This really improved in the glass and could've even benefitted from a decant. Once it reached its zenith, it just flowed over the palate like liquid cashmere with beautiful dark cherry and bluish fruit and perfect balance. Just a gorgeous Burgundy with many years of life left but with some air, this is close to peak if you like some fruit left in your Burgundy. Has the stuffing to grow more complex over the next two decades if I can keep my hands off it. 95+
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Side by side the Clos St Denis 99 blind during a Dujac evening with friends. It was clear that this was the Clos Roche due to it's more massive structure, more earthiness and weight compared to the more precise and weightless and pure Clos St Denis. Both are playing strongly on the beautiful 99 fruit though. Stylistcally I think myself and the entire table had a preference for the Clos St Denis which was a theme of the evening (also 06 pair showed an even clearer preference for Clos St Denis). However, that isn't to take anything away from a great Clos Roche 99 from Dujac. I do think though Lignier Clos Roche 99 bests Dujac 99 Roche.
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Dark cherry. Sweet on the nose, savoury on the palate. But all those other fragrances - cinnamon, treacle, fudge. Tremendous, really, at this age. Incredible. I'm not sure I've ever had so many great wines in the space of three hours...
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90's Dujac Grand Cru and 2007 Ramonet: Youngest most reserved of the 3 wines in this blind flight, vs CSD and Bonnes Mares. Extremely clean and polished by comparison to the other two wines.
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From a different cellar than mine (thanks ODM) as my last one was corked.... This hit the mark. Great aromatics and while the fruit was a little clenched it's starting to show (96-97). By memory I'd rank it between the Bonnes Mares and the CSD
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While the wine is reticent and young it is also powerful and haunting right out of the bottle. Opened at least 1hour+ before we dug into to it. With age the Dujac nose will become more pronounced but is very present now and the palate has such weight. 96/97. KR522 and I on the exact same page here.
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Floral aromatics with a lipstick element. Rich, red fruit flavors. Everything there but feel there's a slightly awkward transition to tertiary occurring.
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The Roots Fund Grand Cru Charity Dinner (Home): 96/99/00/01/08. Very 1999 and very Dujac. This takes time to open up and shed some of its 1999 power and structure. When it does, it's an impressive interplay of powerful, concentrated Grand Cru fruit with stem-spice and meatiness. Long and powerful. Upside from here.
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The Roots Fund Charity Grand Cru Dinner (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): In vertical. Slightly snug to start, this gradually opened and unfolded into a masterpiece of ripe fruit, meat, spice and brilliant textures. I certainly preferred the 2000 in the next glass to start, but this caught up by the time both were finished 45 minutes later.
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Larry bottle and it's perfect with amazing wild cherry fruit and awesome silkiness. This bottle was opened earlier than the CSD and it was fully integrated with great succulence and elegance on the long, complex finish. Awesome and still on it's upward trajectory. 95+
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Dark in colour, weighty massive wine. Lot of concentration. Lots going on between sweetness of fruit and some sour notes from the acidity and tiny bit medicinal notes. My wine of the flight but funnily I was alone and nobody else seemed to like it. 95 for me. I think this is a hold and will need another 5-10 years to shed its huge structure and fully reveal itself.
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Just brilliant. Combines a deluxe texture with subtle power and Roche fruit/stone. Suave. Plenty of fruit here, nicely modulated with dark cherries. Some earth and moss but very high toned. Long finish. Super seductive and delicious. Probably will last ages like this as well.
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Legends (MG): blind Burdundy was clear but no idea of sie, producer and vinatge. Licorice, violet, red berries, balanced, refreshing acidity, tannins silky and firm. 94-95
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An extraordinary bottle of Burgundy. Beautiful red fruit dominated, classic Morey, weightless, iron fist in velvet glove. Gave this a 2 1/2 hr double decant which I recommend. This is early in it's drinking window with mostly primary fruit still with just a hint of secondary nuance starting to show. This should continue to evolve positively for another decade or two. Gorgeous, long finish, a special wine.
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While it was a bit reticent initially, it blossomed after 3 hours of air with dujac spice, herbs, animal,dark fruit, cherry, earth, and minerals. So layered, long and complete, everything you want from a great mature Dujac. Entering its drinking window with a long drinking window. 96-97 potential when it is fully mature.
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Dark ruby but a little lighter than the other wines in the line up (all served blind). More elegant. Subtle. Some grip. Delicate. Worked well with lighter food. A lovely wine.
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Awesome Burgundy. Great floral lift to go along with the creamy-fine texture and incredible flavors of sweet cherries and red spices. This wine has great energy and yet is also so silky and seductive. The finish has a fabulous aged mineral complexity with just a hint of tertiary notes of barnyard and tea leaves. This particular bottle was in perfect condition but more open and ready than some others I’ve had. Extraordinary juice! At Ward Pound Ridge.
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This wine is completely in my wheelhouse. In fact, this is the second occasion in a few weeks where a Dujac wine walked away with first place (in my book) despite some serious competition. I could drink this now, drink it later, drink it in the house, drink it with a mouse - anyway possible. To those who say it will be better with more age, I can't argue, but that won't stop me from having more on any occasion.
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I struggle to have words for this. Smells quite evolved. Hay, smoke, dried red fruit. Quite lifted. The cellar at Dujac is quite cold so it might not have been jumping from the glass but it was really aromatic. Anyway. Nose said ‘open for business’. On the palate it was much more youthful. Still dominated by Pinot-character fruit. Jeremy described ‘99’s as a touch ‘monolithic’. I wouldn’t say that, per se. It was spectacular. But it was still quite a beast. Something of a surprise bc I think of Dujac as quite elegant. Red fruit on the front. Mineral/saline overlay on the back palate and chewy tannins that remind you they use whole cluster. Finish lasted a minute. Amazing opportunity to try this beautiful wine. Still has decades ahead of it.
