Great richness and and deep red fruits of the nose are complemented by a deep cherry flavor in the mouth. Palate is still tight and will only get better with time. i would drink again in 5 years or so and it will be a knockout and show the elegance i expect from this wine. this could also be bottle variation as the last bottle I had was clearly superior. if i drink sooner i will give it a few hours of air.
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nose of brown sugar mouth of elegant lively red fruit, with good concentration and a hint of baking spice. drinks well but shows no indication of being 20 years old. I remember being more floored by the 02 Arnoux Reignots.
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Seventeenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Hughes House - Chicago IL): In Arnoux 02/08 Suchots/RSV flight. Fully mature red cherry and berry with some roasted meat. Slightly more mature than I might consider ideal, but lots here. I frankly preferred the 2002 Suchots, but others didn't agree.
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Surprisingly open on the nose and attack after the relatively closed flight of 02 nuits that preceded it. So composed and classy with years still to go.
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2002 Burgs (Noize): Lived up to its billing. Lots going on, yet gorgeously well-integrated with it. Smoky, with Vosne spice such as cardomom and gingerbread, and some bright lemon. Seamless and beautiful - sexy, even. Group WOTN, my #2.
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Nick A's 2002 Burgundy Horizontal (Table B) (Noizé, London): One of the finest Burgundies I've been lucky enough to sample. This wine has such a richness and quality to it, it's really hard to describe. The brooding deep red fruits of the nose are complemented by a freshly baked gingerbread character that I find beguiling. Palate starts tightly coiled but even in a Bordeaux glass comes to life over 40 mins in the glass. Another bottle in 5 years in Burgundy glasses? I can only imagine. This is extraordinary. My wine of the night.
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Dark cherries, minerals, spice and gentle oak. Palate is rich and powerful with lots of underlying material. The wine has great potential. It was opened at 5pm and served at 8pm. 93-94
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I think Paul S wrote a perfect notes, very similar experience. I was expecting a touch more ripeness for 02, but happily will take the trade off for the clean transparency here, which Arnoux also achieved with an excellent Suchots.
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Richebourg + RSV for Mike and Pete's birthday (Holland Park, Singapore): Glorious stuff, just beginning to unfurl - this bottle was clearly the pick of the bunch on the 2002 flight. It was very exotic on the bouquet, with wafts of cardamom and cumin and cloves, and then a very dark fruited core of black cherries, plums and blackberries, all flecked with little bits of vanilla - a wonderful kaleidoscope of a nose. The palate was deep, dark and powerful, yet somehow also elegant and transparent, with very juicy, limpid flavours of black cherries and dark berries, spice and mineral, all playing against a backdrop of savoury earth and mineral. There was so much purity and transparency about the fruit in spite of the great depth of the wine. This then stretched away into a long, long finish of bittersweet orange peel and sour plums. Superb power and length here, with the finish just and clinging on the backpalate and refusing to let go. A noble wine then - impeccably balanced and so very solid, with tons and tons going on in its depth, but this does need time in the bottle yet before it really hits its stride. I am glad I still have a couple of bottles left in the cellar. the next one only gets opened 5-6 years down the road.
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RSV and Richebourg Dinner + Montrachet and La Tache (Holland Park, Singapore): Tremendous. Opened 6 hours before service, this was absolutely singing. Wonderful stuff that stood toe-to-toe with a 1996 La Tache without batting an eyelid. The nose was amazing - mossy earth, and sweet exotic spice, toast, then a deep waft of dark cherries and crushed violet petals. Just magic. Perfume and earth. Lovely stuff. One of the best noses on any Burgundy I have drank in a long time. The palate was still a bit young and tight. It gave tons of pleasure for sure, with an already opened mouthful of dark cherries and plums, seasoned with earth, mineral and spice - but there was still a certain primary thickness and a clench of 2002 structure to it, with plenty of fine, firm tannins and bright acidity underlying the more elegant fruit and spice character. The finish felt especially structured, with fine tannins undergirding an otherwise mouthfilling burst of orange peel and wood spice. Absolutely wonderful stuff, but not quite as giving and open as the beautifully pure 2001 Hudelot-Noellat Richebourg just poured before. My next bottle will be kept unopened for at least 2 years more.
