Community Tasting Notes 29

• peternelson Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 11, 2023 - This was showing quite nicely, with a little herbal note, good fruit, elegance, nicely perfumed and aromatic with exotic spice. Guessed Vosne 1er. Finally an Ilan that I like! EH b-day at my place.

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• Chrisinroch wrote: flawed

  November 7, 2022 - Cloudy and stinky. Spoiled

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• Jay Soif wrote: 92 points

  July 4, 2022 - This bottle was excellent, well integrated, balanced, maybe at its peak. Went perfectly with roast duck.

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• Deepdrop Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 26, 2022 - Nose of mushroom, tilled earth and static charge (like the air after a lightening storm). Cherry, iron, and herbs combine nicely on a fairly long finish. Seems like some serious bottle variation based on prior notes posted here. No green notes for me.

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• Phredd Does not like this wine: 86 points

  July 24, 2021 - On the pop and pour, this is quite dark in the glass. I’ve had a lot of Oregon Pinot recently, and this is darker and denser than most of those. The nose is very funky, with loads of barnyard and cheese, a good heap of green pepper, and maybe just a bit of steamy, stewed cherries in behind. The front end of the palate has a bit more of the red fruit, but the mid-palate still had a lot of both the green and the barnyard. There is structure here, and a fair amount of acidity, although the wine still comes across as a little burly. The finish lasts a good long while, but it is not entirely balanced. I try to use the same scale as most publications, which makes the 86 equivalent to roughly “you can drink this, but you’d probably prefer to have something better”. Given that I paid, direct from the winery, $102 all-in (price, shipping, and tax), that makes this one of the poorest values I’ve ever had. 2011 was a below-average vintage, so I’ll have to hope 2012 and 2013 came off a bit better.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Maison Ilan
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Mazoyères-Chambertin Grand Cru

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• Pending Delivery 22 (4%)
• In Cellars 281 (56%)
• Consumed 198 (40%)

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