A number of Australian wineries have display panels, protected from light, where single vintages of 25 or more bottles of the same white wine, eg chardonnay, riesling, semillon, have been bottled under good quality cork and Stelvin. While the Stelvin sealed bottles matured consistently and steadily, those under cork are all over the place at 10 years with the diversity of outcomes increasing over time. So too do vintages of Bonneau du Martray CC a potentially great wine owned up until recently by a family led by a great premox denier even when presented with one in his own tasting room ! My experiences are consistent with everything demonstrated by those Australian wineries described above. This wine unlike others from the same vintage is perfect with a firmly in place cork and clear pale green gold colour that speaks of freshness. The nose is rich and fine with plenty of lemon, lime and tropical fruits balanced by honey, cashews, white flowers and limestone in the rain. The palate is gloriously rich with a mouthful of fruit, flowers and pungent minerality that provides grip and persistence to burn. There is maturity here but no hint of oxidation or undue development. In short this is white burgundy that we dream of - pungent, long aging, savoury yet fruit driven and persistent. If bottled under a decent closure I would have continued to buy this wine beyond 2002 ! So that's 1 bottle of 7 so far that's fulfilled its full potential !
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18th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, leaner and meaner than recent bottles (last July 22) but with underlying depth and drive, hint of caramel and flinty mineral, citric edge, sense now of age and way off sensational bottle in 21, plateau, no rush. F (17.5).....bottle variation should be expected even for BdM's normally ageworthy wines (89 and 90 still going strong!!!)
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A magnificent bottle, pouring out fresh with a green tinge. Just a hint of butter and toast. There’s a sprig of mint and intense lemon fruit. It has some aniseed spice and a rigid mineral spine. It is linear, layered and has such great cut and drive.
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Simon Beatty's Memorial Dinner - Table 2 - Richebourg (Noizé, London): Great stand-in for a missing in action 1990. This has great power with white flowers and a little pineapple stalk to the nose. Elevage is well judged. Palate has great line and there is plenty of time ahead here. One of three cracking wines in our white flight.
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17th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, pale and unctuous, though seemed to put on more colour with air, citric flavours muted relative to some previous bottles and turning to lemon curd, rich round flavours more like a top Meursault (Lafon) than CC, some mineral but no obvious steel, more development possible but little upside from here I suspect, no rush. VF (18.5).....but I wonder if I'd identify correctly as CC blind.
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Excellent wine! Better than the 2010 vintage also tasted during our Christmas Eve meal. Pears, apples and peach in the nose joined by some minerality. Full bodied, complex, and well balanced with nice acidity and a long finish.
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Much better bottle than last one. The color already let us know it was going to be good. Really lovely soft aromas of green apple, peach and flowers. Acidity on the palate with decent length on the mineral laden finish which lasted several seconds. Left for next day and it softened up. Hope my last bottle is going to be similar!
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An unusual experience. Despite its age the bottle was super closed and required 1.5 hours of air to get it going. From that point I was able to get primary and tertiary flavors. Decent acidity still intact. Good bottle but not everything all that I expected from it. I don't see this wine getting any better. Drink now.
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Pear with some lemon zest fruit. The palate is fresh, crisp and balanced although not overly voluptuous and there also seemed to be distant hints of nutty ox notes which do not serve as a feature here but rather represent off notes. Apart from that fully intact, both aromatically and structurally. Well balanced with a slightly creamy texture. A bit restrained at first, too, but was developing more intensity with increasing temperature in the glass (served too cold at <10C at first) adding mineral and salty layers, tropical fruit components and an herbal angle that reminded me of lemon grass. Really need to stress the pretty impressive versatility here.
Kept half the bottle in the fridge and revisited the following day. Aeration added an alluring sweet touch which resonated in the 20sec finish. Absolutely no signs left of the off-notes. This presented itself with that bit of decadence I’m looking for in a Corton-Charlemagne.
This being clearly better on day 2, I think best to decant at least 1h, maybe better 2h before serving to fast forward to the sweet spot. 94+
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Yes, you can get lucky in this game and last night was my turn. A beautiful bottle that ticked all the boxes. Still very much a pale yellow, it had a beautiful floral, stone fruit and nectarine nose. The body was steely but racy with well integrated oak and fruit. Lovely soft fruit definition and screamed out yumminess. Acidity was still very good so this bottle could have lived for another 6+ years comfortably.
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15th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, even better than last May's bottle, ridiculously pale and youthful at 21, real drive and freshness to the fruit, almost perfect balance between citric and mineral elements, tightly wound as yet but with underlying GC weight, very persistent and complex, splitting hairs I'd trade some salinity for more steel, but nigh on perfect, still developing. VF+ (19).........a proper ageworthy white Burg with not even the merest hint of pox - it can be done!!!!!
