Some reduction took a little time to blow off. Once it cleared, there was clear white to yellow orchard fruit on the nose and a pure, coiled fruit impression on the mid palate, gripping and leading into a focused finish. No signs of premox on this bottle. Opened side by side with the 2017 Boillot Pucelles, and that showed slightly advanced with less mid palate energy.
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From 375mL. Deeper yellow to light golden, appropriate color for young white burgundy; moderate intensity aromatics, cream, slight vanilla, white fruits, slight floral; palate is richly textured, medium-plus acidity throughout, oak is integrating, excellent depth and complexity, some citrus oil; long finish. Excellent quality, top tier 1er cru (unfortunately priced as such), drinking well now but will likely age well for a few more years. With some other notes suggesting some pre-mox (though no hint in this half bottle), I might drink up my remaining over the next couple of years. 93 3 hours air: Slightly improved after 30-60 minutes, and then held steady throughout. Lovely white burgundy. The magic may come with substantially more age, but can I trust it to last that long?
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The bouquet is still a bit reticent, but shows good citrus. On the palate elegant and mild, good acidity, a light dose of pleasant oak. Beautiful wine which needs some more years in the bottle to show more finesse and complexity. For now 94+
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Light white flowers, lemon curd, long juicy-lemony finish. Really good but clearly very, or a little too young. The '13 Moucheres showed better IMHO. I gave it 92+ in my notes. tied for 5th place overall. Yarom DD blind tasting Crustacean.
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outstanding. pretty reductive nose/hints of matchstick; plenty of lemon curd, perhaps some tangerine; really really great acidic cut and a long finish. in a great spot now but so much energy seems it can def age much longer but in a great drinking window now IMHO
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Christmas Wimps 2023 - Clean Bandit (La Trompette): On the nose, struck match, hint of spice. On the palate - not SUPER lean but clean and well defined, the oak is there but ever so well done, and a citrus finish. This is just lovely - yay for white burgundy.
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Christmas Wimps (La Trompette, Chiswick): Creamy nose, sesame seed too, medium/full, creamy pear fruit, lovely weight and breath, touch of citrus, attractive sour edge, vibrant acids carries a very good length finish. This is excellent, if still quite youthful.
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Very good but this bottle seemed to lack a bit of energy when compared to prior bottles. This was decanted abd I wonder whether it's now at a place where that detracted. Or maybe it was just bottle variation.
Kraters for the trenchermen (Les 2 Garçons): Not as spectacular as a magnum consumed last summer, but still a very good white Burgundy. Seamless, with a touch of reduction and plenty of energy and dry extract. Note of confit lemon and a long finish.
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Deep yellow. Nose shows slightly advanced with some lemon and sherry notes. On the palate, significantly better with bright acid, powerful mouth-shaping minerality, and serious length. I guess, like a few other other vintages we picked up that advanced early,we’ll be drinking through these sooner rather than later Disappointing as these are so amazing when you get a fresh bottle.
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“What a difference a day makes”…. Last time I had this was 3 years ago and loved it. Today I find it not too oaky and butterscotch notes. Not my bag. Could be bottle variation, or an odd bottle but it wasn’t corked. Give me the freshness of youth any day.
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PNP. Medium yellow color. Flinty, smoky nose with an undercurrent of tropical and orchard fruit. Ripe, rich and lively palate with a chalky texture and deep chiseled fruit. Long finish, with a ton of dry extract, this is better than the 16 that we opened yesterday, and seems to have a lot of stuffing to age gracefully. This is getting better as it ages and reminds me of the 2014 with a little more fat.
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Really nice tonight and drinking well after just abit of air with deep, rich stone fruits , floral notes, some baking spice(mostly nutmeg) and some bright acidity and minerality at its core. Boillot’s Pulignys are sometimes oakier than I prefer, but this bottle had a judicious application of oak that was just right and if it doesn’t premox, i think that this will only improve with age. Delightful!
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Bu sur deux jours. Floral, fruits blancs, acidité qui supporte la rondeur et le gras, intense avec une belle texture, legers amers en finale le jour un qui se dissipent le lendemain, excellent. 92-93
Drank over two days, white fruit, some flowers, nice balance, fairly rich but with emough acidity to support it. Excellent as always.
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Half Century Magnum Lunch (La Trompette) (London): This is a wine that passed me by somewhat in the lineup but was excellent. From Magnum and found it quite ready to drink. I have two more mags of this and really would like to try again where I can asses it better. Rounded, Smokey and some oak. No doubt will improve and no worries in holding.
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Magnum Mike's Magnificent Half Century (La Trompette): Magnum. A much more restrained wine than its flight-mates, and probably the wine that still has the most upside, but its class is already obvious. A little bit of savoury reduction and some spearmint on the nose. The palate remains very tense, with coiled citric energy and excellent purity and coherence. There's nothing out of place here - aristocractic Burgundy, for sure.
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Decanted for ~5-hrs before this got served (blinded) in the 2nd-flight (of 3 wines) of the evening. Scents of struck-match reduction/smoke dominated for almost the 1st 15-mins in the glass, only to start blowing off slowly to reveal some peaches, lemon-citrus, white-florals. Nice density encased in a linear delivery (with a tinge of oak), this was pure and lively with fresh acidity. Shall hold the rest of my btls and it should be interesting to taste this again with more developed complexity. Nice!
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Beautiful nose but I felt this was closed on the palate at this stage dispite decanting the bottle. Lots of great acidity and structure but will need more time.
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Plenty of smoky mineral reduction along with pure white peach fruit. The palate is rich and sappy, with excellent intensity and a fine line of minerally acidity. It is complex, direct and detailed and flavours linger. Outstanding balance.
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beautiful... I sometimes find this bottling a little on the round side of my (admittedly sharp / lifted biased) palate preference, but this was pretty darn fine with good acidity but a hint of richness that made it really decadent... loved it... wish this wasn't $130'ish (incl tax / shipment)
Flickinger dinner at avec River North (Chicago, IL): Oddly enough, this was almost indistinguishable from the 2008, but it was more because the 2008 was fresh than this was showing any age. Clearly a product of the vintage with heaps of bright acidity and electricity. The Boillot use of oak, while generous, is also superbly executed, giving this the requisite breadth and power. A perennial winner.
