a softness, a little caramel, not enough lift / citrus / brightness... that said the 2010 and 2017 versions of this have been great

4/7/2021 - MJReb wrote:

Dark cherries, berries, soil, the typical salty, mineral elements from this terroir, some mature sweetness which starts to appear, in a very good spot right now and for the next twenty years.

3/17/2021 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Il a ce nez de vieux coquillage pas frais, qu’on trouve parfois dans ses vins se demandant s’il est légèrement bouchonné…. Ça s'améliore ensuite, sur les embruns marins, un soupçon de lime.

La bouche est serrée, tranchante comme une lame d’acier à l’ouverture, on aurait dû carafer. Bien jeune, précis, de bonne longueur mais très peu loquace. Je n'y comprend rien, on me l'avait servi à l'aveugle en 2019 et il était beaucoup plus ouvert....

3/17/2021 - Kcornett Likes this wine:

Never really came together. A little bitter on the finish. Not much depth. Sour notes with funk on the nose. A lot of sediment.

2/3/2021 - MQuentel Likes this wine:

WOW! What a brilliant wine. Almost 20 years old and still with an incredible freshness and clarity in the aromas. Overly complex in mouth and nose, very nice, ripe and at the same time animating acidity. Beautiful interplay of yellow apples, ripe pears, some shortbread. Its age is best guessed by the complexity and the wonderful harmony, it does not show obvious age notes. A wine to meditate on, so beautiful, so graceful, so balanced and yet with a lot of character.

1/26/2021 - B Paul wrote:

Notes similar to prior bottle from 2019. Drinking well, though I’ll hold my other bottle in hopes this picks up a little more weight and complexity.

1/22/2021 - Ericsson wrote:

Le vin n'a que peu évolué depuis 3 ans, je peux reprendre ma note de décembre 2017...
Un peu plus ouvert le lendemain, avec une note d'ananas confit qui vient compléter les notes de noisettes, beurre et citron.
En bouche, bien équilibré, bonne acidité, la longueur est là aussi mais il manque quelque chose à ce stade.
Je vais attendre encore 3 ans...

12/10/2020 - Derek Darth Taster wrote:

Feusselottes theme lunch at Sinai. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru.
Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of red cherries, strawberries, toast oak sweet spice, earth and minerals. Developing.
On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity, medium alcohol 913%), medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweeet red cherries, ripe strawberries, some sour plum fruit, salty mineral, stony earth, sweet spices. Long finish.
Very good quality. But really very young and in need of integration. Acidity sensation not showing so well at this point. I was guessing 2016 actually.

9/5/2020 - drwine2001 wrote:

Pale yellow. Lemon pith and primordial algal aromas. Medium to light weight, a mere hint of wood. Zesty fresh citrus, brine, and soil. This was so vibrant and fresh that it could have been a barrel sample. Just what the doctor ordered for a refreshing, salty sip on a day of extreme heat and too much smoke in the air to venture outside. These 2014's are the real deal for lovers of classic Chablis. None of the subsequent vintages have produced wines with similar cut.

Even more slimmed down the second night and now all about the underlying limestone and soil.

11/3/2020 - Ozen Likes this wine:

I can't say enough good things about Vincent Dauvissat. I am a huge fan of his, because of the refinement, the linear focus, paired with true Chablis terroir, of his wines, from Les Clos, Preusses to a great value La Forest. Raveneau clearly is richer, but in the end I prefer the linearity Dauvissat. Fevre is a substantially dryer Chablis, too dry for my taste. and yes: A matter of taste, but for me the Dauvissats are at the very top and rarely ever dissappoint.

10/17/2020 - Thomas123 wrote:

Mas Jullien is the quiet star of Languedoc. Not as expressive as Grange des Peres but better balance and more refined - for me. Super nice cool fruit and a huge shot of black pepper. I find this wine as well as other wines from this estate to be super nice with a QPR that beats most. Clearly “southern Rhone” in the fruit but very much “northern Rhone” in the balance.

10/7/2020 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Enfin! J’avais presque jeté l’éponge avec ce 2005 après plusieurs dégustations décevantes. J'ai bien aimé celle-ci.

Le nez est discret sur les truffes, le chocolat. La bouche s’est nettement assagie dès le premier verre. Il a gagné en finesse et en précision. J’aimerais un peu moins d’extraction en faveur d’un peu plus de finesse, mais je chipote. C’est moderne et chocolaté mais savoureux et fort agréable. 90-91 pts

7/25/2020 - MJReb wrote:

This wine is still young, needs air to breathe, cassis and cherries, soil and salt, mouth coating, very good stuff for a „simple“ Bourgogne.

6/20/2020 - WoodieBayArea wrote:

really really nice and in a good spot, this was showing a bit of maturity but still had enough lift / edge to avoid flabbiness... good chablis typicity with citrus fruit slightly in the background relative to the chalk / mineral palate... would think you want to drink (assuming u are as pre-mox risk averse as I am) in the next 2-5 years

5/17/2020 - Mazy Likes this wine:

Ouvert la veille, épaulé et bouchon remis pour le lendemain. Très rond le 1er soir. Il s'est affiné le lendemain, davantage digeste. Ça demeure sur les fruits un peu exotiques, mûrs, et je pense qu'il s'agit de l'effet du milllésime. Mea culpa: c'est un des millésimes qui vient moins me chercher à Chablis donc à prendre en considération en confrontation avec vos goûts personnels.

