Annual Jadot Dinner - this time with Thibault Gagey (Sepia - Chicago): 96/97/02 - my favorite of the three and just by a hair over the 97. So complete and so at peak. Lovely, full, intense aromas of meaty black cherry with spice. The palate has excellent concentration and vibrancy. Meat and spice layers. Excellent.
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Decant for 1 hour, back in bottle, slow ox for 2 more hours. Color still strong. Minerals, very ripe cherry notes but yet understated. On the long finish the very ripe cherries started to develop a slightly sour touch that not only added more character and enjoyment it helped bring out and accentuate some of the otherwise hidden green elements while still maintaining the ripe fruit on the palate as well. Complex, silky, long finish. Wish I had more.
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When opened a fairly strong beefy barnyard smell. Double-decanted and nose quickly went to faint saddle and cherry compote. Drank over two hours and it just kept getting better and better to the last sip. Very long, very smooth, was all on finesse with some weight, tastes of cherry compote, with light saddle and earthy taste.
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Double decanted and drank over 4 hour period. The wine initially was quite subdued, showing minimal fruit in the nose or mouth. After sitting in the glass for an hour, it opened up and showed lots of velvety fruit, good acidity and long smooth finish.
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Pretty deep ruby color with just a touch of bricking towards the rim. First slightly holding back, but opening up with some time in the glasse. Classic and slightly austere at first, more giving with some swirling, there are notes of black fruit, also some dark red fruit, a touch of orange zest, some graphite minerality, a touch of sous-bois starting to show, there is also a animalic note too of leather and aged meat, with some sweet spices of cinnamon and also some pepper. It‘s medium+ bodied, with very good mid-palate persistence, it shows medium+ tannin that is present, but good quality, as well as pretty high acidity providing energy and tension. Good length with plenty of layers. This is at the beginning of its drinking window, with still some tannic grip and excellent freshness, but tertiary notes kicking in. Very good but not great from my perspective. (94+)
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Oooh, the nose is beeyootiful here - still relatively young on the palate, but pretty delicious all the same. Good persistence - very, very good today, with upside still ahead of it.
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{1st of 6 bought on release, PopN Decant, consumed over 4 hours; 0.5 cm ullage} Very classy, dark fruited wine, Grand Cru Gevrey soil and depth (earth, minerals, leather, ripe grapes, umami, black cherries). The old vine fruit just sings. Great complex nose without the pyrotechnics of a Chambolle; medium weight palate but with lots of intricacy and length; superb balance. Not yet at peak! Score ranged from 92 to 95 over the evening.
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Had been in a small tasting glass for 5+ hrs before I tried it
Re other Chambertin Grand Cru Vyds, Chapelle-Chambertin is to the N of En Griotte & to the E of Clos de Bèze. Typically, following manual harvesting, the grapes are carefully hand sorted & destemmed. The 3-4 wk maceration takes place in open vats made of wood or s/s, punchdowns occurring 2x/day during fermentation. Aging lasts about 18 mos in barrels from Jadot’s cooperage (about a 1/3 new).
N: CLOSED; Oranges, cherries, earth? Intensity POSS still lurking?
P: LM body; NICE, ALMOST swtish frt met by an astringent pucker which SLOWLY, SEAMLESSLY transitions into quite a LONG, BALANCED, ELEGANT finish with a tangy/swtness to the few, firming, very, VERY fine tannins. For now & EASILY making its 20th (POSS 25th?), & should be able to accompany entrees for at least a few yrs. A simply LOVELY wine! :) 13.5% ABV; My EXC+/Exceptional- (94-97/100 on that scale). 97-99 pts WA, 93 Tanzer, & 88 RJonWine (2/18/11).
FYI for those still cellaring or contemplating purchase, a VERY experienced taster who tasted from this bottle 2x early on (after ≈30 & 90 min) felt it needed more cellar time. I thought it was QUITE ready, & a friend who had the remainder of my sample 60 mins or so later felt it was "over the hill." ∑: May very well NEED some air if drinking now, though don't look for it to show a LOT of endurance once aerated.
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Hezi's 65th Birthday Celebration (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Popped and poured. Very dark, black fruit, very concentrated and meaty but also very backward. Time in glass and aeration managed to coax out some charm, but this wine barely hinted at its very good potential, which I'm confident is there based on multiple previous bottles.
2002 Red Burgundy - Single Blind: Very clean fruit juice with a lush palate. Some acrylics and clay on the nose, but not an overwhelming sense of terroir. Quite pretty and clean.
