February 28, 2024 - Acker "Paulee" Burgundy Dinner (Capital Seafood - Beverly Hills CA): Paulee style dinner. Not quite as exciting as the Beze 88 tasted next, this was more burly and less perfectly composed. Others liked this more.
November 2, 2022 - Tasted blind, this wine had a red center and puce/tan rims. The medium+ intensity nose showed tan spices, cherries, plums, rhubarb, and soil.
In the mouth, this wine was attractively balanced and showed sweet fruit. It had great balance, firm acidity, and great length.
This wine appears to be fully mature but it should certainly last at this level for another 5-10 years. Enjoy
October 30, 2022 - Decanted for several hours, served blind amid a flurry of Bordeaux and Barolo this stood out in a good way. I guessed early to mid nineties Ponsot CdlR. Faded cherry fruit, mixed with some funk and oak tannin/spice. Silky and elegant palate, deeply flavorful and slightly sweet with taut but well proportioned acidity and perfectly resolved tannins that unleash the wine to really caress and linger on the finish. Very special bottle in tip top shape.
June 12, 2022 - This took a short while to open, but then it soared. A vintage I love in red burgundy, and this bottle underscored that. Picture perfect.
June 11, 2022 - Pre-2002 Rousseau Dinner (WS NYC): Needed air to show true potential, but then it rounded into form with a density and texture that outclassed the '76. Still on the upswing, this wine could be the most amazing bottle I've ever had in another 10 years. WOTN.
March 10, 2022 - Zachy's La Paulee 2022 (Le Bernardin Prive): Next to 88 Mazy. Dark and bruised, do not think this is a representative bottle.
December 10, 2021 - Holiday Burgundy Lunch: A tale of two bottles... Blind tasting and two friends showed up with a bottle of this same wine. It was a fascinating comparison, as the two bottles showed so differently. Led to a lot of great discussion.
Bottle 1: Earthy in a deep and mysterious way, Middle Earth? Rose petals blossom and it's profound and delicious. But if there's any knock here it's that the first sips were the best, and it was peaking then gradually fading.
Bottle 2: Clean, pure, pristine. Absolutely lovely example where the shimmering fruit couldn't be any better. Nobody guessed this to be the same wine as bottle 1, it lacked the earthy elements and was more refined, more lively, growing in the glass rather than fading.
October 30, 2021 - This bottle was just a notch below the prior three of the case. I touch more oxidative development than I would have liked. The nose of roses, tea leaves and mushroom was again impressive, however. And the wine beautiful again. But perhaps time to start to drink up.
October 2, 2021 - Drank at Hawkesmore
Incredible nose and palate. A real beauty that gives you memories for days afterwards
May 29, 2021 - Big brooding wine that opens up has a little menthol lift on the nose and palate. Finish was dark fruits and a bit heavy. Wine is starting to fade away.