Echezeaux Extravaganza: From an immaculate looking magnum. I found the wine pleasant but overall a bit flabby. Lots of dense yellow fruit but didn't have the cut and tension one would expect from a Montrachet in a top vintage like 1992. Others seemed to enjoy this a bit more but I tend to go for more nervy whites...
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Pop and pour, intense light gold. Expressive nose of smoke, marzipan, yellow fruits, apricot, a hint of botrytis, ginger candy, lanoline and crème brulee. Ripe yellow fruits but not tropical. The beguiling dense yet airy texture that one finds only in Chevalier Montrachet and Montrachet. Sweet ripe fruits, excellent concentration, bright acidity, saline, noticeable mineral presence and piercing acidity. Initially a hint of oak that clips the finish but with time it dissipates. With air, the nose expression comes together nicely and becomes singular. A perfectly matured GC burgundy, the reason why some of us can’t give up white burgundy.
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I thought to myself I was in for a treat when I saw this bottle awaiting us! 1992 is a favourite white Burgundy vintage, and drinking a Monty, especially at 21y of age, is always an honour. But Sauzet rarely does it for me, and this was another such example unfortunately. I found the wine a little short and unexpressive relative to my expectations. One diner even poured into a large Bordeaux glass hoping to help it to open. To no avail. I simply think that is Sauzet's winemaking style. In that, the bottle was conform.
Seventh Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Subtle fruit aromas, showing apple and peach. Moderately ripe flavors accompanied by some background spice. Good acidity and minerality but frankly much simpler and shorter than I expected. This picked up some more density with more air but this never really took on the classic top end Montrachet character I was expecting from this bottle.
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1/11/2019 - cortoncharlie wrote:
Echezeaux Extravaganza: From an immaculate looking magnum. I found the wine pleasant but overall a bit flabby. Lots of dense yellow fruit but didn't have the cut and tension one would expect from a Montrachet in a top vintage like 1992. Others seemed to enjoy this a bit more but I tend to go for more nervy whites...
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4/22/2017 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Butter and wintergreen, in a good way. Lovely.
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4/22/2017 - Burgnick wrote: 89 Points
In magnum. Nose is muted with some ripe tropical fruit. Palate is too ripe and one dimensionl for a monty in mag
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5/13/2016 - Alex G. wrote:
Super dark color, started flat got better with air, some nice honeyed notes on the finish.
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9/14/2013 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
Pop and pour, intense light gold. Expressive nose of smoke, marzipan, yellow fruits, apricot, a hint of botrytis, ginger candy, lanoline and crème brulee. Ripe yellow fruits but not tropical. The beguiling dense yet airy texture that one finds only in Chevalier Montrachet and Montrachet. Sweet ripe fruits, excellent concentration, bright acidity, saline, noticeable mineral presence and piercing acidity. Initially a hint of oak that clips the finish but with time it dissipates. With air, the nose expression comes together nicely and becomes singular. A perfectly matured GC burgundy, the reason why some of us can’t give up white burgundy.
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6/16/2013 - Dubie wrote: 90 Points
I thought to myself I was in for a treat when I saw this bottle awaiting us! 1992 is a favourite white Burgundy vintage, and drinking a Monty, especially at 21y of age, is always an honour. But Sauzet rarely does it for me, and this was another such example unfortunately. I found the wine a little short and unexpressive relative to my expectations. One diner even poured into a large Bordeaux glass hoping to help it to open. To no avail. I simply think that is Sauzet's winemaking style. In that, the bottle was conform.
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12/2/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Seventh Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Subtle fruit aromas, showing apple and peach. Moderately ripe flavors accompanied by some background spice. Good acidity and minerality but frankly much simpler and shorter than I expected. This picked up some more density with more air but this never really took on the classic top end Montrachet character I was expecting from this bottle.
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