PNP at Asa. Nose shows a bit rustic with bottle funk, some sour red cherry and earth. The funk blew off after 1 hour. Crisp, lively palate, tart, crunchy fruit more Gevrey than Chambolle, but very tasty nonetheless.
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It’s quite nice to read my previous note and find that I completely agree with myself! There's a lovely tart fruit quality at the core of this, and balance. I have a hunch that it will reward very long cellaring.
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Typical Clavelier nose: a bit pinched, herbs, menthol. But this is starting to come round. Nice freshness to it, and there is attractive fruit on a cherry/cranberry register. Also some earth and liquorice. It's a bit wild, animal almost. On the palate this is elegant, medium-bodied, savoury, mineral. It's undoubtedly acidic but it's not as dominant as you might expect for a 2001. This is turning into something rather good. That wildness though: almost something from the Rhone. I bought Clavelier's wines for a while and then decided they were never going to come round, so stopped and sold most of what I had. These old bottles are survivors that I'd already had delivered (so were harder to sell) and I'm glad to have kept them. They're turning into rather lovely wines. Knowing my luck he's about to turn into the next big thing.
Started out very disappointing, and I was ready to dump the bottle (score low 80’s). After 30 min the glass this had a nose of stewed fruit and sherry and the palate was bitter and acidic. As well as some barnyard funk which usually doesn’t bother me, but when there is nothing else pleasant it is definitely a detractor. I thought this was surely a bad bottle and past it’s prime. Went back to the slow oxing bottle a few hours later and it was really really nice, Glad I didn’t dump. Still a bit of barnyard on the nose (that rusticity some have mentioned) but now the fruit has come out in full force and it is much fruitier, juicier, rounded in the mouth and generally just more interesting. The bitter and acidic tastes are gone and now just a lingering fruity finish.
(Especially glad this wine came around because it wasn’t whAt I intended to pull. However, in my overflowing cellar I couldn’t reach the 2002 which surely would have been better. Oh well, it all worked out)
Greg's Backyard - June 2021: This wine has a fairly youthful appearance in the glass, medium ruby with no bricking. The nose is youthful and somewhat modern with a focus on the fruit and some oak showing nutty oak, plum, dark cherry, sawdust, violet and sassafras. The palate comes across as fairly tight, unyielding, and young. This doesn't really come across as burgundy to me, and isn't exactly the style of Pinot I pursue, feeling somewhat too young for it's 20 years of age with fairly bombastic fruit and some oak that is not totally integrated. Of course if I get the chance to try this again with further age I could be proven wrong and enjoy it more but for now I will withhold a rating.
After dozens of delightful, refined Combe D’Orveaus from Taupenot-Merme and Perrot- Minot, this was surprisingly terrible. Acidic, not corked, with very bright, taut tart cherry and mild raspberry scents with none of the lush medium red fruit notes or Musigny-like refinement. Color was a bit light but no tawny hues. No doubt some storage issue with this recently-acquired bottle, but keep close watch. Tasted first right out of the bottle, after 45 minute decant and over the following hour..
Like a lot of 2001s, this is showing very well. Sappy, succulent, good fruit and texture. I’d say at peak right now. Perhaps a touch too much extraction. Lacking some of the style and layered depth that Clavelier has found in more recent vintages.
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The "other" vineyard that adjoins Musigny, and it resembles Musigny more than Amoureuses does. Fresh dark berry fruits, floral notes, velvet body; but still a little tannin to be resolved and still some upside potential. Cellared since original release.
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There is a bouquet of seductive spices and black fruit. On the palate there is a good balance of power and purity of fruit, as well as ample minerality. For my palate the acidity and tannins are also well balanced (medium to medium plus acidity and mostly resolved tannins) at this point in time.
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Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Pure, sweet red fruit, quite youthful but with an attractive minerally, earthy edge. Medium bodied, pure strawberry fruit, quite generous, with soft even silky tannins, savoury edge, lovely vibrant acidity, very good length finish with touch of smoky minerality. Excellent, this has come on well, drinking well now but no particular hurry.