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Slightly disappointed. A serious wine, I found too much oak for my taste and overall too hot. Acidity was still there so this was still an enjoyable wine but overall too big and not enough finesse for my taste.
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a little richer that the very lifted / bright Montille St. Aubin En Remilly ('19), but still way on the lifted side for this wine which I usually find on the richer side of my palate preference... love this wine but its for when I want something with some real depth / punch and this was very "2017" with more acidity and more lift than usual... all citrus in other words... still beautiful... thinking it will relax with another 3-7 years of age
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Another outstanding 2017 Mouchere. Similar character to the last note. Maybe slightly less chiseled and, later, less complex. But, more likely, this was near identical to the last bottle and merely suffered from a slightly less exceptional environment (restaurant/pairings).
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Tightly wound, but oh so elegant. Perfect balance of citrus/lemon acidicity, minerality, and richness (with the minerality dominating at this young age) This was beautiful today, but is sure to be even better with more time in the cellar. 96+ point potential. Decanted for 30 minutes and enjoyed much too quickly once we got started (was too delicious to not keep sipping).
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Drank this wine in Metro Wine Cellar with Jack after returning from London with the experience of Covid attack, with yellow code in HK thus only could pair with some BBQ take away, still a treat.
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At Pierluigi in Rome, off the list 310 Euros. Really compelling nose of struck match, lemon and florals. Deep palate, mouth coating, rich and slightly round (lacks a bit of acid) but finishes long with a lemon rind aftertaste. Went well with the pasta and spiny lobster dinner, good companion.
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3 blind White Burgs (Amnon's place): Medium yellow. Deep nose showing florals, flint and spice. Palate is lower acid, so I guessed 2018. Deep exotic flavors, more on the tropical spectrum with a high glycerol mouth feel and a medium finish. I guessed Puligny for the village, but pegged the wine as 2018 DeMontille Le Cailleret.
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Popped'n poured for Bastille Day at La Piquette in D.C., along with a 2014 Fevre 1er Cru Vaulorent Chablis, and a 2005 Bouchard Père et Fils Le Corton. As always, the Boillot was an outstanding bottle - beautiful fruit, beautiful nose, minerality, just a great wine.
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First bottle from a case bought on release. Drank a small glass on Pnp and then went back to the bottle a few hours later. Fairly rich and concentrated but with excellent balance of fruit and acidity. Already well integrated and great to drink but will last many years no doubt. Complex with good length
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Saturday get-together: On initial opening, this was not really giving up the goods the way I would have liked. Compared to other showings of this wine (this vintage and others), this particular bottle was a bit linear and almost brooding at first. I could recognize the purity, acidity, and overall body of the wine, but the flavor train just passed by the main stop and forgot to pick up its mid-palate passengers. Going back a few times over the course of a handful of hours helped to get a better bead on this wine, but it then became cooler, which didn’t help to un-mute the flavors. Setting aside a particular glass of this later on and allowing it to warm up slightly provided much better expression and complexity of the yellow citrus and travertine flavors I’m accustomed to experiencing with the Mouchere. Revisited the next day, I found more power and heft in frame, with additional (much needed) weighty notes of yellow pear and honeydew. Still, I seemed to have completely missed the electricity here – My last bottle sampled was back in 2019, where it was primary of course, but was on-fire when it came to persistence. The execution of flavor was more conventional with this bottle. All that said, I found it to be a solid wine, just not a particularly inspiring one this go-around. Let’s wait and see what happens here in a few years for the re-visit in hopes it better finds its true expression. 93-94? points this go-around. Solid wine with a less solid showing (given my high expectations for this wine).
Day 2 update: Much improved showing after 1/4 of the remaining bottle was left for 24 hours at 52 degrees and revisited. More depth; more complexity; more layers; longer finish. More everything. A sigh of relief here, as I was a bit bummed out by its good-not-great performance on the initial pull. Hold for a few years.
FWSG 2017 White Burg tasting. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, yellow lemon colour. Legs. Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of reiveting saline stones minerality, straw hay, white peach, yellow and white flowers, ripe peaches, citrus lemon. Complex and exquisite character. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol, very rich almost full body. Pronounced flavour intensity, with complex flavours of almond nut, energetic salty wet stones minerality, sweet floral juice, peaches, pears, citrus lemon. Big, broad and expansive. Even more than the 2017 Boillot Meursault Gen. Very long finish. Excellent quality. Jam packed with complex substance. Gets hard to describe as the flavours all charge at the same time. Can develop but already so good, so why risk ageing more.
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New friends, new wines in Novato: My favorite of the white burgs tried this evening. Again, that chalky minerality was showing through nicely. This had more weight and stuffing from what I can remember.
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An evening with good food, great people and amazing wine (Where the silence is longed for): Aromas of chalky hay, grass, some clay and a bit of light rubber that made it pretty interesting. Flavors of deep yellow fruits, soft earth and minerals. So crisp and clean with a nice tension that prevents the deep yellow fruits from becoming heavy. Will probably need a handful of years for this to really come together.
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Crisp, tense, with some electricity to it. Decent fruit, and I enjoyed this today. However, I believe the best is yet to come in 5+ years - provided it can avoid premox.
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Slow ox-ed for an hour or so before drinking with scallops in a delicious sauce. I could probably drink no white wine other than Boillot's Clos de la Mouchère for the rest of my life and be quite happy. I'm sure this still has upside and a life life (knock on premox wood), but this is a gorgeous wine, with beautiful fruit and an incredible mouthfeel.
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First Montrachet for me. Amazed by the nice acidic backbone, while retaining the oaky, buttery secondary flavour. Very lactic nose and amazing length. Maybe a bit young, but still a great glass.
