Guys night - course meal (Kevin and Vicki's house): Drank a small glass over an hour. The nose and initial palate seem rich and meaty, but the palate turns lighter on the finihs. Tobacco, funk and earth. This seems at peak.
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Guy's Night: Variety Pack (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Dark red color, with a 4mm transition to clear. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Gorgeous nose with so much earth and minerality; damp earth and a touch of funk, cherry, iodine, tobacco leaf, iron, and saddle leather. The palate is medium plus bodied, very poised and delivers the whole package with a nice balance of red fruits with cherry and some darker black raspberry notes; lots of dried earth and then the iodine, mineral, tobacco, and leather come through. Fine tannins, complex, and long. There was a touch of wonk that quickly blew off with a couple swirls. Loved it.
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Blind "Grand Cru" with Lobster & Flannery Steak (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind. Dense and meaty with more black than red fruit. Seemed like it was from a riper vintage than 1998 and I thought it also older (at first 1989), but with enough concentration and power to remain very interesting. Best I can ever recall for this wine.
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"Grand cru" blinds (Chicago, IL): Black-fruited, dense, and meaty. This was showing pretty true to form here, with awesome aromatics and palate density. A bit of leatheriness on the palate, with tannins that could stand to use a few more years to integrate.
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In a night of impressive wines -- 05 Jadot and Clair Beze, and 86 Cheval Blanc - this came out on top. My third straight great bottle of this wine, which is in such a nice place. On the precipice of maturity, and still delightfully youthful, this shows bright, crunchy dark fruits with spice and earth and an open-knit expansiveness just starting to emerge. Brilliant texture with minor tannins in the background. Doesn't yet show much tertiary character but the fruit is so deep and broad -- and the palate so complex -- that it's so enjoyable now. May improve further.
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One more from my tasting on 1/3/2108 last year (with the 1999). Dark red ruby in color. Brooding aromas of dark red plum liqueur, flint, forest floor, graphite and minerals. Rather masculine on the palate showing brawny dark red/black fruits, game, minerals, good acidity, grippy tannins and a soil tinged finish.
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3rd Annual Game dinner with Grand Cru Bourgogne (Chateau de le Shane aka Shane's house in New Jersey): Decanted 4 hours before serving, this wine was translucent medium ruby with a slightly red brick edge. The nose was full of meat, plum, forest floor, menthol and minerals. On the palate it had lots of acidity and was still quite tense and wound up. Still, it was chewy and delicious with the red plum and cherry fruit, grilled meat and powdered chocolate on the finish. Perfectly balanced and elegant but still as much as 10 years from its peak in my view.
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Drinking remarkably youthful for a nearly 20 year old wine! In fact, quite similarly to a 2005 Jadot Chapelle at the same dinner. Still, this showed another gear in concentration, intensity and depth as the night went on. My final few sips at near evening end were stunning. This got all the proper care for air it deserved. It just was stubborn. A Great btl of red Burgundy. 94+/95- Same btl as R&Rler.
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A Quite Remarkable Night (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Medium dark red color. Drank 1 glass over an hour or so. This had me worried initially. There was a vegetal character at first and despite an initial decant of an hour it remained. So, I beat it up a bit more, running it through the aerator 4 times. Better, but not where i hoped. It then sat open for another two and a half hours before pouring. Even then, I was worried at first with that veggie showing, but it really blew off rapidly and I never noticed it again. Now you could see the funky earthy, iron, loamy minerality, and black cherry fruit with a pomegranate top note. The palate is fairly full bodied, concentrated, sappy black cherry, pomegranate, iron palate with nice round tannins and a long finish, Phew.
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Ad Hoc Tasting (Chez Moi): Great showing. Third favourite wine. Lovely expression of Chambertin. Showing some complexity on the nose, lovely balance and length on the palate. This is a food wine, but very enjoyable.
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Lots of fruit on the front of the palate. Not as many layers of complexity as would hope but drank beautifully for an hour from the bottle. Great color, good balance, nice length. A classic.
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I echo my previous note. This is gangbusters right now. Legitimate grand cru class and depth, and in a sweet spot between young (still some sharp edges) and old (real depth and some tertiary development). Beautiful texture, world class concentration, and impeccable balance. A bargain if you can find it.
Dark savory aromas of sage, wet earth, and black fruits. Deep and flavorful, ripe and round with fine structure and Gevery dirty rusticity. Quite good for those who like the somewhat fruit driven years like me.
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What a difference from my first bottle! Bright, red, savory fruits. Here the tannins are much better integrated, offering a complete, well structured, mature Bèze that had excellent synergy with the yakitori chicken. I'm much more confident now that this has the stuffing and balance to improve over the medium term, and will wait a few years before trying my next bottle.
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Bright cherry on the nose along with some earth and hint of leather. Bright red fruit on the palate. A surprising amount of tannins and structure for a 98. Almost too much but then paired nicely with grilled pork belly and yakitori chicken. One of the more enjoyable 98s I've had. Far far better than a 98 Lambrays a few weeks ago.
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The tannins are quite prominent and nearly overwhelm the fruit. The underlying material has good depth and interest, but this bottle is lacking in balance and integration.