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Deep and dark colored, smelling and flavored; a lot going on here; just a tad disjointed still as the funky dark fruit and just slightly too firm acid need to mellow and gel still. Great upside here though!
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Burgundy color with a bouquet and flavor of beef bullion, grilled meat, and barbecue, with no fruit in evidence and with some harshness in the finish. Balance off with no nuance or depth. I had so much hope for this wine when I bought it, and it wasn't cheap. I had two bottles and drank the second a day later, just in case the first bottle was off, but no difference. I just wrote a note about an Arista Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, which was a gem and a stark contrast. So next time you think you would like to go to Beaune, go to Healdsburg instead.
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For a 15 year old Chambertin, it still has lot of life. Lots of fruit on the tongue, blackberry and cassis. A little funk on the nose and the bottle developed over the hour or so that it was opened. Two more bottles in the cellar so will try the next one in the next 3-4 years.
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Blind Jadot Tasting (Chez Kailin): Served blind. A real brooding, serious nose has meaty, earthy, plum and black cherry with smoked herbs. On the palate this is delicious with expansive meaty, rich black cherry. A substantial wine that is dense, long and lifted at the same time. Needs time to develop some nuance, but already impressive. Was guessing Gevrey GC from the early 2000s -- got lucky on this one. My #2, Group's #3.
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Jadot Blind Tasting and Dinner (Chez Kailin - Northbrook IL): Tasted blind. Black fruit with clear sauvage and meat notes immediately made me think this from Gevrey. Good ripeness working nicely with everything here, made me think this 1999 or 2002. Moderate weight and length, however made me think 1er Cru. Very good, certainly still cellarworthy, but I usually find greater Old Vine concentration in Jadot's Chapelle.
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Burg Dinner with Friends (The Milling Room- New York NY): Open and decanted an hour before serving. Lots of black fruit, roast meat and bœuf bourguignon spice. Great balance and concentration, this opened up significantly with more time in glass. Barely entering its peak drinking window.
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Wonderful nose of black fruit with a touch of barnyard funk. Fresh, juicy, fruity on the palate with great balance and long finish. This is in a good place right now, but has the stuffing to age for many more years.
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Too young (or over oaked?). This wine is mainly about oak at this point. Chocolate & coffee, smoked meat, licorice and dark fruit on the nose. The palate displays dark cherries, chocolate and some oak bitterness, without much nuance, lacking transparency and finesse. The oak shows on the palate too, making this seem more like a new world wine, or perhaps from a hot vintage? I was expecting this wine to be much more developed and fine by now, but tonight’s display makes me wonder if this will ever be a fine Chapelle? I doubt it.
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Some Wine Tasted at the Zachys Auction; 3/13/2014-3/14/2014 (RN74 - San Francisco CA): I think this was open a couple of hours before I tasted it, but it really needs lots more time in the cellar. Lots of roasted meat, anise, espresso work nicely with red and black fruit. But still somewhat backward and brooding. I have 4 bottles in the cellar and don't plan to open any until 2020.
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Nose of fine chocolate over raspberry. Palate shows flavours of blackberry, redcurrant and grapefruit; the flavour is intense, but indistinct (well-integrated?). Delicate body, with firm threads of tannin and acid still holding things together.
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Would be a great wine if it wasn't for a hard mid pallate. We wondered if the fruit would be left after aging more to get rid of the harshness. Amazing flavors otherwise.
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A very dark almost black color, nose is very fruity and elegant, the balance is there, the fruit is there, the finish is nice and long, but the wine is a little monolithic and doesn't do much for me. A very nice wine but not worth the price and probably one of the more disappointing Grand Crus I've had lately.
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Medium red. Cherries, mint and some caramelly oak. This has a tough structure (iron fist) and fruit that is more felt than tasted. I suggest this needs another 5 years to open.
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Dissappointing. Huge mid palate gap that never closed. Fruit was dissipated. Had to open a 2003 Michel Magnien Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les Chaffots just for a check and balance on what we were experiencing. Unfortunately the Cru Les Chaffots, which is drinking phenomenal right now, confirmed our lack of enthusiasm for the 02 Chapelle-Chambertin. Darn!
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'(from the oldest vines of the entire Jadot portfolio of owned vineyards). Pure earthy red & black fruit highlight the rich, sappy and elegant medium weight flavors that deliver fine length' (adapted from Burghound) Delineation excellent, along with good complexity in the mid-palate. A clear mid-palate gap however, that would have to heal for this to be a great wine. Meadows suggest cellaring this wine for a decade. When my case arrives, it will go into long term storage. We'll see what emerges. Thanks to Greg (the BB member who asked an innocent question about this wine, started the most recent Rovanni-Plotnicki exchange) and his lovely wife Mary for bringing it. It went really well with a great dinner.
