Decanted for 90 mins before serving. Nose is reductive and muted but palate exhibits Dujac spice, cloves, purple fruit and dark cherries. Despite the vintage ripeness, the fruit is very composed with etherealness. Needs time. 94-95 potential.
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I might be just too happy, but this is Jesus juice. Even at a fairly young age, this is pure CdlR with that Dujac hand elevating it just subtly and correctly.
Nose is umeboshi and ferns and cinchona. Just a touch of dark cherry. Velvet texture with just enough elbows to make you notice. Busted lip blood gives into umami and old sandalwood. Long finish where the moss and fruit now cassis return with a stone heart and crushed white lilies to emphasize regret when the glass is done.
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07/08/09/10 vertical. Clearly the most ripe and lush of the vertical. Plenty of pleasure with the hedonistic black cherry that is laced with stem and spice. Forward and not as much delineation as the other vintages (at this stage). Should continue to evolve and improve, though the fruit will always be more dense in this vintage.
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Great Champagne and Burgundy Dinner (Park Ridge Country Club): In 07/08/09/10 vertical, all open several hours in advance, none decanted. The most hedonistic of the flight, and also the most spice-driven, there is so much ripe red and black cherry with some berry notes that are completely enticing and fun, but seriously balanced on its long finish.
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Opened 5 hours before drinking. It was a little more ready than the 2005 Rousseau CDLR but still a little tight. A little more oak extracted with vanilla flavours which is typical of dujac. Good but could wait for several more years and should get better. 92-94 potential.
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From 1/2 bottle. Gave it an hour of air and drank over 2 hours. Needed the air - this got better throughout the night. Good red fruit, some darker fruit with plenty of structure and good ripeness but not overly ripe. Would say from 750 this needs a lot more time and/or a few hour decant. Has upside
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Side-by-side with the 09 Dujac RSV. This bottle was pretty reduced and closed in. Tight on the nose, but opens to show some of meaty spice and black cherry. Firm and quite structured on the palate. With air you get some approachability, but no question this wine needs a decade+ to show its stuff.
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Chicago Bastille Day Dinner with Lots of Wagyu (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Open a couple of hours before being served. An odd wine tonight. This showed lots of SO2 that never went away, and kept the wine backward and never really forthcoming. I think this was an odd bottle, since it was inconsistent with my prior experiences with the wine.
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Dujac CdlR vertical. Very ripe, albeit not to extent of 2003. Intense rose petals and some caramel still on the nose. Pure, velvety, rich and for me pleasurable. Would say in contrast to some others, this became less interesting with time in glass.
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Lunch de fête du Baron (au Quartier Général): Belle fougue au nez, un brin d'élevage, conifère et mûres, un coté fumé. Très belle texture en bouche, avec une bonne acidité, une certaine austérite, un aspect très minéral. J'ai eu le bonheur de reconnaitre un Clos de la Roche. Je croyais retrouver un Lignier 2008...Un vin d'un grand potentiel. 93-94 (+) pts
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Musique & Vin Wine Tasting (Château du Clos de Vougeot): Tasting, brief note. Sensationally perfumed with bright red cherry and berry. Dense and powerful in every regard. I haven't had this since shortly after release, and wow, it's really coming into great form already.
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BORGOGNA NOVEMBRE 2015; 11/5/2015-11/7/2015: Tasting at the domaine. 25% diraspato. Naso inchiodato, piuttosto monocorde. Rivela un gigante dormiente che sa di chinotto ed erbe amare. Da attendere 15 anni. Un vero spreco ora.
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Dujac's 2009 Clos de la Roche is predictably brooding and structured at this early stage; a deep, layered, concentrated wine with a distinctly mineral finish, and aromatics redolent of black cherry, cinnamon, herbs, hints earth and new oak, as well as the signatures of whole-cluster fermentation. This really demands more than a decade in the cellar.
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Nose of tobacco, new oak and charcoal ash on opening which blew off after a hour. Great acidity, awesome cherry fruit with great backbone. This is a baby. Softened up over course of night. Let these rest a LONG time.
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It is seriously young and seriously classy. There’s a touch of reduction that blows off to reveal a wine crammed with dark cherries. It is dense and sweet with great volume in the mouth and outstanding length.
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Chefs Table @ Restaurant Callas , The Hague: Fabulous complex blend of black fruit and soil aromas. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and complex, with refined and well integrated acids and tannins. There’s good grip on the long and intense finish. Needs time, this will be stunning!
