Community Tasting Notes 3

• chambolle wrote:

  April 3, 2013 - On opening, the wine is a pretty clear pink/rouge color, with little in the way of bricking. The immediate aroma is very forest floor, with a distinct mushroom note. Immediate palate impression is more of structure than fruit, with slightly obtrusive, sandy, drying tannins at the back. But here is a wine that takes its time to sing. After about half an hour in the decanter, there is a beautiful core of juicy red and blue fruit, almost a sweetness about the wine. This is a quiet wine - it whispers and softly sings, no shouting about it. But after time in the air, it has a seamless balance and quite a lot of class - far more elegance than one expects from Chassagne rouge and Morgeot in particular - usually a source of rather chunky wine whether red or white. Lacy, pretty, sweetly fruity, delicate, but with a crisp fresh grippy finish, showing just enough acidity and a touch of fine grained tannin to keep all in balance and youthful. The overall profile, to me, is akin to decently made, delicately proportioned Chambolle-Musigny villages.
  
  A bottle opened in early 2017: this is likely as good as this wine will be. It has taken on weight, the fruit has blossomed into a deeper, richer profile on the palate, the nose has taken on secondary notes of plum, grilled crimini mushroom. A very satisfying bottle of wine, no doubt at the top of its game 15 years from the vintage.
  
  Chassagne rouge is not exactly the flavor of the month - not often seen and not highly prized. Thus my notes indicate this wine cost the princely sum of $15 a bottle, a 'close out' purchased at the end of 2008. Money well spent, for certain! If you have it, drink now or over the next few years. It has reached its highest plateau, I think.

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• DaleW wrote:

  February 28, 2007 - Showing much better than last bottle. Floral/earthy nose, deep red
  cherry fruit with a little plum and raspberry. Develops nicely in the
  glass, with cocoa and spice notes mixing with the red fruit. Fruit is
  quite round and ripe, yet the acids are pleasantly tangy.

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• DaleW wrote: 89 points

  March 28, 2006 - Earth, sandalwood, and black cherry. Good acidity, light ripe tannins, fruit blooms in the glass, with mushrooms and spices overlaying.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer Jean Noel Gagnard
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Rouge
• Vineyard Morgeot
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 14 (45%)
• Consumed 17 (55%)

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