Bürklin-Wolf Tasting with Nicola Libelli (Freiheit Vinothek, Ulm, Germany): Glass: Zwiesel Sensory Burgundy Tasted blind. Clear, golden color. Nose with some fine caramel, speck, smoke, ripe fruit? Riesling? Certainly not. On the palate smoky, dense and deep. Burnt sugar, creme brulee, very salty and mineral, very good balance, beautiful structure. Long! Thank you Marcel for this great opportunity. This is for sure very good, but for me could not compete with the 1999 Bürklin Riesling this evening, because it lacked the tension and energy. 94-95
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hazelnut, marmalade, honey, toast, warm, cream, fruit, petrol. It’s fat, m+ acidity, rich and powerful. Palate is not clean and sharp. It’s relatively heavy and sticky. Drink right after open the bottle. This bottle still need aeration.
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Reuniting because we can now (Chachama Grill Patchogue, NY): Opened 2 hours prior and replugged. Decanted just before serving. Quite dark golden color. Any concerns were quickly dispatched. Much of the fruit has developed into mature flavors but it remains fresh and vibrant. Over the course of about 2 hours it continues to evolve, deepen and intensify. By the end, the nose is incredible. A wine of great depth and length. Truly Grand Cru and a wonderful experience.
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Burgundy Wine Club 10th Anniversary Dinner: Lovely aromatics, great balance between mineral and fruit, complex and clean on the nose. Which is a relief because 50-50 this is pre-moxed. But it wasn't. We loved the nose, but the palate had a bitter edge, and showed hollow in the middle, and none of the poise and complexity, none of the material that the 08 showed. Lovely nose, not a great wine, but that's about 1998, not about pre-mox or anything like that.
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Pronounced vanilla cream nose. Intense lemon wax and honey palate, fading into slightly botyrised-like citrus flavours. A one minute finish (at least) and a ton of mouth coating glycerol. Highly complex but, from this vintage, needs drinking yesterday.
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Wow, this wine is rediculous. Incredible smells coming out of this wine, things like peach skin, lemon peel, avacado and eggshell. The layers on this wine are just mezmerizing. The texture is almost viscous. This wine has a 90 minute finish. Incredible.
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Taking advantage of no corkage (Triomphe): Really awesome. Golden hue with a sparkle. Effusive nose of buttery, honeyed rich fruit. Majestic mouth-feel. Alive and vibrant. Kept improving.
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4/14/2023 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bürklin-Wolf Tasting with Nicola Libelli (Freiheit Vinothek, Ulm, Germany): Glass: Zwiesel Sensory Burgundy
Tasted blind.
Clear, golden color. Nose with some fine caramel, speck, smoke, ripe fruit? Riesling? Certainly not.
On the palate smoky, dense and deep. Burnt sugar, creme brulee, very salty and mineral, very good balance, beautiful structure. Long! Thank you Marcel for this great opportunity. This is for sure very good, but for me could not compete with the 1999 Bürklin Riesling this evening, because it lacked the tension and energy. 94-95
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12/4/2021 - RayOB wrote: 96 Points
Drank in London
Absolutely beautiful
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9/19/2021 - vetty wrote: 93 Points
hazelnut, marmalade, honey, toast, warm, cream, fruit, petrol.
It’s fat, m+ acidity, rich and powerful.
Palate is not clean and sharp. It’s relatively heavy and sticky.
Drink right after open the bottle. This bottle still need aeration.
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7/22/2021 - VDLT Wine Likes this wine:
Reuniting because we can now (Chachama Grill Patchogue, NY): Opened 2 hours prior and replugged. Decanted just before serving. Quite dark golden color. Any concerns were quickly dispatched. Much of the fruit has developed into mature flavors but it remains fresh and vibrant. Over the course of about 2 hours it continues to evolve, deepen and intensify. By the end, the nose is incredible. A wine of great depth and length. Truly Grand Cru and a wonderful experience.
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2/1/2020 - brooklynguy wrote:
Burgundy Wine Club 10th Anniversary Dinner: Lovely aromatics, great balance between mineral and fruit, complex and clean on the nose. Which is a relief because 50-50 this is pre-moxed. But it wasn't. We loved the nose, but the palate had a bitter edge, and showed hollow in the middle, and none of the poise and complexity, none of the material that the 08 showed. Lovely nose, not a great wine, but that's about 1998, not about pre-mox or anything like that.
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8/5/2018 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Citrus, melon aromatics. Broad, intense and mineral palate. Classic Leflaive Chevy.
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11/2/2013 - j30 wrote: 94 Points
Has a honey / wax / slightly stewed kinda nose. Very smooth texture and richly flavored. Loooong finish.
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4/24/2011 - UK Don wrote: 93 Points
Pronounced vanilla cream nose. Intense lemon wax and honey palate, fading into slightly botyrised-like citrus flavours. A one minute finish (at least) and a ton of mouth coating glycerol. Highly complex but, from this vintage, needs drinking yesterday.
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6/15/2008 - Johann Von Mastiff wrote: 98 Points
Wow, this wine is rediculous. Incredible smells coming out of this wine, things like peach skin, lemon peel, avacado and eggshell. The layers on this wine are just mezmerizing. The texture is almost viscous. This wine has a 90 minute finish. Incredible.
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7/28/2006 - VDLT Wine Likes this wine:
Taking advantage of no corkage (Triomphe): Really awesome. Golden hue with a sparkle. Effusive nose of buttery, honeyed rich fruit. Majestic mouth-feel. Alive and vibrant. Kept improving.
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