Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Monday, September 16, 2019 - TNs: Female Burgundy Winemakers Dinner (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): A good wine, but this lacked the sheer enjoyment factor of the other Anne Gros Richebourgs (2007, 2003 and 1999) on the flight . This was very 1995 - a whole lot tighter and less generous, which definitely counted against it. I must say it had a gorgeous nose though, with black cherries and spice garlanded with some lovely floral notes, and then flecks of bramble, rubber and earth. A gorgeous nose. The palate was still very much marked by its structure though - here, super-tight, rather teeth-coating tannins and bright acidity formed a rather stern backdrop for otherwise attractive flavours of black cherries, earth and meat, and then a finish with twists of bittersweet bramble and mineral. A chewy, powerful, sinewy wine, with a lot of restraint on it - so much so that this came across rather stern and serious. A real child of its vintage then. I am not sure whether time will improve it all that much though - the structure may well outlast the fruit.

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