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3/18/2024 - TheFoodieTraveler Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drank over 2 hours- still unresolved but soft tannins . Fresh and dried red and black fruit, very nice
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1/22/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Jadot (and Clair Dau) Chapelle-Chambertin Dinner with Thibault Gagey (Sepia - Chicago IL): In vertical. Textbook Gevrey, textbook Grand Cru, this is a charmer with pure and precise black fruit. Not quite as exciting to me as the 1997 in the next glass, but I understand why some tasters enjoyed this 2002 even more.
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1/22/2024 - Nanda wrote: 94 Points
Annual Jadot Dinner - this time with Thibault Gagey (Sepia - Chicago): 96/97/02 - my favorite of the three and just by a hair over the 97. So complete and so at peak. Lovely, full, intense aromas of meaty black cherry with spice. The palate has excellent concentration and vibrancy. Meat and spice layers. Excellent.
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10/1/2023 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 95 Points
Decant for 1 hour, back in bottle, slow ox for 2 more hours. Color still strong. Minerals, very ripe cherry notes but yet understated. On the long finish the very ripe cherries started to develop a slightly sour touch that not only added more character and enjoyment it helped bring out and accentuate some of the otherwise hidden green elements while still maintaining the ripe fruit on the palate as well. Complex, silky, long finish. Wish I had more.
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9/10/2022 - PBL Likes this wine: 94 Points
When opened a fairly strong beefy barnyard smell. Double-decanted and nose quickly went to faint saddle and cherry compote. Drank over two hours and it just kept getting better and better to the last sip. Very long, very smooth, was all on finesse with some weight, tastes of cherry compote, with light saddle and earthy taste.
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1/4/2022 - NY Wino Likes this wine: 93 Points
Double decanted and drank over 4 hour period. The wine initially was quite subdued, showing minimal fruit in the nose or mouth. After sitting in the glass for an hour, it opened up and showed lots of velvety fruit, good acidity and long smooth finish.
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10/21/2021 - ptwu wrote: 88 Points
Fine on open. But quickly faded. Over the hill.
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6/11/2021 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pretty deep ruby color with just a touch of bricking towards the rim. First slightly holding back, but opening up with some time in the glasse. Classic and slightly austere at first, more giving with some swirling, there are notes of black fruit, also some dark red fruit, a touch of orange zest, some graphite minerality, a touch of sous-bois starting to show, there is also a animalic note too of leather and aged meat, with some sweet spices of cinnamon and also some pepper. It‘s medium+ bodied, with very good mid-palate persistence, it shows medium+ tannin that is present, but good quality, as well as pretty high acidity providing energy and tension. Good length with plenty of layers. This is at the beginning of its drinking window, with still some tannic grip and excellent freshness, but tertiary notes kicking in. Very good but not great from my perspective. (94+)
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3/27/2021 - Bob H wrote:
Oooh, the nose is beeyootiful here - still relatively young on the palate, but pretty delicious all the same. Good persistence - very, very good today, with upside still ahead of it.
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2/7/2021 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 93 Points
{1st of 6 bought on release, PopN Decant, consumed over 4 hours; 0.5 cm ullage} Very classy, dark fruited wine, Grand Cru Gevrey soil and depth (earth, minerals, leather, ripe grapes, umami, black cherries). The old vine fruit just sings. Great complex nose without the pyrotechnics of a Chambolle; medium weight palate but with lots of intricacy and length; superb balance. Not yet at peak! Score ranged from 92 to 95 over the evening.
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4/13/2020 - Deepdrop Likes this wine: 92 Points
Improved since last taste 3 yrs ago. Supple fruit with berry and mild earthiness. Medium body.
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7/6/2019 - srh Likes this wine:
Winebar [1 Rosé, 3 Whts, & 8 Reds] from 07/05/19 + 5 Shared Bottles (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): Dr. Tom, you REALLY outdid yourself THIS time! I can't thank you ENOUGH for being able to taste my FIRST Chambertin- Grand Cru! :)
Had been in a small tasting glass for 5+ hrs before I tried it
Re other Chambertin Grand Cru Vyds, Chapelle-Chambertin is to the N of En Griotte & to the E of Clos de Bèze. Typically, following manual harvesting, the grapes are carefully hand sorted & destemmed. The 3-4 wk maceration takes place in open vats made of wood or s/s, punchdowns occurring 2x/day during fermentation. Aging lasts about 18 mos in barrels from Jadot’s cooperage (about a 1/3 new).