Lovely Chambolle. On the darker muscular side. Showing well now but with years ahead of good drinking. Very little experience with Clavelier but this impresses with purity and depth.
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Stunning nose of rose perfume, spice, and red and black cherry. Palate has sour red fruits with oozing extract still overmatched by the wood and tannins. Medium-full body with lots of grip but still very stylish and charming Chambolle. Lingering finish. Still has years of life left.
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The nose here is wonderfully perfumed and floral with notes of spice, dark berry, and hibiscus. The nose is simply breathtaking. On the palate, there is nervy black cherries, dark stone fruit, tar, some gamey notes, and acid. This is an edgy wine but enjoyable nonetheless. First of two bottles, I'll let bottle #2 sleep a bit before revisiting. Decanted and consumed over two hours or so.
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Dark colour. Nose was full of red and black fruits, mainly plums and black cherries, though a little overdone and boozy in aroma. There was floral undertones as well. The palate was full, sweet ripe fruit, lots of mid-palate intensity with a medium length finish. There was enough acidity that I didn't notice its absence but I would describe it as fresh. I'm optimistic as the palate shows the stuffing is there.
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Relatively youthful nose with strawberry fruit and floral notes. Medium + bodied, attractive pure strawberry fruit, fine, moderate, integrated tannins, still a little firm on the good length finish. Decent acidity. Attractive, pure, understated style - just seems to lack a little vibrancy and excitement. Nevertheless very good and should improve.
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Fantastic young Chambolle. Complex, seductive nose. Great balance. Still a bit tight on the palate and finish, but a few more years should really fill this wine out. A phenomenal bargain by today's standards.
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Light ruby with pale edge. Strong ground coffee tones, then subtle baking spice, anise, and mint. Light bodied but has more than enough material with just a trace of sappiness, average acidity, and resolving tannins. Understated, nothing flashy here. Very good, unadorned, maturing Burgundy but not special enough to warrant the current tariff.
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Lovely perfumed nose, black fruits, some earth, cherry and floral notes. The acid on the palate stands out a bit, although the structure seems good otherwise. Short to medium length, probably just struggled among the bigger wines surrounding it tonight.
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Brillant ruby color. Fragrant and stylish nose of rasberry, tart cherries and spices. Light to medium weight, softens with food but still somewhat structured and tart on the palate. Medium finish. Very clean/pure and well made. Could use another 3 years, try again in 2009.
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Huge letdown for the producer, appellation, and cru. The first impression is the strong oaky/root beer nose, and it takes at least an hour before it tastes more like Burgundy than Sonoma. Aromatically and texturally, this wine is wide open, but the toasted blackberry fruit and soupy richness has minimal appeal. As it happens, my notes on this are similar to my impression of the 1999 Jacques Prieur Musigny, another wine that struck me as a big disappointment, but at least it suggests that maybe the terroir is not dead in either wine - dormant, maybe, but not dead. Prieur's Musigny comes from the Combe d'Orveau climat of the vineyard.
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Tasted with the eBob crowd at Cafe Tuscany. Deep ruby, light+ intense nose of very tight vosne spice, wood, some sappy fruit underneath. Did not reveal much at all. Medium acidity, med+ tannins, not expressive in the palate but length was quite good. Hopefully based on length this was just a bad time to open a very good wine. We will see.
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9/5/2023 - llink wrote: 89 Points
PNP at Asa. Nose shows a bit rustic with bottle funk, some sour red cherry and earth. The funk blew off after 1 hour. Crisp, lively palate, tart, crunchy fruit more Gevrey than Chambolle, but very tasty nonetheless.
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5/26/2023 - jamesabdavis wrote:
It’s quite nice to read my previous note and find that I completely agree with myself!
There's a lovely tart fruit quality at the core of this, and balance. I have a hunch that it will reward very long cellaring.
