Community Tasting Notes 9

• The Vines That Bind wrote: 99 points

  April 26, 2021 - From the get go this nose is booming with massively lush red and black fruit and shows an unbelievable perfume and density. It’s almost humid in a shady forest on a hot day sort of way. Faint earth and damp soil but mostly about the spectacular perfume and lush fruit that works so well with the Leroy style as well as this vineyard. Palate truly is the iron fist in a velvet glove as this is texturally soft and delicate but delivers so much concentrated power and density in an effortlessly refined and elegant envelope. An absolute masterpiece and an image of beauty. Amazingly, this is served alongside ’91 Richebourg and Beaumonts also from Leroy, and it is decidedly the best wine of these three incredible bottles. More elegance and showy perfume from this than the Richebourg and with an equal degree of power and intensity, but put together in a more seamless way. Spectacular. Shockingly youthful and intense. Bigger and more intense than a 2001 Romanée-Conti the night prior, for what unusual comparative purposes that is worth. 99 - 100. [105/584]

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• fcxj wrote: 94 points

  June 4, 2019 - Jasper Musigny. Lift with light stems and smokiness. Touch tart, bit rough. Nail polish finish off deep palate. Felt like work in progress for Lalou, still quite extracted. (101/584)

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• ChambertinMan wrote: 96 points

  October 27, 2018 - Pronounced yet integrated oak balanced by muscular red and black summer fruits. Syrupy depth, focus and intensity to the bouquet that takes the Leroy finger-print to a different more elevated yet still earthy place with notes of dark soil, violet, white pepper, nutmeg and lavender. Lush notes of marmalade orange rind,
  dark licorice with cigar box. Oolong tea and rose petals. Lovely mouthfeel - a more subtle minerality with sweet brine augmented by firm but finely distributed tannins, pinot skin, stalk and deep fruit tones all smoothly integrated with poise and regality.

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• steinersing wrote: 92 points

  February 28, 2014 - muscular Pinot, rich and also a bit tight and solid. think this needs a lot of time to become interesting.

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• BradE wrote:

  March 30, 2013 - Like previous bottles, this was tight and somewhat unyielding. It did have the gorgeous 91 profile that I'm a fan of. But unlike many 91's, which I find great today, this needs more time.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1991
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Leroy
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Musigny Grand Cru

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• Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
• In Cellars 97 (71%)
• Consumed 37 (27%)

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