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Gevrey-Chambertin Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): A lovely, more reserved foil to the showy, outgoing 2001 Groffier Beze that was served alongside. The nose here was more classically shaped, with lovely aromas of cherry pip, meat and mineral. It was not bursting with sweetness like the bouquet on the Groffier, but there was a quieter charm and attractiveness about it. The palate was was noble and reserved, with a really refined feel in lent by fine-boned tannins and the clean, clear juicy acidity that formed a lovely framed for quiet flavours of dark cherries, meat and mineral. There was depth and strength as one would expect from a Beze, but these were carried in a such an effortless, subtle fashion. Lovely finish too, with spice and a twist of herb, and nary a hint of the bittersweet woodiness that one sometimes gets from 1998 wines. A lovely wine, at a perfect place for drinking now. It has lost some energy compared to a bottle I had years ago, but in its place is a wine of great polish and quite substance. Very good indeed.
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Seamless. No elbows or edges...just fluid harmony. Tannins fully resolved and integrated. Good fruit remaining, plenty of acidity to prop up velvet midpalate. Delicious. Can't imagine it in a better spot.
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Impeccable bottle purchased a couple years ago for just $100. I adore Red Burgs when they are at the crossroads between young and old -- still bright, still a bit angular, still a tad structured, but also showing emerging non-fruit tones, deeper fruit, and time-earned complexity. This was one of those bottles. An explosive, spicy nose leads to a palate of pure, concentrated, bright red cherry fruit and more brooding brambly notes that are accented by spice and meat and leather and earth. A middle-weight by body, but the intensity of the fruit is off the charts. Complexity in spades. Length is not something I ordinarily obsess over, but if you do, this wine lingers. Of course, this is still young -- the fine tannins remain significant -- and I suppose this will be even better in 7-12 years (when I plan to open my other two bottles), but good grief this is excellent now.
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Leo's Blind Tasting Group - Oct '15 edition (Ben's): One of my wines of the night. Absolutely spectacular showing. The fruit here is more youthful and primary than in the other two wines, but there's still a ton of complexity here. Rich, sappy red berried fruit and cherries augmented by more savoury earthy, meaty, spicy, and faintly leathery notes, and conveyed with an incredibly polished, elegant palate presence. There's plenty of structure here still, but the tannin feels so graceful and fine grained, and the bright acids give it tremendous lift. Amazing length on the finish. A real wow wine.
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Nose of cherry, apple, very damp oak; pure, considerable fruit, full, very long lived, continually present 15 Minutes: Gentle must, hints of mushroom; fuller bodied, rolling upwards 1 Hour: Grapefruit and watermelon; later still: hints of ash 2 Hours: Nose and palate of unripe raspberry Noble, Enduring
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Surprisingly tight and plum like, roasted but not flawed. I have had 2 spcases of this wine and would have never recognized it. Bottle variation I hope
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Zachy's Wine Auction - Late Spring 2015; 5/14/2015-5/15/2015 (Le Bernadin Prive): I enjoyed this more than the '99 Clos Vougeot that we'd had right before it. Poured from a magnum. There was an almost edamame characteristic to this wine that I found quite enjoyable. Not quite as good as the Echezeaux two wines before, but still tasty.
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Light ruby with no bricking. Medium legs. Some earth and mushrooms on the nose with dark fruit. Red fruit on the palate including strawberry and cranberry, with bramble and hints of white pepper on the mid-palate. Fresh with bright acidity and well-balanced. Smooth and refined mouthfeel with integrated tannins. Medium-long finish with just enough grip to make it interesting and lingering bramble.
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Somewhat closed on the nose, but giving up some lilac and flint. After about 30 minutes, nice fruit showing forth - raspberry, blackberry, strawberry and tart cherry with minor earthy hints and bramble. Tannins are a bit grippy giving the wine a chewy mouthfeel and long finish. I'd really love to see this wine in ten years. It's got plenty of structure for the long haul and the fruit and acid should retain their freshness well.
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very nice, one hour in decanter and the wine was rich / deep but with good acid and grip, some tannin to give it back bone and lush fruit with some barnyard in the passenger seat, on night two the nose was still beautiful with mix of vanilla/cinnamon/new plastic toy, on the palate the fruit had taken a back seat to some spice and slightly more drying finish
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91 and 98 side by side. 91 is at its apex with no sign of fading big, elegant, refined, balanced and long. 98 is youthful, fruit forward and still a delight crowd was mixed. Personally, I prefer the 91, but love both
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Popped and poured with coq a vin. Beautifully complex, spicy black fruit medium weight and a wonderfully broad range of flavors, my best bottle yet of this wine
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This wine is now coming into its own. Popped and poured. The wine was sublime. At first, the structure was most noticeable, and the fruit was a bit subdued. After a while, the fruit came through, bright and vibrant. At the end the wine was showing some undergrowth and barnyardy complexity. This will improve, but it is starting to drink now.
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Initially closed on the nose with some expression of red fruit and promising structure. After about 30 minutes decant, the wine started really coming alive and continued to develop through various nuances over the next few hours. Floral nose of violets and lilacs with flinty and earthy forest undertones. Cherries on the nose with more time. Red fruits - strawberry, raspberry and dark cherry - minerals and a bit of roasted meat and mushrooms on the palate. Polished and balanced in the mouth with refreshing acidity. Very nicely balanced, integrated and refreshing structure. After an hour or more, dark cherry emerged more and some of the earthiness receded. Very good wine, and encouraging after the last bottle I opened was corked.
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PDX Offline (Le Pigeon - Portland, OR): Not as exciting as the bottle I tried in June of 2010. In retrospect, I should have decanted this more. By the end of the evening, the wine was becoming more beefy, floral and complex – but this started out somewhat boring. The nose had nice underbrush, freshly ground spices, dark fruit and meat – but only with time, were these flavors evident.
