Seemingly tired when opened, we decided to decant and that Burgundy miracle happened. An hour later this was spicy, lively, and vibrant with wonderful density. This ever-so-slowly faded in the following few hours, always remaining engaging and bright, even as it slowly faded by Hour 4. Drink up, but give this some air first.
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It opens up beautifully after 2 hour of air with rose petal, red currant, flowers, iron and blood. It has latent transperency with good depth. The palate offers waves of Leroy-like red fruit sweetness. For me, 2001 is Robert Arnoux’s best vintage between 1990-2010. 93+
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I have had this wine multiple times. In fact, at this point of its evolution, it is best to give it 90 mins of aeration before serving. When it finally opens up, it shows red currant, spices, rose petal and firm. Palate is firm with attractive sweetness. Hands down the best Arnoux vintage in my book.
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PNP then followed over many hours; would next time aerate a couple hours first because the wine really blossomed after 120 minutes of air.
Perfuming nose with aromas of sweet red fruit, bramble, spice, and floral notes. Palate is dominated by spice, a strong acidity, and mature purple fruit with faint plumminess. Medium finish with just a hair of dry tannins poking through.
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2001 Arnoux VR 1er cru tasting- Sweet red currant, perfume, flowers, spice and citrus peel. Palate is feminine and expressive with alluring sweetness. The best VR 1er cru in the flight.
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4/6, good cork (c20% evenly soaked). Pale/medium garnet core, wide pale garnet/mahogany rim. The nose has dark fruit, spice, coffee and some cigarette ash notes. Medium bodied, dark fruit, spice, soft tannins, rich and round but nice and fresh, better than the nose, touch of game, finishes well.
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Intoxicating nose of perfume, sweet red currant, stems and coffee beans. Palate was so harmonious and giving with sexy sweetness. It gained extra bit of depth and complexity in the glass. A killer wine, which is best to serve in pnp.
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Dinner with the wine group (Zazie, SF): Superb aromatics, vosne spice, red fruit; palate is light to medium bodied, some prominent tannins for Pinot but very approachable, excellent balance, medium-plus acid; finish is medium-plus to long. Really lovely red burgundy, with all the vosne character I expect. 93-95 Grows a bit with an hour of air in the glass. Lovely. 94-95
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Nice, higher toned dark raspberry, quite tasty, though acidity is fairly dominant. Seems pretty well resolved and ready to drink, with the strong acidity I'm not sure this will develop a lot more.
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A really pretty wine with perfume, sweet red currant, sous and coffee beans. Expressive and sweet on the palate with everything you want from a mature VR. A superb VR prem cru.
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2006 RC and 2006 DRC Montrachet dinner - Stanley Cup Final (Proof Restaurant - Washington DC): I typically get a hint of oxidized fruit in 2001 and this is no exception. Beautiful nose displaying slightly dry red and black fruit, raspberry candy, blackberry, black cherry, soy, mushroom, a hint of sou bois and earth. The oxidize fruit dissipate and no longer noticeable with air. Fully integrated palate, silky and polished, nicely integrated tannins and a medium to long blackberry and soy driven finish. Drinking beautifully but can improve further by gaining tertiary notes.
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First time over the last 10 years that I have drunk this wine that I experience how it is when it is really mature and rounded out. Lovely Vosne nose with fruit and spices, balanced taste with long finish. Highly enjoyable to drink now.
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brownish, Garnet. Autumn leaves, subtle spices, alluring. Very good acidity, accompany by subtle sweet fruits, good depth, Long, with spiciness tailing at the end. However we suspected this bottle is not in perfect condition compared to the previous bottle which has much better freshness and purity.
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3/6. Cork 50% soaked. Medium garnet core, pale wide garnet rim. Smoky, minerally nose, dark fruited, the odd whiff of musty cardboard after time in glass. Medium/full bodied, smoky dark fruit, touch of sweetness but with an emerging cardboard edge, good length finish. Still drinkable but definitely slightly tainted which is a shame because this shows signs of having come round nicely.
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Pop and pour at Marea with another Berserker who brought this wine. I am far from a Burgundy expert and maybe I had an Arnaux before, but I do not recall, so you can take my comments with a grain of salt. I think this wine was at least 5 years from peak, if not longer. I could taste that dark sweet cherry that I have tasted in the best well-aged Burgs hiding back there just begging to be released, but the smooth front cone of silence was just letting little hints sneaking out to tease you. The existing presentation is extremely smooth and well balanced with no rough edges and a bit of earthiness. As it took on air the fruit revealed itself very slowly and subdued, but I am sure there is more waiting to reveal itself. There is some acidity here that makes for a very bright presentation, but not so much as to leave any bitterness.