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Burgundy Wine club 2018: This is clearly a beautiful wine, so pure and clean and with such great material. And it showed well - perfumed and complex with fruit and mineral, beautifully textured, densely flavored and long. But it is not really awake yet - pulled the cork a solid 2 hours before pouring it, and even with time in the glass and lots of swirling, it never really opened up. If I had more I'd wait, and quite a while too. 10 years?
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Great Burgundy Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Red cherry and berry with so much spice and perfume. Dense and almost meaty in a Gevrey manner, so so perfectly elegantly textured and finessed. The perfect expression of whole cluster. Damn my bottle of 2000 CdlR served alongside for being corked.
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Simply a stunning Burgundy from the first whiff. The nose is so pure with sweet cherries and incredible floral spices. Quite full on the palate with great flavors of dark cherry and red spices. This has great intensity and concentration and is perfectly balanced with good crisp acidity offsetting the powerful fruit. The finish is incredibly crunchy and complex with smoky minerals and endless cherry spice. The nose is quite close to 100 pts but the palate hasn't caught up to it yet but it will in about 10 years at which time this could be a perfect wine. The best vintage ever of Dujac CDLR from 1999 prior in my opinion. 97+
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Young, tight and tannic but with rich dark fruit and a voluptuous palate. Spice notes are beginning to move but this needs another decade in the cellar. 94-95+
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A really punchy nose of dried flowers, soy, smoke and sandalwood. The mid-palate is fabulously rich and sweet and it is a wine that has serious depth and build. Still just a baby but just starting to unfurl.
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The "Clos" dinner - aka Burgundies from Clos, or "walled" plots (Bar-a-Thym, Singapore): Hmm. Good... but... Perhaps the most dissapointing of all the wines on show when unblinded. Do not get me wrong though - this was a very nice wine, but when considering the significant gap in reputation and today's pricing between this and the other wines on the night, added to how much I have enjoyed Dujac's CdlR, including another bottle of 1999 in the past.... well then. This was far from great. In fact, if I believed in the biodynamic / lunar calendar, today would have been a "root day" for sure, given how disappointingly quite a few of wines were showing. This bottle started out really funky, with lots of earthy, forest floor aromas at first, which took quite awhile to begin blowing-off. With time, it developed a very pronounced nose - sweet raisins and dried blueberries seasoned with lots of herbs and wood spices. Quite nice. The palate was very stubborn at first, barely showing much character beyond a subtle hint of dark cherries wrapped in soft tannins and decent acidity. With time, a soft red-fruited deliciousness did start to emerge, with some of the clear purity that I love about Dujac's wine. Unforunately, this certainly did not show like a great Dujac, with a certain awkward angularity sticking out once you got beyond the midpalate and into an otherwise fairly length finish. Timing or bottle variation perhaps, but this was a far cry from the polished powerhouse of a 1999 CdlR that was the last bottle of this wine I tried just a year ago.
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Dujac CdlR vertical. Needs more time in bottle, took about 3 hours to open up. Pretty crystalline garnet. Tight and not super expressive aromatically at present. Sweet on the palate with more depth and concentration than 1997. More like 92 today, but will be better.
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13% abv. importer-Wilson Daniels. Dark ruby color. Clear. Nose of leather, soy sauce, Asian spice, mint, coffee, dark red fruits changing with every whiff. If there are fem and masc wines, then this would be a masc wine. Full body, ripe, but very balanced with high acid. Smooth and very long finish. LOVE IT! Could still go on for many years. Re-buy for sure!
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Closed. Needed 2 hours in the decanter after 3 hours of slow ox. Initially a little funk which blew off. The nose was pretty and floral. But the palate flat. After 2 hours in the decanter this really blossomed. Wonderful spice notes emerged on the nose and palate. This started to resemble the 99 Leroy Beauxmonts but with much more tannins and structure. This needs another 5-10 years. An epic wine in the making.
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Burgundy Dinner with Friends (Everest - Chicago IL): Open 2 hours before serving, tasted single blind alongside the 1998 vintage. This jumped out of the glass with spice and enticing perfume. Cross-section of great red fruit flavors with sensational spice. Intriguing textures and close to perfect harmony. By a slight margin this was my WOTN.
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Morey-St Denis Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): After a couple of surprisingly unimpressive Dujac Grand Crus on the earlier flight, this wine was a very welcome return to form. We had it perhaps 10 years too early, but it was oozing quality from the get-go, with a deep, rich, ripe nose of dark cherries and blackberries infused with notes of earth and herb. In an echo of the nose, the palate sounded in a deep, powerful flow of dark cherries and dark berries, even sweeter raisins, and then some ripe, roasted herbs at the finish, all showing a superb depth, but also a soaring sense of clarity and energy. We were at last safely back in proper Dujac territory here. It must be said that the wine felt more “man-made” than the wonderfully pure, transparent, terroir-driven 1995 Hubert Lignier Clos de la Roche that followed on the same flight, but that hardly made this the poorer wine. What it did mean though was that the Dujac came across as a lot more primary, rather more stuffed with extract, and needing a lot more time to come around. In fact, I got a sense that there was something deeply buried and coiled up in the core of the wine that needed time and patience to unfurl. With the incredible intensity and superb balance here though, it should age effortlessly for many, many years to come. A tremendous wine. Try again in 2020-2025.