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Double decanted around 2.5 hours before the first glass, then recorked. Showed very tight when first poured, seemed to open up with a bit more time to show nice mix of baking spice and earth on the nose, though still very tight. It then seemed to close back down, with another hour of air in the glass it tasted over the hill if anything. I might have preferred a pop and pour approach, really follow it over the course of the evening.
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wijn komt nu helemaal in vorm, licht rood, iets doorzichtig, nog mooi wat klein rood fruit, aardbei, zeer complex, echte diepgang in de neus, smaak is zuiver, mooie rijpe tonen, goede zuren , zeer complete wijn, alles mooi in evenwicht, finesse met diepgang, in topvorm nu
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Joyce's Birthday - Grand Marque Champagnes & Grand Cru Burgs (Keystone, Stanley Street): Fatally flawed - a real tragedy given how well a similar bottle tasted when we last had it. The nose was ringing with the wet cardboard of TCA, all but overshadowing light scents of red cherries and earth. While fresh and balanced on the palate, it was also thin and unconvincing, completely scalped by the corkiness. Sigh.
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Beautiful nose of blue flowers, red meat and sour cherries. Fresh cherries, blood and irony meat. Rich flavours, structured, good acidity and firm tannins. All rounded wine.
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Wines of Strength and Elegance - Kelvin and Marlene's Combined Birthday Dinner (Absinthe, Bukit Pasoh): A real treat. This had a classic Gevrey nose, with a touch of blood and guts underlayering its prettier top-notes of flowers, and sweet red cherries, alongside more savoury aromas of dusty earth and umami mushrooms, meaty bacon inflections and a little bit of rusty, iron mineral, and just that touch of spice at the side. Lovely. A beautiful nose. The palate was super-impressive for a 1998. It was still very well structured, with finely detailed tannins undergirding the whole wine, but it was also very fresh and lively, with bright acidity dancing through a rather savoury mouthful, with notes of brandied cherry, earth and meat woven together in a beautifully integrated yet ever so focused and well-defined mouthful. This was beguiling. Masculine, yet elegant; full, yet wonderfully defined. With a bit of air, lots of complex , spicy nuances starting to emerge on the midpalate. Very nice indeed. The finish was not the longest, ending with a little tail of sour plum and orange peel. But that aside, this was a superb wine - a real, real pleasure to drink now. I thought it was quite a big step up from a 1998 F. Esmonin Chambertin served together.
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Superbly perfumed with spiced earth , flowers , dark violets and some leather. Dark cherries with some bitter earth. A bit dusty and lots of dark grAnite minerality. Well layered wine. Still young and possibly needing another decade. With time this got sweeter and cuter and prettier.
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Decanted for 1 hour and it really showed its best and just got better over the next 3 hours. Beautifully complex, spicy black fruit medium weight and a wonderfully broad range of flavors. This is very intense and terroir driven.
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Another terrific wine from the much maligned 98 vintage. Big, bold and elegant at the same time with cherries popping amongst chambertin richness. Blew the rsv away
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blijft een boeiende wijn, weer even de aanloopfase nodig om zich mooi te tonen, daarna komt de wijn echt tot z'n recht, redelijk klassiek, blijft wat stroef en streng, rustig drinken, mooie diepgang en de wijn houdt je wel bezig, blijven volgen
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More primary in its flavour profile than the '93 with denser, richer fruit, but it's already showing a great deal of aromatic complexity with lots of spice, savoury earthiness and developing leathery notes. It's quite structured with bright acids and fine grained tannins, but there's still a silkiness and polish to the texture that makes it very enjoyable to drink.
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deze fles had weer zijn aanloop nodig, pas later kwam de kwaliteit echt naar voren. Vooral de neus was bij aanvang nog redelijk stroef en gesloten, licht aards, wat muffig, later kwam pas het mooie rode fruit en het boerse naar boven. smaak was rond en elegant, veel potentie voor nog zeker 5 jaar
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weer een puntje erbij, wijn wordt steeds mooier. rode kleur, klassieke neus, kruidig, aards, wat vurig, rood fruit is nog aanwezig, verleidelijke neus, smaak is elegant met rondheid, inhoud en mooie stuctuur, heerlijk van genieten, heeft nog een mooie toekomst, sterke wijn
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WineBerserkers Burgundy OL (Lupa Trattoria, San Francisco, California): Slightly bricking, medium dark cherry red color; nice, bright, ripe red fruit, cherry, red berry, horehound nose; tasty, still a little tight, tart cherry, tart red fruit, mineral palate with near medium acidity; medium-plus finish
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WineBerserkers Burgundy OL (Lupa Trattoria, San Francisco, CA): Bit of funk on the nose, but sweet funk, like someone sprayed a horse stall out with cherry juice. On the palate, this is fresh, pure and focused with resolved tannins and great acidity. Not much secondary character, but drinking well now.
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Bubbles and Burgs (David&Ali's, Rockville, MD): nose: and now we are on a different level of wine with the nose. Lots of depth that one would expect from a CdB with some power behind it and tones of truffles, bits of dark spices, dark red fruits, dark red cherries, bits of raspberries as well as dark floral tones. Well layered, but youthful as it is holding back a slight bit, but this made you take notice almost right away
taste: larger scaled on the palate then the previous red burgs, but that would be expected with this wine and a medium/full feel with good and gripping tannins as well as medium/high acidity showing its youth. Powerful and penetrating tones of dark red florals, dark spices, truffles, dark red cherries and some bits of raspberries. The youth of this wine is showing itself off, but it isn't completely inaccessible at this time on the palate
overall: A great young Clos De Beze. This was given about an hour of bottle air and an hour in the decanter and it still was showing rather young. While not unexpected, it was still interesting to see and it seems like this hasn't even begun to really show what it can do. It was captivating and powerful at the same time, it demanded your attention with its complexity and structure. This should be a fun wine to revisit down the line and continues showing off the lovely 98 vintage for red burgs
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Friday Night Dinner @ David and Ali's: Of all the wines of the night, this one had the most evident red and black fruit component. The melange of wild berries was seamlessly integrated with strong tannis giving most of us at dinner the indication that with about another 7-10 years this will enter its peak drinking window. Still a baby, I am going to do my best to find a bottle or two of this for future enjoyment. Great effort by Jadot here.