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Red Burgundy at The Bristol (Chicago, IL): A very enjoyable bottle of Vosne. The tasting note reads exactly like how you ought to think it reads. Tons of spice, both from the oak and Vosne, as well as lots of opulent black fruit on the nose. The palate shows acidity that's a bit higher than what the nose would imply, but perfectly spot-on for the vintage. There are still some grainy tannins to work out as well.
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My bottle and my favorite btl of 3 Vosne Romanees that showed up tonight. This took some time to show it stuff and was at its absolute best about 4 hours after we opened it and when it was mostly gone. In hindsight, I would have done something I rarely do with Burgs, especially a 15yrs old one and that is, decant it. Ambering ruby red color, spicy nose, tart cherry, minerally, mushroom and damp forest floor late in the night. Went from a 90pt wine on early sips to a 94pt wine in my last sips. My last btl and wish I had one more to try with more air! Oh well!
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nose - sour cherry, hint of funk. lovely nose mouth - delicious cornucopia of red fruit, powerful but not overdone, slightly funky, great acidity, long finish. an absolutely lovely bottle.
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This is the benchmark Suchot and performs splendidly right now, needing only an hour to open up and display its spicy, detailed pure favors which go on forever.
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Medium ruby. Lots of smoke at first, but then this faded a bit to reveal mixed black and red fruit and a bit of menthol. Medium weight, very seductive, silky feel. Wonderfully lively fruit invigorated by crisp 2001 acidity and some complicating green elements and a bit of late spice. Essentially fully mature. I loved this bottle despite the wood being more noticeable than I usually can tolerate.
I felt like this showing was a bit less impressive than the showing in March. Probably needed more air. Juicy sweet fruit for sure and nice structure. But this time, that extra something didn't really show. Needs more time for my tastes.
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Boy oh boy, 3rd time I've had this wine in a year and it's been up to snuff each time. THis was ROARING at the pop and pour. Such a powerful deep wine on the palate, just stuffed to the gills with incredible flavor that's wonderfully conveyed on the palate. A beast of a wine and absolutely delicious.
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Took a while to show its stuff, but it was sure worth the wait! Lovely balance of baking spice, layered dark fruits, acidity, and minerality. Nicely textured and powerful mouthfeel. A complete wine.
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This is the second time I've had this wine in the past year, the first bottle was far more easy going on the pop and pour, this one required about a hour or so in the decanter before opening up. When it did open up, it was a huge wine. Just dark deep fruit on the palate with a beautiful baking spice nose. The depth and expansiveness of flavor just rolled on and on on the palate. Really great and powerful wine. Arnoux Suchot never disappoints.
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Also a bit disjointed and closed initially. After decanting for an hour, this really opened up and shined. Solid core of sweet dark fruit, Vosne spice, balanced minerality and acid. This had more weight and depth than the 1999 Hudelot Noellat Malconsorts. Also a bit more of that extra something special.
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I have mixed feelings about this wine where a technically perfect winemaking has clearly taken over the terroir. Even though it is unmistakably burgundian by it's aromatic profile and it's constitution, it is very difficult to find something that would illustrate it's precise origin or any hint of a personality. The fruit is ripe, but not jammy; the palate is rich, unctuous and sweet, but balance is impeccable. Great texture, admirable tannins. A truly hedonistic wine made for a no brainer, pleasurable consumption but I would have appreciated this bottle even more if it could also have evoked me something, i.e. talked to my brain and not jsut to my senses...
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Champagne, Burgundy, and old Huët at the North End Grill (North End Grill, NYC): Great aromatics, really flamboyant and exotic with a core of rich dark fruit framed by an array of high toned spicy and floral notes, and simultaneously conveying both a sense of power and remarkable finesse with a bright acid spine giving it a sense of lift.
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Wine was expressive and aromatic from the get go. Paired against Dujac csd, serifin gcvv, and ducs all 2001. Black fruit and forest floor, very complete wine, not overextracted, the sappiness has transformed to multiple layers of silk, some vosne spice but complex. Yum.
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Drank over 4 hours. Quite a nose of iron infused red berries with other mineral notes in the background. The palate emphasized more red fruit, some dark fruit, great acidity with a very strong mineral, metallic overtone which was not at all out of place and integrated nicely with the ripe fruit. This is in a great place right now. Long finish that is a bit tart, but good. Really enjoyed this wine.
