January 11, 2024 - A lovely much softer bottle.
November 7, 2023 - Bottle 2235/16200. Served in blind and I thought its a 99 or 02 Prieure Roche Beze. Sexy aromatics of stems, sweet red currants, perfume and strawberries. It had none of the 04 greenness. The palate was sweet and penetrating with good length. 92-93
August 12, 2023 - 04820/16200, needs air as with the rest of the vintage but what a star. Soaring red fruit perfume, lychee, hawthorn, light oak, earthy, stony, robust, meaty. Superbly detailed and complex as it folds onto itself. If I were to blind this would be a Clos Vougeot here. 94-95
August 12, 2023 - Blind. very different from the last bottle I drank couple months ago. Friend told me that the bottle difference is significant of 04.
May 30, 2023 - Spectacular nose. A little metallic on the finish this time.
March 30, 2023 - this bottle is mature.
Aroma of mint tea, herb tea, green, stem, dried plum, sour plum.
high flavour intensity, very broad palate, medium body. cloudy not clean.
February 17, 2023 - Crazy tart tonight. Not what this can be
December 30, 2022 - As close to perfection as a wine can be. Had 3 bottles with 14 friends/family for my 70th bday.
A deep rich burgundy with a beautiful finish. It paired perfectly at the 4 seasons restaurant with choices of rabbit, steak and mushroom risotto. Outclassed the 1970 Latour which we also had in the evening.
December 25, 2022 - Opened on Christmas day at Otto e Mezzo in Hong Kong. Slow-Oxed for 2 hours before enjoying in the glass.
Incredible expression on the nose of lychee, blueberry jam and tea leaves. At the start, the palate wasn't quite matching up to the aromatics. However, with a bit more air and breathing in the glass, it started to catch up and there was more weight and structure coming through, which balanced beautifully with the acidity which was always present.
This was declassified heaven, and given there is some juice here from Clos de la Roche, Clos de Vougeot and Corton Renardes amongst other vineyards, this was an incredibly memorable experience to savour. The only sad part concerns the circumstances of why this wine was made, which was the passing of Marcel Bize.
Certainly the most enjoyable wine of my line-up with the Thirsty Arab, and one to remember for a long time.
October 19, 2022 - Popped & poured, this was somewhat cloudy in appearance, with some bricking around the rims... "Crazy" wild nose - a potpourri of (damp) earth, herbs, orange-peel, smoke/cedar, roses. The limited '04 Leroys I've had the opportunity to have all seemed to have this wild but very alluring nose... That said, the palate for this Bourgogne didn't seem to match up with its bouquet - yes, it was equally "flavourful" with sour-cherries, earth/leather/mushrooms but I found it somewhat weak in the overall sense, with the fruit dropping off and the acidity poking out somewhat... Qualitatively, I thought the '09 Duroche Charmes was the better wine although the beautiful bouquet of the Leroy definitely ran circles around it...