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Friday Night Dinner (Chez Dave & Ali): A far more powerful expression of pinot is provided by this clos de beze, with ripe notes of cherry and hints of cola, raspberry and boysenberry. Still infantile, it needs time to develop more secondary characteristics. One can sense that the pitch of the fruit will really flourish with more bottle age, as it seems to have the structural tannins to handle it, but perhaps not the acidity that a Burgophile might really crave from a delicate wine. I'd hold 3-5 years and hope for structural integrity.
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wijn komt steeds meer in vorm, nu mooi toegankelijk, in de neus mooie klassieke tonen, klein rood fruit, veel karakter, smaak is concentratie en diepgang, veel indrukken, heel fraai
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I was expecting nice things, not great things from this Clos de Bèze but I was very disappointed. Upon opening the bottle, it was mildly corked. After 30 minutes, it was terribly corked. Cardboard, wet dog, call it what you want but it was corked. :-(
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mooie rode kleur, licht wat doorzichtig. neus is geconcentreerd en geeft in eerste instantie weinig weg, heeft echt een tijdje nodig om wat uit zijn schulp te komen, later meer fruit en wat boers, grondigs mineraal, licht wat vanille, smaak is concentratie, krachtig, wijn geeft zich niet zomaar over, kleine slokjes langzaam genieten, weinig heeft nog een leven voor zich, spannend glas, voor de gevorderde wijndrinker
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Bright, vibrant, rich red color. Typical Beze nose of rich cherry, currant, cocoa powder and grilled meat. Grand Cru balance and structure that was still youthful and impressive - very typical Beze style that was forward, but with plenty of time left. Great wine with our wild boar tenderloin tonight!
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diep rood, geur is intens met klein rood fruit, licht wat gekruid, mineraliteit en wat yzer. smaak is body met ingetogen kracht, een opgewonden veer die op springen staat, behoorlijke tannines met veel structuur. wijn komt nog jong over
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Dark, opaque color. Opulent nose of pure pinot fruit, but tannic as can be on the palate, however balanced suggesting time will soften the tannins and the fruit will remain. I won't even consider opening another one until after 2011+.
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3/22/2024 - galewskj wrote: 96 Points
Guys night - course meal (Kevin and Vicki's house): Drank a small glass over an hour. The nose and initial palate seem rich and meaty, but the palate turns lighter on the finihs. Tobacco, funk and earth. This seems at peak.
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3/14/2024 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Guy's Night: Variety Pack (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Dark red color, with a 4mm transition to clear. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Gorgeous nose with so much earth and minerality; damp earth and a touch of funk, cherry, iodine, tobacco leaf, iron, and saddle leather. The palate is medium plus bodied, very poised and delivers the whole package with a nice balance of red fruits with cherry and some darker black raspberry notes; lots of dried earth and then the iodine, mineral, tobacco, and leather come through. Fine tannins, complex, and long. There was a touch of wonk that quickly blew off with a couple swirls. Loved it.
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9/1/2021 - rc@ughey wrote: 95 Points
Consistent with my prior notes. I love everything about this wine, and it will only improve. At least a decade of improvement ahead.
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8/31/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Blind "Grand Cru" with Lobster & Flannery Steak (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind. Dense and meaty with more black than red fruit. Seemed like it was from a riper vintage than 1998 and I thought it also older (at first 1989), but with enough concentration and power to remain very interesting. Best I can ever recall for this wine.
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8/31/2019 - Nanda wrote: 92 Points
Double blind. Great spice and stem qualities in the full, layered nose. The palate has very nice fruit and freshness. In a great spot right now.
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8/31/2019 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
"Grand cru" blinds (Chicago, IL): Black-fruited, dense, and meaty. This was showing pretty true to form here, with awesome aromatics and palate density. A bit of leatheriness on the palate, with tannins that could stand to use a few more years to integrate.
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12/1/2018 - 5laton wrote: flawed
F*cking corked.
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1/7/2018 - rc@ughey wrote: 95 Points
In a night of impressive wines -- 05 Jadot and Clair Beze, and 86 Cheval Blanc - this came out on top. My third straight great bottle of this wine, which is in such a nice place. On the precipice of maturity, and still delightfully youthful, this shows bright, crunchy dark fruits with spice and earth and an open-knit expansiveness just starting to emerge. Brilliant texture with minor tannins in the background. Doesn't yet show much tertiary character but the fruit is so deep and broad -- and the palate so complex -- that it's so enjoyable now. May improve further.
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1/3/2018 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points
One more from my tasting on 1/3/2108 last year (with the 1999). Dark red ruby in color. Brooding aromas of dark red plum liqueur, flint, forest floor, graphite and minerals. Rather masculine on the palate showing brawny dark red/black fruits, game, minerals, good acidity, grippy tannins and a soil tinged finish.
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11/17/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
Thirteenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): In Jadot Bèze vertical. All black fruit with meaty, gamy character. Still slightly more firm than I'd prefer for its age.