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Open/decanted 20-30 minutes before serving. Lots of red berry and cherry aromas that are hugely supported by brown spice and and summer flowers with hints of licorice and liqueur. Same red fruit flavors, but slightly restrained in the middle with some sweet hints that didn't perfectly match. But this was followed by lots of power on the long finish. More fruit and overall balance kept emerging with more air, and of course the final sip was the best. Give a longer decant or hold to 2019 or later.
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Three Boston Dinners; 8/17/2014-8/19/2014 (The Hub): Deep ruby with only the barest fading at the very edge. Exciting, promising nose on first pour with quite confectionary red fruit accompanied by licorice and herb, but this became more reticent. Full feel with an oaky foundation that grew over time. Pungent red fruit that is more tart and less ripe than than the aromatics suggest with a dash of earth eventually showing up. Strong acidity and not unduly tannic at this point. Clearly very young and in evolution. More briary and overtly woody than some of the silkier Dujac Clos de la Roche I've had. I'm not sure where it will wind up, but while powerful, it is certainly not great at this point. If I owned it, I would hold it at least through its 20th birthday and hope for more resolution and sense of delicacy.
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The baby among grand cru red Burgundies at Steve's remarkable dinner. Decanted for about an hour. Dark ruby in the glass. Beautiful aromas of red and dark fruit with nice floral top notes, with a hint of mushroom, game and smoke underneath. Still very tannic, though very easy to see past that to the palate-saturating flavors, which also included minerals and earth. This was so good already that I could have smelled it and held it in my mouth all night. Wonderful to taste alongside the same wine from the 1990 vintage, which was sublime. If you can, keep your hands off this for several years longer. I will just dream about it in the meantime.
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What a great wine. It would be a candidate for WOTN if it had more age. Big floral, stem notes, dark cherries, rich, lush, good density, structure and weight. This should develop quite well.
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Too young – great potential. Absolutely incredible nose with so much concentrated spice and florals. Plenty of acidity with a precise and complex palate.
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Popped and poured alongside the 1998 version. Much less giving than the 98, even with some vigorous swirling. Black cherry and berry on the nose and palate with crushed stone and the tiniest bit of floral trying to poke through. Some very dark spice as well. The palate still has a very firm mineral backbone to it. If I had another bottle in the cellar I'd try to wait at least another 5 years, if not 10 before trying again. Great potential though.
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There is a pure smell of perfectly ripe cherries that is intoxicating to me. On the palate, the wine is very young and primary with spritzy acidity balanced perfectly by stunningly beautiful cherry fruit. Really grippy and juicy on the finish and already complex with notes of spicy cherries and minerals. Gorgeous Grand Cru Burgundy but I must try to keep my hands off the rest of my bottles for several more years as this will only improve based on its balance and purity of fruit. Kept improving in the glass until the last sip. 95+
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Light color but really delicious nose of deep red fruits, touch of wood and smoke. Full flavor in the mouth. Perhaps could be a bit rounder in the middle but it's sure is hard to keep in the glass. Goes down very easy. Nice bottle
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Alcohol :: 13% Popped and poured into decanter. Dark ruby core, light brick hue, bright. The nose is immediately compelling with its seductive bouquet. Deep, intense and focus. Large array of red and dark cherry fruits intermixed with dark plum, savory, floral, earth. The soft touch of smoke gaminess added better complexity to the already impressive aromatic profile. The palate is as wonderful as the nose. So bright and energetic, sleek and seamless! Firm tannic backbone but it completely buffered by the high concentration of sweet red and dark cherry fruits as well as dry extract. Mouth coating intensity yet it is so weightless. This is in a total harmonious that showing fine depth and flirting with finesse and purity. Great length and it turns tighter here. 2nd glass was utterly gratifying but the wine getting tighter as the tannin come to the fore and fruits hiding at the back which suggesting that the wine could continue to age and imprI've for another decade effortlessly. Truly great. 94-96
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Classic black fruit - briary and blackpepper. Still on the young side (not quite primary but not far from it), but very enjoyable - fresh, pure and nicely dense wine.
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Viscous, licorice nose, very dense and rich. Reserved with lovely balance and real power. This bottle came across as a touch raw and yet to be resolved.
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Terrific but young. Black and red cherry, licorice, minerals, excellent structure but it's still reserved. After an hour, it shows a bit of reduction the timing of which I found odd but overall, this has a great future.
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Perfect dark red color. Lovely nose of cherry spice and sweet earth. This is still obviously very young with no secondary flavor development whatsoever but the fruit is so pure and the wine so beautifully balanced that it's an absolute joy to drink now. Deep, brooding dark cherry fruit with good acidity and sweet tannins and a wonderful lacy texture. The finish is rich and concentrated and all cherry spice with mineral notes. As complete a Dujac CDLR as I've ever tasted and it should age beautifully for decades. 95+
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Dujac is one of my favorite producers and Jacque did not disappoint again. An incredible nose that unleashed beautiful red fruit balanced again a burgundian backdrop. Mouthfeel silky and rich with some smoke and wet ferrous stone, but with the weightless and spherical seamlessness that reminded me of the 1990 vintage. Still young, I tasted a touch of unevolved green olive. Stems? The 1999 vintage from the great Burgundy producers have really made me smile. Took time to unwind. One bottle left. I wish I had a bottle of the 1990 left to compare at a lovely dinner.
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Massive wine - almost over the top. Deep, dark, very mature fruit, maybe what the French call sur maturé. Strangely enough there is a touch of greenness as well on the nose. Could it be stems? Great wine in any case.
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Clos de la Roche Dinner (Custom House - Chicago IL): Served in single blind flight. Opened and decanted 2 ½ hours before serving. Black cherry on nose and palate with good spice in deep background. Lots of power and structure, but not particularly accessible. Everybody liked this wine for the long-term but not for the next five years.
