Bottle breathe for 1.5 hours. Great nose with ripe fruit, tea (with a hint of flower), and at the same time showing strength, depth of red fruit, violet, rose, and integrated tannins. Very smooth and mature. Long finish. We consume over 2 hours, and it evolved nicely.
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good combination of red and dark fruit, sous bois. Enjoyable to drink but nothing jumped out and grabbed my attention...was a bit simple, and didn’t evolve in glass. Faded a little by end of 3 hours, but held together much better than Dujac BM in the next glass
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Deep garnet. Very mute initially but after a 4 hour decant, dark fruit, allspice, game, orange peel and earth emerge. Later we also got a top note of spearmint. The palate is thinner than the nose would have you believe, so that we got a touch of heat on the finish. Good, not great.
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This wine was a little outshone by some powerhouse wines in a recent tasting, but it was one of my favourites. It has great power and concentration with ripe and perfumed red fruits, violets, roses, tar, mushroom and sous Bois. Great elegance! A very sexy wine.
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Clean but dull red in appearance. Savoury on nose and palate. Quite meaty and earthy. Spicy. Dark fruits. Creamy on the finish. Underlying bit of heat but the tannins are nice and soft. Enjoyable and drinking well.
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Salil's 11/21/13 note is a perfect description of my experience with this wine over two nights, very very nice and i would say richer and rounder (even for BM) than i might have expected from 1997...
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Duration: 3 hours Food pairing: Japanese Teppanyaki Aroma: cherry, candy Bottle Condition: perfect Notes: the wine started to open up after breathing in the bottle for 40 wines. A very typical bonnes mares I will describe. A pretty balanced mix of cherry and candy in the nose. However the palate suggests wine is still energetic and should be suitable for further aging. I would suggest waiting for 3-5 more years before consuming this bottle.
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A really great wine. Good fruit and complexity. The taste lingered in my mouth seemingly forever. I thought it would be on the downward slope but no, it drank great. Two others felt the same way. The good news is that I have 4 more bottles.
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Bottle of Pain dinner (Ibiza, New Haven, CT): A powerful, flamboyant scent immediately suggests something rather ripe and intense. This is packed with dense red and dark fruits tinged by floral and more savoury earthy elements, and still feels very young with plenty of fine grained tannin on the back end and the fruit still very rich and sappy. Really impressive now, though this seems to have a lot of time ahead of it.
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Drank over 4 hours at Cory's. Much more earth and funk on the nose and palate vs the 1996 and 1993. Still nice red fruit, but with a hint of green. Tightened up on the shorter, but still medium, finish. Nice enough, but a tough comparison tonight.
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Four bottles with roast pork at Sunday lunch in midst of this season's Bolton/Ark grouse gathering. Very satisfying but linear. Dry and moderately tannic. A complete GC Chambolle, but lacking in generosity.
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2011 Special Session 2 - Jon and Bernard! (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 13.5% #00057. Wow, what a nose! Matured but still very fresh: barnyard, autumn leave, savory meatiness, red cherry, plum, earth and touch of chalk. Fullish mouth feel, a little bit tannin showing up for additional grip, with strong inner perfume of dried floral, barnyard intermixed with the complex flavors of autumn leave, dried tea leaves, plummy, red cherry and a touch of wild meatiness. This has excellent detail and precision on the palate, though not necessary the purity. The finished is sweet and juicy with good length and drive. Maybe due to the vintage, the scale of this Bonne Mares is smaller but the harmonious is there. This is a complete wine, drinking very well now and should stay as it is for the next 5yrs at least.
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DeVogue Dinner (The Ledbury, London): Vogue Dinner @ The Ledbury - light violet color, nose a little bit in the middle of primary and secondary. in the mouth still showing some red fruit, a zip of energy, clean and a nice texture, with a bit of dry red wine feel. if i didnt know this was a '97 i would have been surprised
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Heartland: Popped and poured. Dark ruby red color. Funky nose that never seemed to blow off completely. Looking past the funk you could discern dark fruit and spice intermixed with oak/caramel. I suspect the funk was brett; regardless it was hard to ignore. The taste was nice with good red fruit, spice and brown sugar. While this was tasty enough, it was thoroughly outclassed by the three other reds and there were no re-pours -- meaning most of this went unconsumed. Too bad, because I remember really enjoying the '97 Musigny and minus the funk this might have been its equal.