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2002 Burgundy Dinner (Chef Kang, MacKenzie Road, Singapore): Absolutely superb again - this was probably the best wine of the night amidst a fairly strong line-up. What a nose it had - everything you would expect an RSV to be - wood spice, fragrant dried florals; dark cherries and plums; dried earth, some meatiness; and then little lifts of menthol and orange peel. Wow. Like so many of the wines tonight, the palate still felt a little tight, a little young, but boy was it seriously good. Transparent, pure, with a wonderful stone of fresh orangey acidity running through quietly compelling flavours of black cherries and blackberries, plums maybe, and then a lovely seasoning of Vosne's wood spice, which drew the wine into a long, earth and mineral infused finish. With time, a lovely flush of dried violets came out as well. Fine-boned, almost sinewy tannins still gave the wine a serious, rather muscular frame. But above that, this was just a beautiful pure, elegant expression of its terroir. I have really been drinking my bottles too fast - while so delicious now, this great RSV really does deserve at least another 4-5 years in the cellar.
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A tribute to the Audouze technique this wine was initially opened prior to taking to a friend's dinner party and rejected because of a rusty colour and a funky nose of rusty iron and red earth. 48hrs later after sitting in the cellar for several hours uncorked and then left lightly closed I poured a different wine of red cherry colour and a beautiful perfumed nose of dark cherries, plums, blackberry and violet chocolates. There were touches of asian spice and earth. The palate was quite intense and very fine with great length and lift from velvet tannins and touch of red fruit sorbet. This is a lovely glass of wine with the beautiful tenderness of 2002. This bottle was very ready to drink and almost rejected because of the initial impressions.
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Pure Burgundy magic. A bit tight when first opened, with the nose showing a touch more masculine and animale than one would expect from an RSV, this slowly opened up in the glass to become a really entrancing wine. As the funk receded, drifts of fragrant Vosne spice and dark cherry and violet aromas started coming to the fore, along with a bass note of earthy, rather ferrous minerality. A very serious seeming bouquet. For all that though, it was on the palate where the wine really showed its mettle. The attack opened with a lovely blush of warm spice that just grew and grew until it absolutely enveloped the mouth alongside a deeper draw of ripe plums, really sweet black cherries and more of those cheeky violet notes wafting alongside, all this underpinned by a lacy structure of silky and bright acidity. There was a lovely sense of 2002’s clarity and transperancy to wine, along with an effortless elegance and grace that made it seem to much wear its Grand Cru weight almost nonchalantly. The only part of the palate that knocked it a bit for me was a slight bittersweet twist right at the end of the long, graceful finish which distracted me somewhat at first. With time though, this sorted itself up, with the wine rounding up and a beautifully plush, elegant feel. Other than that, a really lovely drop that just seems to be about entering into its drinking window. Super.
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Deep aromatic nose but on the stinky, animalic side. The funk never really blew off. Better on the palate lots of volume, lovely finish with licorice and cherry, impressive density. Very funky and characterful. Had friends and foes at the table.
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Dark cherry red colour. Beautiful perfumed nose of dark cherries, plums and blackberry. Touches of asian spice, dark chocolate and earth. Palate quite intense but very fine with great length and lift from velvet tannins and touch of red fruit sorbet. Great but tender Burgundy which will probably continue to unfold.
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Beautiful wine, drinking nicely now but will surely improve as secondary nuances appear over next 10 years or so. Damson and plum on the nose, lovely mouth coating texture, mid to long finish. Glad I have some more !
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Clear ruby. Cherry and plum giving the nose a pleasurable welcome. Smooth tanin, very fine, very structured. The fruit is held back on the palate but well balanced and it keeps evolving throughout the meal. What a joy to try this 10 year old but so much more to anticipate with more cellar time. Great companion to our tete de veau and chicken with truffle. Thank you MSW!
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9/15/2023 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Great richness and and deep red fruits of the nose are complemented by a deep cherry flavor in the mouth. Palate is still tight and will only get better with time. i would drink again in 5 years or so and it will be a knockout and show the elegance i expect from this wine. this could also be bottle variation as the last bottle I had was clearly superior. if i drink sooner i will give it a few hours of air.