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Drank on TG with non-wino friends, who were blown away by it. As for me, I'd have liked a bit more concentration (weird thing to say for a CC); there's quite a lot of acid in this vintage, which actually made it quite lovely with food, but a bit much to contemplate on its own. That said, still a very nice bottle with, I'd imagine, a number of years left in it.
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Bottle in perfect condition. Medium-full bodied, rich color, notes of pear and a bit of honey. Still nice acidity and minerality, and evolved in the glass over the hour it lasted.
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Not unpleasant, but lacking in character and precision. Medium-weight, oily texture, a little minerality, but no penetration, energy, or tension. A bottle 5-6 years ago was considerably better. Cellared since original release.
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Surprisingly closed early. Decanted for an hour and it started to show more. Good weight on the palate on top of a backbone of minerality. The pieces were there, but they didn't quite come together.
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14th of 24, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, a particularly fine bottle and right back on track, ridiculously youthful robe, leggy, fine energetic fruit beautifully balanced with citric cut, outstanding length, persistence and concentration, traded some steel for almost Chablis like salinity, scope to improve further even at 20 years (unlike some other bottles!). VF (18.5)…...and this mark may be a tad mean.
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Unfortunately, this bottle suffered from advanced oxyidation. Instead of being the intended star of the meal, we sipped like a sherry at end with dessert. All to common issue with White Burgungy from the early 2000s
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This is a terrific bottle of this wine with no trace of premox or advanced ageing but rather a touch of mellowed honeyed character balancing the still intense minerality and grip. The colour is becoming more deeply golden with some residual green. The nose is interesting with lemon, lime and pineapple with touches of red apple and pear and some honey framing the package. The palate is moderately intense with some roundness and honeyed touches yet still finished with a mineral austerity and grip that characterises the best of Corton. Delicious !
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12th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, less fruit and cut than last bottle, excellent roundness, intensity and drive, clean, bags of life! F+ (18)…...a propos October observation below (DAGIJ) on aging potential, all I'd say is that my 64, 86, 89 and 90 BdM CC were fresh and in many ways improving at 25 years plus, by my definition the very epitome of fine wine!
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Pale green gold colour. Nose quite striking with red apples, lemon, touches of pineapple, apricot and quince then limestone austerity. there are touches of butterscotch and honey. The palate quite intense with all those fruit characters again but but with an austere stony follow-through with very good grip and length. The overall effect is slightly more advanced than other bottles but well within the acceptable range for aged CC under cork.
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Drinking a white wine 18 years old is like waiting for a miracle. This was not one. However, it is not about premox, but about the age of the wine. There is clearly something at the back there, in the shadows of this wine, it has just aged out. Deep golden colour, nose of sherry, nothing left but acidity. Too bad, but this is what you get when you wait too long.
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11th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, right back on usual authoritative form, youthful colour, grand cru weight, generosity of top vintage, rich but dry, splendid length and persistence, just needed tad more steel for higher rating, bags of life on this showing. VF (18.5).
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10th of 24, pnp, apparently perfect cork and level, heightened colour, lightly POXED, still drinkable with some pleasure but far from splendour (usually VF) of a clean bottle. G+ (15.5).
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Farewell to Phil: Honey, toast, pear, smoky bacon and apples. Great texture, this feels really well composed and balanced on the palate. Excellent length. In a good spot but non-oxed bottles will certainly go longer.
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A wonderful bottle with elegant aromas of white peach and white flowers. The palate is fresh with an intense fruit sweet heart. There's real flesh and unctuousness but the wine has great rocky detail and fabulous posture. Length is excellent.
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Pale green gold colour. Great nose of white peach, poached pear, lemon curd, touches of pineapple, apricot and quince then limestone austerity with touches of acacia honey. Palate quite rich and round with all those fruit characters again but a very austere stony follow-through with true grip and length. A delicious bottle of BdM CC - the roulette wheel landed on our number this time !
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Once my favourite white burgundy, the estate is a disgrace since 1996. One of two bottles opened to celebrate my birthday with local lobster Horribly corked
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Much better bottle this time. Light yellow, nose was captivating with yellow flowers and some citrus and vanilla with air. Full body with good acidity that's become more rounded with age. Lots of complexity and class with a long finish. This needs a big round glass to bring out the flavors. Lovely.
