April 2, 2024 - I brought it to Eric's dinner in Neighbourhood Restaurant in Central, among other BDXs.
December 25, 2023 - Christmas 2023; 12/24/2023-12/26/2023 (Home): Another wine that showed a lot younger than expected! This seemed completely ready in 2010, but now rather less so - albeit still a very good, elegant wine. Warm spice on the nose, plenty of fairly tart red fruit, and pleasingly supple despite the residual tannin. It certainly worked with Christmas lunch, but would have been too spiky without food.
December 13, 2023 - Few signs of ageing. Deep ruby colour. Deeply Burgundian nose of raspberries, strawberries and this ineffable aroma of love or lust - or maybe musk? A real spiciness on the palate - a crackly pepperiness. But long, luscious and fabulously seductive.
October 29, 2023 - Great wine but a little bit below the very high expectations. Balanced and very nice but lacked the wow factor
October 11, 2023 - THE Best Burg I’ve ever had - and that’s from vintages spanning back to the 1970s from all the highly regarded producers across the board.
An absolute colossus of a wine, so refined, such a great nose, so long on the finish and such a phenomenal balance and flavour profile. I wish the tasting experience could have lasted forever.
Will be searching out for more of these bottles.
Bravo!
September 28, 2023 - Best wine I have ever had. All the wonderful notes of a Burgundy are there, but the age added a depth and richness to it. Almost tasted like a sherry, but not that sweet. It was amazing and was paired with incredible Italian food from Mother Wolf.
September 15, 2023 - On Day 2, corked and refrigerated overnite, this wine finally absolved itself of its hollow acidity noted in previous comments here, gained weight, texture and suppleness. Spicy, a different kind of Pommard. Not fruity or luscious like the 2005. To Jancis's point, there is a lot going on here.... but this wine needs more cellaring time. I won't touch another bottle for quite a few years and meanwhile will enjoy the 2005!
September 3, 2023 - Lighter colored, but beautiful nose and fruit - drinking very well.
April 25, 2023 - Clos des Epeneaux survey, part II (Chicago, IL): I was really hyped about this wine, expecting that the great vintage would yield a fantastic edition, but we never really got there. The nose was very 2010, with light red fruit and plenty of the expected elegance. On the palate, the acidity felt shrill and angular, and this never really rounded out over the course of the evening. Even at the end, the acidity felt out of balance. This didn't have quite the same weight and backwards structure that so many of the other vintages did either. A bit of an oddball in the context of this bottling.
January 1, 2023 - New Year’s Eve with sirloin steak. Decanted for 20 minutes which may not have been long enough as there was an astringent edge (not tannic) to the wine but this blew off fairly quickly. The nose was profound, earthy and truffle, the palate complex. Fruit not exactly to the fore but this was very good although not quite as good as the NSG on Christmas Day.