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I'll echo the many other notes in saying how good this was. Complex aromatics of yellow fruits (apply and peach), flowers, nuts, toasty oak. The palate is full but nervy, with the oak influence not overwhelming the fruit texture. The finish is exquisite and unfolds layers of flavor. Similar in overall character and quality to a '17 Pucelles from earlier in the summer. Very impressive wine, very easy to enjoy now even though it's still quite primary. Cellaring one still and rolling the dice on premox for another year or three.
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375ml bottle. Premoxed. Gold colour. Caramel, baked apples. Honey cream, toast oak, ripe citrus lemon curd still present. But overall too advanced for a 2017 for me to call this not premoxed.
Popped'n poured (although should have requested a decant), and a perfect accompaniment to crab legs at Shaw's Crab House in Chicago. Still young, but great acidity, fruit, and minerality. Love this vineyard
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Popped'n poured to start our Bastille Day dinner at La Piquette in DC. In an ideal world, we'd have decanted this, but the '03 Leoville Poyferre got the decant. This is all incredibly young, but so delicious and vibrant. Probably more upside.
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Nose: complex aromas of yellow apples, rich oak aromas for a puligny Mouth: high fruit concentration!!! Long finish nervy acid. Conclusion: quite big for a PM driven by high fruit concentration. Amazing wine!!
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Blind tasting comparing the same wine from the 2017 and 2018 vintage. Wines were decanted 3 hours prior to tasting. All 4 wines were wonderful, but in a mild surprise the 18s were preferred over the 17s. The 18s showed better flavor depth and complexity, with the 17s showing a little dilute possibly from the high yields of the vintage (45 to 50 hectoliters per hectare).
Wine D, 2017 H. Biollot PM Clos de la Mouchere. Rank: 4 Deep yellow. Lemon oil and a tea like element on the nose that is off putting and slightly out of place. Somewhat disjointed on the palate, honeyed ripeness and orchard fruit elements. Grand cru palate presence but lacks precision and energy compared to the other 3.
Tasted blind I guessed 2017 white burg. Very much in the vein of this nice vintage, open knit, this was a tad on the exotic side for my liking and maybe a bit sweet with some oak still needing to integrate. Should be very good though with some more bottle age.
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The precision here is extraordinary. The acidity is pronounced, the producer speaks, but this is really dressed in layers, minerals, butter, a Burgundy-feel that keeps going. #podcast
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My best Boillot so far. This 2017 shines bright with freshness, airiness paired with a fairly complex aromatic profile. Textbook Burgundy without any weight and yet intense, inviting aromas. Very good to drink right now and given Boillot‘s bad premox reputation, I probably wouldn‘t wait too long to open your bottles.
TN: Honeysuckle, citrus, salt and some hints of wood on the nose. Pleasently inviting, fresh and with medium+ precision. On the palate wonderfully fresh, with a light, airy texture but enough aromatic weight. Citrus, apple, very salty in the middle and on the finish, flowers, honeysuckle. Nicely layered with a very good precision. This is a harmonious and balanced wine with a good length.
Decanting: Double decanted with one hour in the decanter. Consumed 5 hours later.
Glass: Zalto Bordeaux
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Tasted blind. Granite rock minerality, sea salt and match stick with a fruit leaning almost more towards tropical like lime juice, a bit of maracuya and pineapple. Oak notes intensify over time. Super fresh palate with a creamy texture. Precise, pure and linear from start to finish.
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Luftet en halvtime, da helt åpen. Voksen og «stor» nese som er veldig nyansert og flott. Det lukter av røyk og knust stein, pen eik og hvit og grønn frukt. Bredskuldret og stor i kjeften stilmessig. Konsentrert og ung i munn, ganske overveldende og noe «rå» enda. Ganske fyldig for å være en Puligny, men syren er høy og bærer det hele uten problemer. Rå lengde.
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Ouff, du très beau Chardo ici. Complexe et incisif. Pas le plus long mais rudement franc et bien fait. Limettes et craie avec un peu de noix et de fleurs. Belle finesse, c'est tout à fait délicieux.
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Fresh primary fruits, slight iodine note, well integrated oak with a acidity that still needs time to get balanced. Good wine with a lengthy finish. Needs time.
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During a Zoom blind tasting. 2014/16/17 side by side. The 2017 was excellent, crisp, fresh, flinty with lemon curd and minerals. Good mid mouth fill and complexity. Like the 2014 it will need time, after 2025. Since this is quite reductive I would not be worried about premox here.
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Fine Wines SG - Puligny vs Chassagne Tasting (Zoom): Pale lemon, and a slight more hue, with starlight brilliance. Could get very refined clove and cinnamon aromas, and vanilla pods. Intense flavours, fairly high acidity, and nice spices, some powerful lemon candies, and creaminess. Good wine!
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From 375mL. Medium yellow color; nose initially a bit reductive with some matchstick, lemon peel, green apple; palate has a great richness and density to it but paired with medium-plus vibrant tingly acidity throughout the midpalate, lemon and lemon peel, slight white fruit; finish is long with a nice tang. Obviously young and a bit reductive, but with exceptional balance between richness and acidity and clean but deep flavors. Always a value among 1er cru white burgundy. 94+
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Wider tones aromas with stone fruits, nuts and clear quality wood. Nice full bodied and fresh wine with good mouthfeel. A little richer and juicy mouthfeel with cool apples and fruit peel. Good saltiness. Lacks some depth for the moment, but this is definitely great quality with good cellar potential. 92 points.
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2017 (mostly) Cote de Beaune Premier Crus vol 1 (Margeaux Brasserie): Nose: The nose is wound a bit tight but what is there is gorgeous and balanced, filled with lemon peels, apples, peaches, white florals, fresh picked citrus notes, custard, saline, and some vanilla beans.
Taste: The Medium/full bodied feel is poised and deep with tart, medium+ acid. The acidity is a bit sharp right now and needs some time to calm down with lemon peels, apples, peaches, custard, white florals, and saline notes.