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Vosne Night (Tabard Inn): Big wine. This bottle is showing much younger than I might have expected. It takes some time before it starts to integrate the oak-barrel elements, which are imparting those mocha/root-beer scents and flavors. There's some seriously thick fruit and structure, too, so the oak isn't totally overpowering. "Muscular" was one of my first thoughts on every sip, but it actually has a fairly suave, rounded mouthfeel despite all those veins of tannin pulsing through it.
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Leiden tasting: last one before the holidays: Expressive Vosne nose, dark fruit, spices. Very balanced taste, again dark fruit, minerality with soft acidity supplementing each other. Also secondary notes of plum, mushroom and game. Lovely finish. I think this wine is still developing, it still has a slight edginess that will probably go away the next years to make this wine even better.
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Wonderful Burgundian nose, with incense, ash, saddle and black cherries. Long lasting mouth. A beauty, ready now but could be cellared for several years
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Leaky cork. Medium garnet core, pale mahogany rim. Rich, open nose with strawberry, plum, vanilla, smoke - becoming more gamey with time. Medium/full bodied on the palate, strawberry, some plum, vanilla, rich and broad, notes of game and smoke, soft tannins good length finish carried by some nice acidity. These are not really my thing but they are nice once in a while.
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Lieu-dit Cru Bastille Day Suchots Dinner (RIA in Chicago): Really muted and stripped fruit. Very inconsistent with any bottle of any vintage of Arnoux Suchots I've ever had. While others disagreed, I think this was moderately corked. Since I'm writing the Tasting Note...it's corked. Tasted single blind in its flight.
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Stunning bottle of textbook vosne - truffle and spice with slightly crunchy red fruits and exceptional length. Gets better end better in the glass. Should age nicely on its acidity and very fine tannins. This is just now entering a secondary stage. Great wine.
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1/6. Leaky cork, although not overly soaked through. Mature appearance, medium garnet core, wide pale mahogany rim. Open, rich nose with sweet red fruit, smoke, spice. Fragrant and perfumed with hints of earth and coffee. Medium/full on the palate, rich, sweet strawberry fruit, spice, vanilla, good acidity, stylish, silky tannins just slightly perceptible on the long, broad finish. Oak not yet quite integrated - needs another couple of years but shows promise.
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I bought this in London, transported in my suitcase during an airplane flight. Was wondering whether it would be affected by this. However it wasn't. The wine showed a light ruby colour, beautiful nose with fragrant, spicy, red fruit, wonderful aroma's. Taste medium bodied, lots of fruit, very balanced, great length. Excellent wine, improved even further over the course of an hour.
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Agree with many of the reviews below. Popped and immediately noticed the barnyard aromas and cherry and fresh mushroom taste. After about an hour the bottle opened up and became seductive, although slightly past its prime. Very heavy on the earthiness, good fruit still left, but lacking any real depth. Nice bottle.
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Lovely bright med ruby red with slight yellowish edge. The nose is quite expressive and perfumy violet, roses with earth, dark berry fruit and hint of spices, The palate is still tight, fresh, with round silky mouth feel and very fine silky tannins, with umami, light mineral spices finishing. Good mid palate sap but the finish is not showing what it got at the moment.
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Sweet and pie cherry aromas, with just a hint of little barnyard and a little asian spice. Mouth-filling cherries on the palate, with a slight briny edge that I associate with Dundee Hills Pinot. Excellent mouth feel, very nice finish. This wine hits all the right buttons. A dead ringer for the 2000 Cameron Dundee Hills we had the night before.
Tasting Group Dinner - It Was A Great Run (Heidi's, Minneapolis): Spicy and a touch surly immediately after opening, but quickly settled down. Expansive, enticing, ripe flavor profile: sour cherries, mushrooms, earth, and roses. Thick texture with oak that sticks out on the finish. Quite promising, but lacking a bit of elegance at the moment; needs time to pull everything together.
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Groundhog Day!: Popped and poured. Deep red color. Expressive nose featuring dark fruit, mushrooms and earth. A bit reserved but enticing. Nice weight on the palate, with plenty of dark fruit and some oak(?). The texture is not quite as refined as the Chambertin, but the balance is nice and the finish is very nice. In summary, a dark and brooding antithesis of the light and happy Rousseau Chambertin.