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This was a bottle that was recently acquired from the Domaine and in as splendid condition as one could hope for. It poured out with an iridescent green tinge. The nose had pure white peach, some aniseed, flint and something lactic. In the mouth it had a rigid spine and the rich peach fruits had a buttery edge. It had great intensity and drive and finished with fabulous grapefruit cut.
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Light yellow, nose was a bit muted, might have been ever so slightly corked? But body was tremendous, full force of hazelnuts and dried citrus with a lengthy finish. Still the same the next day with muted nose but great body. This is a great wine and I'm hoping my other bottles are better.
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9th of 24, opened 40 minutes, perfect cork and level, clean and pure bottle (at last), if anything needs more time with its fabulous flavour profile, precision and proper grand cru weight, how frustrating these white Burgs are!!! VF (18.5).
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Whites that rival Coche: Slightly unwhelming given the pedigree. Perhaps need time to integrate. Muted on the nose and palate with good lively acid and sweet pandan like finish.
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Coche dinner: Pronounced intensity, complex aromas of tropical pineapple, melon, grapefruit, green fruits, citrus fruits, stone fruits, flowers, honeysuckle, with some toasted oak, cream and hints of almonds. On the palate, dry, high acidity, full bodied, rich intense flavours. In a very nice drinking window, well balanced, excellent quality.
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From mag, with only about an hour to breathe. This is a remarkably consistent wine through the vintages (try the 1990!), and this rendition was heavenly. Ten lobsters were a perfect pairing for the richness of the chardonnay. For me it was in a perfect spot -- while lacking the exuberance of youth, it still had plenty of power. The buttery lobster meat seemed to meld with the wine. At the same time, it also expressed much more of a puligny-like minerality than I would normally notice from CC. Pale straw color. Both the oenophile and beer drinking sides of the family enjoyed this one on Cape Cod!
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A Few Miscellaneous Wines in Burgundy, Outside of Meals and Tastings; 6/21/2016-7/1/2016 (Cote d'Or): From magnum purchased today at the Musique et Vin auction, so it had been moved around Burgundy quite a bit in recent days. This shows wha takes this wine so good- power and intense concentration with ripe, rich fruit. But it also came across as more advanced than the best bottles I've had over time. But still very tasty and enjoyable.
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5th of 6. Pale straw. Still youthful. Complex mineral grapefruit flavours with slight biscuity overtones. A lovely wine, probably a bit too good for fish fingers and peas but it went really well. 5/5
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6th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level - yellow, palish, leggy; attractive, more citric than mineral, fewer tropical fruits than previously, touch of honeysuckle; medium, long, persistent and classy, but with less fruit and heightened acidity than usual clean bottles......so on this showing a notch down from my usual very fine.
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4th of 6. Bottle variation has been staggering. The last bottle drunk in 2013 was showing clear signs of age, darker in colour and nutty. This time the cork looked new and fresh when drawn and the wine when poured was pale straw in colour. It was gorgeous, fresh complex mineral flavours with wonderful length and balance. An outstanding bottle. I purchased quite a few 6 bottle cases of various white Burgundies from the mid 1990's to early 2000's and the inconsistency between bottles in the same case has been unbelievable. A very expensive "pot luck". In this case 5/5.
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A little past peak as showing some signs of butterscotch with nice lemon tea notes. Good richness and reasonable depth of flavors with good purity, but hard to argue best days are behind. Still highly drinkable, just not a lot of freshness and vibrancy.
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This bottle was past its prime. Not decanted. Honey, almost caramel color, suspicious. Not materized, but past its glory days. Still good structure, alcohol, and acid, with hints of pineapple, but fruit muted and subdued. Have faint hopes for the remaining few bottles.
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Drank at Home Needs time to open but when it does it will blow you away. Rich complex nose of flowers and fruit. Wonderful balanced palate with an incredible depth. Lovely
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very light color, high acidity, some apple and spice. This is a young wine. We had this after some older wines, so it was hard to appreciate it. I would hold this for a long time before revisiting.
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Pale green gold colour. Nose very beautiful with red apples, lemon curd, touches of pineapple, apricot and quince then limestone austerity. Touches of acacia honey. Palate quite intense with all those fruit characters again but a very austere stony follow-through with true grip and length. In great shape at 14 years with real drive and presence highlighting that slightly exotic touch of a true Grand Cru CC.