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Everything I had read about Jaques and his process of not destemming to reduce the harsh tannins in the wine was junk. Research advised that his wines are lighter in color and tend to be light in the taste as well as he strives for finesse in the end result. I tasted this last night at a wine tasting - 6 bottles were consummed and there was no mention of bottle variation around the table. This is a deep dark red wine wine with very little rim, colored legs with a touch of cloudiness to the sight. The nose is big, fruit and pepper but with a touch of vanilla (Jacques does like his new atellier barrels, and they show through). The taste, to first impression, drops off in intensity from the wonderful nose. However, if you try to forget the nose and work only on the taste, it is clear that this wine is balanced with fruit, soft tannins and lingering acidity. This wine is still too young. A beauty to drink, but hold on for a few more years and the nose and the taste will be more harmonious.
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Enjoyed at Becco restaurant NYC. This is an amazing wine. Intense nose bursting of fruit. Still needs time in the bottle, but rich, classy,balanced, and earhty with entense dark fruit flavors. The fiinish - wow!
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Tasting Group Dinner (Craig's House): Initially grapey and primal, this wine blossomed nicely over dinner. Sappy dark fruits, minerals, and a hint of earth. Deep and long. Gorgeously structured. Fantastic.
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Boxed In at Craig's (DRC, Leroy, Dugat-Py, Rousseau, Dujac, Kistler, d'Yquem and others): I brought this by mistake (meant to grab the Clos St. Denis). This bottle showed similar to our bottle a few months ago, except this seemed a little less evolved. The nose is a brooding blend of dark fruit, smoke, and mineral. This is a medium weight wine with excellent balance. On the palate this remains brooding and structured. You can tell there is plenty of black cherry and other flavors present, but they are not fully expressive at the moment. The finish is very long. I'd hold off on opening any more of these for awhile.
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Tasting Group Dinner - Northern Rhone and Burgundy (Fugaise, Minneapolis): Kick ass! This was a seriously delicious, and still very young, Burg. Perfumed black fruits on the nose, leading to a multi-layered palate that unfolds with rich dark fruit, minerals, and mushroomy flavors. Great concentration, yet still light on its feet. Impressive structure and balance, with a long finish. There are a lot of wonderful secondary flavors here that will undoubtedly blossom with additional bottle age. Great stuff.
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Minneapolis Does Burgundy and N. Rhone (DRC, Leroy, Mugnier, Dujac, Chave, Chapelle, Chapoutier, Clape): The phrase that made its way around the table as this was tasted was "kick ass." Awesome stuff. The nose delivered dark fruit, earth, and smoke in a dark and brooding style that was extremely impactful. This is another wine a person could spend hours just smelling. In this case, the taste probably exceeded the nose. Perfect balance in a medium weight wine that delivered layers of dark brooding flavors. If anything slightly compact on the palate -- something that should be addressed by additional bottle age. There is plenty of structure here, but the wine remained very lively in the mouth. Incredibly long finish. A very impressive showing. Note that this wine was purchased last week from a local retailer, and could be more advanced than bottles that have been cellared since release.
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I’ve always found the Clos de la Roche to be the standout of Dujac’s lineup, and the 1999 Dujac Clos de la Roche was no exception. A paragon of elegance, I could drink this wine forever. It offers an addictive blend of spice and dark cherry fruit, bound together seamlessly, and a finish that seems to last forever. I love different styles of Burgundy, but this seductive, entrancing wine is the archetype of my perfect style. This has been outstanding from release, and my only hope is that I have the discipline to let time work its magic to take it to another level. It will be awfully hard, though.
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4/23/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
This really improved in the glass and could've even benefitted from a decant. Once it reached its zenith, it just flowed over the palate like liquid cashmere with beautiful dark cherry and bluish fruit and perfect balance. Just a gorgeous Burgundy with many years of life left but with some air, this is close to peak if you like some fruit left in your Burgundy. Has the stuffing to grow more complex over the next two decades if I can keep my hands off it. 95+
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1/24/2024 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 95 Points
Side by side the Clos St Denis 99 blind during a Dujac evening with friends. It was clear that this was the Clos Roche due to it's more massive structure, more earthiness and weight compared to the more precise and weightless and pure Clos St Denis. Both are playing strongly on the beautiful 99 fruit though. Stylistcally I think myself and the entire table had a preference for the Clos St Denis which was a theme of the evening (also 06 pair showed an even clearer preference for Clos St Denis). However, that isn't to take anything away from a great Clos Roche 99 from Dujac. I do think though Lignier Clos Roche 99 bests Dujac 99 Roche.
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7/6/2023 - ricard Likes this wine: 97 Points
Dark cherry. Sweet on the nose, savoury on the palate. But all those other fragrances - cinnamon, treacle, fudge. Tremendous, really, at this age. Incredible. I'm not sure I've ever had so many great wines in the space of three hours...
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3/31/2023 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
90's Dujac Grand Cru and 2007 Ramonet: Youngest most reserved of the 3 wines in this blind flight, vs CSD and Bonnes Mares. Extremely clean and polished by comparison to the other two wines.
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3/25/2023 - Burgnick wrote:
Not a good representation of the wine, probably due to provenance. But its not heated or corked. It is just not what it should show.
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10/22/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Open for business, floral, secondary.
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9/28/2021 - tinybubbles wrote:
Underwhelming bottle. May not have been perfectly stored.
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9/15/2021 - kr522 wrote: 97 Points
From a different cellar than mine (thanks ODM) as my last one was corked.... This hit the mark. Great aromatics and while the fruit was a little clenched it's starting to show (96-97). By memory I'd rank it between the Bonnes Mares and the CSD
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9/14/2021 - fatboi Likes this wine: 96 Points
While the wine is reticent and young it is also powerful and haunting right out of the bottle. Opened at least 1hour+ before we dug into to it. With age the Dujac nose will become more pronounced but is very present now and the palate has such weight. 96/97. KR522 and I on the exact same page here.
