I agree with the last two posts by Peter Spijker and Keithakers. This is just getting into its drinking window. Has all the components to be a great wine but the tannins need to mellow and the wine needs time to gain complexity. Leave it in your cellar.
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Complex and serious wine, with dark cherry, spice, earth, herbs, flowers, and serious tannins. After a while they died down a bit, and the wine showed more elegantly. I do think this will improve (definitely texturally) over the next few years.
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Portland Paulee (Oregon Historical Society, Portland OR): The nose is heady and perfumed as the tones of red cherries, fresh picked berries, raspberries, red flowers, spice notes, violets, fresh herbs, tobacco leaf, and strawberries just flow out of the glass. This shows off the depth and class I would expect from this level of Grand Cru. The Medium bodied feel is balanced and refined with crisp, medium+ acidity and silky, medium tannins. The structure still has some clear youth to it while the feel is just a smidge rough. This is a classy wine in every single way that is just starting to emerge, but really 3+ years will certainly help get it where it needs to go.
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During a Bonnes Mares dinner. Youthful nose with dark primary fruit still dominating. The palate is well made with soft tannins. I think this will be solid in a few years. Wait till 2024.
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I opened this to see how it is evolving. This has good acidity, lots of tannins and great dark fruit. But not ready! This will be a great wine but needs at least 5 yrs or more to mellow out. I left half a bottle to be opened up the next day and it was still tight with the tannins predominant and the fruit as a secondary flavour.... hint of menthol on the nose. No rating for that reason. This is not a flawed wine just to young
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2014 Bruno Clair Flight with a 2005 Cherry (Dig Wines, San Francisco): Light ruby. Tasted right after the Gevrey, this turned up the intensity of soil, black fruit, and most notably, the complexity and length. That said, hard to justify pricing which would place it at elite Grand Cru level.
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2/10/2024 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
I agree with the last two posts by Peter Spijker and Keithakers. This is just getting into its drinking window. Has all the components to be a great wine but the tannins need to mellow and the wine needs time to gain complexity. Leave it in your cellar.
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1/1/2024 - Peter Spijker Likes this wine: 94 Points
Complex and serious wine, with dark cherry, spice, earth, herbs, flowers, and serious tannins. After a while they died down a bit, and the wine showed more elegantly. I do think this will improve (definitely texturally) over the next few years.
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12/1/2023 - KeithAkers wrote: 94 Points
Portland Paulee (Oregon Historical Society, Portland OR): The nose is heady and perfumed as the tones of red cherries, fresh picked berries, raspberries, red flowers, spice notes, violets, fresh herbs, tobacco leaf, and strawberries just flow out of the glass. This shows off the depth and class I would expect from this level of Grand Cru. The Medium bodied feel is balanced and refined with crisp, medium+ acidity and silky, medium tannins. The structure still has some clear youth to it while the feel is just a smidge rough. This is a classy wine in every single way that is just starting to emerge, but really 3+ years will certainly help get it where it needs to go.
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2/20/2022 - Ltim BE Likes this wine: 94 Points
4h decant. Lively elegant notes of fresh raspberries and strawberries with a touch of marmelade. Beautiful wine. Lovely acidity.
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3/18/2021 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points
During a Bonnes Mares dinner. Youthful nose with dark primary fruit still dominating. The palate is well made with soft tannins. I think this will be solid in a few years. Wait till 2024.
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5/21/2020 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:
I opened this to see how it is evolving. This has good acidity, lots of tannins and great dark fruit. But not ready! This will be a great wine but needs at least 5 yrs or more to mellow out. I left half a bottle to be opened up the next day and it was still tight with the tannins predominant and the fruit as a secondary flavour.... hint of menthol on the nose. No rating for that reason. This is not a flawed wine just to young
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3/31/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
2014 Bruno Clair Flight with a 2005 Cherry (Dig Wines, San Francisco): Light ruby. Tasted right after the Gevrey, this turned up the intensity of soil, black fruit, and most notably, the complexity and length. That said, hard to justify pricing which would place it at elite Grand Cru level.
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