3/14/2020 - Trent Walker wrote:

dear god, if I have one more flawed oxidized 2007 leflaive I will set myself on fire.

5/10/2020 - johnh1001 wrote:

Excellent sweet nose and subtle red fruit and spice. The palate matched with a odd rubbery streak that went away after about an hour. Not as exuberant as the 2009 but very pleasant.

2/1/2020 - KVM wrote:

Brilliant deep red colour matches the fruit found on the palate. Although the nose is pinched the palate is full of brilliant dark berry fruit and white pepper. Absolutely delicious in a firm package.

1/31/2020 - MJReb wrote:

Deep yellow, quite advanced, pure apple taste, nice salinity, but borderline to oxidation. I do not know why, but as good Baudry makes the reds, as borderline his whites are. At least 1 of 3 bottles are more advanced as they should be.

1/27/2020 - fc1910 Likes this wine:

Tour VDP.GROSSE LAGE 2020 (chamber of commerce) IHK Handelskammer, Hamburg): One glass, brief note: clearly more richness in fruit than the two before, precise black fruit, some mineralic hints, purity of burgundy, long+ with a very supporting acid, long life ahead, *(***-*****), 93,94(+) potential

12/20/2019 - csimm1161 wrote:

LIN—E—AR as all getup. White lemon pith, white stone fruit, chalk, and some salt rock. A straight-laced L7 that has absolutely zero interest in being anything but a wallflower on the palate dance floor. There is no beginning, middle, or end. It just “is” in the mouth. Near flavorless right now, with a $7 Sutter Home White Zinfandel depth that barely has enough concentration or intensity to motivate even an ADHD 3 year old to get out of bed. Hold this for 4-5+ years and hope the “fruit” holds out. 83-85? points.

My girl liked it more than me, stating, “It’s kinda like the Trader Joe’s screwcap Pinot Grigio we used earlier to cook the pasta with.” Yes honey... exactly. So.... ya. That.

12/21/2019 - Oupszutalors Does not like this wine:

Very fine VRomanee village with a Very elegant nose and flavor complexity, a wine for wine lovers to keep t’en years...

12/10/2019 - fingers Likes this wine:

Continues to perform beautifully and still on the way up, me thinks.
I paired this with a good old filet mignon with garlic-mashed potatoes and broccoli and it was fantastic. No need for the tannins, etc. of a red wine because there's so much depth to this demi-sec and I highly recommend trying this type of pairing. Quite enlightening.
Light gold color with a bright reflection and clear body.
Medium to profound nose of apricot and orange rind, apple and pear, a hint of wet rocks. Great balance on the palate where it never feels heavy or dominated by any one element. As others have said, "seamless". 5+12+17+9= 93

7/26/2019 - I1bearup Likes this wine:

Left me wanting. I think it needs time but wasn't sure if it had the stuffing. Slightly boring across the board. Would love to try an older version.

5/25/2019 - peterchoy wrote:

Appearance: Bright and clear, the wine is of medium ruby colour, with wide fading rim and legs.
Nose: Clean, with medium (+) intensity aromas of red fruit of raspberry and cherries, sweet spice of clove, mineral notes of earth, floral notes of violet, oak notes of toast, maturity notes of forest floor, dairy notes of cream. The wine is developing.
Palate: Dry with medium acidity, the wine has medium (-) tannin of ripe and silky texture, medium alcohol and medium (-) body, with medium flavours of red fruit of raspberry, plum and cherries, oak notes of toast, kernel notes of mocha. The wine has a medium (+) finish.
Conclusion: Very good quality Vosne Romanee with a fairly intense nose showing good complexity, the wine has good balance, demonstrating with finesse on a reasonably concentrated palate with good length on the finish. It is ready to drink now though can benefit from further ageing of another 3-5 years.

12/24/2018 - MJReb wrote:

Dark red color, ripe fruit and earthy (mushrooms) nose, on the palate mushrooms, cassis, (over)ripe black cherries, spices, beside of the ripeness still a structure and a certain acidity supporting the wine. At the peak, do not wait longer.

7/13/2018 - rc@ughey wrote:

Small taste but a winner. Pure, spicy, brambly fruit. Middleweight but nice concentration.

2/11/2018 - prof b wrote:

Sunday at Salil's: A gorgeous and entirely too young cab franc. Double decanted and served 90 minutes later. Red fruits alongside some Loire funk (not brett), and a touch of vanilla. Hold.

1/4/2018 - SteadyEddy wrote:

This is a ripe, full Volnay with both dark and red fruited notes to it. A bit of earth. The best feature is its silky, rich texture. Very pleasant and fruit forward, but not a lot of complexity in the nose or flavor notes. This might mellow a bit with age, but it's drinkable now and I'm not sure it will get significantly better with more time.