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9/4/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Floral aromatics with a lipstick element. Rich, red fruit flavors. Everything there but feel there's a slightly awkward transition to tertiary occurring.
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6/19/2021 - Nanda wrote: 96 Points
The Roots Fund Grand Cru Charity Dinner (Home): 96/99/00/01/08. Very 1999 and very Dujac. This takes time to open up and shed some of its 1999 power and structure. When it does, it's an impressive interplay of powerful, concentrated Grand Cru fruit with stem-spice and meatiness. Long and powerful. Upside from here.
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6/19/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
The Roots Fund Charity Grand Cru Dinner (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): In vertical. Slightly snug to start, this gradually opened and unfolded into a masterpiece of ripe fruit, meat, spice and brilliant textures. I certainly preferred the 2000 in the next glass to start, but this caught up by the time both were finished 45 minutes later.
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5/15/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Larry bottle and it's perfect with amazing wild cherry fruit and awesome silkiness. This bottle was opened earlier than the CSD and it was fully integrated with great succulence and elegance on the long, complex finish. Awesome and still on it's upward trajectory. 95+
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5/13/2021 - kr522 wrote: flawed
sadly corked. still good enough to finish for me (not everyone) but what a bummer
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9/16/2020 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dark in colour, weighty massive wine. Lot of concentration. Lots going on between sweetness of fruit and some sour notes from the acidity and tiny bit medicinal notes. My wine of the flight but funnily I was alone and nobody else seemed to like it. 95 for me. I think this is a hold and will need another 5-10 years to shed its huge structure and fully reveal itself.
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5/31/2020 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Just brilliant. Combines a deluxe texture with subtle power and Roche fruit/stone. Suave. Plenty of fruit here, nicely modulated with dark cherries. Some earth and moss but very high toned. Long finish. Super seductive and delicious. Probably will last ages like this as well.
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4/18/2020 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 95 Points
Legends (MG): blind
Burdundy was clear but no idea of sie, producer and vinatge. Licorice, violet, red berries, balanced, refreshing acidity, tannins silky and firm. 94-95
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3/7/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers - New York NY): Corked.
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2/23/2020 - Burgundy Mitch Likes this wine: 96 Points
An extraordinary bottle of Burgundy. Beautiful red fruit dominated, classic Morey, weightless, iron fist in velvet glove. Gave this a 2 1/2 hr double decant which I recommend. This is early in it's drinking window with mostly primary fruit still with just a hint of secondary nuance starting to show. This should continue to evolve positively for another decade or two. Gorgeous, long finish, a special wine.
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12/9/2019 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
From jeroboam and single. Simply in a great spot. Fresh, floral and right firmness.
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12/9/2019 - steinersing wrote: 96 Points
From Jero still early - lots of potential, massive power reserve nicely balanced
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10/29/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points
While it was a bit reticent initially, it blossomed after 3 hours of air with dujac spice, herbs, animal,dark fruit, cherry, earth, and minerals. So layered, long and complete, everything you want from a great mature Dujac. Entering its drinking window with a long drinking window. 96-97 potential when it is fully mature.
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9/3/2019 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dark ruby but a little lighter than the other wines in the line up (all served blind). More elegant. Subtle. Some grip. Delicate. Worked well with lighter food. A lovely wine.
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7/5/2019 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Awesome Burgundy. Great floral lift to go along with the creamy-fine texture and incredible flavors of sweet cherries and red spices. This wine has great energy and yet is also so silky and seductive. The finish has a fabulous aged mineral complexity with just a hint of tertiary notes of barnyard and tea leaves. This particular bottle was in perfect condition but more open and ready than some others I’ve had. Extraordinary juice! At Ward Pound Ridge.
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11/2/2018 - Topper wrote: 96 Points
This wine is completely in my wheelhouse. In fact, this is the second occasion in a few weeks where a Dujac wine walked away with first place (in my book) despite some serious competition. I could drink this now, drink it later, drink it in the house, drink it with a mouse - anyway possible. To those who say it will be better with more age, I can't argue, but that won't stop me from having more on any occasion.
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4/17/2018 - liteagilis Likes this wine:
I struggle to have words for this. Smells quite evolved. Hay, smoke, dried red fruit. Quite lifted. The cellar at Dujac is quite cold so it might not have been jumping from the glass but it was really aromatic. Anyway. Nose said ‘open for business’. On the palate it was much more youthful. Still dominated by Pinot-character fruit. Jeremy described ‘99’s as a touch ‘monolithic’. I wouldn’t say that, per se. It was spectacular. But it was still quite a beast. Something of a surprise bc I think of Dujac as quite elegant. Red fruit on the front. Mineral/saline overlay on the back palate and chewy tannins that remind you they use whole cluster. Finish lasted a minute. Amazing opportunity to try this beautiful wine. Still has decades ahead of it.
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1/20/2018 - brooklynguy wrote:
Burgundy Wine club 2018: This is clearly a beautiful wine, so pure and clean and with such great material. And it showed well - perfumed and complex with fruit and mineral, beautifully textured, densely flavored and long. But it is not really awake yet - pulled the cork a solid 2 hours before pouring it, and even with time in the glass and lots of swirling, it never really opened up. If I had more I'd wait, and quite a while too. 10 years?
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10/19/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Great Burgundy Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Red cherry and berry with so much spice and perfume. Dense and almost meaty in a Gevrey manner, so so perfectly elegantly textured and finessed. The perfect expression of whole cluster. Damn my bottle of 2000 CdlR served alongside for being corked.