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9/11/2022 - jamesabdavis wrote:
Typical Clavelier nose: a bit pinched, herbs, menthol. But this is starting to come round. Nice freshness to it, and there is attractive fruit on a cherry/cranberry register. Also some earth and liquorice. It's a bit wild, animal almost.
On the palate this is elegant, medium-bodied, savoury, mineral.
It's undoubtedly acidic but it's not as dominant as you might expect for a 2001. This is turning into something rather good. That wildness though: almost something from the Rhone.
I bought Clavelier's wines for a while and then decided they were never going to come round, so stopped and sold most of what I had. These old bottles are survivors that I'd already had delivered (so were harder to sell) and I'm glad to have kept them. They're turning into rather lovely wines. Knowing my luck he's about to turn into the next big thing.
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7/9/2022 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 90 Points
Started out very disappointing, and I was ready to dump the bottle (score low 80’s). After 30 min the glass this had a nose of stewed fruit and sherry and the palate was bitter and acidic. As well as some barnyard funk which usually doesn’t bother me, but when there is nothing else pleasant it is definitely a detractor. I thought this was surely a bad bottle and past it’s prime.
Went back to the slow oxing bottle a few hours later and it was really really nice, Glad I didn’t dump.
Still a bit of barnyard on the nose (that rusticity some have mentioned) but now the fruit has come out in full force and it is much fruitier, juicier, rounded in the mouth and generally just more interesting. The bitter and acidic tastes are gone and now just a lingering fruity finish.
(Especially glad this wine came around because it wasn’t whAt I intended to pull. However, in my overflowing cellar I couldn’t reach the 2002 which surely would have been better. Oh well, it all worked out)
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6/12/2021 - Wine Canuck wrote:
Greg's Backyard - June 2021: This wine has a fairly youthful appearance in the glass, medium ruby with no bricking. The nose is youthful and somewhat modern with a focus on the fruit and some oak showing nutty oak, plum, dark cherry, sawdust, violet and sassafras. The palate comes across as fairly tight, unyielding, and young. This doesn't really come across as burgundy to me, and isn't exactly the style of Pinot I pursue, feeling somewhat too young for it's 20 years of age with fairly bombastic fruit and some oak that is not totally integrated. Of course if I get the chance to try this again with further age I could be proven wrong and enjoy it more but for now I will withhold a rating.
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9/25/2020 - Sotto325 wrote: 88 Points
After dozens of delightful, refined Combe D’Orveaus from Taupenot-Merme and Perrot- Minot, this was surprisingly terrible. Acidic, not corked, with very bright, taut tart cherry and mild raspberry scents with none of the lush medium red fruit notes or Musigny-like refinement. Color was a bit light but no tawny hues. No doubt some storage issue with this recently-acquired bottle, but keep close watch. Tasted first right out of the bottle, after 45 minute decant and over the following hour..
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3/3/2019 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Like a lot of 2001s, this is showing very well. Sappy, succulent, good fruit and texture. I’d say at peak right now. Perhaps a touch too much extraction. Lacking some of the style and layered depth that Clavelier has found in more recent vintages.
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2/23/2019 - jerhardt wrote: 90 Points
Meaty and a bit more rustic than I would hope for this wine. Fully into its secondary development, but still plenty of life. Good, but not great.
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12/18/2018 - cfk49 wrote: 92 Points
The "other" vineyard that adjoins Musigny, and it resembles Musigny more than Amoureuses does. Fresh dark berry fruits, floral notes, velvet body; but still a little tannin to be resolved and still some upside potential. Cellared since original release.
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2/9/2018 - cliftonng Likes this wine: 91 Points
There is a bouquet of seductive spices and black fruit. On the palate there is a good balance of power and purity of fruit, as well as ample minerality. For my palate the acidity and tannins are also well balanced (medium to medium plus acidity and mostly resolved tannins) at this point in time.
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5/6/2016 - Paul D Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Pure, sweet red fruit, quite youthful but with an attractive minerally, earthy edge. Medium bodied, pure strawberry fruit, quite generous, with soft even silky tannins, savoury edge, lovely vibrant acidity, very good length finish with touch of smoky minerality. Excellent, this has come on well, drinking well now but no particular hurry.