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Lunch at Hix- clean clear wine, smell of red fruits on the nose, this bottle seemed a bit disjointed. it had lovely fruits to it but it was just a bit volatile or edgy. prbly needed to be opened a bit longer oh well
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Drunk @ Rochelles Cantina with Rabbit - dark purple in color, on the nose dark sweet fruits with a touch of exotic spice, in the mouth it had some volatility at the start (prbly my fault in my rush to get to lunch, might have shaken a bit). but the VA seemed to blow of quickly. it was a big bold burgundy, dark cherry fruits with sweet spices. this was very solid, vibrant rich wine. It was very well balanced and quite long. As with most outstanding wines the last glass was the best one.
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A bottle consumed earlier this year was overtly toasty, to a point undrinkable. On this night it had great balance, verve and finesse. Light on it's feet and while its no Grand Cru, it takes you for a ride in business class.
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dinner of rack of lamb-clear clean wine, beautiful red and black fruit nose, all primary, youthful bottle, medium weight but light (in a good way) in the mouth. long finish. think this bottle will continue to get better and better for years as it doesnt like a very young burg
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Beginning of the Month Burgundies (Chez Panisse Cafe, Berkeley): Healthy, medium ruby. So seductive with light strawberry fruit and subtle smokiness right out of the bottle. Then a bit of mushroom and somewhat jarring stemminess briefly take over, only to relax and give way to the gentler red fruit aromatics. Light to medium weight with some spiciness, menthol, sound acidity, and some tannin. Lovely at the beginning and at the end. Perhaps some additional time will tone down the greener elements which I do not recall from a bottle drunk in Beaune about 18 months ago.
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Decanted for 1 hour. Haunting nose of burgundian spices. Very inviting. Medium bodied and fairly light initially with sweet tannins in check. Really shined with food (Tasmanian trout with black truffle risotto). Smooth as silk and perfectly balanced. Only complaint would be a little on the lighter side. Maybe will pick up more body with time.
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This is my wine of the year so far - which is saying something, as I had both the '02 Drouhin Vosne-Romanée "Petits Monts" and the '01 Vogüé Musigny last month. Objectively, I will readily concede that this may not be qualitatively superior to the other two wines, but something about it just rings my bell like few wines do. On the first day, it was extremely restrained and closed in on itself, but vigorous swirling released a veritable cloud of Asian spices. The second day was a completely different story - medium-bodied and incredibly light on its feet, but with terrific flavor authority delivering cherry-scented minerals, subtly creamy and smoky black fruit, and oh those Asian spices. The structure is there but the tannins are superfine, and the length is just ridiculous. Awesome juice.
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5/19/2023 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Consistent with previous notes.
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4/30/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Felt a little advanced initially, but gained power and spice over 2 hours. Quite a bit of earth, meat an iron along with the fruit and spice
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4/15/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Seemingly tired when opened, we decided to decant and that Burgundy miracle happened. An hour later this was spicy, lively, and vibrant with wonderful density. This ever-so-slowly faded in the following few hours, always remaining engaging and bright, even as it slowly faded by Hour 4. Drink up, but give this some air first.
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11/23/2022 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
It opens up beautifully after 2 hour of air with rose petal, red currant, flowers, iron and blood. It has latent transperency with good depth. The palate offers waves of Leroy-like red fruit sweetness. For me, 2001 is Robert Arnoux’s best vintage between 1990-2010. 93+
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6/17/2022 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
I have had this wine multiple times. In fact, at this point of its evolution, it is best to give it 90 mins of aeration before serving. When it finally opens up, it shows red currant, spices, rose petal and firm. Palate is firm with attractive sweetness. Hands down the best Arnoux vintage in my book.
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1/7/2022 - mchern02 wrote: 93 Points
PNP then followed over many hours; would next time aerate a couple hours first because the wine really blossomed after 120 minutes of air.
Perfuming nose with aromas of sweet red fruit, bramble, spice, and floral notes. Palate is dominated by spice, a strong acidity, and mature purple fruit with faint plumminess. Medium finish with just a hair of dry tannins poking through.
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8/19/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
2001 Arnoux VR 1er cru tasting- Sweet red currant, perfume, flowers, spice and citrus peel. Palate is feminine and expressive with alluring sweetness. The best VR 1er cru in the flight.
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4/24/2021 - Beachfan Likes this wine: 94 Points
Just gorgeous, PnP and in a beautiful spot. Can’t improve on the others last few tasting notes, they capture my thoughts
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4/11/2021 - Paul D wrote: 89 Points
4/6, good cork (c20% evenly soaked).
Pale/medium garnet core, wide pale garnet/mahogany rim. The nose has dark fruit, spice, coffee and some cigarette ash notes. Medium bodied, dark fruit, spice, soft tannins, rich and round but nice and fresh, better than the nose, touch of game, finishes well.
