1996 Rhone and Burgundy (Bronte): rich white gold colour but a lot less dark than its age would suggest. rich fragrance showing fine oak spice, minerality, honeycomb and plump ripe peaches. powerful palate, rich and well structured, yet also refined and still quite tight. Honey, crushed herbs, toasty, creamy, with a strong line of peaches. really delicious, no sign of oxidative notes, just gentle signs of age. obviously a well stored example.
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Last of my 6 pack. Paired with the 93. Slightly darker golden colour. Such breadth and weight. Probably the best, most complete perrieres I’ve ever had. Several steps above the 96 roulot from magnum that I was lucky enough to try a few years ago.
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Electric on opening, expressive lemon/lime fruit, creamy, truffle, stones, earth, great length driven hard by the 96 acidity. This was alive immediately with an energy that would put many a young MP to shame. For me this is in the perfect place with some secondary nuance coming through into a still youthfully exuberant profile.
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Bottle decant one hour. Golden luminous colour. Pronounced nose of honeysuckle and peach. Medium+ acidity and hints of minerality. Surprisingly fresh still and well-balanced with a good finish.
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Medium gold in colour. On the nose, it has flint, honey, rice cracker/toast, lemon curd, dried apricot, cheese, savoury. Very pure on the palate, balanced and delicious, peach skin, honey and quite savoury. The middle palate is a little lack of layers/complexity. I can detect a very minor TCA especially at first sip (can’t be sure about it which I feel might have muted the fruit), but again seem to be gone with some swirl. Overall, still a very enjoyable Meursault. Drink now!
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Late night at home. Comparing two 1996 white Burgs with Asparagus. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Another amazing bottle of this. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, yellow lemon colour. Legs. Nose pronounced intensity, with aromas of reductive flint, toast, honeyed nuts, green apple, citrus lime, stony minerality. Developing. On the palate, dry, very high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), rounded medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavorus of honeyed nuts, green apple, citrus lime, stony minerality. Rounded long finish. Still rocking. Wish you all well and hope you get good bottles of this too.
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This wine was unbelievably vibrant. Tasted young and still primary. Lots of rocks and lemon, with plenty of power behind it. Just a hint of secondary characteristics and could barley get the hazelnut coming through.
Good bottles of this should last a long time
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When they are on the wines are really incredible, this bottle was flinty and completely alive and delicious, everything you could want but the success rate is pretty much 50% on these wines for me so as long as you are comfortable with that reality they are worth seeking out, I'm not sure I'm going to be buying anymore myself. Even at 2x the average retail price on these which is basically what the cost is when you have to pour out every other bottle, they are still a relative bargain compared to any other older White Burg but it's a frustrating experience opening them.
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Tasted from Coravin at Terroir Renaissance today. Unbelievably young and vibrant. Beautiful toasty and nutty with subtle stone fruits and honey notes. Such a joy!
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Bucket Club Dinner (Bronte, Sydney): deep lemon yellow colour. fragrance of honeysuckle, sherbet, lemon rind and spice. bright acidity, excellent intensity, lemon zest and mineral spice, youthful and without developed characters, nicely structure, good weight. impressive, especially for its age.
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Liquid gold in color with pronounced aromas of peach, apricot, pineapple, honeysuckle, brioche, butter, oak and gunpowder end. Full of the flavour of peach, ripe pear, pineapple, butter palate. Medium + acidity, well balanced, a long mineral finish.
Very enjoyable, what an experience.
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Golden hue, good lustre. Fresh, fruit and spice, soft aged characters, honey and grilled nuts. Fleshy, full flavoured, long smooth palate. Fruit, cream, toast and honey, nothing oxidative. Very clean finish, pure and fruit driven, gentle acidity, carries its sweet aged fruit very well.
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A lovely Perrières that is gracefully straddling the fence of freshness and maturity. A trace of fruit is joined by nutty, mushroomy tertiary notes. A real delight.
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Another beautiful old white burgundy from Ampeau. Great structure and minerality, with a very long finish. Still has very fine tannins, with notes of buttery and toasty oak, kumquat, lemon and honeysuckle.