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Floral nose with some orange rind and pot pouri mixing it up with dark fruits. It is mouthfilling and creamy with some minerality underpinning all of the flesh. A very good 09.
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served & gave 90 mins, openned up brillantly, The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. Intoxicating nose that smells like Black currant (cassis), Blackberry, and Blueberry. It tastes like Plum, Forest floor, Mushroom, Stoniness, Smokey Bacon, Phenolic, Oak, barn, Sandalwood, Light toast, Clove, Cinnamon, Violet, Hay/Straw, Mint, Meaty, and Fur. In mouth Its round, powerfull & delicate at once, focused, ripe fruit, mineral, watery, long, long finnish that sends shivers down my spine.
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The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. It smells like Black currant (cassis), Blackberry, and Blueberry. It tastes like Plum, Forest floor, Mushroom, Stoniness, Smokey Bacon, Phenolic, Oak, Sandalwood, Light toast, Clove, Cinnamon, Violet, Hay/Straw, Mint, Meaty, and Fur.
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Acker Merrall BYO (Sepia - Chicago IL): Impossible to fairly assess such a young wine at this point in the evening given the older, mature wines being poured. Great potential with a floral start, then lots of ripe red and black cherry and baking spice. Give to 2020 or later...much later.
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Acker BYO - Chicago (Sepia - Chicago, IL): Very dark and very sweet. The fruit is just an 11 in terms of purity and sweetness. Luckily, it has great balance and a nice undertone of soil or sous bois that grounds the sweet fruit a bit. Should be a fantastic wine in 5 or so years...right now the sweetness of the fruit overwhelms the underlying complexities.
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Popped and poured, slightly reductive at first but it blew off quickly. Integrated tannins, firm. Too young to accurately judge, but shows great balance and potential.
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Burgundy Friday--24 juin 2011 (Domaine Dujac with Diana): Stony minerality on the front end. Still the great balance of fruits but creamier on the end. Also the touch of vanilla, but the austere minerality is what sets it apart.
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Very dark, sweet and dense. It’s full of rich, creamy fruits that are threaded with Dutch liquorice. Underneath all of the luscious things is a bed of geological matter and it is long and carried by sweet, round tannins.
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Burgundy 2011 Day 5: Visit to Domaine Dujac (Morey-St. Denis, Burgundy): Quite a brilliant wine. A lovely red fruited nose showed lots of berries, strawberries, cherries, with just a touch of meat - smoked duck maybe, and really nice florals floating around. A touch lighter and less serious than the Malconsorts, and so lovely to take in. The palate was beautiful too. Red cherries wed to darker blue fruit notes on the attack, tons of spice and some meat on the midpalate, and then a long, persistent finish that refused to let go, with tons and tons of grip in the background and a dashing interplay of dark cherries and spice in the foreground. Just a shade of oak perrked out at the very end. Even with all that, the wine still gave a sense of being really tight, very coiled up, but it sure had a lovely purity along with beautiful sense of balance and structure so that this seemed a bit more accesible than the Malconsorts we had alongside. Brilliant. No harm drinking these within its first decade of life I think, but it might take the better part of 15-20 years to hit absolute peak.
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Domaine Dujac Visit to taste 2009 and 2008 (Morey St.-Denis): Barrel tasting at Domaine. Starts with spicy and floral elements that are intense and sensational, making it difficult to even notice the great red fruit. Same profile continues on the palate. Power, depth and nuance are all showing themselves already. This will most likely easily be a 95+ point wine. I typically prefer the Dujac CSD over CdlR, particularly when young, but it appears the opposite will be true for the 2009s.
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7/6/2023 - ricard Likes this wine: 96 Points
Funkier nose than the 2010. Fruit in great abundance. Same searing acidity. Spectacular. Deep and spherical and immensely powerful. Hypnotic.
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12/17/2022 - Mario17 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Un peu de vendanges entières au nez, fruits noirs, intense mais avec fraicheur et beaucoup de classe, magnifique. 93-94
Clearly whole clusters when tasting blind, dark fruit, intense but with freshness, classy and long, great.
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9/19/2022 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Decanted for 90 mins before serving. Nose is reductive and muted but palate exhibits Dujac spice, cloves, purple fruit and dark cherries. Despite the vintage ripeness, the fruit is very composed with etherealness. Needs time. 94-95 potential.
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8/4/2022 - AndrewSGHall wrote: 97 Points
I might be just too happy, but this is Jesus juice. Even at a fairly young age, this is pure CdlR with that Dujac hand elevating it just subtly and correctly.