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5/25/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Intoxicating nose of perfume, sweet red currant, stems and coffee beans. Palate was so harmonious and giving with sexy sweetness. It gained extra bit of depth and complexity in the glass. A killer wine, which is best to serve in pnp.
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12/10/2019 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 93 Points
Stunning nose of violets and red fruit. Penetrating perfume. Punchy rich palate with a lot of flavor, mid length and a touch of acid. Very good.
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12/10/2019 - aagrawal wrote: 94 Points
Dinner with the wine group (Zazie, SF): Superb aromatics, vosne spice, red fruit; palate is light to medium bodied, some prominent tannins for Pinot but very approachable, excellent balance, medium-plus acid; finish is medium-plus to long. Really lovely red burgundy, with all the vosne character I expect. 93-95
Grows a bit with an hour of air in the glass. Lovely. 94-95
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12/9/2019 - alanr wrote: 92 Points
Nice, higher toned dark raspberry, quite tasty, though acidity is fairly dominant. Seems pretty well resolved and ready to drink, with the strong acidity I'm not sure this will develop a lot more.
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10/10/2019 - LWI wrote: 92 Points
Mature, semi-lightweight. Lovely
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9/12/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
A really pretty wine with perfume, sweet red currant, sous and coffee beans. Expressive and sweet on the palate with everything you want from a mature VR. A superb VR prem cru.
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6/7/2018 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points
2006 RC and 2006 DRC Montrachet dinner - Stanley Cup Final (Proof Restaurant - Washington DC): I typically get a hint of oxidized fruit in 2001 and this is no exception. Beautiful nose displaying slightly dry red and black fruit, raspberry candy, blackberry, black cherry, soy, mushroom, a hint of sou bois and earth. The oxidize fruit dissipate and no longer noticeable with air. Fully integrated palate, silky and polished, nicely integrated tannins and a medium to long blackberry and soy driven finish. Drinking beautifully but can improve further by gaining tertiary notes.
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3/28/2018 - Burgaddict wrote:
First time over the last 10 years that I have drunk this wine that I experience how it is when it is really mature and rounded out. Lovely Vosne nose with fruit and spices, balanced taste with long finish. Highly enjoyable to drink now.
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3/6/2018 - etyc Likes this wine:
Vosne 1er dinner
TBU
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3/6/2018 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
brownish, Garnet. Autumn leaves, subtle spices, alluring. Very good acidity, accompany by subtle sweet fruits, good depth, Long, with spiciness tailing at the end. However we suspected this bottle is not in perfect condition compared to the previous bottle which has much better freshness and purity.
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2/17/2017 - Paul D wrote: flawed
3/6. Cork 50% soaked. Medium garnet core, pale wide garnet rim. Smoky, minerally nose, dark fruited, the odd whiff of musty cardboard after time in glass. Medium/full bodied, smoky dark fruit, touch of sweetness but with an emerging cardboard edge, good length finish. Still drinkable but definitely slightly tainted which is a shame because this shows signs of having come round nicely.
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9/15/2016 - 5laton wrote: flawed
Heat damaged.
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7/22/2016 - Jay Hack Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pop and pour at Marea with another Berserker who brought this wine. I am far from a Burgundy expert and maybe I had an Arnaux before, but I do not recall, so you can take my comments with a grain of salt. I think this wine was at least 5 years from peak, if not longer. I could taste that dark sweet cherry that I have tasted in the best well-aged Burgs hiding back there just begging to be released, but the smooth front cone of silence was just letting little hints sneaking out to tease you. The existing presentation is extremely smooth and well balanced with no rough edges and a bit of earthiness. As it took on air the fruit revealed itself very slowly and subdued, but I am sure there is more waiting to reveal itself. There is some acidity here that makes for a very bright presentation, but not so much as to leave any bitterness.
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7/14/2016 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Red Burgundy at The Bristol (Chicago, IL): A very enjoyable bottle of Vosne. The tasting note reads exactly like how you ought to think it reads. Tons of spice, both from the oak and Vosne, as well as lots of opulent black fruit on the nose. The palate shows acidity that's a bit higher than what the nose would imply, but perfectly spot-on for the vintage. There are still some grainy tannins to work out as well.
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6/5/2016 - chablis28 wrote: 94 Points
My bottle and my favorite btl of 3 Vosne Romanees that showed up tonight. This took some time to show it stuff and was at its absolute best about 4 hours after we opened it and when it was mostly gone. In hindsight, I would have done something I rarely do with Burgs, especially a 15yrs old one and that is, decant it. Ambering ruby red color, spicy nose, tart cherry, minerally, mushroom and damp forest floor late in the night. Went from a 90pt wine on early sips to a 94pt wine in my last sips. My last btl and wish I had one more to try with more air! Oh well!