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3/31/2017 - oldwines Likes this wine: 96 Points
3rd Annual Game dinner with Grand Cru Bourgogne (Chateau de le Shane aka Shane's house in New Jersey): Decanted 4 hours before serving, this wine was translucent medium ruby with a slightly red brick edge. The nose was full of meat, plum, forest floor, menthol and minerals. On the palate it had lots of acidity and was still quite tense and wound up. Still, it was chewy and delicious with the red plum and cherry fruit, grilled meat and powdered chocolate on the finish. Perfectly balanced and elegant but still as much as 10 years from its peak in my view.
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2/25/2017 - ricknat1 wrote: 96 Points
The best value in beze consistently. we will miss jacque. drinking perfectly. no mark of 98 vintage, rich and long and extremely elegant
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2/9/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points
Drinking remarkably youthful for a nearly 20 year old wine! In fact, quite similarly to a 2005 Jadot Chapelle at the same dinner. Still, this showed another gear in concentration, intensity and depth as the night went on. My final few sips at near evening end were stunning. This got all the proper care for air it deserved. It just was stubborn. A Great btl of red Burgundy. 94+/95- Same btl as R&Rler.
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2/9/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
A Quite Remarkable Night (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Medium dark red color. Drank 1 glass over an hour or so. This had me worried initially. There was a vegetal character at first and despite an initial decant of an hour it remained. So, I beat it up a bit more, running it through the aerator 4 times. Better, but not where i hoped. It then sat open for another two and a half hours before pouring. Even then, I was worried at first with that veggie showing, but it really blew off rapidly and I never noticed it again. Now you could see the funky earthy, iron, loamy minerality, and black cherry fruit with a pomegranate top note. The palate is fairly full bodied, concentrated, sappy black cherry, pomegranate, iron palate with nice round tannins and a long finish, Phew.
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1/25/2017 - la turque wrote: 95 Points
Ad Hoc Tasting (Chez Moi): Great showing. Third favourite wine. Lovely expression of Chambertin. Showing some complexity on the nose, lovely balance and length on the palate. This is a food wine, but very enjoyable.
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1/16/2017 - CES911 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lots of fruit on the front of the palate. Not as many layers of complexity as would hope but drank beautifully for an hour from the bottle. Great color, good balance, nice length. A classic.
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12/13/2016 - la turque wrote: 93 Points
Still quite tightly wound. Nice nose, but not very giving. How long this will take to be in its prime is anyone's guess. Hold.
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12/8/2016 - rc@ughey Likes this wine: 94 Points
I echo my previous note. This is gangbusters right now. Legitimate grand cru class and depth, and in a sweet spot between young (still some sharp edges) and old (real depth and some tertiary development). Beautiful texture, world class concentration, and impeccable balance. A bargain if you can find it.
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11/24/2016 - KenK Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark savory aromas of sage, wet earth, and black fruits. Deep and flavorful, ripe and round with fine structure and Gevery dirty rusticity. Quite good for those who like the somewhat fruit driven years like me.
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9/5/2016 - bpj87 wrote:
What a difference from my first bottle! Bright, red, savory fruits. Here the tannins are much better integrated, offering a complete, well structured, mature Bèze that had excellent synergy with the yakitori chicken. I'm much more confident now that this has the stuffing and balance to improve over the medium term, and will wait a few years before trying my next bottle.
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9/5/2016 - FYC wrote:
Bright cherry on the nose along with some earth and hint of leather. Bright red fruit on the palate. A surprising amount of tannins and structure for a 98. Almost too much but then paired nicely with grilled pork belly and yakitori chicken. One of the more enjoyable 98s I've had. Far far better than a 98 Lambrays a few weeks ago.
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8/11/2016 - bpj87 wrote:
The tannins are quite prominent and nearly overwhelm the fruit. The underlying material has good depth and interest, but this bottle is lacking in balance and integration.
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5/11/2016 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Gevrey-Chambertin Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): A lovely, more reserved foil to the showy, outgoing 2001 Groffier Beze that was served alongside. The nose here was more classically shaped, with lovely aromas of cherry pip, meat and mineral. It was not bursting with sweetness like the bouquet on the Groffier, but there was a quieter charm and attractiveness about it. The palate was was noble and reserved, with a really refined feel in lent by fine-boned tannins and the clean, clear juicy acidity that formed a lovely framed for quiet flavours of dark cherries, meat and mineral. There was depth and strength as one would expect from a Beze, but these were carried in a such an effortless, subtle fashion. Lovely finish too, with spice and a twist of herb, and nary a hint of the bittersweet woodiness that one sometimes gets from 1998 wines. A lovely wine, at a perfect place for drinking now. It has lost some energy compared to a bottle I had years ago, but in its place is a wine of great polish and quite substance. Very good indeed.
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4/4/2016 - mye wrote: flawed
So sad.. flawed..
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3/8/2016 - Alex H wrote: 90 Points
Nicely nose of flowers, motels, spicy red berries. Leathery bits of dusty morels and earth atop well extracted pinot sweet fruity.
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11/21/2015 - derek.hara@sbcglobal.net Likes this wine: 93 Points
Seamless. No elbows or edges...just fluid harmony. Tannins fully resolved and integrated. Good fruit remaining, plenty of acidity to prop up velvet midpalate. Delicious. Can't imagine it in a better spot.