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Fantastic bright golden color. Needs time to open, with the last glass being the best after 4 hours. Complex nose with dried citrus fruit, wet stone and fully integrated oak. Medium body, still heaps of freshness and acidity and a long long finish. Seems to can be kept forever
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Golden yellow, big, reductive so we decanted it for an hour, more accessible & opened up to reveal a rich, relatively full bodied wine, not at its peak 92+
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Jean-Pierre Reniard Burgundy Wine Seminar (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant): Tasted in Riedel Burg glass. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, gold colour. Legs. Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of dirty earth, clayey minerals and sea-salt, white peaches, citrus lemon, distinct hazelnuts. Developed. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of very white peaches, sweet citrus lemons, salty wet stones minerality, honeyed-limes, hazelnuts. Long finish. Outstanding quality. Very complex, layered, and still has that acidic precision cut. White Burg showing at its peak. 1er Cru but everything like the Grand Cru big guns. Drink up and enjoy.
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Dinner with friends at Ad Hog & wines served blind, I brought this, light yellow, lots of gun flint, white flowers, lemon, minerals, lots going on the nose ie complex, in the mouth rich & long, nothing like aged white Burgundy!
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Late release in 2018. Salinity, lemon, minerals, mushroom, gun powder, fine flowers, grill and honey. Great depth, concentration and precision with a long finish. Took a while to open but really quite lovely. 94-95
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A Quartet of White Burgundy 1er Crus (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): This rounded up a quartet of really nice wines brilliantly. Probably the most mature tasting, it had a nice warm earthiness on the nose, along with a toasty ripeness to its apple fruit aromas, and then a charming honey and caramel accent. Just a lovely, old school Meursault nose. The palate was beautiful too. Round, full and pleasing, with fresh juicy white fruit lined with a lovely lemony brightness. Lovely Long finish as well - fresh and compelling, with a lovely Perrieres cut and focus to its white-fruited fullness, and a nice kiss of minerality right at the end. Brilliant stuff. Impeccably balanced and drinking heroically well.
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Popped and poured over 2 nights. Golden colour. Perfectly resolved wine. Good balance and persistence. Nicely rounded but focused too. Sweet honey, minerals and lemon juice.
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Popped and poured 2 bottles alongside 2 bottles each of the 93 and 91. Clear line across the 3 vintages. All 6 bottles in perfect condition with no hint of POX. Golden colour with a lovely, secondary character. Quite focused still and my clear favourite of the 3 - not a hair out of place and will continue to evolve well from here for quite a long time I would expect.
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Beautiful, bright but deep gold raised concerns of premox, but it was fine. Reticent at first, but becoming almost painful in its intensity, lots of acidity, lemon, custard, stones. Nice wine. Very enjoyable
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Tried this 1996 Perrieres over a two day period and preferred it on day 2. No sign of premature oxidation whatsoever as this wine is still fresh and vibrant. Although still tight and somewhat reserved it probably needs 5-10 more years of bottle age. On the 2nd day the wine was more forthcoming like drinking liquid stones and minerals. Very classic in style with a lemon light gold color. The nose was muted but I am sure this will change with more bottle age. A very good to Excellent bottle of white Burgundy that just falls short of the best producers but perhaps with more time that will change. Would rate this at 92 points and Day 1 and 93 points on day 2. Nice bottle indeed++++.
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3/30/2024 - 49RockVino wrote: 94 Points
Excellent
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12/11/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Sadly some mild tca ruined what was a fresh and vital wine that had richness along with the cut of the vintage.
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8/5/2023 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 94 Points
1996 Rhone and Burgundy (Bronte): rich white gold colour but a lot less dark than its age would suggest.
rich fragrance showing fine oak spice, minerality, honeycomb and plump ripe peaches.
powerful palate, rich and well structured, yet also refined and still quite tight. Honey, crushed herbs, toasty, creamy, with a strong line of peaches. really delicious, no sign of oxidative notes, just gentle signs of age. obviously a well stored example.
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5/26/2023 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Last of my 6 pack. Paired with the 93. Slightly darker golden colour. Such breadth and weight. Probably the best, most complete perrieres I’ve ever had. Several steps above the 96 roulot from magnum that I was lucky enough to try a few years ago.
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5/26/2023 - The Guzz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Electric on opening, expressive lemon/lime fruit, creamy, truffle, stones, earth, great length driven hard by the 96 acidity. This was alive immediately with an energy that would put many a young MP to shame. For me this is in the perfect place with some secondary nuance coming through into a still youthfully exuberant profile.