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5/20/2016 - soyhead wrote:
nose - sour cherry, hint of funk. lovely nose
mouth - delicious cornucopia of red fruit, powerful but not overdone, slightly funky, great acidity, long finish. an absolutely lovely bottle.
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12/13/2015 - stofken wrote: 94 Points
fabulous wine, explodes from the glass, still loads of potential, more spiced and less fine than the brulées of Meo
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11/25/2015 - JOsgood wrote: 94 Points
A beautiful wine. Very young and fresh tasting. Tons of perfume on the nose. Silky and elegant.
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11/10/2015 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Stunning. Nice surprise.
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8/31/2015 - markydb Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is the benchmark Suchot and performs splendidly right now, needing only an hour to open up and display its spicy, detailed pure favors which go on forever.
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6/14/2015 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium ruby. Lots of smoke at first, but then this faded a bit to reveal mixed black and red fruit and a bit of menthol. Medium weight, very seductive, silky feel. Wonderfully lively fruit invigorated by crisp 2001 acidity and some complicating green elements and a bit of late spice. Essentially fully mature. I loved this bottle despite the wood being more noticeable than I usually can tolerate.
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8/23/2014 - LWI wrote: 92 Points
Fully developed
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7/13/2014 - FYC wrote:
I felt like this showing was a bit less impressive than the showing in March. Probably needed more air. Juicy sweet fruit for sure and nice structure. But this time, that extra something didn't really show. Needs more time for my tastes.
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7/13/2014 - clayfu wrote:
Boy oh boy, 3rd time I've had this wine in a year and it's been up to snuff each time. THis was ROARING at the pop and pour. Such a powerful deep wine on the palate, just stuffed to the gills with incredible flavor that's wonderfully conveyed on the palate. A beast of a wine and absolutely delicious.
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3/28/2014 - bpj87 wrote:
Took a while to show its stuff, but it was sure worth the wait! Lovely balance of baking spice, layered dark fruits, acidity, and minerality. Nicely textured and powerful mouthfeel. A complete wine.
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3/28/2014 - clayfu wrote:
This is the second time I've had this wine in the past year, the first bottle was far more easy going on the pop and pour, this one required about a hour or so in the decanter before opening up. When it did open up, it was a huge wine. Just dark deep fruit on the palate with a beautiful baking spice nose. The depth and expansiveness of flavor just rolled on and on on the palate. Really great and powerful wine. Arnoux Suchot never disappoints.
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3/28/2014 - FYC wrote:
Also a bit disjointed and closed initially. After decanting for an hour, this really opened up and shined. Solid core of sweet dark fruit, Vosne spice, balanced minerality and acid. This had more weight and depth than the 1999 Hudelot Noellat Malconsorts. Also a bit more of that extra something special.
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12/21/2013 - PeterH Likes this wine: 94 Points
Damn good.
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9/2/2013 - thomasito2001 Likes this wine: 93 Points
I have mixed feelings about this wine where a technically perfect winemaking has clearly taken over the terroir. Even though it is unmistakably burgundian by it's aromatic profile and it's constitution, it is very difficult to find something that would illustrate it's precise origin or any hint of a personality. The fruit is ripe, but not jammy; the palate is rich, unctuous and sweet, but balance is impeccable. Great texture, admirable tannins. A truly hedonistic wine made for a no brainer, pleasurable consumption but I would have appreciated this bottle even more if it could also have evoked me something, i.e. talked to my brain and not jsut to my senses...
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7/1/2013 - salil wrote: 95 Points
Champagne, Burgundy, and old Huët at the North End Grill (North End Grill, NYC): Great aromatics, really flamboyant and exotic with a core of rich dark fruit framed by an array of high toned spicy and floral notes, and simultaneously conveying both a sense of power and remarkable finesse with a bright acid spine giving it a sense of lift.
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5/25/2013 - beachbum wrote: 93 Points
Wine was expressive and aromatic from the get go. Paired against Dujac csd, serifin gcvv, and ducs all 2001. Black fruit and forest floor, very complete wine, not overextracted, the sappiness has transformed to multiple layers of silk, some vosne spice but complex. Yum.
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10/25/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Drank over 4 hours. Quite a nose of iron infused red berries with other mineral notes in the background. The palate emphasized more red fruit, some dark fruit, great acidity with a very strong mineral, metallic overtone which was not at all out of place and integrated nicely with the ripe fruit. This is in a great place right now. Long finish that is a bit tart, but good. Really enjoyed this wine.