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12/17/2022 - soyhead wrote:
nose of brown sugar
mouth of elegant lively red fruit, with good concentration and a hint of baking spice. drinks well but shows no indication of being 20 years old. I remember being more floored by the 02 Arnoux Reignots.
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12/3/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Seventeenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Hughes House - Chicago IL): In Arnoux 02/08 Suchots/RSV flight. Fully mature red cherry and berry with some roasted meat. Slightly more mature than I might consider ideal, but lots here. I frankly preferred the 2002 Suchots, but others didn't agree.
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12/3/2022 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Meaty and very well balanced.
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5/5/2022 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Surprisingly open on the nose and attack after the relatively closed flight of 02 nuits that preceded it. So composed and classy with years still to go.
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5/5/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 Points
2002 Burgs (Noize): Lived up to its billing. Lots going on, yet gorgeously well-integrated with it. Smoky, with Vosne spice such as cardomom and gingerbread, and some bright lemon. Seamless and beautiful - sexy, even. Group WOTN, my #2.
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5/5/2022 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 96 Points
Nick A's 2002 Burgundy Horizontal (Table B) (Noizé, London): One of the finest Burgundies I've been lucky enough to sample. This wine has such a richness and quality to it, it's really hard to describe. The brooding deep red fruits of the nose are complemented by a freshly baked gingerbread character that I find beguiling. Palate starts tightly coiled but even in a Bordeaux glass comes to life over 40 mins in the glass. Another bottle in 5 years in Burgundy glasses? I can only imagine. This is extraordinary. My wine of the night.
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2/2/2022 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Outstanding. Youthful and excellent spice. Plenty of time left. Just a touch tart on the finish.
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9/27/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark cherries, minerals, spice and gentle oak. Palate is rich and powerful with lots of underlying material. The wine has great potential. It was opened at 5pm and served at 8pm. 93-94
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4/25/2020 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
I think Paul S wrote a perfect notes, very similar experience. I was expecting a touch more ripeness for 02, but happily will take the trade off for the clean transparency here, which Arnoux also achieved with an excellent Suchots.
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9/20/2019 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points
Richebourg + RSV for Mike and Pete's birthday (Holland Park, Singapore): Glorious stuff, just beginning to unfurl - this bottle was clearly the pick of the bunch on the 2002 flight. It was very exotic on the bouquet, with wafts of cardamom and cumin and cloves, and then a very dark fruited core of black cherries, plums and blackberries, all flecked with little bits of vanilla - a wonderful kaleidoscope of a nose. The palate was deep, dark and powerful, yet somehow also elegant and transparent, with very juicy, limpid flavours of black cherries and dark berries, spice and mineral, all playing against a backdrop of savoury earth and mineral. There was so much purity and transparency about the fruit in spite of the great depth of the wine. This then stretched away into a long, long finish of bittersweet orange peel and sour plums. Superb power and length here, with the finish just and clinging on the backpalate and refusing to let go. A noble wine then - impeccably balanced and so very solid, with tons and tons going on in its depth, but this does need time in the bottle yet before it really hits its stride. I am glad I still have a couple of bottles left in the cellar. the next one only gets opened 5-6 years down the road.
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5/28/2019 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points
RSV and Richebourg Dinner + Montrachet and La Tache (Holland Park, Singapore): Tremendous. Opened 6 hours before service, this was absolutely singing. Wonderful stuff that stood toe-to-toe with a 1996 La Tache without batting an eyelid. The nose was amazing - mossy earth, and sweet exotic spice, toast, then a deep waft of dark cherries and crushed violet petals. Just magic. Perfume and earth. Lovely stuff. One of the best noses on any Burgundy I have drank in a long time. The palate was still a bit young and tight. It gave tons of pleasure for sure, with an already opened mouthful of dark cherries and plums, seasoned with earth, mineral and spice - but there was still a certain primary thickness and a clench of 2002 structure to it, with plenty of fine, firm tannins and bright acidity underlying the more elegant fruit and spice character. The finish felt especially structured, with fine tannins undergirding an otherwise mouthfilling burst of orange peel and wood spice. Absolutely wonderful stuff, but not quite as giving and open as the beautifully pure 2001 Hudelot-Noellat Richebourg just poured before. My next bottle will be kept unopened for at least 2 years more.