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5/18/2023 - bwang wrote: 93 Points
Bottle decant one hour. Golden luminous colour. Pronounced nose of honeysuckle and peach. Medium+ acidity and hints of minerality. Surprisingly fresh still and well-balanced with a good finish.
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3/19/2023 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium gold in colour. On the nose, it has flint, honey, rice cracker/toast, lemon curd, dried apricot, cheese, savoury. Very pure on the palate, balanced and delicious, peach skin, honey and quite savoury. The middle palate is a little lack of layers/complexity. I can detect a very minor TCA especially at first sip (can’t be sure about it which I feel might have muted the fruit), but again seem to be gone with some swirl. Overall, still a very enjoyable Meursault. Drink now!
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3/12/2023 - asparagus Likes this wine: 94 Points
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3/10/2023 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points
Late night at home. Comparing two 1996 white Burgs with Asparagus.
Drank in Gabriel Standart. Another amazing bottle of this.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, yellow lemon colour. Legs.
Nose pronounced intensity, with aromas of reductive flint, toast, honeyed nuts, green apple, citrus lime, stony minerality. Developing.
On the palate, dry, very high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), rounded medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavorus of honeyed nuts, green apple, citrus lime, stony minerality. Rounded long finish.
Still rocking. Wish you all well and hope you get good bottles of this too.
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2/14/2023 - jhw425 wrote: 94 Points
This wine was unbelievably vibrant. Tasted young and still primary. Lots of rocks and lemon, with plenty of power behind it. Just a hint of secondary characteristics and could barley get the hazelnut coming through.
Good bottles of this should last a long time
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12/5/2022 - Honey Badger Likes this wine: 94 Points
When they are on the wines are really incredible, this bottle was flinty and completely alive and delicious, everything you could want but the success rate is pretty much 50% on these wines for me so as long as you are comfortable with that reality they are worth seeking out, I'm not sure I'm going to be buying anymore myself. Even at 2x the average retail price on these which is basically what the cost is when you have to pour out every other bottle, they are still a relative bargain compared to any other older White Burg but it's a frustrating experience opening them.
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4/17/2022 - Warren23 wrote: 92 Points
Wonderful again. Notes of honeysuckle with floral notes.
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12/4/2021 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 95 Points
Tasted from Coravin at Terroir Renaissance today. Unbelievably young and vibrant. Beautiful toasty and nutty with subtle stone fruits and honey notes. Such a joy!
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11/13/2021 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bucket Club Dinner (Bronte, Sydney): deep lemon yellow colour.
fragrance of honeysuckle, sherbet, lemon rind and spice.
bright acidity, excellent intensity, lemon zest and mineral spice, youthful and without developed characters, nicely structure, good weight. impressive, especially for its age.
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10/23/2021 - DdB wrote: flawed
What Sherry tastes like when it goes bad. Wretched. And yes, gave it time to come around. Highly disappointing as previous bottles were sublime.
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9/18/2021 - Kelsong Likes this wine: 98 Points
🍇 Chardonnay
ABV13.5%
💵 SGD 225 @domainewinessg
Liquid gold in color with pronounced aromas of peach, apricot, pineapple, honeysuckle, brioche, butter, oak and gunpowder end. Full of the flavour of peach, ripe pear, pineapple, butter palate. Medium + acidity, well balanced, a long mineral finish.
Very enjoyable, what an experience.
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7/25/2021 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Golden hue, good lustre.
Fresh, fruit and spice, soft aged characters, honey and grilled nuts.
Fleshy, full flavoured, long smooth palate. Fruit, cream, toast and honey, nothing oxidative. Very clean finish, pure and fruit driven, gentle acidity, carries its sweet aged fruit very well.
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7/23/2021 - glou.sf wrote: flawed
This was slightly corked.
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7/23/2021 - ohne_musik wrote: flawed
Berserker Offline (Mathilde Bistro - SF): A bit corked, which became more obvious with time. Nice texture/frame and not oxidized though!
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10/10/2020 - VDLT Wine Likes this wine:
A lovely Perrières that is gracefully straddling the fence of freshness and maturity. A trace of fruit is joined by nutty, mushroomy tertiary notes. A real delight.