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8/24/2017 - dream Likes this wine: 97 Points
Simply a stunning Burgundy from the first whiff. The nose is so pure with sweet cherries and incredible floral spices. Quite full on the palate with great flavors of dark cherry and red spices. This has great intensity and concentration and is perfectly balanced with good crisp acidity offsetting the powerful fruit. The finish is incredibly crunchy and complex with smoky minerals and endless cherry spice. The nose is quite close to 100 pts but the palate hasn't caught up to it yet but it will in about 10 years at which time this could be a perfect wine. The best vintage ever of Dujac CDLR from 1999 prior in my opinion. 97+
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7/8/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Young, tight and tannic but with rich dark fruit and a voluptuous palate. Spice notes are beginning to move but this needs another decade in the cellar. 94-95+
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7/8/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A really punchy nose of dried flowers, soy, smoke and sandalwood. The mid-palate is fabulously rich and sweet and it is a wine that has serious depth and build. Still just a baby but just starting to unfurl.
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3/9/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points
Clear red fruit, wet rocks, spice notes. Tannic grip on mid and back palate. Will be great with time. 95+
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1/12/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wonderful transparency to this wine in its current state. Purity of red fruit and emerging spice notes. Needs another decade. 94-95+
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11/6/2016 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
The "Clos" dinner - aka Burgundies from Clos, or "walled" plots (Bar-a-Thym, Singapore): Hmm. Good... but... Perhaps the most dissapointing of all the wines on show when unblinded. Do not get me wrong though - this was a very nice wine, but when considering the significant gap in reputation and today's pricing between this and the other wines on the night, added to how much I have enjoyed Dujac's CdlR, including another bottle of 1999 in the past.... well then. This was far from great. In fact, if I believed in the biodynamic / lunar calendar, today would have been a "root day" for sure, given how disappointingly quite a few of wines were showing. This bottle started out really funky, with lots of earthy, forest floor aromas at first, which took quite awhile to begin blowing-off. With time, it developed a very pronounced nose - sweet raisins and dried blueberries seasoned with lots of herbs and wood spices. Quite nice. The palate was very stubborn at first, barely showing much character beyond a subtle hint of dark cherries wrapped in soft tannins and decent acidity. With time, a soft red-fruited deliciousness did start to emerge, with some of the clear purity that I love about Dujac's wine. Unforunately, this certainly did not show like a great Dujac, with a certain awkward angularity sticking out once you got beyond the midpalate and into an otherwise fairly length finish. Timing or bottle variation perhaps, but this was a far cry from the polished powerhouse of a 1999 CdlR that was the last bottle of this wine I tried just a year ago.
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10/28/2016 - Alex G. wrote:
Youngest showing wine in today's Dujac tasting, by a mile. Dark color, reserved, closed, even after 2 hours in the glass.
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9/23/2016 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Dujac CdlR vertical. Needs more time in bottle, took about 3 hours to open up. Pretty crystalline garnet. Tight and not super expressive aromatically at present. Sweet on the palate with more depth and concentration than 1997. More like 92 today, but will be better.
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7/23/2016 - Chuck Miller wrote: 96 Points
Exceptional. Wish I had more.
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2/27/2016 - NorCal1849 wrote: 93 Points
Remains on the young side. Cellar or decant.
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1/30/2016 - R&L Likes this wine:
13% abv. importer-Wilson Daniels. Dark ruby color. Clear. Nose of leather, soy sauce, Asian spice, mint, coffee, dark red fruits changing with every whiff. If there are fem and masc wines, then this would be a masc wine. Full body, ripe, but very balanced with high acid. Smooth and very long finish. LOVE IT! Could still go on for many years. Re-buy for sure!
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1/3/2016 - FYC wrote:
Closed. Needed 2 hours in the decanter after 3 hours of slow ox. Initially a little funk which blew off. The nose was pretty and floral. But the palate flat. After 2 hours in the decanter this really blossomed. Wonderful spice notes emerged on the nose and palate. This started to resemble the 99 Leroy Beauxmonts but with much more tannins and structure. This needs another 5-10 years. An epic wine in the making.
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4/29/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Burgundy Dinner with Friends (Everest - Chicago IL): Open 2 hours before serving, tasted single blind alongside the 1998 vintage. This jumped out of the glass with spice and enticing perfume. Cross-section of great red fruit flavors with sensational spice. Intriguing textures and close to perfect harmony. By a slight margin this was my WOTN.
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4/1/2015 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points
Morey-St Denis Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): After a couple of surprisingly unimpressive Dujac Grand Crus on the earlier flight, this wine was a very welcome return to form. We had it perhaps 10 years too early, but it was oozing quality from the get-go, with a deep, rich, ripe nose of dark cherries and blackberries infused with notes of earth and herb. In an echo of the nose, the palate sounded in a deep, powerful flow of dark cherries and dark berries, even sweeter raisins, and then some ripe, roasted herbs at the finish, all showing a superb depth, but also a soaring sense of clarity and energy. We were at last safely back in proper Dujac territory here. It must be said that the wine felt more “man-made” than the wonderfully pure, transparent, terroir-driven 1995 Hubert Lignier Clos de la Roche that followed on the same flight, but that hardly made this the poorer wine. What it did mean though was that the Dujac came across as a lot more primary, rather more stuffed with extract, and needing a lot more time to come around. In fact, I got a sense that there was something deeply buried and coiled up in the core of the wine that needed time and patience to unfurl. With the incredible intensity and superb balance here though, it should age effortlessly for many, many years to come. A tremendous wine. Try again in 2020-2025.
