September 12, 2023 - No tasting note. The wine holds up remarkably well. Although, based on the last bottle; no need to wait for the remaining bottles.
December 23, 2020 - Drinking window is well beyond 2020. Confirmed both with corovin pretaste and then on decanting.
Blue and black stone fruit in the palate, with pleasantly lingering finish of brighter red fruit and balanced tannins.
Some vegetative malodour on opening but blew away with decant for 30 minutes to an hour. Medium weight.
March 5, 2019 - Better than an average wine, but not by leaps or bounds. Polished stoney red and black cranberry and cherry -- what's interesting about this wine is you can taste cranberry as if it is a juicy and tart, without sharp acidic twang. It has a little stony overlay that makes it more approachable. Then wham, you get hit with that twang. A somewhat short finish, but it is smooth with cranberry and dark stoniness till the then. The short is finish, but it is full of fruit. Overall a bit tart for my plate, but this just is inside the borderline of being too tart. Some may find it a pleasant sour cherry. The most redeeming factor, to me, is the polished finish and dark stones that make the cranberry more approachable. Wouldn't pay the $70 that wine searcher is asking, nor the $50 that I paid... but at original cellar price of $25 this has aged into something more than your average Bourgogne. I think best paired with a herbal fatty meat, e.g., a lamb with a lot of sage/rosemary.
July 7, 2018 - Mostly mature black and red cherry aromas, then reverses to mostly red cherry flavors. Good weight for its level, also well balanced. Time to drink up.
December 26, 2017 - Brilliant Bourgogne has aged fantastically well.
September 3, 2017 - Denne har utviklet seg pent over flere år syns jeg, fra ren bringebærduft og svake vaniljetoner via mørkere bærpreg og nå også tegn til morkent trevirke og skogbunn.
Saftig, flott mørk frukt på smak, 'chunky' og med godt grep. Middels syre, ganske bra med tanniner. Pent utviklet og i en god fase nå, blir nok ikke bedre men tåler pent noen år til
September 1, 2017 - 7th of 12.
First bottle to show true maturity. Still a core of ripe cherry fruit, but with just a touch of browning to the flavours. Shows notes of dried flowers towards the back end and seems close to fully resolved. Is this typical? No rush anyway, but if this is representative it is now for those who like their Burgundy secondary, rather than primary.
Drink now to 2025 probably.
April 26, 2017 - Lively and really quite good.
March 26, 2017 - My last bottle (actually magnum) of this superb Bourgogne from Barthod. It is actually drinking wonderfully well now with delightful red fruits, light secondary gamey notes, very light fine tannins and a good balance of acid. Of course, this won't improve from here and is probably over the hill in bottles, but this magnum was delicious. Chapeau to Ghislaine.
March 7, 2017 - Both fresh and maturing cross-section of cherry aromas and flavors. Very good for its level. Start-to-middle is better and more composed vs middle-to-finish. Drink through 2020.