April 6, 2024 - Another Wine gathering at RJ’s; 4/4/2024-4/7/2024 (Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina): Served blind. Slightly rustic color. Fully mature Burgundian nose displaying shy mature red fruit, a hint of cherry and strawberry, sweet spices and earth. There is a hint of oxidative note. Medium concentration, shy red fruit, lean and cool, bright acidity, earth mineral and a medium long finish with oxidative end. It is not terribly complex. My guess is a 1er cru mid tier burgundy from the late 80s.
October 28, 2022 - Firmly NGMI territory. Fuzzed out, short and nondescript. (1744/12257)
September 6, 2022 - I admit that I do not drink wine from DRC very often so I must have some bias here. That said, I find this wonderful and compelling. There is harmony, weighty weightlessness, exotic spices, tangerine peel, and a forcefulness that says, “pay attention." But it’s not precious. There is a depth that lures me in and a texture that just sings. Not the greatest bottle of wine I have ever had but boy is it memorable to me. (96)
February 5, 2022 - The wine has no faults, but is just a realistic expression of a somewhat joyless vintage. Muted and introvert. With time a few glimpses of DRC magic, but certainly not a DRC vintage to buy also looking at my limited other experience.
October 24, 2021 - This bottle was opened and decanted for almost 4-5 hours and still it barely budged. This was still quite closed and while the tannins were present they were fine. I won’t think about drinking this for another decade. Seemed a lot more closed than the 99 we drank a couple months ago.
October 21, 2021 - A vintage outperformance here defying the astringency that I tend to find in 98 red Burg. The Riche was opened an hour before serving (no decant), visually very cloudy, murky dark ruby red. The nose plays with you between some lean notes of rhubarb but then coming at you with an attack of sweet stems and highly alluring earl grey notes. The palate is relaxed and open, generous would be exaggerated but for the vintage certainly, very measured and fine and filigree. The bottle disappeared very quickly shared between the two of us...
July 11, 2021 - An auction bottle, so I don't know how it was stored prior to my getting it, but this was pretty terrible. Stinky and reductive, it never came around over a long evening. This wine tends to get mediocre scores but this was beyond mediocre, drifting into plain old bad.
October 15, 2020 - Disastrous showing across entire ex-domaine case. Aromatics of charred stems, quite unpleasant. Palate wasn't much better, like sawdust.
July 23, 2020 - In a Galaxy Far, Far Away - Richebourg ! (Vancouver, BC, Canada): Medium ruby colour with cardamom and Goji berries on the nose. Mild savoury Provençal herbs and raspberries on the medium grip long palate, with a subtle harshness to a Mr. Lincoln rose petal finish. This is a big boy Rich-classic for its mostly les Richebourgs origins. Note that the whole cluster zip seems to sublimate at 22-30 years in these DRC beauties-dependent on the vintage and the real estate-some love the clusters-others not so much!
May 17, 2019 - HDH Celebration of Burgundy Dinner (Everest): From magnum. What an incredible treat. The aromas kept getting better and better with time in the glass. So much Vosne spice layered into still fresh black cherry fruit, with dried florals and toasted herbs. Amazing richness and power. Big spice-filled intense finish. Great stuff.