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• schan109 Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 24, 2020 - Bottle breathe 1 hour before serving. Initially the nose is timid, and the palate is quite flat. The beauty turns into perfume nose with rose, violet, cherry with complex palate, fully integrated tannin. Still plenty amount of fruit, with some smoke, earthy note. Medium finishing. Best after 1.5 hours in the glass with continued evolving taste. Later on, it turns into fully matured palate with tobacco, tea and mushroom. Very impressive

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 points

  February 22, 2020 - Pristine bottle purchased in 2005. When I read back all my previous tasting notes, spanning the period 2008-2015, I am actually quite amazed how well this is showing today. at 22 years of age. The nose is quintessentially Morey (or maybe Gevrey), with a lovely touch of menthol freshness, forest floor and crushed red berries; the palate remains tannic and structured, minerally and energetic, masculine and powerful but not charming; black tea finish. The nose is its best feature.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 points

  November 28, 2015 - It was Harry Waugh (1904-2001), the grand old man of the English wine trade, and the finest taster of Michael Broadbent's experience, who answered the question when he had last confused claret with burgundy by saying: "not since lunch". This is one of those wines that lends credibility to this piece of wine folklore. Tannic and even cedary, this sturdy and structured wine might easily be mistaken for a 1998 Saint-Julien. Spicy oak, cool and mineral, slender, earthy, fresh and relatively dry, light finish but with good length. Has drive and energy, masculine, puts structure before terroir and finesse.

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• Rani Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 21, 2015 - Tasted blind. A terrifically balanced wine, with racing acidity and great core of red fruit. Some forrest floor, vibrant and layered. Really lovely and ready to drink.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 points

  February 10, 2013 - Impressively fresh, primary even, at 15 years of age; red and black fruit, lovage, energetic, with engaging minerality, excellent balance, good intensity, beautifully resolved tannins, spicy new oak; very good length. Firm and sturdy rather than refined, complex and fragrant but very satisfying and showing very well today. Now - 2018.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Vieilles Vignes
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Clos de la Roche Grand Cru

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