Nose is umeboshi and ferns and cinchona. Just a touch of dark cherry. Velvet texture with just enough elbows to make you notice. Busted lip blood gives into umami and old sandalwood. Long finish where the moss and fruit now cassis return with a stone heart and crushed white lilies to emphasize regret when the glass is done.
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8/27/2020 - Nanda wrote: 94 Points
07/08/09/10 vertical. Clearly the most ripe and lush of the vertical. Plenty of pleasure with the hedonistic black cherry that is laced with stem and spice. Forward and not as much delineation as the other vintages (at this stage). Should continue to evolve and improve, though the fruit will always be more dense in this vintage.
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8/27/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Great Champagne and Burgundy Dinner (Park Ridge Country Club): In 07/08/09/10 vertical, all open several hours in advance, none decanted. The most hedonistic of the flight, and also the most spice-driven, there is so much ripe red and black cherry with some berry notes that are completely enticing and fun, but seriously balanced on its long finish.
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3/22/2020 - LB88 wrote: 92 Points
Opened 5 hours before drinking. It was a little more ready than the 2005 Rousseau CDLR but still a little tight. A little more oak extracted with vanilla flavours which is typical of dujac. Good but could wait for several more years and should get better. 92-94 potential.
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3/16/2020 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
From 1/2 bottle. Gave it an hour of air and drank over 2 hours. Needed the air - this got better throughout the night. Good red fruit, some darker fruit with plenty of structure and good ripeness but not overly ripe. Would say from 750 this needs a lot more time and/or a few hour decant. Has upside
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12/9/2019 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Sweet but not cloying.
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7/14/2018 - Nanda wrote:
Side-by-side with the 09 Dujac RSV. This bottle was pretty reduced and closed in.
Tight on the nose, but opens to show some of meaty spice and black cherry. Firm and quite structured on the palate. With air you get some approachability, but no question this wine needs a decade+ to show its stuff.
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7/14/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Chicago Bastille Day Dinner with Lots of Wagyu (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Open a couple of hours before being served. An odd wine tonight. This showed lots of SO2 that never went away, and kept the wine backward and never really forthcoming. I think this was an odd bottle, since it was inconsistent with my prior experiences with the wine.
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9/23/2016 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Dujac CdlR vertical. Very ripe, albeit not to extent of 2003. Intense rose petals and some caramel still on the nose. Pure, velvety, rich and for me pleasurable. Would say in contrast to some others, this became less interesting with time in glass.
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8/16/2016 - d'Artagnan wrote: 93 Points
Lunch de fête du Baron (au Quartier Général): Belle fougue au nez, un brin d'élevage, conifère et mûres, un coté fumé.
Très belle texture en bouche, avec une bonne acidité, une certaine austérite, un aspect très minéral. J'ai eu le bonheur de reconnaitre un Clos de la Roche. Je croyais retrouver un Lignier 2008...Un vin d'un grand potentiel. 93-94 (+) pts
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6/22/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Musique & Vin Wine Tasting (Château du Clos de Vougeot): Tasting, brief note. Sensationally perfumed with bright red cherry and berry. Dense and powerful in every regard. I haven't had this since shortly after release, and wow, it's really coming into great form already.
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11/6/2015 - galenico wrote:
BORGOGNA NOVEMBRE 2015; 11/5/2015-11/7/2015: Tasting at the domaine. 25% diraspato. Naso inchiodato, piuttosto monocorde. Rivela un gigante dormiente che sa di chinotto ed erbe amare.
Da attendere 15 anni. Un vero spreco ora.
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5/10/2015 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dujac's 2009 Clos de la Roche is predictably brooding and structured at this early stage; a deep, layered, concentrated wine with a distinctly mineral finish, and aromatics redolent of black cherry, cinnamon, herbs, hints earth and new oak, as well as the signatures of whole-cluster fermentation. This really demands more than a decade in the cellar.
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11/19/2014 - rdsboca wrote: 94 Points
Nose of tobacco, new oak and charcoal ash on opening which blew off after a hour. Great acidity, awesome cherry fruit with great backbone. This is a baby. Softened up over course of night. Let these rest a LONG time.
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2/5/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
It is seriously young and seriously classy. There’s a touch of reduction that blows off to reveal a wine crammed with dark cherries. It is dense and sweet with great volume in the mouth and outstanding length.
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1/26/2014 - Barry Rothof wrote: 94 Points
Chefs Table @ Restaurant Callas , The Hague: Fabulous complex blend of black fruit and soil aromas. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and complex, with refined and well integrated acids and tannins. There’s good grip on the long and intense finish. Needs time, this will be stunning!