Overall: This is very young and years away from showing what it really has. Still, what's here is extremely good with an attractive white-fruited take to the nose and palate.
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2017 White Burgundy Dinner (Brasserie Margeaux - Chicago IL): Intensely floral and nutty start with peach and lemon curd aromas. Lush, engaging and very demonstrative in a forward manner. So good now with upside. Probably better tonight than the Benoit Ente 2017 Clos de la Truffiere in the next glass, but I think the opposite will be true in a decade.
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What a refreshing wine! Lemon, peach with a pronounced nose. Medium+ acidity, long finish. 2017 is a very good vintage for white Burgundy. Henri Boillot is one of my favourite wine makers!
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Much more giving than the bottle I had back in August. Vibrant and electric in the execution of its hyper-focused and chiseled flavor delivery. Lemon verbena and some freshly squeezed lemon juice lead the nervy charge, with some white melon rind and white stone adding to its driven conveyance. Highly sophisticated and classy. A mouthful without being rich; its tension is one of its best assets. It's voluminous by way of its lavish and jazzy lustiness. A go-go girl in roller skates...but not so much in a bikini, but in a black business skirt.
Still worth keeping bottled-up for a few years. Hold until 2023+. 95+ points.
This significantly overshadowed a 2017 Malandes Les Clos GC Chablis served beside it.
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Out of this world; vibrant boosting with fruit and minerality, still restrained and concentrated, a bit nervous - certainly Grand Cru level. This will live for a long time. 95+ point. #Bistro d'Hotel #Hospices de Beaune
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Pure and clean, with a somewhat primary but extremely balanced and elegant execution from front to back. A linear front-end delivery of lemon water, honeydew, lemon verbena, and some pumice.
The flavors expand just enough to show its heightened purity of fruit, with a nice viscosity on the back end that coats the palate and hints at further potential for more volume and broader weight distribution after a few more years in bottle. Comes off youthfully bright and polished. This will only gain more sophistication with time. 93-94+. Hold until 2022.
Fine Wines SG - White Burgundy Tasting (Fine Wines SG): The thing about this wine is a hit of green herbs, both on the nose and palate. Also clear green capsicum and leaves, as well as brine, and on the back and finish, clove spices. Seems like it’s too young, and will need some more years
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4/19/2024 - Mario17 wrote: 90 Points
Très bien, assez évolué pour le millésime par contre avec des amers en finale un peu dérangeants mais à peine.
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4/19/2024 - Hanibal wrote: 91 Points
Good but showing advanced aging already
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3/29/2024 - jlm wrote:
Some reduction took a little time to blow off. Once it cleared, there was clear white to yellow orchard fruit on the nose and a pure, coiled fruit impression on the mid palate, gripping and leading into a focused finish. No signs of premox on this bottle. Opened side by side with the 2017 Boillot Pucelles, and that showed slightly advanced with less mid palate energy.
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3/6/2024 - jhngo wrote: 88 Points
A bit advanced already
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3/6/2024 - aagrawal wrote: 93 Points
From 375mL. Deeper yellow to light golden, appropriate color for young white burgundy; moderate intensity aromatics, cream, slight vanilla, white fruits, slight floral; palate is richly textured, medium-plus acidity throughout, oak is integrating, excellent depth and complexity, some citrus oil; long finish. Excellent quality, top tier 1er cru (unfortunately priced as such), drinking well now but will likely age well for a few more years. With some other notes suggesting some pre-mox (though no hint in this half bottle), I might drink up my remaining over the next couple of years. 93
3 hours air: Slightly improved after 30-60 minutes, and then held steady throughout. Lovely white burgundy. The magic may come with substantially more age, but can I trust it to last that long?
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2/26/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
Mostly Mazis Dinner (S.K.Y. Restaurant - Chicago IL): Ridiculous that this was quite oxidized.
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2/24/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 94 Points
The bouquet is still a bit reticent, but shows good citrus. On the palate elegant and mild, good acidity, a light dose of pleasant oak. Beautiful wine which needs some more years in the bottle to show more finesse and complexity. For now 94+
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2/18/2024 - peternelson Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light white flowers, lemon curd, long juicy-lemony finish. Really good but clearly very, or a little too young. The '13 Moucheres showed better IMHO. I gave it 92+ in my notes. tied for 5th place overall. Yarom DD blind tasting Crustacean.
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2/17/2024 - csimm wrote: flawed
Sherried and poxed. Vibrancy is flat and the finish immediately falls off a cliff. Carries the tension and acidity of low fat milk. Down the drain.
Opened a 2018 and it was solid. So, I have just two words for HB: GET DIAM.
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2/15/2024 - llink wrote: flawed
Premoxed
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2/15/2024 - mmcdds wrote: flawed
Another bad bottle
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2/4/2024 - winelover1808 Likes this wine: 95 Points
outstanding. pretty reductive nose/hints of matchstick; plenty of lemon curd, perhaps some tangerine; really really great acidic cut and a long finish. in a great spot now but so much energy seems it can def age much longer but in a great drinking window now IMHO
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12/19/2023 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Christmas Wimps 2023 - Clean Bandit (La Trompette): On the nose, struck match, hint of spice. On the palate - not SUPER lean but clean and well defined, the oak is there but ever so well done, and a citrus finish. This is just lovely - yay for white burgundy.
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12/16/2023 - CHarder Likes this wine: 93 Points
Excellent puligny. Drink now-7yrs
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12/14/2023 - Paul D wrote: 93 Points
Christmas Wimps (La Trompette, Chiswick): Creamy nose, sesame seed too, medium/full, creamy pear fruit, lovely weight and breath, touch of citrus, attractive sour edge, vibrant acids carries a very good length finish. This is excellent, if still quite youthful.
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12/14/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 94 Points
Christmas Cornucopia WIMPS #172 14th December 2023 (La Trompette, Chiswick): Gorgeous sesame cracker, lemon oil and minerality on the nose here. There's the faintest suggestion of smoky espresso from the oak. Beautifully poised palate, perfect weight and it just caresses the tongue.
