Community Tasting Note

MuddyBoots wrote:

Sunday, July 17, 2022 - Solid cork. Some earthy / sousbois notes on the nose, suggesting this is very mature indeed, but the palate still delivers good complex fruit. Quite full. For sure some leafy/herbal flavors. Lovely restraint in its sweetness. Length as befits a GC. Tannins still kicking around the stall as you would expect in this firm vintage. I am not sure I could tell you this is Chapelle or any other Gevrey Grand Cru, which perhaps is important. This bottle was surely passed its best. Certainly doesn’t deliver real excitement. Better with food. Drink soon. A single bottle, bought on release.

Better the next day - less sousbois/more fruit - suggesting perhaps a long decant. To my taste, markedly better - worthy of its Grand Cru status. Evidencing that whatever the right decanting regime is, these older wines are really impacted by it. But each wine is different - some improve and some do not - which I would rather were not the case.

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