Community Tasting Notes 15

• shifter wrote:

  February 22, 2023 - TN: Dinner at Tiny Lou's: Decanted 30 min prior. This screams 2005: nose has loads of ripe red fruit and palate has tons of body and tannins. Just starting to reach an acceptable drinking window, it's quite lovely, but not nearly as open as the 2008. Doesn't look like it will peak for at least another 10 years.

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• jmoore431 Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 11, 2021 - Tasted blind: this was like hitting a dark wall; brooding very dark ripe fruit; when a tasting partner (who brought this bottle) complained of “torrefaction”, it was an immediate giveaway for me as to the vintage as I’ve experienced that in several’05s. Oddly, I was not similarly turned off by the ripeness as it had a good deal of classy substance “behind the wall”. Another one murdered in infancy. I’m still waiting on several wines from ‘98 through ‘02 to emerge and show their best. I’m very leery of how (when?) top ‘05s will finally turn out. How top critics can unanimously call it the vintage of their lifetime is a little “out there” to me! Hope to live long enough to find out.

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• Rani Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 7, 2019 - Opened 3 hours before drinking. Nose of dark cherries and forest floor. Dry tannins on the palate a bit austere though not lacking fruit. Question is whether the tannins will soften before the fruit dissipates.

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• IvanLi Likes this wine: 95 points

  July 6, 2018 - From a big Burgundy tasting that included:
  
  2002 Coche Dury Meursault Rouge
  2002 Meo-Camuzet Aux Boudots
  2001 Meo-Camuzet Les Chaumes
  2005 Jacques Frederic Mugnier Clos de la Marechale
  2008 Vogue Chambolle-Musigny
  2010 Georges Roumier Chambolle-Musigny
  2014 Henri Gouge Nuits-Saint-George
  2005 Jean Grivot Beaux Monts
  
  See my notes for other wines for more details and comparison.
  
  If you are just like me from not so long ago and your impression on Burgundy is a sour potion with flabby body and watery finish you must try this wine.
  With incredibly concentrated yet refined nose of black pinot fruits, ripe cherries, violets and earth this Beauxmonts delivers an almost liqueur like texture with its layers of sweet, ripe almost new world like flavors. The silky acidity and subtle floral notes bring the necessary lift and refinement. The finish is well into 40-50 second zone.
  The incredible opulence can be attributed to it's vintage and while this wine is absolutely stunning, one might expect a bit more elegance and subtlety from a classic Vosne-Romanee 1er Cru.
  In this tasting it was behind only Mugnier's Clos de la Marechale in terms of opulence and hedonism.

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• MattLA Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 7, 2018 - Lick a cherry stone and this is what you've got. Lots of acid and mineralite. This is still very young and will develop much further. After four hours of aeration it does gain weight and get better but I will hold my remaining bottles for at least five years. 96 point potential.

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• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Jean Grivot
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Beaux Monts
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru

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