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Chicago: wine, food, friends...cigars!; 9/17/2014-9/20/2014 (Blackbird, Les Nomades, Naha, with lunch at Shaw's Crab House): {en magnum} Light-medium straw color, no sign of age. Great typicity on the nose and palate, with extra textural depth and lively acids. One of those wines that's hard (read: impossible?) to put down, even harder in this format. The sea, chalk, citrus, orchard fruit and toasted pecans. Still quite fresh, but also exhibits some softness at the shoulders that comes with age. Continued to unfold over 2 hours. I'm not sure I'd wait, it's just so good right now. recommended
Served non-blind; prolly best with at least 30 minutes in decanter. Paired just as well with asparagus, shaved truffle, asparagus gelée, jamon iberico as it did with the stone crab salad, endive, truffle purée and avocado.
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initially slightly oxidised and plump . came to life after an hour with more minerality and some salinity and peach, but still slightly ox which created conflict in my soul.
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Pale yellow with clear meniscus. In getting peach and green apple. So tasty like a salt lick. This is the wine that turned me in to to corton charlemagne.
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Le Serbet/ Becky Wasserman's 35th Anniversary Celebration (Château de Sully - Southern Burgundy): Bottle that stayed in Burgundy its entire life, much better than bottles I've had that were exported at release to the US. This was fresh and vibrant, with apple and pears on nose and palate with good acidity and impressive minerality. Good bottles such as this should age gracefully going forward.
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I'm not a foodie but visit regularly fine restaurants elsewhere. If I do this its b'cause wine and the full, complete experience, always all around fine wine. Sincerely I don't care about all those 'Chef TV programs'. Where the hell is the wine? After this principles declaration, wanna tell you that here we've another NO pre-ox bottle. Again. Pale yellow, little artificial, colour. Timid at first but becoming great on the nose smelling like a catholic cathedral with all these candles burning, all those flowers, that old wood furniture... That buttery aromas belong to a Grand Cru bottle. No doubts about it. On the other hand, neither the most honeyed Martray ever. Palate? Potent citrus mouthfeel, oily at the same time. Nice acidity and quite long aftertaste. This is not the best vintage ever for such a Charlemagne like this yet a pretty delicious bottle. Perhaps lacking some of the usual charm. Last glass was the best one so time ahead for this. Paired with...never mind!
No soy un comilón pero regularmente visito buenos restaurantes en cualquier parte del mundo. Si lo hago es por el vino y la experiencia, siempre todo gira alrededor del vino fino. Sinceramente no me importa todos esos "programas chef"de la tele. ¿Dónde narices queda el vino? Después de esta declaración de principios me gustaría contarte que aquí tenemos una botella sin oxidación prematura. De nuevo. Color amarillo pálido, un poco artificial. Tímida al principio pero volviéndose grande en nariz oliendo a catedral con sus velas ardiendo, sus flores, su mobiliario antiguo... Esos aromas bañados en mantequilla pertenecen a una botella de Grand Cru. No hay dudas. De otra parte, no es la Martray más melosa que haya tomado jamás. Quizá carecía algo del encanto habitual. ¿Paladar? Sensación en boca a potentes cítricos, oleaginosa al mismo tiempo. Buena acidez y un postgusto bastante largo. No es la mejor añada de todos los tiempos para un Carlomagno como esta pero es una botella deliciosa. La última copa fue la mejor así que a esto le queda tiempo por delante. Maridada con...¡a quién le importa!
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More developed than expected based on previous bottles, very nutty and biscuity. Still has a fresh underlying acidity and was good with strong English cheese. Slightly bitter on finish. Ok but not great and certainly not worth the original price let alone the current price. 3+/5 (86-89)
Un giallo paglierino pieno contrasta con l'anno stampato sulla bottiglia. Decisamente brillante anche se appena illuminato dalle luci del tramonto. Il naso è tesissimo, all'inizio austero. Delicatamente si fa avanti una traccia minerale importante di roccia bianca, di iodio, di lime freschi, di fiori bianchi. Tutto in sordina, sottile, accennato. Sembrerebbe un giovane chablis. Se dovessi fare un'immagine della bocca penserei ad una ballerina vestita di un leggero velo bianco che volteggia osservata da uno spettatore uomo. L'importante struttura del vino si poggia sulla lingua , quasi fosse trasparente, ma con un "sapore" di grande ricchezza e incredibile persistenza. Sale, torna il lime, inutili i descrittori, inscindibili nel complesso gustativo, questo vino ha un sapore suo. Lungo, equilibrato, di facile beva, gran carattere, unico. Note: berne il maggior numero possibile di bottiglie quanto prima.
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Nose: Honey, apple, white flowers and a hint of oak
Palate: Green apples and honey. with well-balanced structure and a bit of minerality.