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1/9/2014 - BradE wrote:
Tougher by far than the 09 BM drunk next to it. A heavier, warm fruit sense. Less accessible, and I wouldn't recommend drinking this young.
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10/15/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Floral nose with some orange rind and pot pouri mixing it up with dark fruits. It is mouthfilling and creamy with some minerality underpinning all of the flesh. A very good 09.
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8/21/2012 - julao Likes this wine: 95 Points
served & gave 90 mins, openned up brillantly, The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. Intoxicating nose that smells like Black currant (cassis), Blackberry, and Blueberry. It tastes like Plum, Forest floor, Mushroom, Stoniness, Smokey Bacon, Phenolic, Oak, barn, Sandalwood, Light toast, Clove, Cinnamon, Violet, Hay/Straw, Mint, Meaty, and Fur. In mouth Its round, powerfull & delicate at once, focused, ripe fruit, mineral, watery, long, long finnish that sends shivers down my spine.
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8/21/2012 - julao Likes this wine: 95 Points
The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. It smells like Black currant (cassis), Blackberry, and Blueberry. It tastes like Plum, Forest floor, Mushroom, Stoniness, Smokey Bacon, Phenolic, Oak, Sandalwood, Light toast, Clove, Cinnamon, Violet, Hay/Straw, Mint, Meaty, and Fur.
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6/7/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Acker Merrall BYO (Sepia - Chicago IL): Impossible to fairly assess such a young wine at this point in the evening given the older, mature wines being poured. Great potential with a floral start, then lots of ripe red and black cherry and baking spice. Give to 2020 or later...much later.
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6/7/2012 - tooch wrote: 90 Points
Acker BYO - Chicago (Sepia - Chicago, IL): Very dark and very sweet. The fruit is just an 11 in terms of purity and sweetness. Luckily, it has great balance and a nice undertone of soil or sous bois that grounds the sweet fruit a bit. Should be a fantastic wine in 5 or so years...right now the sweetness of the fruit overwhelms the underlying complexities.
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12/10/2011 - Chuck Miller wrote:
Popped and poured, slightly reductive at first but it blew off quickly. Integrated tannins, firm. Too young to accurately judge, but shows great balance and potential.
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7/10/2011 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points
Darker red fruits with good depth but v tight. Round delicious but punchy and good tannic structure.
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6/24/2011 - S1 wrote:
Burgundy Friday--24 juin 2011 (Domaine Dujac with Diana): Stony minerality on the front end. Still the great balance of fruits but creamier on the end. Also the touch of vanilla, but the austere minerality is what sets it apart.
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5/29/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Very dark, sweet and dense. It’s full of rich, creamy fruits that are threaded with Dutch liquorice. Underneath all of the luscious things is a bed of geological matter and it is long and carried by sweet, round tannins.
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5/20/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 93 Points
Stewed strawberries and some spice on the nose, which is still closed. Light and gentle strawberries, silky and soft. Very feminine and fresh.
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5/20/2011 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Burgundy 2011 Day 5: Visit to Domaine Dujac (Morey-St. Denis, Burgundy): Quite a brilliant wine. A lovely red fruited nose showed lots of berries, strawberries, cherries, with just a touch of meat - smoked duck maybe, and really nice florals floating around. A touch lighter and less serious than the Malconsorts, and so lovely to take in. The palate was beautiful too. Red cherries wed to darker blue fruit notes on the attack, tons of spice and some meat on the midpalate, and then a long, persistent finish that refused to let go, with tons and tons of grip in the background and a dashing interplay of dark cherries and spice in the foreground. Just a shade of oak perrked out at the very end. Even with all that, the wine still gave a sense of being really tight, very coiled up, but it sure had a lovely purity along with beautiful sense of balance and structure so that this seemed a bit more accesible than the Malconsorts we had alongside. Brilliant. No harm drinking these within its first decade of life I think, but it might take the better part of 15-20 years to hit absolute peak.
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9/14/2010 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Domaine Dujac Visit to taste 2009 and 2008 (Morey St.-Denis): Barrel tasting at Domaine. Starts with spicy and floral elements that are intense and sensational, making it difficult to even notice the great red fruit. Same profile continues on the palate. Power, depth and nuance are all showing themselves already. This will most likely easily be a 95+ point wine. I typically prefer the Dujac CSD over CdlR, particularly when young, but it appears the opposite will be true for the 2009s.
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