Community Tasting Note

Shiaxonna wrote:

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - Made from declassified Chambertin grand cru grapes from young vines. Will be reclassified as grand cru from the 2015 vintage. Straight from the bottle the colour is young red, almost purple. Crystal clear. The nose has lots of unripe redcurrant and raspberries. A slightly reductive and acidic nose. The palate shows more of the same with redcurrant and raspberries, but also lots of power. Perhaps not as much power as expected. It also shows some bitter, green tannins.

After 3 hours on a decanter the nose has developed some bonfire together with the sour fruits from earlier. You can also smell the tannins in there as an intense green shadow. The palate has a very young feeling to it, and shows more aggressive tannins than before. I'll try to score now based on potential, even though the wine is barely drinkable right now.

50+5+12+15+8 (90p)

This is being generous. I think this wine is way too young right now, but there is
power here beneath the tannins. I am also almost hoping there is some small fault with this bottle, but in any way, I will not open any of my remaining bottles for at least 10 years.

As a footnote, the bottle was recorked and put back in the cellar with little over halv the wine still left in the bottle. 4 days later the remaining wine was drunk. There was not much improvement from the first night. The tannins were still overwhelming but had mellowed and softened a bit. Would not score it any higher though.

Not quite sure what to make of this. A flaw? A seriously shut down bottle? Or just way, way too young.

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