Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 2007 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): This really set the tone for a lovely evening - it was about the most elegant and easy-drinking young Corton as I ever had. In fact, it came across as even more feminine than the Volnay Champans that we had alongside, so much so that the table almost unanimously guessed that it was a Chambolle. It had lovely floral nose, with perfumy scents of roses and violets drifting around sweet red cherries and berries, and then just a minerally touch at the sides. Very pretty. The palate came across as soft and silky in its richly red-fruited attack, almost feigning a certain fresh lightness at first, but pay a bit of attention and one quickly realises that the wine was really quite dense, with a sweet depth of red fruit on the midpalate layered over a base of minerally earth. The finish showed slightly more austerity, with a grip of fine-boned tannins and some stern minerality coming to the fore as the fruit hides away a little. I found this to be a very accomplised, polished wine. Drinking surprisingly early, but with the chops to last. Lovely.

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