N: CLOSED; Oranges, cherries, earth? Intensity POSS still lurking?
P: LM body; NICE, ALMOST swtish frt met by an astringent pucker which SLOWLY, SEAMLESSLY transitions into quite a LONG, BALANCED, ELEGANT finish with a tangy/swtness to the few, firming, very, VERY fine tannins. For now & EASILY making its 20th (POSS 25th?), & should be able to accompany entrees for at least a few yrs. A simply LOVELY wine! :) 13.5% ABV; My EXC+/Exceptional- (94-97/100 on that scale). 97-99 pts WA, 93 Tanzer, & 88 RJonWine (2/18/11).
FYI for those still cellaring or contemplating purchase, a VERY experienced taster who tasted from this bottle 2x early on (after ≈30 & 90 min) felt it needed more cellar time. I thought it was QUITE ready, & a friend who had the remainder of my sample 60 mins or so later felt it was "over the hill." ∑: May very well NEED some air if drinking now, though don't look for it to show a LOT of endurance once aerated.
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6/9/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Hezi's 65th Birthday Celebration (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Popped and poured. Very dark, black fruit, very concentrated and meaty but also very backward. Time in glass and aeration managed to coax out some charm, but this wine barely hinted at its very good potential, which I'm confident is there based on multiple previous bottles.
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9/29/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 90 Points
2002 Red Burgundy - Single Blind: Very clean fruit juice with a lush palate. Some acrylics and clay on the nose, but not an overwhelming sense of terroir. Quite pretty and clean.
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9/20/2017 - jmoore431 wrote: 91 Points
Deep and dark colored, smelling and flavored; a lot going on here; just a tad disjointed still as the funky dark fruit and just slightly too firm acid need to mellow and gel still. Great upside here though!
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7/23/2017 - the godfather wrote: flawed
Corked. So unfortunate as you could tell the underlying fruit Was awesome
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5/12/2017 - Deepdrop wrote: 90 Points
Berry and violet but not a lot of nuance for a grand cru. Definitely not worth the current price tag. Showed best after several hour decant.
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4/29/2017 - d'Artagnan wrote:
à la Paulée de la SAQ (D. Savard)
Un fort joli vin, en finesse, bien équilibré et à point. Délicieux.
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4/1/2017 - tcosgriff Does not like this wine: 84 Points
Burgundy color with a bouquet and flavor of beef bullion, grilled meat, and barbecue, with no fruit in evidence and with some harshness in the finish. Balance off with no nuance or depth. I had so much hope for this wine when I bought it, and it wasn't cheap. I had two bottles and drank the second a day later, just in case the first bottle was off, but no difference. I just wrote a note about an Arista Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, which was a gem and a stark contrast. So next time you think you would like to go to Beaune, go to Healdsburg instead.
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4/1/2017 - bmhusted wrote: 92 Points
For a 15 year old Chambertin, it still has lot of life. Lots of fruit on the tongue, blackberry and cassis. A little funk on the nose and the bottle developed over the hour or so that it was opened. Two more bottles in the cellar so will try the next one in the next 3-4 years.
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10/4/2016 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
Blind Jadot Tasting (Chez Kailin): Served blind. A real brooding, serious nose has meaty, earthy, plum and black cherry with smoked herbs. On the palate this is delicious with expansive meaty, rich black cherry. A substantial wine that is dense, long and lifted at the same time. Needs time to develop some nuance, but already impressive. Was guessing Gevrey GC from the early 2000s -- got lucky on this one. My #2, Group's #3.
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10/4/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Jadot Blind Tasting and Dinner (Chez Kailin - Northbrook IL): Tasted blind. Black fruit with clear sauvage and meat notes immediately made me think this from Gevrey. Good ripeness working nicely with everything here, made me think this 1999 or 2002. Moderate weight and length, however made me think 1er Cru. Very good, certainly still cellarworthy, but I usually find greater Old Vine concentration in Jadot's Chapelle.
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5/22/2016 - Taillevent Likes this wine:
My only bottle. It had a great nose. Berries and earthy. Great wine. With cheese it was excellent.
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5/18/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
Chapelle-Chambertin Dinner with the Lieu-dit Cru (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Open 2+ hours before serving, with a quick double decant. Tasted blind in 2002 Chapelle flight. Completely inconsistent with previous bottles, this was very barnyardy and dirty. Not much pleasure.