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2/23/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Open/decanted 20-30 minutes before serving. Lots of red berry and cherry aromas that are hugely supported by brown spice and and summer flowers with hints of licorice and liqueur. Same red fruit flavors, but slightly restrained in the middle with some sweet hints that didn't perfectly match. But this was followed by lots of power on the long finish. More fruit and overall balance kept emerging with more air, and of course the final sip was the best. Give a longer decant or hold to 2019 or later.
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8/19/2014 - drwine2001 wrote:
Three Boston Dinners; 8/17/2014-8/19/2014 (The Hub): Deep ruby with only the barest fading at the very edge. Exciting, promising nose on first pour with quite confectionary red fruit accompanied by licorice and herb, but this became more reticent. Full feel with an oaky foundation that grew over time. Pungent red fruit that is more tart and less ripe than than the aromatics suggest with a dash of earth eventually showing up. Strong acidity and not unduly tannic at this point. Clearly very young and in evolution. More briary and overtly woody than some of the silkier Dujac Clos de la Roche I've had. I'm not sure where it will wind up, but while powerful, it is certainly not great at this point. If I owned it, I would hold it at least through its 20th birthday and hope for more resolution and sense of delicacy.
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2/18/2014 - Mistress of Wine Likes this wine:
The baby among grand cru red Burgundies at Steve's remarkable dinner. Decanted for about an hour. Dark ruby in the glass. Beautiful aromas of red and dark fruit with nice floral top notes, with a hint of mushroom, game and smoke underneath. Still very tannic, though very easy to see past that to the palate-saturating flavors, which also included minerals and earth. This was so good already that I could have smelled it and held it in my mouth all night. Wonderful to taste alongside the same wine from the 1990 vintage, which was sublime. If you can, keep your hands off this for several years longer. I will just dream about it in the meantime.
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1/29/2014 - mwanasheria wrote: 94 Points
Elegant with a good backbone, nice acidity. A bit closed right now.
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1/9/2014 - BradE wrote:
Like the 99 BM drunk side by side, this belied its age and drank quite well.
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11/14/2013 - rnellans wrote: 95 Points
What a great wine. It would be a candidate for WOTN if it had more age. Big floral, stem notes, dark cherries, rich, lush, good density, structure and weight. This should develop quite well.
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11/9/2013 - bpj87 wrote: 95 Points
Too young – great potential. Absolutely incredible nose with so much concentrated spice and florals. Plenty of acidity with a precise and complex palate.
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9/17/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
ho hum, another great example of this wine...
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4/6/2013 - MatthewF wrote:
Popped and poured alongside the 1998 version. Much less giving than the 98, even with some vigorous swirling. Black cherry and berry on the nose and palate with crushed stone and the tiniest bit of floral trying to poke through. Some very dark spice as well. The palate still has a very firm mineral backbone to it. If I had another bottle in the cellar I'd try to wait at least another 5 years, if not 10 before trying again. Great potential though.
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1/15/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
Refined and graceful, this delicious is delicious now. It is rich without being heavy, pure, succulent and very tasty. (Daniel)
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1/15/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Corked
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11/21/2012 - dream wrote: 95 Points
There is a pure smell of perfectly ripe cherries that is intoxicating to me. On the palate, the wine is very young and primary with spritzy acidity balanced perfectly by stunningly beautiful cherry fruit. Really grippy and juicy on the finish and already complex with notes of spicy cherries and minerals. Gorgeous Grand Cru Burgundy but I must try to keep my hands off the rest of my bottles for several more years as this will only improve based on its balance and purity of fruit. Kept improving in the glass until the last sip. 95+
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8/3/2012 - reichken wrote: 93 Points
Light color but really delicious nose of deep red fruits, touch of wood and smoke. Full flavor in the mouth. Perhaps could be a bit rounder in the middle but it's sure is hard to keep in the glass. Goes down very easy. Nice bottle
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3/27/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 94 Points
Alcohol :: 13%
Popped and poured into decanter. Dark ruby core, light brick hue, bright. The nose is immediately compelling with its seductive bouquet. Deep, intense and focus. Large array of red and dark cherry fruits intermixed with dark plum, savory, floral, earth. The soft touch of smoke gaminess added better complexity to the already impressive aromatic profile. The palate is as wonderful as the nose. So bright and energetic, sleek and seamless! Firm tannic backbone but it completely buffered by the high concentration of sweet red and dark cherry fruits as well as dry extract. Mouth coating intensity yet it is so weightless. This is in a total harmonious that showing fine depth and flirting with finesse and purity. Great length and it turns tighter here. 2nd glass was utterly gratifying but the wine getting tighter as the tannin come to the fore and fruits hiding at the back which suggesting that the wine could continue to age and imprI've for another decade effortlessly. Truly great. 94-96
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1/27/2012 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Again, as with the 99 ponsot, such a big, meaty wine with fruits in the red and black spectrum. Needs a long time.
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11/29/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
Classic black fruit - briary and blackpepper. Still on the young side (not quite primary but not far from it), but very enjoyable - fresh, pure and nicely dense wine.
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8/11/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Viscous, licorice nose, very dense and rich. Reserved with lovely balance and real power. This bottle came across as a touch raw and yet to be resolved.
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8/6/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Opened a touch light compared to the '99 Ponsot and H. Lignier examples but it came on beautifully
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5/21/2011 - Anonymous Likes this wine: 95 Points
Terrific but young. Black and red cherry, licorice, minerals, excellent structure but it's still reserved. After an hour, it shows a bit of reduction the timing of which I found odd but overall, this has a great future.