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10/17/2012 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 91 Points
Vosne Night (Tabard Inn): Big wine. This bottle is showing much younger than I might have expected. It takes some time before it starts to integrate the oak-barrel elements, which are imparting those mocha/root-beer scents and flavors. There's some seriously thick fruit and structure, too, so the oak isn't totally overpowering. "Muscular" was one of my first thoughts on every sip, but it actually has a fairly suave, rounded mouthfeel despite all those veins of tannin pulsing through it.
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7/5/2012 - Burgaddict wrote: 92 Points
Leiden tasting: last one before the holidays: Expressive Vosne nose, dark fruit, spices. Very balanced taste, again dark fruit, minerality with soft acidity supplementing each other. Also secondary notes of plum, mushroom and game. Lovely finish. I think this wine is still developing, it still has a slight edginess that will probably go away the next years to make this wine even better.
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5/14/2012 - Rupert wrote:
A burgundy lunch (La Trompette, Chiswick, London): Powerful, rich, chocolately, lots of sweet tobacco fruit, very Vosne
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5/14/2012 - Ludi Likes this wine: 92 Points
Wonderful Burgundian nose, with incense, ash, saddle and black cherries. Long lasting mouth. A beauty, ready now but could be cellared for several years
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3/18/2012 - Paul D wrote: 90 Points
Leaky cork. Medium garnet core, pale mahogany rim. Rich, open nose with strawberry, plum, vanilla, smoke - becoming more gamey with time. Medium/full bodied on the palate, strawberry, some plum, vanilla, rich and broad, notes of game and smoke, soft tannins good length finish carried by some nice acidity. These are not really my thing but they are nice once in a while.
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7/17/2011 - reichken wrote: 92 Points
good color. strawberries and red fruits
lots of acid, but also savory and really tasty burg notes, this got better and better
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7/14/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
Lieu-dit Cru Bastille Day Suchots Dinner (RIA in Chicago): Really muted and stripped fruit. Very inconsistent with any bottle of any vintage of Arnoux Suchots I've ever had. While others disagreed, I think this was moderately corked. Since I'm writing the Tasting Note...it's corked. Tasted single blind in its flight.
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7/3/2011 - cellarid wrote: 93 Points
Stunning bottle of textbook vosne - truffle and spice with slightly crunchy red fruits and exceptional length. Gets better end better in the glass. Should age nicely on its acidity and very fine tannins. This is just now entering a secondary stage. Great wine.
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4/9/2011 - PeterH wrote: 94 Points
Getting better and better. Now the structure is near perfect, with the acid down to just a good 'frame'. Becoming great juice.
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3/19/2011 - Paul D wrote: 92 Points
1/6. Leaky cork, although not overly soaked through. Mature appearance, medium garnet core, wide pale mahogany rim. Open, rich nose with sweet red fruit, smoke, spice. Fragrant and perfumed with hints of earth and coffee. Medium/full on the palate, rich, sweet strawberry fruit, spice, vanilla, good acidity, stylish, silky tannins just slightly perceptible on the long, broad finish. Oak not yet quite integrated - needs another couple of years but shows promise.
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9/2/2010 - Burgaddict wrote: 92 Points
I bought this in London, transported in my suitcase during an airplane flight. Was wondering whether it would be affected by this. However it wasn't. The wine showed a light ruby colour, beautiful nose with fragrant, spicy, red fruit, wonderful aroma's. Taste medium bodied, lots of fruit, very balanced, great length. Excellent wine, improved even further over the course of an hour.
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7/31/2010 - gschneider wrote: 91 Points
Agree with many of the reviews below. Popped and immediately noticed the barnyard aromas and cherry and fresh mushroom taste. After about an hour the bottle opened up and became seductive, although slightly past its prime. Very heavy on the earthiness, good fruit still left, but lacking any real depth. Nice bottle.
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6/11/2010 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Lovely bright med ruby red with slight yellowish edge. The nose is quite expressive and perfumy violet, roses with earth, dark berry fruit and hint of spices, The palate is still tight, fresh, with round silky mouth feel and very fine silky tannins, with umami, light mineral spices finishing. Good mid palate sap but the finish is not showing what it got at the moment.
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6/11/2010 - astroman wrote:
Very nice w cassis elegant consistent w the palate but seemly lacking in acid and finish.
