1999 Domaine Dujac Clos de la Roche

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92 Points

Sunday, November 6, 2016 - The "Clos" dinner - aka Burgundies from Clos, or "walled" plots (Bar-a-Thym, Singapore): Hmm. Good... but... Perhaps the most dissapointing of all the wines on show when unblinded. Do not get me wrong though - this was a very nice wine, but when considering the significant gap in reputation and today's pricing between this and the other wines on the night, added to how much I have enjoyed Dujac's CdlR, including another bottle of 1999 in the past.... well then. This was far from great. In fact, if I believed in the biodynamic / lunar calendar, today would have been a "root day" for sure, given how disappointingly quite a few of wines were showing. This bottle started out really funky, with lots of earthy, forest floor aromas at first, which took quite awhile to begin blowing-off. With time, it developed a very pronounced nose - sweet raisins and dried blueberries seasoned with lots of herbs and wood spices. Quite nice. The palate was very stubborn at first, barely showing much character beyond a subtle hint of dark cherries wrapped in soft tannins and decent acidity. With time, a soft red-fruited deliciousness did start to emerge, with some of the clear purity that I love about Dujac's wine. Unforunately, this certainly did not show like a great Dujac, with a certain awkward angularity sticking out once you got beyond the midpalate and into an otherwise fairly length finish. Timing or bottle variation perhaps, but this was a far cry from the polished powerhouse of a 1999 CdlR that was the last bottle of this wine I tried just a year ago.

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