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12/2/2023 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very good but this bottle seemed to lack a bit of energy when compared to prior bottles. This was decanted abd I wonder whether it's now at a place where that detracted. Or maybe it was just bottle variation.
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11/25/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points
Kraters for the trenchermen (Les 2 Garçons): Not as spectacular as a magnum consumed last summer, but still a very good white Burgundy. Seamless, with a touch of reduction and plenty of energy and dry extract. Note of confit lemon and a long finish.
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11/25/2023 - mmcdds wrote: flawed
Premoxed
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11/7/2023 - Furmint wrote: 90 Points
Deep yellow. Nose shows slightly advanced with some lemon and sherry notes. On the palate, significantly better with bright acid, powerful mouth-shaping minerality, and serious length. I guess, like a few other other vintages we picked up that advanced early,we’ll be drinking through these sooner rather than later Disappointing as these are so amazing when you get a fresh bottle.
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9/19/2023 - jmoon wrote: 90 Points
“What a difference a day makes”…. Last time I had this was 3 years ago and loved it. Today I find it not too oaky and butterscotch notes. Not my bag. Could be bottle variation, or an odd bottle but it wasn’t corked. Give me the freshness of youth any day.
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8/31/2023 - llink wrote: 94 Points
PNP. Medium yellow color. Flinty, smoky nose with an undercurrent of tropical and orchard fruit. Ripe, rich and lively palate with a chalky texture and deep chiseled fruit. Long finish, with a ton of dry extract, this is better than the 16 that we opened yesterday, and seems to have a lot of stuffing to age gracefully. This is getting better as it ages and reminds me of the 2014 with a little more fat.
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8/31/2023 - Mr T wrote:
Outstanding white burg, especially as it opens with air
Very nice wine on our 29th anniversary
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8/20/2023 - mmcdds Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really nice tonight and drinking well after just abit of air with deep, rich stone fruits , floral notes, some baking spice(mostly nutmeg) and some bright acidity and minerality at its core. Boillot’s Pulignys are sometimes oakier than I prefer, but this bottle had a judicious application of oak that was just right and if it doesn’t premox, i think that this will only improve with age. Delightful!
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7/20/2023 - Mario17 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Bu sur deux jours. Floral, fruits blancs, acidité qui supporte la rondeur et le gras, intense avec une belle texture, legers amers en finale le jour un qui se dissipent le lendemain, excellent. 92-93
Drank over two days, white fruit, some flowers, nice balance, fairly rich but with emough acidity to support it. Excellent as always.
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6/18/2023 - Mbad77 wrote: 93 Points
Half Century Magnum Lunch (La Trompette) (London): This is a wine that passed me by somewhat in the lineup but was excellent. From Magnum and found it quite ready to drink. I have two more mags of this and really would like to try again where I can asses it better. Rounded, Smokey and some oak.
No doubt will improve and no worries in holding.
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6/16/2023 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
From magnum. Mute nose. Clean, elegant palate. Way too young to show much complexity yet but already very drinkable. Really good. Bit herbal with air.
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6/16/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points
Magnum Mike's Magnificent Half Century (La Trompette): Magnum. A much more restrained wine than its flight-mates, and probably the wine that still has the most upside, but its class is already obvious. A little bit of savoury reduction and some spearmint on the nose. The palate remains very tense, with coiled citric energy and excellent purity and coherence. There's nothing out of place here - aristocractic Burgundy, for sure.
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6/16/2023 - etyc Likes this wine:
Decanted for ~5-hrs before this got served (blinded) in the 2nd-flight (of 3 wines) of the evening. Scents of struck-match reduction/smoke dominated for almost the 1st 15-mins in the glass, only to start blowing off slowly to reveal some peaches, lemon-citrus, white-florals. Nice density encased in a linear delivery (with a tinge of oak), this was pure and lively with fresh acidity. Shall hold the rest of my btls and it should be interesting to taste this again with more developed complexity. Nice!
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6/11/2023 - LB88 wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful nose but I felt this was closed on the palate at this stage dispite decanting the bottle. Lots of great acidity and structure but will need more time.
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4/19/2023 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 92 Points
At Caveau du Arches in Burgundy. No notes. Great wine.
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4/15/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Plenty of smoky mineral reduction along with pure white peach fruit. The palate is rich and sappy, with excellent intensity and a fine line of minerally acidity. It is complex, direct and detailed and flavours linger. Outstanding balance.
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4/9/2023 - WoodieBayArea wrote:
super again
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4/8/2023 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 93 Points
beautiful... I sometimes find this bottling a little on the round side of my (admittedly sharp / lifted biased) palate preference, but this was pretty darn fine with good acidity but a hint of richness that made it really decadent... loved it... wish this wasn't $130'ish (incl tax / shipment)
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3/15/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Flickinger dinner at avec River North (Chicago, IL): Oddly enough, this was almost indistinguishable from the 2008, but it was more because the 2008 was fresh than this was showing any age. Clearly a product of the vintage with heaps of bright acidity and electricity. The Boillot use of oak, while generous, is also superbly executed, giving this the requisite breadth and power. A perennial winner.
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3/3/2023 - justintime97 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Slightly disappointed. A serious wine, I found too much oak for my taste and overall too hot. Acidity was still there so this was still an enjoyable wine but overall too big and not enough finesse for my taste.
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2/10/2023 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Mag. Super promising and elegant. Acidity, bright, long finish. All to play. Revisit in 4-5 years
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1/14/2023 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 Points
a little richer that the very lifted / bright Montille St. Aubin En Remilly ('19), but still way on the lifted side for this wine which I usually find on the richer side of my palate preference... love this wine but its for when I want something with some real depth / punch and this was very "2017" with more acidity and more lift than usual... all citrus in other words... still beautiful... thinking it will relax with another 3-7 years of age
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1/5/2023 - weezie Likes this wine: 95 Points
Another outstanding 2017 Mouchere. Similar character to the last note. Maybe slightly less chiseled and, later, less complex. But, more likely, this was near identical to the last bottle and merely suffered from a slightly less exceptional environment (restaurant/pairings).
