Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 2007 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): I absolutely loved this wine when I tried it shortly after its commercial release way back in 2010. I am not sure it has quite lived up to the tremendous potential that I thought it had back then, but it is still a very solid wine. The nose was lovely, if still rather reserved, with classic Bonneau du Martray chalkiness, and then cream and white chocolate notes drifting alongside white fruit, some ripe melon aromas, and a nice dash of spice. There was still a touch of oak in there, but nothing too obvious. In the mouth, the wine was surprising rich, almost sweet, for a 2007 white Burgundy, with ripe apples, melons and even a white peach timbre to its well-fruited palate. On the back-end, little complex nuances of cream and white chocolate then unfolded into a long, powerful but somehow always gentle finish. A lovely wine. Surprisingly lush for the vintage, with a nice, voluptuous depth to it, but this was all still tempered by lovely cut and thrust of 2007, with a fresh liveliness that suggests this wine will age effortlessly for decades. This somehow lacked some of the razor-sharp focus that I noted from the previous bottle, but it is still a really nice drop.

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