February 4, 2024 - Red fruit (raspberry, strawberry), nice floral, spice, earth , slight tea, good acidity. Lingering finish. Really enjoyable.
October 3, 2023 - Agree with previous notes from Beatles. This is fully mature, but with nice ripe sweetish cherries at the front door. Nose also has chocolate, tobacco and hint of dried roses. Slightly hint of heat (alcohol?). Mid palate is well filled with 2002s tannins and structure with hint of plum and drying bitter finish with chocolate notes. Fundamental Beaune - ripe, structured but with enough of elegance and freshness. Should still live for a while.
April 20, 2015 - Still great - a tad better, even. Fully mature, but with lots of sweet, primary fruit present, a full, round performance, balanced and very much burgundy. This will go on, but is peaking. Much better than it's humble appellation... (with AD in Weehawken Street).
March 27, 2015 - Beautifully aged with notes of red cherry, tea leaf and a lovely farm earthiness. Tan is soft and light with balance acidity
September 21, 2014 - Drank with two other 2002 Beaune 1ers (B. Morey Greves and Chateau de Chorey Teurons) and this clearly came middle of the pack. Too long ago for proper note, but remember deep cherry colour, good floral and fresh fruit aromas, good balance across the palette. This was the only one from 75cl (the other two from half) and it developed nicely across the evening, picking up some intensity in first 45 minutes then fading.
June 6, 2014 - lots of licorice, clove and cherry interplay, with good depth and life.
December 3, 2011 - I guess I won't rate this 87, given the other notes. I assume this was an off bottle. Big disappointment. Seemed unusually young and new world-ish. Lots of cedar, tart cherry, and not much else. Unfocused and really rather boring. After additional air, some earthiness came out, but this wine just didn't perform. Sigh.
November 25, 2011 - Nose of earth, barnyard, funky, ie Burgundy. Bright cherry, tar, licorice. Soft tannins and nice acidity. All aspects are in harmony. A very well balanced wine. Just what I was looking for to go with Thanksgiving. This was a very nice wine. Unfortunately none left.
November 9, 2011 - Bought at the domaine and kept under optimum condition. Initially there is a hint of commercial, sweet fruit, and the wine seems to polished to be really interesting, but it awakes to a light, yet balanced with some mushroom and spices to go with the fruit. The impression of a quite polished wine lingers on, this is no sauvage wine ... Certainly a wine that will keep, but it is no sin to drink it now
April 30, 2010 - Opened all three bottles at once for a table of 12. All offered outstanding cherry, funk, and forest aromatics with medium-weight and medium-density berries, tar, wet earth, cherry and licorice. But still there was notable and interesting bottle variation, with one being measurably more tart at first (it seemed to mellow out though), one smelling a little funkier (the best of the three), and one being most neutral (but also least lively).