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9/20/2020 - Warren23 wrote: 94 Points
Another beautiful old white burgundy from Ampeau. Great structure and minerality, with a very long finish. Still has very fine tannins, with notes of buttery and toasty oak, kumquat, lemon and honeysuckle.
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6/10/2020 - Poll86 wrote:
Fantastic bright golden color. Needs time to open, with the last glass being the best after 4 hours. Complex nose with dried citrus fruit, wet stone and fully integrated oak. Medium body, still heaps of freshness and acidity and a long long finish. Seems to can be kept forever
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12/1/2019 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine:
Golden yellow, big, reductive so we decanted it for an hour, more accessible & opened up to reveal a rich, relatively full bodied wine, not at its peak
92+
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11/24/2019 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points
Jean-Pierre Reniard Burgundy Wine Seminar (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant): Tasted in Riedel Burg glass.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, gold colour. Legs.
Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of dirty earth, clayey minerals and sea-salt, white peaches, citrus lemon, distinct hazelnuts. Developed.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of very white peaches, sweet citrus lemons, salty wet stones minerality, honeyed-limes, hazelnuts. Long finish.
Outstanding quality. Very complex, layered, and still has that acidic precision cut. White Burg showing at its peak. 1er Cru but everything like the Grand Cru big guns. Drink up and enjoy.
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11/19/2019 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Light on its feet with marvelous power and grace, firm acidity.
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11/12/2019 - Dvogt wrote: 92 Points
Still drinking well. Some freshness, orchard fruit and slightly evolving a subtle tropical note. Was charming with food.
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7/30/2019 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine:
Dinner with friends at Ad Hog & wines served blind, I brought this, light yellow, lots of gun flint, white flowers, lemon, minerals, lots going on the nose ie complex, in the mouth rich & long, nothing like aged white Burgundy!
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12/3/2018 - hprphf wrote: 94 Points
Late release in 2018. Salinity, lemon, minerals, mushroom, gun powder, fine flowers, grill and honey. Great depth, concentration and precision with a long finish. Took a while to open but really quite lovely. 94-95
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10/11/2018 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
A Quartet of White Burgundy 1er Crus (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): This rounded up a quartet of really nice wines brilliantly. Probably the most mature tasting, it had a nice warm earthiness on the nose, along with a toasty ripeness to its apple fruit aromas, and then a charming honey and caramel accent. Just a lovely, old school Meursault nose. The palate was beautiful too. Round, full and pleasing, with fresh juicy white fruit lined with a lovely lemony brightness. Lovely Long finish as well - fresh and compelling, with a lovely Perrieres cut and focus to its white-fruited fullness, and a nice kiss of minerality right at the end. Brilliant stuff. Impeccably balanced and drinking heroically well.
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7/21/2018 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Popped and poured over 2 nights. Golden colour. Perfectly resolved wine. Good balance and persistence. Nicely rounded but focused too. Sweet honey, minerals and lemon juice.
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11/30/2017 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Popped and poured 2 bottles alongside 2 bottles each of the 93 and 91. Clear line across the 3 vintages. All 6 bottles in perfect condition with no hint of POX. Golden colour with a lovely, secondary character. Quite focused still and my clear favourite of the 3 - not a hair out of place and will continue to evolve well from here for quite a long time I would expect.
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4/3/2013 - Hex triplet #43302E Likes this wine:
Beautiful, bright but deep gold raised concerns of premox, but it was fine. Reticent at first, but becoming almost painful in its intensity, lots of acidity, lemon, custard, stones. Nice wine. Very enjoyable
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10/22/2012 - Johnnybegood Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tried this 1996 Perrieres over a two day period and preferred it on day 2. No sign of premature oxidation whatsoever as this wine is still fresh and vibrant. Although still tight and somewhat reserved it probably needs 5-10 more years of bottle age. On the 2nd day the wine was more forthcoming like drinking liquid stones and minerals. Very classic in style with a lemon light gold color. The nose was muted but I am sure this will change with more bottle age. A very good to Excellent bottle of white Burgundy that just falls short of the best producers but perhaps with more time that will change. Would rate this at 92 points and Day 1 and 93 points on day 2. Nice bottle indeed++++.
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