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4/16/2019 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points
2002 Burgundy Dinner (Chef Kang, MacKenzie Road, Singapore): Absolutely superb again - this was probably the best wine of the night amidst a fairly strong line-up. What a nose it had - everything you would expect an RSV to be - wood spice, fragrant dried florals; dark cherries and plums; dried earth, some meatiness; and then little lifts of menthol and orange peel. Wow. Like so many of the wines tonight, the palate still felt a little tight, a little young, but boy was it seriously good. Transparent, pure, with a wonderful stone of fresh orangey acidity running through quietly compelling flavours of black cherries and blackberries, plums maybe, and then a lovely seasoning of Vosne's wood spice, which drew the wine into a long, earth and mineral infused finish. With time, a lovely flush of dried violets came out as well. Fine-boned, almost sinewy tannins still gave the wine a serious, rather muscular frame. But above that, this was just a beautiful pure, elegant expression of its terroir. I have really been drinking my bottles too fast - while so delicious now, this great RSV really does deserve at least another 4-5 years in the cellar.
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9/24/2018 - drjb Likes this wine: 95 Points
A tribute to the Audouze technique this wine was initially opened prior to taking to a friend's dinner party and rejected because of a rusty colour and a funky nose of rusty iron and red earth. 48hrs later after sitting in the cellar for several hours uncorked and then left lightly closed I poured a different wine of red cherry colour and a beautiful perfumed nose of dark cherries, plums, blackberry and violet chocolates. There were touches of asian spice and earth. The palate was quite intense and very fine with great length and lift from velvet tannins and touch of red fruit sorbet. This is a lovely glass of wine with the beautiful tenderness of 2002. This bottle was very ready to drink and almost rejected because of the initial impressions.
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4/14/2018 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points
Pure Burgundy magic. A bit tight when first opened, with the nose showing a touch more masculine and animale than one would expect from an RSV, this slowly opened up in the glass to become a really entrancing wine. As the funk receded, drifts of fragrant Vosne spice and dark cherry and violet aromas started coming to the fore, along with a bass note of earthy, rather ferrous minerality. A very serious seeming bouquet. For all that though, it was on the palate where the wine really showed its mettle. The attack opened with a lovely blush of warm spice that just grew and grew until it absolutely enveloped the mouth alongside a deeper draw of ripe plums, really sweet black cherries and more of those cheeky violet notes wafting alongside, all this underpinned by a lacy structure of silky and bright acidity. There was a lovely sense of 2002’s clarity and transperancy to wine, along with an effortless elegance and grace that made it seem to much wear its Grand Cru weight almost nonchalantly. The only part of the palate that knocked it a bit for me was a slight bittersweet twist right at the end of the long, graceful finish which distracted me somewhat at first. With time though, this sorted itself up, with the wine rounding up and a beautifully plush, elegant feel. Other than that, a really lovely drop that just seems to be about entering into its drinking window. Super.
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3/27/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
Deep aromatic nose but on the stinky, animalic side. The funk never really blew off. Better on the palate lots of volume, lovely finish with licorice and cherry, impressive density. Very funky and characterful. Had friends and foes at the table.
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8/26/2017 - ricknat1 wrote: 95 Points
amazing fruit and elegance. a real pleasure
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8/23/2014 - drjb Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dark cherry red colour. Beautiful perfumed nose of dark cherries, plums and blackberry. Touches of asian spice, dark chocolate and earth. Palate quite intense but very fine with great length and lift from velvet tannins and touch of red fruit sorbet. Great but tender Burgundy which will probably continue to unfold.
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12/23/2013 - brownr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful wine, drinking nicely now but will surely improve as secondary nuances appear over next 10 years or so. Damson and plum on the nose, lovely mouth coating texture, mid to long finish. Glad I have some more !
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11/16/2012 - thebeginner wrote:
Clear ruby. Cherry and plum giving the nose a pleasurable welcome. Smooth tanin, very fine, very structured. The fruit is held back on the palate but well balanced and it keeps evolving throughout the meal. What a joy to try this 10 year old but so much more to anticipate with more cellar time. Great companion to our tete de veau and chicken with truffle. Thank you MSW!
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