Community Tasting Notes 8

• Wine Canuck wrote: 92 points

  January 22, 2022 - Tasting with old (and one new) friends (Kitchener, Ontario): This pours light ruby in the glass with perhaps the ever so slightest bricking toward the rim. The nose is low intensity and low complexity of new leather, sour cherry, shoe polish, orange pekoe tea, forest twigs, peonies, and dry chalky soil. The palate reveals just a little more than the nose. It enters on silky red fruit married to medium minus tannin, medium acid, and a finish that shows light touches of orange pekoe tea, twigs and tart red fruit. All in all I was hoping to catch some of the early drinking '07 magic and this bottle really wasn't having it. Feels like it still must be fairly shutdown and could possibly use a little more time. I'd wait on this and keep your fingers and toes crossed it turns into something a little more interesting. I think I had higher hopes given the producer, vintage, and professional reviews, but will give it the benefit of the doubt at 92 even if I probably would be a point or two lower if tasted blind.

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• Vas19 wrote: 90 points

  January 3, 2021 - Some secondary notes but not singing. Hold I guess

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• Diane (LI) wrote:

  May 20, 2018 - Powerful nose but elegant palate. Dark cherries, minerals, and plenty of dusty tannins. At 13% alcohol, it will not see another day.

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• Irisland Likes this wine:

  April 9, 2018 - Beautiful stuff. Great fruit, plenty of earth and soil. Length is solid, and I would imagine this has some upside, even in the context of the vintage. Flowers, delicate but firm, old vines really do make this wine great. Purchased a few in Beaune, can't wait to drink the other bottles later on!

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• d'Artagnan wrote: 90 points

  August 27, 2016 - Il a pris une heure à s'ouvrir et deux à se montrer sous son meilleur jour. Nez suave de fraises et de sous-bois. La bouche de corps moyen est bien équilibrée, gouteuse, avec un petit coté rustique, minéral et droit. Très bien, avec toutefois un prix salé. 90 pts

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Michel Lafarge
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Grèves
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Beaune 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 85 (44%)
• Consumed 109 (56%)

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