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9/30/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Burg Dinner with Friends (The Milling Room- New York NY): Open and decanted an hour before serving. Lots of black fruit, roast meat and bœuf bourguignon spice. Great balance and concentration, this opened up significantly with more time in glass. Barely entering its peak drinking window.
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6/13/2015 - ptwu Likes this wine: 94 Points
First bottle I have consumed since buying a six pack on release. Really well evolved at this point, drinking beautifully. Long long finish
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3/9/2015 - DSR wrote: 93 Points
Wonderful nose of black fruit with a touch of barnyard funk. Fresh, juicy, fruity on the palate with great balance and long finish. This is in a good place right now, but has the stuffing to age for many more years.
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4/17/2014 - Ramberg wrote: 88 Points
Too young (or over oaked?).
This wine is mainly about oak at this point.
Chocolate & coffee, smoked meat, licorice and dark fruit on the nose.
The palate displays dark cherries, chocolate and some oak bitterness, without much nuance, lacking transparency and finesse.
The oak shows on the palate too, making this seem more like a new world wine, or perhaps from a hot vintage?
I was expecting this wine to be much more developed and fine by now, but tonight’s display makes me wonder if this will ever be a fine Chapelle?
I doubt it.
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3/14/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Some Wine Tasted at the Zachys Auction; 3/13/2014-3/14/2014 (RN74 - San Francisco CA): I think this was open a couple of hours before I tasted it, but it really needs lots more time in the cellar. Lots of roasted meat, anise, espresso work nicely with red and black fruit. But still somewhat backward and brooding. I have 4 bottles in the cellar and don't plan to open any until 2020.
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12/18/2013 - Drinking Trees wrote:
Nose of fine chocolate over raspberry. Palate shows flavours of blackberry, redcurrant and grapefruit; the flavour is intense, but indistinct (well-integrated?). Delicate body, with firm threads of tannin and acid still holding things together.
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11/29/2013 - dougie Likes this wine: 92 Points
Would be a great wine if it wasn't for a hard mid pallate. We wondered if the fruit would be left after aging more to get rid of the harshness. Amazing flavors otherwise.
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11/7/2013 - jal Likes this wine: 90 Points
A very dark almost black color, nose is very fruity and elegant, the balance is there, the fruit is there, the finish is nice and long, but the wine is a little monolithic and doesn't do much for me. A very nice wine but not worth the price and probably one of the more disappointing Grand Crus I've had lately.
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11/17/2012 - KVM wrote: 92 Points
Medium red. Cherries, mint and some caramelly oak. This has a tough structure (iron fist) and fruit that is more felt than tasted. I suggest this needs another 5 years to open.
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10/13/2012 - grapemaven wrote: 88 Points
Dissappointing. Huge mid palate gap that never closed. Fruit was dissipated. Had to open a 2003 Michel Magnien Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les Chaffots just for a check and balance on what we were experiencing. Unfortunately the Cru Les Chaffots, which is drinking phenomenal right now, confirmed our lack of enthusiasm for the 02 Chapelle-Chambertin. Darn!
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9/23/2011 - kjroenetrian wrote:
sent to Mike Riskind
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8/22/2011 - dmaywood wrote: 96 Points
Incredible nose right out of the bottle. Incredible finish goes on and on. Incredible
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2/18/2011 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 88 Points
DRC La Tâche, Richebourg, other great Richebourgs and Chambertins (Martin Weiner's home in Westwood, Los Angeles, California): Medium cherry red color with three millimeter clear meniscus; baked red fruit, cherry, strawberry, oak nose; chocolate, baked raspberry, baked cherry, shortbread palate with soft tannins; medium-plus finish 88+ points
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4/7/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points
Richer and much darker in complexion than the more red-fruited '04. This is still very primary but still imparts a multi-layered mouthfeel.
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12/11/2004 - dk_lulu wrote:
'(from the oldest vines of the entire Jadot portfolio of owned vineyards). Pure earthy red & black fruit highlight the rich, sappy and elegant medium weight flavors that deliver fine length' (adapted from Burghound) Delineation excellent, along with good complexity in the mid-palate. A clear mid-palate gap however, that would have to heal for this to be a great wine. Meadows suggest cellaring this wine for a decade. When my case arrives, it will go into long term storage. We'll see what emerges. Thanks to Greg (the BB member who asked an innocent question about this wine, started the most recent Rovanni-Plotnicki exchange) and his lovely wife Mary for bringing it. It went really well with a great dinner.
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