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10/26/2015 - rc@ughey Likes this wine: 95 Points
Impeccable bottle purchased a couple years ago for just $100. I adore Red Burgs when they are at the crossroads between young and old -- still bright, still a bit angular, still a tad structured, but also showing emerging non-fruit tones, deeper fruit, and time-earned complexity. This was one of those bottles. An explosive, spicy nose leads to a palate of pure, concentrated, bright red cherry fruit and more brooding brambly notes that are accented by spice and meat and leather and earth. A middle-weight by body, but the intensity of the fruit is off the charts. Complexity in spades. Length is not something I ordinarily obsess over, but if you do, this wine lingers. Of course, this is still young -- the fine tannins remain significant -- and I suppose this will be even better in 7-12 years (when I plan to open my other two bottles), but good grief this is excellent now.
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10/5/2015 - salil wrote: 95 Points
Leo's Blind Tasting Group - Oct '15 edition (Ben's): One of my wines of the night. Absolutely spectacular showing. The fruit here is more youthful and primary than in the other two wines, but there's still a ton of complexity here. Rich, sappy red berried fruit and cherries augmented by more savoury earthy, meaty, spicy, and faintly leathery notes, and conveyed with an incredibly polished, elegant palate presence. There's plenty of structure here still, but the tannin feels so graceful and fine grained, and the bright acids give it tremendous lift. Amazing length on the finish. A real wow wine.
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7/18/2015 - wineappreciation wrote: 92 Points
Nose of cherry, apple, very damp oak; pure, considerable fruit, full, very long lived, continually present
15 Minutes: Gentle must, hints of mushroom; fuller bodied, rolling upwards
1 Hour: Grapefruit and watermelon; later still: hints of ash
2 Hours: Nose and palate of unripe raspberry
Noble, Enduring
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6/26/2015 - ricknat1 wrote:
Surprisingly tight and plum like, roasted but not flawed. I have had 2 spcases of this wine and would have never recognized it. Bottle variation I hope
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5/15/2015 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Zachy's Wine Auction - Late Spring 2015; 5/14/2015-5/15/2015 (Le Bernadin Prive): I enjoyed this more than the '99 Clos Vougeot that we'd had right before it. Poured from a magnum. There was an almost edamame characteristic to this wine that I found quite enjoyable. Not quite as good as the Echezeaux two wines before, but still tasty.
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12/27/2014 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Took 20 minutes to open and show its beauty. This bottle seems to be showing its age slightly. I will drink the balance this year
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5/22/2014 - lifebreath Likes this wine: 92 Points
Light ruby with no bricking. Medium legs. Some earth and mushrooms on the nose with dark fruit. Red fruit on the palate including strawberry and cranberry, with bramble and hints of white pepper on the mid-palate. Fresh with bright acidity and well-balanced. Smooth and refined mouthfeel with integrated tannins. Medium-long finish with just enough grip to make it interesting and lingering bramble.
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4/6/2014 - lifebreath wrote: 92 Points
Somewhat closed on the nose, but giving up some lilac and flint. After about 30 minutes, nice fruit showing forth - raspberry, blackberry, strawberry and tart cherry with minor earthy hints and bramble. Tannins are a bit grippy giving the wine a chewy mouthfeel and long finish. I'd really love to see this wine in ten years. It's got plenty of structure for the long haul and the fruit and acid should retain their freshness well.
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2/27/2014 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Drinking perfectly now
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1/28/2014 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 Points
very nice, one hour in decanter and the wine was rich / deep but with good acid and grip, some tannin to give it back bone and lush fruit with some barnyard in the passenger seat, on night two the nose was still beautiful with mix of vanilla/cinnamon/new plastic toy, on the palate the fruit had taken a back seat to some spice and slightly more drying finish
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11/16/2013 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
91 and 98 side by side. 91 is at its apex with no sign of fading big, elegant, refined, balanced and long.
98 is youthful, fruit forward and still a delight
crowd was mixed. Personally, I prefer the 91, but love both
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10/19/2013 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped and poured with coq a vin. Beautifully complex, spicy black fruit medium weight and a wonderfully broad range of flavors, my best bottle yet of this wine
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8/24/2013 - Wine_lvr wrote: 93 Points
Pinot Noir Best Bottle (Zurich): Note to follow
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7/13/2013 - la turque wrote: 95 Points
This wine is now coming into its own. Popped and poured. The wine was sublime. At first, the structure was most noticeable, and the fruit was a bit subdued. After a while, the fruit came through, bright and vibrant. At the end the wine was showing some undergrowth and barnyardy complexity. This will improve, but it is starting to drink now.
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3/5/2013 - lifebreath wrote: 93 Points
Initially closed on the nose with some expression of red fruit and promising structure. After about 30 minutes decant, the wine started really coming alive and continued to develop through various nuances over the next few hours. Floral nose of violets and lilacs with flinty and earthy forest undertones. Cherries on the nose with more time. Red fruits - strawberry, raspberry and dark cherry - minerals and a bit of roasted meat and mushrooms on the palate. Polished and balanced in the mouth with refreshing acidity. Very nicely balanced, integrated and refreshing structure. After an hour or more, dark cherry emerged more and some of the earthiness receded. Very good wine, and encouraging after the last bottle I opened was corked.
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3/2/2013 - lifebreath wrote: flawed
Corked. Pity.
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2/18/2013 - Biglama Likes this wine: 91 Points
rode kleur, neus is erg aards, mineraal, grondig, klein beetje fruit nog, heeft ook zijn tijd nodig, mooi drinkbaar, rustige wijn, niet zo uitbundig
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10/25/2012 - tooch wrote: 90 Points
PDX Offline (Le Pigeon - Portland, OR): Not as exciting as the bottle I tried in June of 2010. In retrospect, I should have decanted this more. By the end of the evening, the wine was becoming more beefy, floral and complex – but this started out somewhat boring. The nose had nice underbrush, freshly ground spices, dark fruit and meat – but only with time, were these flavors evident.