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4/15/2011 - dream wrote: 95 Points
Perfect dark red color. Lovely nose of cherry spice and sweet earth. This is still obviously very young with no secondary flavor development whatsoever but the fruit is so pure and the wine so beautifully balanced that it's an absolute joy to drink now. Deep, brooding dark cherry fruit with good acidity and sweet tannins and a wonderful lacy texture. The finish is rich and concentrated and all cherry spice with mineral notes. As complete a Dujac CDLR as I've ever tasted and it should age beautifully for decades. 95+
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3/22/2011 - rosesandthorns wrote: 95 Points
Dujac is one of my favorite producers and Jacque did not disappoint again. An incredible nose that unleashed beautiful red fruit balanced again a burgundian backdrop. Mouthfeel silky and rich with some smoke and wet ferrous stone, but with the weightless and spherical seamlessness that reminded me of the 1990 vintage. Still young, I tasted a touch of unevolved green olive. Stems? The 1999 vintage from the great Burgundy producers have really made me smile. Took time to unwind. One bottle left. I wish I had a bottle of the 1990 left to compare at a lovely dinner.
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10/25/2010 - Tavastgatan wrote: 94 Points
Massive wine - almost over the top. Deep, dark, very mature fruit, maybe what the French call sur maturé. Strangely enough there is a touch of greenness as well on the nose. Could it be stems? Great wine in any case.
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5/4/2009 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Clos de la Roche Dinner (Custom House - Chicago IL): Served in single blind flight. Opened and decanted 2 ½ hours before serving. Black cherry on nose and palate with good spice in deep background. Lots of power and structure, but not particularly accessible. Everybody liked this wine for the long-term but not for the next five years.
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12/6/2008 - rael007 wrote: 92 Points
A noble wine, smell of fruit, dirt, moss, leaves. Well integrated, but a bit lacking mid-palate.
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3/7/2008 - fabfoods wrote: 95 Points
Everything I had read about Jaques and his process of not destemming to reduce the harsh tannins in the wine was junk. Research advised that his wines are lighter in color and tend to be light in the taste as well as he strives for finesse in the end result. I tasted this last night at a wine tasting - 6 bottles were consummed and there was no mention of bottle variation around the table. This is a deep dark red wine wine with very little rim, colored legs with a touch of cloudiness to the sight. The nose is big, fruit and pepper but with a touch of vanilla (Jacques does like his new atellier barrels, and they show through). The taste, to first impression, drops off in intensity from the wonderful nose. However, if you try to forget the nose and work only on the taste, it is clear that this wine is balanced with fruit, soft tannins and lingering acidity. This wine is still too young. A beauty to drink, but hold on for a few more years and the nose and the taste will be more harmonious.
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10/27/2007 - bluevespa wrote: 95 Points
Enjoyed at Becco restaurant NYC. This is an amazing wine. Intense nose bursting of fruit. Still needs time in the bottle, but rich, classy,balanced, and earhty with entense dark fruit flavors. The fiinish - wow!
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4/14/2007 - Siggy wrote: 95 Points
Tasting Group Dinner (Craig's House): Initially grapey and primal, this wine blossomed nicely over dinner. Sappy dark fruits, minerals, and a hint of earth. Deep and long. Gorgeously structured. Fantastic.
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4/14/2007 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 93 Points
Boxed In at Craig's (DRC, Leroy, Dugat-Py, Rousseau, Dujac, Kistler, d'Yquem and others): I brought this by mistake (meant to grab the Clos St. Denis). This bottle showed similar to our bottle a few months ago, except this seemed a little less evolved. The nose is a brooding blend of dark fruit, smoke, and mineral. This is a medium weight wine with excellent balance. On the palate this remains brooding and structured. You can tell there is plenty of black cherry and other flavors present, but they are not fully expressive at the moment. The finish is very long. I'd hold off on opening any more of these for awhile.
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11/14/2006 - Siggy wrote:
Tasting Group Dinner - Northern Rhone and Burgundy (Fugaise, Minneapolis): Kick ass! This was a seriously delicious, and still very young, Burg. Perfumed black fruits on the nose, leading to a multi-layered palate that unfolds with rich dark fruit, minerals, and mushroomy flavors. Great concentration, yet still light on its feet. Impressive structure and balance, with a long finish. There are a lot of wonderful secondary flavors here that will undoubtedly blossom with additional bottle age. Great stuff.
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11/14/2006 - Dave Dalluge wrote:
Minneapolis Does Burgundy and N. Rhone (DRC, Leroy, Mugnier, Dujac, Chave, Chapelle, Chapoutier, Clape): The phrase that made its way around the table as this was tasted was "kick ass." Awesome stuff. The nose delivered dark fruit, earth, and smoke in a dark and brooding style that was extremely impactful. This is another wine a person could spend hours just smelling. In this case, the taste probably exceeded the nose. Perfect balance in a medium weight wine that delivered layers of dark brooding flavors. If anything slightly compact on the palate -- something that should be addressed by additional bottle age. There is plenty of structure here, but the wine remained very lively in the mouth. Incredibly long finish. A very impressive showing.
Note that this wine was purchased last week from a local retailer, and could be more advanced than bottles that have been cellared since release.
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6/29/2002 - MikeATL wrote:
I’ve always found the Clos de la Roche to be the standout of Dujac’s lineup, and the 1999 Dujac Clos de la Roche was no exception. A paragon of elegance, I could drink this wine forever. It offers an addictive blend of spice and dark cherry fruit, bound together seamlessly, and a finish that seems to last forever. I love different styles of Burgundy, but this seductive, entrancing wine is the archetype of my perfect style. This has been outstanding from release, and my only hope is that I have the discipline to let time work its magic to take it to another level. It will be awfully hard, though.
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