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5/9/2010 - Rick Allen wrote:
Sweet and pie cherry aromas, with just a hint of little barnyard and a little asian spice. Mouth-filling cherries on the palate, with a slight briny edge that I associate with Dundee Hills Pinot. Excellent mouth feel, very nice finish. This wine hits all the right buttons. A dead ringer for the 2000 Cameron Dundee Hills we had the night before.
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2/2/2010 - Siggy wrote: 91 Points
Tasting Group Dinner - It Was A Great Run (Heidi's, Minneapolis): Spicy and a touch surly immediately after opening, but quickly settled down. Expansive, enticing, ripe flavor profile: sour cherries, mushrooms, earth, and roses. Thick texture with oak that sticks out on the finish. Quite promising, but lacking a bit of elegance at the moment; needs time to pull everything together.
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2/2/2010 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 93 Points
Groundhog Day!: Popped and poured. Deep red color. Expressive nose featuring dark fruit, mushrooms and earth. A bit reserved but enticing. Nice weight on the palate, with plenty of dark fruit and some oak(?). The texture is not quite as refined as the Chambertin, but the balance is nice and the finish is very nice. In summary, a dark and brooding antithesis of the light and happy Rousseau Chambertin.
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5/30/2009 - reichken wrote: 89 Points
Lunch at Hix- clean clear wine, smell of red fruits on the nose, this bottle seemed a bit disjointed. it had lovely fruits to it but it was just a bit volatile or edgy. prbly needed to be opened a bit longer
oh well
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5/11/2009 - reichken wrote: 94 Points
Drunk @ Rochelles Cantina with Rabbit - dark purple in color, on the nose dark sweet fruits with a touch of exotic spice, in the mouth it had some volatility at the start (prbly my fault in my rush to get to lunch, might have shaken a bit). but the VA seemed to blow of quickly. it was a big bold burgundy, dark cherry fruits with sweet spices. this was very solid, vibrant rich wine. It was very well balanced and quite long. As with most outstanding wines the last glass was the best one.
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3/16/2009 - jamiekutch wrote:
A bottle consumed earlier this year was overtly toasty, to a point undrinkable. On this night it had great balance, verve and finesse. Light on it's feet and while its no Grand Cru, it takes you for a ride in business class.
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3/8/2009 - reichken wrote: 93 Points
dinner of rack of lamb-clear clean wine, beautiful red and black fruit nose, all primary, youthful bottle, medium weight but light (in a good way) in the mouth. long finish. think this bottle will continue to get better and better for years as it doesnt like a very young burg
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1/26/2009 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 93 Points
David Niederauer Monday Wine Dinner - Yquem, Burgundies, SQNs, Massandra (The Plumed Horse Restaurant, Saratoga, California): Medium cherry red color with pale meniscus; horsey mineral and tart red fruit nose; tasty, tart red fruit and mineral palate with high acidity; medium finish 93+ pts.
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6/3/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Beginning of the Month Burgundies (Chez Panisse Cafe, Berkeley): Healthy, medium ruby. So seductive with light strawberry fruit and subtle smokiness right out of the bottle. Then a bit of mushroom and somewhat jarring stemminess briefly take over, only to relax and give way to the gentler red fruit aromatics. Light to medium weight with some spiciness, menthol, sound acidity, and some tannin. Lovely at the beginning and at the end. Perhaps some additional time will tone down the greener elements which I do not recall from a bottle drunk in Beaune about 18 months ago.
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8/12/2007 - tbone wrote:
Decanted for 1 hour. Haunting nose of burgundian spices. Very inviting. Medium bodied and fairly light initially with sweet tannins in check. Really shined with food (Tasmanian trout with black truffle risotto). Smooth as silk and perfectly balanced. Only complaint would be a little on the lighter side. Maybe will pick up more body with time.
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1/30/2005 - DChan wrote: 93 Points
This is my wine of the year so far - which is saying something, as I had both the '02 Drouhin Vosne-Romanée "Petits Monts" and the '01 Vogüé Musigny last month. Objectively, I will readily concede that this may not be qualitatively superior to the other two wines, but something about it just rings my bell like few wines do. On the first day, it was extremely restrained and closed in on itself, but vigorous swirling released a veritable cloud of Asian spices. The second day was a completely different story - medium-bodied and incredibly light on its feet, but with terrific flavor authority delivering cherry-scented minerals, subtly creamy and smoky black fruit, and oh those Asian spices. The structure is there but the tannins are superfine, and the length is just ridiculous. Awesome juice.
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1/3/2004 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 92 Points
Nice nose; tasty fruit, rich, extracted; long finish
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