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10/27/2022 - weezie Likes this wine: 95 Points
Tightly wound, but oh so elegant. Perfect balance of citrus/lemon acidicity, minerality, and richness (with the minerality dominating at this young age) This was beautiful today, but is sure to be even better with more time in the cellar. 96+ point potential. Decanted for 30 minutes and enjoyed much too quickly once we got started (was too delicious to not keep sipping).
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9/20/2022 - BLam Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drank this wine in Metro Wine Cellar with Jack after returning from London with the experience of Covid attack, with yellow code in HK thus only could pair with some BBQ take away, still a treat.
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9/11/2022 - llink wrote: 93 Points
At Pierluigi in Rome, off the list 310 Euros. Really compelling nose of struck match, lemon and florals. Deep palate, mouth coating, rich and slightly round (lacks a bit of acid) but finishes long with a lemon rind aftertaste. Went well with the pasta and spiny lobster dinner, good companion.
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9/6/2022 - Margaux Bro Likes this wine: 95 Points
Absolutely fantastic and brimming with life. No hints of oxidation, and should continue to drink well for some time.
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8/8/2022 - llink wrote: 93 Points
3 blind White Burgs (Amnon's place): Medium yellow. Deep nose showing florals, flint and spice. Palate is lower acid, so I guessed 2018. Deep exotic flavors, more on the tropical spectrum with a high glycerol mouth feel and a medium finish. I guessed Puligny for the village, but pegged the wine as 2018 DeMontille Le Cailleret.
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8/6/2022 - Ramonee Confit Likes this wine: 98 Points
Quelle perfection!
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7/14/2022 - DCHawkeye wrote: 95 Points
Popped'n poured for Bastille Day at La Piquette in D.C., along with a 2014 Fevre 1er Cru Vaulorent Chablis, and a 2005 Bouchard Père et Fils Le Corton. As always, the Boillot was an outstanding bottle - beautiful fruit, beautiful nose, minerality, just a great wine.
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7/14/2022 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 94 Points
First bottle from a case bought on release. Drank a small glass on Pnp and then went back to the bottle a few hours later. Fairly rich and concentrated but with excellent balance of fruit and acidity. Already well integrated and great to drink but will last many years no doubt. Complex with good length
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7/11/2022 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 96 Points
Pronounced nose intensity with nose of butter, toast, meursault, medium+ acidity.
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6/27/2022 - csimm wrote: 94 Points
Saturday get-together: On initial opening, this was not really giving up the goods the way I would have liked. Compared to other showings of this wine (this vintage and others), this particular bottle was a bit linear and almost brooding at first. I could recognize the purity, acidity, and overall body of the wine, but the flavor train just passed by the main stop and forgot to pick up its mid-palate passengers. Going back a few times over the course of a handful of hours helped to get a better bead on this wine, but it then became cooler, which didn’t help to un-mute the flavors. Setting aside a particular glass of this later on and allowing it to warm up slightly provided much better expression and complexity of the yellow citrus and travertine flavors I’m accustomed to experiencing with the Mouchere. Revisited the next day, I found more power and heft in frame, with additional (much needed) weighty notes of yellow pear and honeydew. Still, I seemed to have completely missed the electricity here – My last bottle sampled was back in 2019, where it was primary of course, but was on-fire when it came to persistence. The execution of flavor was more conventional with this bottle. All that said, I found it to be a solid wine, just not a particularly inspiring one this go-around. Let’s wait and see what happens here in a few years for the re-visit in hopes it better finds its true expression. 93-94? points this go-around. Solid wine with a less solid showing (given my high expectations for this wine).
Day 2 update: Much improved showing after 1/4 of the remaining bottle was left for 24 hours at 52 degrees and revisited. More depth; more complexity; more layers; longer finish. More everything. A sigh of relief here, as I was a bit bummed out by its good-not-great performance on the initial pull. Hold for a few years.
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6/25/2022 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points
FWSG 2017 White Burg tasting. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, yellow lemon colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of reiveting saline stones minerality, straw hay, white peach, yellow and white flowers, ripe peaches, citrus lemon. Complex and exquisite character. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol, very rich almost full body. Pronounced flavour intensity, with complex flavours of almond nut, energetic salty wet stones minerality, sweet floral juice, peaches, pears, citrus lemon. Big, broad and expansive. Even more than the 2017 Boillot Meursault Gen. Very long finish.
Excellent quality. Jam packed with complex substance. Gets hard to describe as the flavours all charge at the same time. Can develop but already so good, so why risk ageing more.
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6/25/2022 - bsumoba Likes this wine:
New friends, new wines in Novato: My favorite of the white burgs tried this evening. Again, that chalky minerality was showing through nicely. This had more weight and stuffing from what I can remember.
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6/25/2022 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 96 Points
An evening with good food, great people and amazing wine (Where the silence is longed for): Aromas of chalky hay, grass, some clay and a bit of light rubber that made it pretty interesting. Flavors of deep yellow fruits, soft earth and minerals. So crisp and clean with a nice tension that prevents the deep yellow fruits from becoming heavy. Will probably need a handful of years for this to really come together.
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4/17/2022 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 96 Points
Exceptional. So precise and crisp, piecing acidity and tension, just great! Love it.
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3/4/2022 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Crisp, tense, with some electricity to it. Decent fruit, and I enjoyed this today. However, I believe the best is yet to come in 5+ years - provided it can avoid premox.
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2/2/2022 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 93 Points
really nice, very bright with copious citrus (on the opulent side of citrus)... love it
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12/26/2021 - Scaramanga007 Likes this wine:
At A&L welcome dinner at home.