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Very structured, the Musigny seems more present than many others. Fruit is darker than most, but with an nice long finish. Closer to the Roumier than the Jadot. took a while to open up. Stephanie thinks it is a little top heavy on the attack. A little hollow at the midpalate. None of the 97 hotness visible here. A very nice wine, particularly for the vintage, but not Stephanie's style. More impressive than delicous, but overall quite good.
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undecided if the wine was ageing prematurely but still a pretty solid wine, slightly awkward balance-wise, tannins might overwhelm the fruits in time to come so this wine might be at its best right now.
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Great bottle of wine. Round mouthfeel, long finish and well defined fruit balanced with acidity and structure. A burgundy that all lovers of pinot can enjoy. I would guess has many years of life left and well get more complex with age.
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4/22/2023 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 91 Points
Actually very decent in the context of Vogue. Fully resolved with tea, dark fruit, minerals and earth. The fruit was clean and precise. 91-92
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9/24/2021 - acheng wrote:
Green and medicinal notss I have encountered in the 04. A muscular wine with resolved tannin. Drink now with food.
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6/23/2021 - schan109 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Bottle breathe for 1.5 hours. Great nose with ripe fruit, tea (with a hint of flower), and at the same time showing strength, depth of red fruit, violet, rose, and integrated tannins. Very smooth and mature. Long finish. We consume over 2 hours, and it evolved nicely.
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3/14/2018 - kr522 wrote: 91 Points
good combination of red and dark fruit, sous bois. Enjoyable to drink but nothing jumped out and grabbed my attention...was a bit simple, and didn’t evolve in glass. Faded a little by end of 3 hours, but held together much better than Dujac BM in the next glass
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12/24/2016 - Mistress of Wine Likes this wine:
Deep garnet. Very mute initially but after a 4 hour decant, dark fruit, allspice, game, orange peel and earth emerge. Later we also got a top note of spearmint. The palate is thinner than the nose would have you believe, so that we got a touch of heat on the finish. Good, not great.
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4/12/2016 - CManthei wrote: 96 Points
This wine was a little outshone by some powerhouse wines in a recent tasting, but it was one of my favourites. It has great power and concentration with ripe and perfumed red fruits, violets, roses, tar, mushroom and sous Bois. Great elegance! A very sexy wine.
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12/18/2015 - PC73 wrote: 90 Points
De vogue bonnes mares 1997
Clean but dull red in appearance.
Savoury on nose and palate.
Quite meaty and earthy. Spicy. Dark fruits.
Creamy on the finish. Underlying bit of heat but the tannins are nice and soft.
Enjoyable and drinking well.
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12/5/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Eleventh Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Brief late night tasting note. Roasted black fruit that manages to retain freshness and balance. Moderate depth. Good now.
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7/21/2015 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 Points
Salil's 11/21/13 note is a perfect description of my experience with this wine over two nights, very very nice and i would say richer and rounder (even for BM) than i might have expected from 1997...
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3/13/2015 - TWSA wrote: 91 Points
Duration: 3 hours
Food pairing: Japanese Teppanyaki
Aroma: cherry, candy
Bottle Condition: perfect
Notes: the wine started to open up after breathing in the bottle for 40 wines. A very typical bonnes mares I will describe. A pretty balanced mix of cherry and candy in the nose. However the palate suggests wine is still energetic and should be suitable for further aging. I would suggest waiting for 3-5 more years before consuming this bottle.
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8/30/2014 - Fred P Likes this wine: 95 Points
A really great wine. Good fruit and complexity. The taste lingered in my mouth seemingly forever. I thought it would be on the downward slope but no, it drank great. Two others felt the same way. The good news is that I have 4 more bottles.