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5/3/2016 - LW31 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Lovely Chambolle. On the darker muscular side. Showing well now but with years ahead of good drinking. Very little experience with Clavelier but this impresses with purity and depth.
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7/22/2015 - mjoshb Likes this wine: 92 Points
Stunning nose of rose perfume, spice, and red and black cherry. Palate has sour red fruits with oozing extract still overmatched by the wood and tannins. Medium-full body with lots of grip but still very stylish and charming Chambolle. Lingering finish. Still has years of life left.
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7/21/2014 - BurgAndy wrote:
The nose here is wonderfully perfumed and floral with notes of spice, dark berry, and hibiscus. The nose is simply breathtaking. On the palate, there is nervy black cherries, dark stone fruit, tar, some gamey notes, and acid. This is an edgy wine but enjoyable nonetheless. First of two bottles, I'll let bottle #2 sleep a bit before revisiting. Decanted and consumed over two hours or so.
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5/4/2012 - Machiavelli wrote:
Dark colour. Nose was full of red and black fruits, mainly plums and black cherries, though a little overdone and boozy in aroma. There was floral undertones as well. The palate was full, sweet ripe fruit, lots of mid-palate intensity with a medium length finish. There was enough acidity that I didn't notice its absence but I would describe it as fresh. I'm optimistic as the palate shows the stuffing is there.
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8/23/2009 - Paul D wrote: 89 Points
Relatively youthful nose with strawberry fruit and floral notes. Medium + bodied, attractive pure strawberry fruit, fine, moderate, integrated tannins, still a little firm on the good length finish. Decent acidity. Attractive, pure, understated style - just seems to lack a little vibrancy and excitement. Nevertheless very good and should improve.
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3/11/2009 - Spencer wrote: 95 Points
Fantastic young Chambolle. Complex, seductive nose. Great balance. Still a bit tight on the palate and finish, but a few more years should really fill this wine out. A phenomenal bargain by today's standards.
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5/9/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light ruby with pale edge. Strong ground coffee tones, then subtle baking spice, anise, and mint. Light bodied but has more than enough material with just a trace of sappiness, average acidity, and resolving tannins. Understated, nothing flashy here. Very good, unadorned, maturing Burgundy but not special enough to warrant the current tariff.
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1/19/2008 - CamWheeler wrote: 87 Points
Lovely perfumed nose, black fruits, some earth, cherry and floral notes. The acid on the palate stands out a bit, although the structure seems good otherwise. Short to medium length, probably just struggled among the bigger wines surrounding it tonight.
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6/11/2006 - llink wrote: 89 Points
Brillant ruby color. Fragrant and stylish nose of rasberry, tart cherries and spices. Light to medium weight, softens with food but still somewhat structured and tart on the palate. Medium finish. Very clean/pure and well made. Could use another 3 years, try again in 2009.
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5/29/2006 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 76 Points
Huge letdown for the producer, appellation, and cru. The first impression is the strong oaky/root beer nose, and it takes at least an hour before it tastes more like Burgundy than Sonoma. Aromatically and texturally, this wine is wide open, but the toasted blackberry fruit and soupy richness has minimal appeal. As it happens, my notes on this are similar to my impression of the 1999 Jacques Prieur Musigny, another wine that struck me as a big disappointment, but at least it suggests that maybe the terroir is not dead in either wine - dormant, maybe, but not dead. Prieur's Musigny comes from the Combe d'Orveau climat of the vineyard.
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2/27/2006 - Machiavelli wrote:
Tasted with the eBob crowd at Cafe Tuscany. Deep ruby, light+ intense nose of very tight vosne spice, wood, some sappy fruit underneath. Did not reveal much at all. Medium acidity, med+ tannins, not expressive in the palate but length was quite good. Hopefully based on length this was just a bad time to open a very good wine. We will see.
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