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12/25/2021 - Plabella Likes this wine: 95 Points
Great wine fully body loaded with great fruit
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11/13/2021 - Plabella Likes this wine: 96 Points
full body with lemon and long finish
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10/16/2021 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 95 Points
Slow ox-ed for an hour or so before drinking with scallops in a delicious sauce. I could probably drink no white wine other than Boillot's Clos de la Mouchère for the rest of my life and be quite happy. I'm sure this still has upside and a life life (knock on premox wood), but this is a gorgeous wine, with beautiful fruit and an incredible mouthfeel.
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10/16/2021 - stijndries wrote: 93 Points
First Montrachet for me. Amazed by the nice acidic backbone, while retaining the oaky, buttery secondary flavour. Very lactic nose and amazing length. Maybe a bit young, but still a great glass.
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9/24/2021 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 97 Points
97-98 What's a wonderful wine, best than a lot of Grands Crus.
Wait 3-4 year to drink at the best
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8/31/2021 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Young snd developing but this is super nice. Beautifully balanced and vivid Puligny. Best in a few years still.
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8/22/2021 - jlm wrote:
I'll echo the many other notes in saying how good this was. Complex aromatics of yellow fruits (apply and peach), flowers, nuts, toasty oak. The palate is full but nervy, with the oak influence not overwhelming the fruit texture. The finish is exquisite and unfolds layers of flavor. Similar in overall character and quality to a '17 Pucelles from earlier in the summer. Very impressive wine, very easy to enjoy now even though it's still quite primary. Cellaring one still and rolling the dice on premox for another year or three.
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8/21/2021 - Wine_easy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Popped and poured. This is still very tight and young. But what a great wine this is. So much behind it. This will be epic in 5 years.
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8/7/2021 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: flawed
375ml bottle. Premoxed. Gold colour.
Caramel, baked apples. Honey cream, toast oak, ripe citrus lemon curd still present.
But overall too advanced for a 2017 for me to call this not premoxed.
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7/30/2021 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped'n poured (although should have requested a decant), and a perfect accompaniment to crab legs at Shaw's Crab House in Chicago. Still young, but great acidity, fruit, and minerality. Love this vineyard
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7/14/2021 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped'n poured to start our Bastille Day dinner at La Piquette in DC. In an ideal world, we'd have decanted this, but the '03 Leoville Poyferre got the decant. This is all incredibly young, but so delicious and vibrant. Probably more upside.
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7/9/2021 - La Sprezzatura Likes this wine: 92 Points
pnp
nose: vanilla, butter, wood aromas, hints of citric fruit
palate: buttery, some citric fruit, vanilla, medium acidity, rather full-bodied, long finish
you can drink this now or store for another 5-10 years.
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6/26/2021 - Jokofon wrote: 92 Points
Nose: complex aromas of yellow apples, rich oak aromas for a puligny
Mouth: high fruit concentration!!! Long finish nervy acid.
Conclusion: quite big for a PM driven by high fruit concentration. Amazing wine!!
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6/1/2021 - llink wrote: 92 Points
Blind tasting comparing the same wine from the 2017 and 2018 vintage. Wines were decanted 3 hours prior to tasting. All 4 wines were wonderful, but in a mild surprise the 18s were preferred over the 17s. The 18s showed better flavor depth and complexity, with the 17s showing a little dilute possibly from the high yields of the vintage (45 to 50 hectoliters per hectare).
Wine D, 2017 H. Biollot PM Clos de la Mouchere. Rank: 4
Deep yellow. Lemon oil and a tea like element on the nose that is off putting and slightly out of place. Somewhat disjointed on the palate, honeyed ripeness and orchard fruit elements. Grand cru palate presence but lacks precision and energy compared to the other 3.
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5/13/2021 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tasted blind I guessed 2017 white burg. Very much in the vein of this nice vintage, open knit, this was a tad on the exotic side for my liking and maybe a bit sweet with some oak still needing to integrate. Should be very good though with some more bottle age.
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4/11/2021 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
The precision here is extraordinary. The acidity is pronounced, the producer speaks, but this is really dressed in layers, minerals, butter, a Burgundy-feel that keeps going.
#podcast
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2/26/2021 - The Guzz Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bold balanced fruit. Great nuance and length. Solid bottle.
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2/9/2021 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points
My best Boillot so far. This 2017 shines bright with freshness, airiness paired with a fairly complex aromatic profile. Textbook Burgundy without any weight and yet intense, inviting aromas. Very good to drink right now and given Boillot‘s bad premox reputation, I probably wouldn‘t wait too long to open your bottles.
TN: Honeysuckle, citrus, salt and some hints of wood on the nose. Pleasently inviting, fresh and with medium+ precision. On the palate wonderfully fresh, with a light, airy texture but enough aromatic weight. Citrus, apple, very salty in the middle and on the finish, flowers, honeysuckle. Nicely layered with a very good precision. This is a harmonious and balanced wine with a good length.
Decanting: Double decanted with one hour in the decanter. Consumed 5 hours later.
Glass: Zalto Bordeaux
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1/23/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 95 Points
Tasted blind. Granite rock minerality, sea salt and match stick with a fruit leaning almost more towards tropical like lime juice, a bit of maracuya and pineapple. Oak notes intensify over time. Super fresh palate with a creamy texture. Precise, pure and linear from start to finish.
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11/21/2020 - jmoon Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fresh, pure, delicious, deep balanced. Gorgeous, with plenty of runway.
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9/9/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Henri Boillot Clos de la Mouchère Vertical with Bonus Bottles (My home - Chicago IL): Alongside the 2018. Floral start with green and yellow apple, all very elegant, persistent and long. Slightly firm finish holds this aloft even longer. Very good now, with further upside, but will this ever be as good as the 2010 just tasted?
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9/2/2020 - vinkeger wrote: 94 Points
Luftet en halvtime, da helt åpen. Voksen og «stor» nese som er veldig nyansert og flott. Det lukter av røyk og knust stein, pen eik og hvit og grønn frukt. Bredskuldret og stor i kjeften stilmessig. Konsentrert og ung i munn, ganske overveldende og noe «rå» enda. Ganske fyldig for å være en Puligny, men syren er høy og bærer det hele uten problemer. Rå lengde.
