Amazingly ripe musky dark fruit, flowers, minerals, and earth. Very fresh thanks to abundant acidity, but the earthiness is persistent beyond all the fruit: like rolling rocks in your mouth. This does not have the meaty and animale notes of the Vosne wines from the same vintage and is very young. I prefer to drink the Boudots or the Combottes today, but this will be great in time.
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Dark and serious on the nose with aromas of liqueur cherry, blackberries and black earth. Incredibly sweet, concentrated and luscious in the mouth and the dense fruits drip from the roof of your mouth. For all its volume and intensity it shows no heaviness and we joked that when Allen Meadows eventually tries this he will encounter a ‘kaleidoscope of Zen likeness’.
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Domaine Leroy Cellar Visit and Tasting (Vosne-Romanee): Barrel tasting at Domaine Leroy. Again floral and spicy to start. Lots of black fruit on the nose, then evolving towards a combination of red and black on palate, that really shows great power on the finish. Showing some of the best minerality in the Leroy 2009 lineup today.
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1/18/2021 - burg_gram_Jason Likes this wine: 96 Points
Very Leroy, elegant for a 2009, not sure I'd call this a CdlR on a blind. Actually, I am very sure I would have called a grand cru Leroy Vosne.
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6/6/2016 - blacktruffle Likes this wine: 95 Points
Amazingly ripe musky dark fruit, flowers, minerals, and earth. Very fresh thanks to abundant acidity, but the earthiness is persistent beyond all the fruit: like rolling rocks in your mouth. This does not have the meaty and animale notes of the Vosne wines from the same vintage and is very young. I prefer to drink the Boudots or the Combottes today, but this will be great in time.
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5/27/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Dark and serious on the nose with aromas of liqueur cherry, blackberries and black earth. Incredibly sweet, concentrated and luscious in the mouth and the dense fruits drip from the roof of your mouth. For all its volume and intensity it shows no heaviness and we joked that when Allen Meadows eventually tries this he will encounter a ‘kaleidoscope of Zen likeness’.
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9/9/2010 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Domaine Leroy Cellar Visit and Tasting (Vosne-Romanee): Barrel tasting at Domaine Leroy. Again floral and spicy to start. Lots of black fruit on the nose, then evolving towards a combination of red and black on palate, that really shows great power on the finish. Showing some of the best minerality in the Leroy 2009 lineup today.
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