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11/21/2013 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Bottle of Pain dinner (Ibiza, New Haven, CT): A powerful, flamboyant scent immediately suggests something rather ripe and intense. This is packed with dense red and dark fruits tinged by floral and more savoury earthy elements, and still feels very young with plenty of fine grained tannin on the back end and the fruit still very rich and sappy. Really impressive now, though this seems to have a lot of time ahead of it.
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9/3/2013 - johnh1001 wrote: 90 Points
Drank over 4 hours at Cory's. Much more earth and funk on the nose and palate vs the 1996 and 1993. Still nice red fruit, but with a hint of green. Tightened up on the shorter, but still medium, finish. Nice enough, but a tough comparison tonight.
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8/19/2012 - Remony wrote: 91 Points
Four bottles with roast pork at Sunday lunch in midst of this season's Bolton/Ark grouse gathering. Very satisfying but linear. Dry and moderately tannic. A complete GC Chambolle, but lacking in generosity.
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11/13/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 90 Points
2011 Special Session 2 - Jon and Bernard! (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 13.5%
#00057. Wow, what a nose! Matured but still very fresh: barnyard, autumn leave, savory meatiness, red cherry, plum, earth and touch of chalk. Fullish mouth feel, a little bit tannin showing up for additional grip, with strong inner perfume of dried floral, barnyard intermixed with the complex flavors of autumn leave, dried tea leaves, plummy, red cherry and a touch of wild meatiness. This has excellent detail and precision on the palate, though not necessary the purity. The finished is sweet and juicy with good length and drive. Maybe due to the vintage, the scale of this Bonne Mares is smaller but the harmonious is there. This is a complete wine, drinking very well now and should stay as it is for the next 5yrs at least.
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1/13/2011 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Blacker and riper than 2000 but with a vegetal nose, softer entry and again, red/black fruits but with a spicy finish. OK but not very inspiring.
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1/13/2011 - reichken wrote: 92 Points
DeVogue Dinner (The Ledbury, London): Vogue Dinner @ The Ledbury - light violet color, nose a little bit in the middle of primary and secondary. in the mouth still showing some red fruit, a zip of energy, clean and a nice texture, with a bit of dry red wine feel. if i didnt know this was a '97 i would have been surprised
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12/5/2010 - madeiradog wrote: 92 Points
Dinner with Herwig Janssen (Blue Duck Tavern): Powerful fruit held in check but good structure and perhaps a bit of brett that adds a little spice.
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11/16/2010 - Dave Dalluge wrote:
Heartland: Popped and poured. Dark ruby red color. Funky nose that never seemed to blow off completely. Looking past the funk you could discern dark fruit and spice intermixed with oak/caramel. I suspect the funk was brett; regardless it was hard to ignore. The taste was nice with good red fruit, spice and brown sugar. While this was tasty enough, it was thoroughly outclassed by the three other reds and there were no re-pours -- meaning most of this went unconsumed. Too bad, because I remember really enjoying the '97 Musigny and minus the funk this might have been its equal.
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5/21/2010 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Very structured, the Musigny seems more present than many others. Fruit is darker than most, but with an nice long finish. Closer to the Roumier than the Jadot. took a while to open up. Stephanie thinks it is a little top heavy on the attack. A little hollow at the midpalate. None of the 97 hotness visible here. A very nice wine, particularly for the vintage, but not Stephanie's style. More impressive than delicous, but overall quite good.
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2/21/2010 - bunhiong wrote:
undecided if the wine was ageing prematurely but still a pretty solid wine, slightly awkward balance-wise, tannins might overwhelm the fruits in time to come so this wine might be at its best right now.
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1/21/2010 - salil wrote: flawed
Corked.
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7/18/2006 - madeiradog wrote: 97 Points
Great bottle of wine. Round mouthfeel, long finish and well defined fruit balanced with acidity and structure. A burgundy that all lovers of pinot can enjoy. I would guess has many years of life left and well get more complex with age.
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7/9/2006 - burningstarIV wrote: 94 Points
Great balance, incredibly earthy yet rich. 50+4+13+18+9=94
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