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10/25/2012 - Traxx wrote:
Double decanted around 2.5 hours before the first glass, then recorked. Showed very tight when first poured, seemed to open up with a bit more time to show nice mix of baking spice and earth on the nose, though still very tight. It then seemed to close back down, with another hour of air in the glass it tasted over the hill if anything. I might have preferred a pop and pour approach, really follow it over the course of the evening.
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10/15/2012 - Biglama wrote: 95 Points
wijn komt nu helemaal in vorm, licht rood, iets doorzichtig, nog mooi wat klein rood fruit, aardbei, zeer complex, echte diepgang in de neus, smaak is zuiver, mooie rijpe tonen, goede zuren , zeer complete wijn, alles mooi in evenwicht, finesse met diepgang, in topvorm nu
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8/4/2012 - Alex H wrote: flawed
Corked nose with crushed beetles. Palate is quite beetlejuice. A pity.
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8/3/2012 - Paul S wrote: flawed
Joyce's Birthday - Grand Marque Champagnes & Grand Cru Burgs (Keystone, Stanley Street): Fatally flawed - a real tragedy given how well a similar bottle tasted when we last had it. The nose was ringing with the wet cardboard of TCA, all but overshadowing light scents of red cherries and earth. While fresh and balanced on the palate, it was also thin and unconvincing, completely scalped by the corkiness. Sigh.
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3/9/2012 - Mingmong wrote: 95 Points
Beautiful nose of blue flowers, red meat and sour cherries. Fresh cherries, blood and irony meat. Rich flavours, structured, good acidity and firm tannins. All rounded wine.
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3/9/2012 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Wines of Strength and Elegance - Kelvin and Marlene's Combined Birthday Dinner (Absinthe, Bukit Pasoh): A real treat. This had a classic Gevrey nose, with a touch of blood and guts underlayering its prettier top-notes of flowers, and sweet red cherries, alongside more savoury aromas of dusty earth and umami mushrooms, meaty bacon inflections and a little bit of rusty, iron mineral, and just that touch of spice at the side. Lovely. A beautiful nose. The palate was super-impressive for a 1998. It was still very well structured, with finely detailed tannins undergirding the whole wine, but it was also very fresh and lively, with bright acidity dancing through a rather savoury mouthful, with notes of brandied cherry, earth and meat woven together in a beautifully integrated yet ever so focused and well-defined mouthful. This was beguiling. Masculine, yet elegant; full, yet wonderfully defined. With a bit of air, lots of complex , spicy nuances starting to emerge on the midpalate. Very nice indeed. The finish was not the longest, ending with a little tail of sour plum and orange peel. But that aside, this was a superb wine - a real, real pleasure to drink now. I thought it was quite a big step up from a 1998 F. Esmonin Chambertin served together.
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3/9/2012 - Alex H wrote: 90 Points
Superbly perfumed with spiced earth , flowers , dark violets and some leather. Dark cherries with some bitter earth. A bit dusty and lots of dark grAnite minerality. Well layered wine. Still young and possibly needing another decade. With time this got sweeter and cuter and prettier.
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2/4/2012 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Decanted for 1 hour and it really showed its best and just got better over the next 3 hours. Beautifully complex, spicy black fruit medium weight and a wonderfully broad range of flavors. This is very intense and terroir driven.
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11/18/2011 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Another terrific wine from the much maligned 98 vintage. Big, bold and elegant at the same time with cherries popping amongst chambertin richness. Blew the rsv away
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11/8/2011 - Biglama wrote: 92 Points
blijft een boeiende wijn, weer even de aanloopfase nodig om zich mooi te tonen, daarna komt de wijn echt tot z'n recht, redelijk klassiek, blijft wat stroef en streng, rustig drinken, mooie diepgang en de wijn houdt je wel bezig, blijven volgen
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10/21/2011 - salil wrote: 93 Points
More primary in its flavour profile than the '93 with denser, richer fruit, but it's already showing a great deal of aromatic complexity with lots of spice, savoury earthiness and developing leathery notes. It's quite structured with bright acids and fine grained tannins, but there's still a silkiness and polish to the texture that makes it very enjoyable to drink.
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7/25/2011 - Biglama wrote: 93 Points
deze fles had weer zijn aanloop nodig, pas later kwam de kwaliteit echt naar voren. Vooral de neus was bij aanvang nog redelijk stroef en gesloten, licht aards, wat muffig, later kwam pas het mooie rode fruit en het boerse naar boven. smaak was rond en elegant, veel potentie voor nog zeker 5 jaar
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2/4/2011 - Biglama wrote: 94 Points
weer een puntje erbij, wijn wordt steeds mooier. rode kleur, klassieke neus, kruidig, aards, wat vurig, rood fruit is nog aanwezig, verleidelijke neus, smaak is elegant met rondheid, inhoud en mooie stuctuur, heerlijk van genieten, heeft nog een mooie toekomst, sterke wijn
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10/16/2010 - cellarid wrote: flawed
Corked. Koods.
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10/14/2010 - Rob MacKay wrote: 93 Points
Wine Berserkers Dinner (Lupa Trattoria, San Francisco, California): Slightly off red color with a steely, flinty nose. Lots of acidity that gives it a zippy mouthfeel. Fruit is smooth and mellow and it has an extended finish. Very enjoyable.