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8/21/2020 - mrbry83 wrote: flawed
Slightly oxed, out of half btl, wtf
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7/24/2020 - maxima wrote: 91 Points
Ouff, du très beau Chardo ici.
Complexe et incisif. Pas le plus long mais
rudement franc et bien fait.
Limettes et craie avec un peu de noix et
de fleurs.
Belle finesse, c'est tout à fait délicieux.
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7/19/2020 - lepetitchateau wrote: 92 Points
Clearly a good wine, needing further aging to get all it can be - but some people have put up stupid high scores...
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7/6/2020 - Poll86 wrote:
Fresh primary fruits, slight iodine note, well integrated oak with a acidity that still needs time to get balanced. Good wine with a lengthy finish. Needs time.
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5/30/2020 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points
During a Zoom blind tasting. 2014/16/17 side by side. The 2017 was excellent, crisp, fresh, flinty with lemon curd and minerals. Good mid mouth fill and complexity. Like the 2014 it will need time, after 2025. Since this is quite reductive I would not be worried about premox here.
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5/17/2020 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 96 Points
Blind test with my friends for Mouchere 2014 to 2018, all are great wines.
1) 2017
2) 2014
3) 2016 and 2018
5) 2015
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5/17/2020 - Ramonee Confit Likes this wine: 97 Points
De loin le meilleur Puligny 1er crû que j'aie gouté. Digne d'un grand crû
(Chevalier?)
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4/30/2020 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 93 Points
Fine Wines SG - Puligny vs Chassagne Tasting (Zoom): Pale lemon, and a slight more hue, with starlight brilliance. Could get very refined clove and cinnamon aromas, and vanilla pods. Intense flavours, fairly high acidity, and nice spices, some powerful lemon candies, and creaminess. Good wine!
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4/28/2020 - aagrawal wrote: 93 Points
From 375mL. Medium yellow color; nose initially a bit reductive with some matchstick, lemon peel, green apple; palate has a great richness and density to it but paired with medium-plus vibrant tingly acidity throughout the midpalate, lemon and lemon peel, slight white fruit; finish is long with a nice tang. Obviously young and a bit reductive, but with exceptional balance between richness and acidity and clean but deep flavors. Always a value among 1er cru white burgundy. 94+
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2/15/2020 - Brian of Mull Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lemon that goes on and on with peach in background. Electric verve and good weight in the mouth. This is excellent
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1/30/2020 - Andre Brattland wrote: 92 Points
Wider tones aromas with stone fruits, nuts and clear quality wood. Nice full bodied and fresh wine with good mouthfeel. A little richer and juicy mouthfeel with cool apples and fruit peel. Good saltiness. Lacks some depth for the moment, but this is definitely great quality with good cellar potential. 92 points.
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1/7/2020 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
2017 (mostly) Cote de Beaune Premier Crus vol 1 (Margeaux Brasserie): Nose: The nose is wound a bit tight but what is there is gorgeous and balanced, filled with lemon peels, apples, peaches, white florals, fresh picked citrus notes, custard, saline, and some vanilla beans.
Taste: The Medium/full bodied feel is poised and deep with tart, medium+ acid. The acidity is a bit sharp right now and needs some time to calm down with lemon peels, apples, peaches, custard, white florals, and saline notes.
Overall: This is very young and years away from showing what it really has. Still, what's here is extremely good with an attractive white-fruited take to the nose and palate.
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1/7/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
2017 White Burgundy Dinner (Brasserie Margeaux - Chicago IL): Intensely floral and nutty start with peach and lemon curd aromas. Lush, engaging and very demonstrative in a forward manner. So good now with upside. Probably better tonight than the Benoit Ente 2017 Clos de la Truffiere in the next glass, but I think the opposite will be true in a decade.
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12/22/2019 - Sean Tay Likes this wine:
What a refreshing wine! Lemon, peach with a pronounced nose. Medium+ acidity, long finish. 2017 is a very good vintage for white Burgundy. Henri Boillot is one of my favourite wine makers!
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12/12/2019 - csimm wrote: 95 Points
Much more giving than the bottle I had back in August. Vibrant and electric in the execution of its hyper-focused and chiseled flavor delivery. Lemon verbena and some freshly squeezed lemon juice lead the nervy charge, with some white melon rind and white stone adding to its driven conveyance. Highly sophisticated and classy. A mouthful without being rich; its tension is one of its best assets. It's voluminous by way of its lavish and jazzy lustiness. A go-go girl in roller skates...but not so much in a bikini, but in a black business skirt.
Still worth keeping bottled-up for a few years. Hold until 2023+. 95+ points.
This significantly overshadowed a 2017 Malandes Les Clos GC Chablis served beside it.
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11/26/2019 - AWBryce wrote:
sweet oak and fruity, maybe a touch more than i'd like in a wine, but still decently balanced and drinking well
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11/17/2019 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
Out of this world; vibrant boosting with fruit and minerality, still restrained and concentrated, a bit nervous - certainly Grand Cru level. This will live for a long time. 95+ point.
#Bistro d'Hotel #Hospices de Beaune
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8/2/2019 - csimm wrote: 94 Points
Pure and clean, with a somewhat primary but extremely balanced and elegant execution from front to back. A linear front-end delivery of lemon water, honeydew, lemon verbena, and some pumice.
The flavors expand just enough to show its heightened purity of fruit, with a nice viscosity on the back end that coats the palate and hints at further potential for more volume and broader weight distribution after a few more years in bottle. Comes off youthfully bright and polished. This will only gain more sophistication with time. 93-94+. Hold until 2022.
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7/6/2019 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 90 Points
Fine Wines SG - White Burgundy Tasting (Fine Wines SG): The thing about this wine is a hit of green herbs, both on the nose and palate. Also clear green capsicum and leaves, as well as brine, and on the back and finish, clove spices. Seems like it’s too young, and will need some more years
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