November 20, 2021 - Wine Tasted at Acker Auction (Marea - New York NY): From magnum. Popped-and-poured, this kept opening and unfolding before our eyes. Brilliant richness and precision at the same time, with orchard fruit, mint, fresh herbs and faint tropical fruit hints all unfolding in wonderful combination and nuance. Wow!
January 29, 2021 - DRC GE Lunch: Served blind I guessed 1978 Leroy Montrachet. The color was so dark and the fruit so mellow, but despite all that the completeness and majesty of Montrachet could be found. Sweet wine with cinnamon aromas. Enjoyable as it was, the reveal was shocking. Just had this wine last month and it bore absolutely no resemblance to today's oxidized bottle. I enjoyed it, but remain quite frustrated by the high oxidation rate in Ramonet's Montrachet.
December 18, 2020 - Considerably riper than the 99. Where the 99 starts lightly and builds to a tremendous finish, the 02 is big from start to finish, albeit a bit broader and more viscous. If the 99 is power without weight, the 02 is power with weight. In any other tasting this would be a champion, but the 99 showed more precision and delineation.
April 1, 2019 - Unfortunately it was premox. Rich and ripe with botyris and nut fruit.
February 28, 2018 - Focused nose with fine petrol notes. I didn't love the finish but still preferred this to the '07. 94+
February 28, 2018 - La Paulée Chevalier Fête (Saison - San Francisco CA): Rich apple and baked apple aromas and flavors with sweet spice and mint. Very concentrated and weighty. Very good+ length, balance. The 2007 will likely become better some day, but this 2002 is certainly more enjoyable today.
December 18, 2017 - Small glass, brief note. Lessy and nutty. Loads of flavors from a still young wine. Lots of yellow and white fruit and flowers. Great bouquet. Loved this wine tonight.
December 4, 2017 - Fresh mint on the nose, Matt notes Verbena. Crazy young, this is basically not ready yet! Such seamless integration... This will be able to age for decades except for the dreaded POX, which starts to show up in the form of a clear butterscotch note starting first in the nose. Concerning, but wow what a wine.
April 5, 2017 - Montrachet Dinner: 10 Vintages of Ramonet and Marquis de Laguiche, 1983-2002 (Oceana - New York NY): Starts off very ripe and rich but seemingly less harmonious vs another bottle from a few months ago. This slowly started to fade in glass from there. Perhaps 92-93 point wine to start, then a point lower when finished 30 minutes later, but This wasn't a perfect bottle.
November 17, 2016 - Mostly Leroy Burgundy Dinner (Vaucluse - New York NY): Wonderfully floral with lemon custard, ripe apple, spearmint and candied ginger.. intensely concentrated to the point of being unctuous and texturally fat. In fact so rich and ripe that there was almost a hint of sweetness. I haven't had this wine in almost a decade and think it is just now entering its peak drinking window, which I expect to last a decade...or two. Thank you, JR!