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10/14/2010 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 93 Points
WineBerserkers Burgundy OL (Lupa Trattoria, San Francisco, California): Slightly bricking, medium dark cherry red color; nice, bright, ripe red fruit, cherry, red berry, horehound nose; tasty, still a little tight, tart cherry, tart red fruit, mineral palate with near medium acidity; medium-plus finish
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10/14/2010 - zscheiner Likes this wine: 93 Points
WineBerserkers Burgundy OL (Lupa Trattoria, San Francisco, CA): Bit of funk on the nose, but sweet funk, like someone sprayed a horse stall out with cherry juice. On the palate, this is fresh, pure and focused with resolved tannins and great acidity. Not much secondary character, but drinking well now.
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6/25/2010 - KeithAkers wrote: 93 Points
Bubbles and Burgs (David&Ali's, Rockville, MD): nose: and now we are on a different level of wine with the nose. Lots of depth that one would expect from a CdB with some power behind it and tones of truffles, bits of dark spices, dark red fruits, dark red cherries, bits of raspberries as well as dark floral tones. Well layered, but youthful as it is holding back a slight bit, but this made you take notice almost right away
taste: larger scaled on the palate then the previous red burgs, but that would be expected with this wine and a medium/full feel with good and gripping tannins as well as medium/high acidity showing its youth. Powerful and penetrating tones of dark red florals, dark spices, truffles, dark red cherries and some bits of raspberries. The youth of this wine is showing itself off, but it isn't completely inaccessible at this time on the palate
overall: A great young Clos De Beze. This was given about an hour of bottle air and an hour in the decanter and it still was showing rather young. While not unexpected, it was still interesting to see and it seems like this hasn't even begun to really show what it can do. It was captivating and powerful at the same time, it demanded your attention with its complexity and structure. This should be a fun wine to revisit down the line and continues showing off the lovely 98 vintage for red burgs
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6/25/2010 - tooch wrote: 93 Points
Friday Night Dinner @ David and Ali's: Of all the wines of the night, this one had the most evident red and black fruit component. The melange of wild berries was seamlessly integrated with strong tannis giving most of us at dinner the indication that with about another 7-10 years this will enter its peak drinking window. Still a baby, I am going to do my best to find a bottle or two of this for future enjoyment. Great effort by Jadot here.
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6/25/2010 - Faryan wrote: 92 Points
Friday Night Dinner (Chez Dave & Ali): A far more powerful expression of pinot is provided by this clos de beze, with ripe notes of cherry and hints of cola, raspberry and boysenberry. Still infantile, it needs time to develop more secondary characteristics. One can sense that the pitch of the fruit will really flourish with more bottle age, as it seems to have the structural tannins to handle it, but perhaps not the acidity that a Burgophile might really crave from a delicate wine. I'd hold 3-5 years and hope for structural integrity.
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6/1/2010 - Biglama wrote: 93 Points
wijn komt steeds meer in vorm, nu mooi toegankelijk, in de neus mooie klassieke tonen, klein rood fruit, veel karakter, smaak is concentratie en diepgang, veel indrukken, heel fraai
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4/18/2010 - la turque wrote: 94 Points
Still very young and somewhat closed. A beautiful wine, that has depth and pedigree. This will go a long time. Try again in 3 years.
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12/15/2009 - Anonymous wrote: flawed
I was expecting nice things, not great things from this Clos de Bèze but I was very disappointed. Upon opening the bottle, it was mildly corked. After 30 minutes, it was terribly corked. Cardboard, wet dog, call it what you want but it was corked. :-(
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12/3/2009 - ricknat1 wrote: 92 Points
Bright, cherries and strawberries, Delicious and a delight. Cried out for goat cheese. Plenty of life left
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5/29/2009 - stocksandbondage wrote: 93 Points
Outstanding. Ripe and rich, with elegant wild cherry and raspberry notes. Silky tannins. Bright acidity. Showed very well.
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2/28/2009 - Biglama wrote: 92 Points
mooie rode kleur, licht wat doorzichtig. neus is geconcentreerd en geeft in eerste instantie weinig weg, heeft echt een tijdje nodig om wat uit zijn schulp te komen, later meer fruit en wat boers, grondigs mineraal, licht wat vanille, smaak is concentratie, krachtig, wijn geeft zich niet zomaar over, kleine slokjes langzaam genieten, weinig heeft nog een leven voor zich, spannend glas, voor de gevorderde wijndrinker
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5/12/2008 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Jadot Chambertin-Clos de Beze Dinner (12 vintages) (Primehouse - Chicago IL): Red and black fruit aromas and flavors, still fairly firm despite reasonable air time. Good power, certainly cellar worthy.
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5/12/2008 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
LdC Jadot Clos de Beze Vertical (Primehouse): Medium ruby garnet color. Tight black fruit (tannic?) nose. Big black fruit - nice and ripe. 93+ pts.
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11/23/2007 - BurgTongue wrote: 93 Points
Bright, vibrant, rich red color. Typical Beze nose of rich cherry, currant, cocoa powder and grilled meat. Grand Cru balance and structure that was still youthful and impressive - very typical Beze style that was forward, but with plenty of time left. Great wine with our wild boar tenderloin tonight!
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7/7/2007 - Biglama wrote: 91 Points
diep rood, geur is intens met klein rood fruit, licht wat gekruid, mineraliteit en wat yzer. smaak is body met ingetogen kracht, een opgewonden veer die op springen staat, behoorlijke tannines met veel structuur. wijn komt nog jong over
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12/2/2006 - ATBridge wrote:
Dark, opaque color. Opulent nose of pure pinot fruit, but tannic as can be on the palate, however balanced suggesting time will soften the tannins and the fruit will remain. I won't even consider opening another one until after 2011+.
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