February 2, 2024 - A fairly dark colour; now tasting mature, with flavours of strawberry and violets, and some more mature, savoury elements of meat and game. Quite full and intense. Very good indeed.
December 24, 2023 - Improving with time. Lovely red and dark fruit, mix of fresh and aged, mineral. Comes through nicely in nose and palate. Nice texture too. I'd say better since last bottle couple of years ago. Served with roast lamb.
November 3, 2023 - Classical mature fruit and earth character, but reserved. Just a touch rustic. Soft aromatics. this is a wine you spend time with over food to reveal itself. Check again in 3-5 years.
June 17, 2023 - A fine, now just about mature Burgundy, savoury, a touch meaty, with a little tannin still which will help it keep well.
March 30, 2023 - First of nine. Dr. Wine2001 sums up aptly, the wine is nicely balanced in a particularly satisfying way. I was hoping for a bit more oomph, as well, based on the remarkable aromatic development of a bottled opened for a blind tasting in 2013. True to the house style, a kind of classical, well-structured grace. Would not persuade me to the view, voiced in some quarters, that Ile is a potential grand cru vineyard. It does have a distinctive identity, though. Will be a pleasure to follow its development over the next five years or so.
March 12, 2023 - Dull ruby fading to garnet. Very forward aromas of cherry liqueur and soil. Medium weight, sappy black cherry fruit with excellent acidity , and a deep vein of soil and minerality. The ripe fruit of the vintage and the stoniness of the appellation play off one another in outstanding fashion. This may be the most complete, exciting Pernand I have ever had.
October 3, 2022 - Served blind, jammed right between the 2009 Rhys Skyline and Swan Terrace Pinot Noirs, which created a really thoughtful flight to ponder and taste. The wine showed a hard cherry candy profile, yet this seems built to age, with cherry and raspberry and a stony/tannin finish. Very good.
May 23, 2022 - A lusher, darker fruit profiled of Ile des Vergelesses with sweet dark cherry, licorice, cardamom and a note of evergreen/pine needles that conjure up more of the forest scents yet to come! The structure is firm but not aggressively tannic and while this drinks “bigger” than several other vintages of this tasted, the wine holds the ‘09 ripeness very well! Like others, this took plenty of time to open up. I probably should have given it over 3 hours (instead of 2.5) to air. Oh
May 22, 2022 - Tasted blind: deeply colored; profuse nose gushing with deep ripe fruit, hedgerow, hints of pine needles; big cherry palate, fruit coulis; cries out for seared duck breast with a sauce/reduction matching the wine’s profile. 91+
March 27, 2022 - First bottle in about three and half years. The time in bottle has improved from my last experience. Opened to serve with a cedar plank salmon. Aromatically generous with predominant sous bois, strawberries, raspberry, Christmas spice, potpourri, and smoked cherry wood. On the palate, a dusty tannic attack is followed by cinnamon, red berries, and smoked cherry wood. In the mid palate there is an acidic lift that brings additional spice notes. On the finish the dusty tannins return for a mineral inflected and tart cranberry finish with good overall length. Overall this was much a more balanced and evolving tasting than my prior bottle.