The 93 Beaux Monts was a touch rustic, leaning more towards the dark fruit spectrum with some liquorice, wilted flowers and earth. Quite broad and muscular on the palate. For me, it was more NSG than Vosne.
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An Amazing Rousseau-based Burgundy Dinner with the Seattle Vinous Group (Seattle): Close in depth of color to the 2002 Rousseau. Like that wine, significant oak. Some stemminess, but it takes a back seat to the fruit. Medium bodied, quite sappy. Incredibly vigorous red and black fruit, spice, excellent acidity, moderate ripe tannins, and late appearing soil. This steadily improved over the course of the evening, showing more perfume and complexity on the palate. It sounds ridiculous, but probably best to give it another 10 years!
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Most Splendid Game Dinner: Some notes you write to help you decide what you might buy in future, and some are just to help you remember a lovely wine. This is definitely the latter. Started off quiet but opened up in the glass, gently. A lightness, and ethereality to it, which belied its quiet concentration and power. A real treat. One fellow diner had the wit to poor his last couple of sips into his water glass and let them evolve over the evening - I suspect his last sip was even more magical than mine...
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Gareth's glorious game dinner (Canary Wharf): Took a few minutes to get going, and then showed really well. Still dark and arguably on the young side, but the mouthfeel was very resolved and the nose was flamboyant and full of complex perfume. Words couldn't really capture that adequately, but my recollection is of a spicy, smoky, faintly truffley wine, with tons of energy, excellent acidity and generous length. No formal vote, but I think this was probably WOTN.
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3/14/2024 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
The 93 Beaux Monts was a touch rustic, leaning more towards the dark fruit spectrum with some liquorice, wilted flowers and earth. Quite broad and muscular on the palate. For me, it was more NSG than Vosne.
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2/25/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
An Amazing Rousseau-based Burgundy Dinner with the Seattle Vinous Group (Seattle): Close in depth of color to the 2002 Rousseau. Like that wine, significant oak. Some stemminess, but it takes a back seat to the fruit. Medium bodied, quite sappy. Incredibly vigorous red and black fruit, spice, excellent acidity, moderate ripe tannins, and late appearing soil. This steadily improved over the course of the evening, showing more perfume and complexity on the palate. It sounds ridiculous, but probably best to give it another 10 years!
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12/10/2021 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Most Splendid Game Dinner: Some notes you write to help you decide what you might buy in future, and some are just to help you remember a lovely wine. This is definitely the latter. Started off quiet but opened up in the glass, gently. A lightness, and ethereality to it, which belied its quiet concentration and power. A real treat. One fellow diner had the wit to poor his last couple of sips into his water glass and let them evolve over the evening - I suspect his last sip was even more magical than mine...
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12/9/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 96 Points
Gareth's glorious game dinner (Canary Wharf): Took a few minutes to get going, and then showed really well. Still dark and arguably on the young side, but the mouthfeel was very resolved and the nose was flamboyant and full of complex perfume. Words couldn't really capture that adequately, but my recollection is of a spicy, smoky, faintly truffley wine, with tons of energy, excellent acidity and generous length. No formal vote, but I think this was probably WOTN.
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8/17/2021 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Touch of floral notes, not particularly flamboyant. Deep, resolved, surprisingly liqueur’ed palate. (495/4351)
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