May 19, 2024 - My second to last bottle. This bottle is (thankfully) identical to the one I had in December.
December 27, 2023 - Fairly light color for NSG. Dried cherries, pepper, and a touch of barnyard stink but less mineral forward. Did someone slip me a Gevrey Chambertin? On first sip, it’s clearly not GC but I did think, “this is the reason we drink Cote du Nuits” for a different reason. Nice concentration and depth of palate. Everything in wonderful balance. Nice long finish. To my palate, NSG has an earthy iron-like quality, which this unmistakably has. Honestly, I don’t know if this wine will develop the incredible tertiary aromas of CdN but it doesn’t have to. Right now, it’s textbook NSG to me and the second best Roncieres I’ve ever had (the other one was a Chevillons as well). Just be sure to let settle for at least a day (it has a fine cloudy sediment) or I suspect it will taste horrible. Dried cherries intensify and the wine almost becomes more youthful after 2 hours in the decanter but it does shed that GC barnyard quality. I suspect Alien had an off bottle because this is not at the end of the road— if anything, its road just went from gravel to smooth blacktop. I agree to drink up, however, because it’s nearing or at peak and I don’t think it’s a legendary enough vintage to require 20+ years like some NSG’s.
December 23, 2023 - At the end of road. Drink up!
October 14, 2023 - Nick A's Burgundy Series, 2011 Edition, kids table: I suspect i've just been lucky but I seem to have an incredibly good hit rate with Chevillon (and Gouges for that matter). Super engaging, really well put together - the purity of the 11s but somehow broader, easier to engage with. If someone said they'd blended in a proportion of '10 or even '09 I'd believe them. WOTN? Maybe, but it would be close with the Ente.
October 12, 2023 - Nick's 2011 Burgundies (Noizé): Subdued nose I felt, less immediately exuberant than the Mugneret-Gibourg Vosne-Romanée. On the palate it’s smooth with almost no evidence of tannins, cool fruited, dark and really elegant. Mesmerising stuff, it grows and grows with air, and there is a silken quality threaded through it, completely disarming. In short it’s perfectly ready and highly delicious, and I wish I had a lot more.
October 12, 2023 - Nick A's 2011 Burgundy Horizontal (Table 2) (Noizé, London): My favourite wine of the night; this is dark and brooding, damsons and smoke are complemented by some subtle complementary notes. There is sweetness that reminds me of grilled banana with brown sugar and something nutty too, almost like a pickled walnut. Palate rich and long. Chapeau.
January 18, 2023 - Surprising depth and body. Very slight herbaceous flavors at first that dissipated leaving a core of dark fruit and soft tannins. Blood orange, tangerine, forest floor and a touch of the sauvage. A beautiful wine drinking at its peak right now.
August 27, 2022 - The wine has a medium red or crimson color with nice, but subtle, aromatics. It has lovely sweet cherry and strawberry fruit, green tea, and earthiness. It has a medium body and finish. The tannins are very mellow. So the wine is fully mature, but I am sure it will last quite a few more years in a cool cellar.
August 24, 2022 - Tasted over 1.5 hrs
-nearly semi-translucent med dark red
-faint reduction sweet tobacco cherry earth
-med+ acidity, med/med- weight though med+ concentration low register faded dark fruit with a sweet core of sousbois molasses mature notes, finishes with a faintly medicinal vibe and med- tannins
-still with good flesh on its bones though this bottle already displaying some maturity
January 1, 2022 - Red core color, lightening towards with edges with only a hint of brown. Initially (on PnP) tight thin notes of red fruit, stem, and green pepper. Quickly began opening up and adding weight with flavors of blueberry, strawberry, tea, forest floor and maybe even some mushroom. The fruit flavors melt somewhat into the background as this spends hours to air. The tannins soften, but still make their presence known, and then fading more around hour 2. Sharper cherry notes dominated at the last glass ~ hour 4. Looking forward to watching this wine evolve. Next bottle in 2031.