I was afraid that this might be pre-moxed; however, out of the gate it was showing very nicely. After about 30 minutes or so, oxidation began to appear and the wine went down hill fast. Overall B-, had it not gone downhill, it would have been a B+
40th B'day (spread across several meals); 1/10/2013-1/12/2013: Decanted and drunk over 90ins. Mid straw. Nice and fresh on the nose, minerally with a touch of custard apple. Similar n palate, good grip on the attack, mineral, really quite intense and long. Mid weight, quite viscous in the glass, silky smooth but persistent on the palate. Really lovely. Shows its class. Top ****
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A&H. T. M&L. Careysville smoked salmon. Golden honey. Very restrained nose. Generous fruit, a little greengage. Wonderful balance with acidity just right
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Was worried this would be badly oxidized (can you really call it premox after 12 years?), but if anything it was maybe under aged! Tight, crisp, very minerally. An excellent bottle of Burgundy.
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Bang in-between the prior two bottles from this lot. Pale maize colored. Nose is fully rounded out, a beautiful ball of lemon juice, squash blossom, honey and buttered corn bread. On the palate, enters smooth, with a mellow citrus note before adding a bit of freshly cut grass and a final acid zing on the end. Lovely, mature white Burgundy.
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Eighth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Popped and poured. Mature ripe apple aromas, Similar flavors come through on palate with good concentration. Became less interesting the longer it was open. Surprisingly advanced for the vintage. This was a Chateau & Estates bottle, with which I've experienced more challenges than with European market bottles.
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Chris's Birthday at Black by Ezard (Sydney, Australia): Pear, peach and slightly honeyed aromas with some nutty oak aromas. The fruit seems to have softened since my last bottle 3 years ago, though it is still quite restrained with good acid cutting through. Another couple of years should serve it well as long as the bottle is sound.
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Icon Dinner (Chambar - Vancouver, BC): This appears to be in a difficult stage right now. Super tight and light on the nose, and after vigorous swirling exposes faint lemon juice, saline, crushed oyster shells, and a hint of oak. Very restrained on the palate as well, showing lemon, crushed sea shells, salty sea spray, some floral notes, sour orange zest and some charred oak. Plenty of acidity present, with a medium- length finish ending on notes of lemon and charred oak. Difficult to judge at this stage, this was flat and pretty shut down. I'm not sure how the bottle was prepared, but it clearly needs more time in the cellar or a long decant. Withholding judgement
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Decanted for two hours, consumed over the next two hours. Unlike the prior bottle this was not at all oxidized and remained totally fresh and vivacious. Started out extremely closed at cellar temperature. Some minerality but not much else. Only reached its full potential at room temperature around hour 3.5. Key lime, basil, menthol and salted butter on the nose. The wine unfolds across the tongue with the same flavors, with an acidic vibration throughout. Finish spreads laterally across the back of the tongue and up the throat. Would gladly let this mellow for another ten years if the premox issue wasn't such a "crap-shoot," as a prior taster put it. Excellent wine.
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Deep gold color. Menthol and honey notes on the nose, with an aromatic funk. Likely oxidized to some extent, but I have a high tolerance for that and find it mildly pleasant. This also dissipated over time, and after about two hours at room temperature the wine started to express more of its underlying character. On the palate, a harmonious combination of buttery smoothness, minerality and acidity. The latter appears to be fleeting, and I plan to drink my remaining two bottles soon. A charming wine for my tastes but I can see where others might find this odd or repellent.
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Epic Boys Trip; 6/13/2012-6/17/2012 (Napa and San Francisco): Very light color, very intense and young aromatically… lemon, citrus oil, tons of minerality that continues to expand and deepen all night long… great new oak aromas, some malo, some lees contact but doesn’t feel stirred. On the palate the wine shows is grand cru ness with high acidity, a focused firm/powerful but light on its feet feel… moderate alcohol. Great balance, 45-60 sec length, great intensity, very good complexity at this very young age. Fantastic finesse, a fine texture, classic expression of place. Has depth of flavor/structure to improve over the next 3-5 and then hold for quite a while after that. Fantastic wine!
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Round, relatively lifeless, probably pre-moxed but without much deep coloring or caramelization. This is my last bottle of a very disappointing vintage of BdM. I know some have had mixed reactions based on assumed bottle variation, and that is likely true, but my 4 bottles, bought upon release, were consistently bland. I had the '05 a few weeks ago, which was considerably better, but clearly not up to past quality in terms of depth and vitality. No more purchases of Bonneau du Martray for me.
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This one is a premox crap-shoot. Just over a year ago we had a partially oxidized bottle that was still drinkable and, with some imagination, showed intimations of greatness, but was served for guests on a special occasion and disappointed, especially since the guests knew enough about wine to detect the oxidation. This time I opened a bottle just for me and my wife for Friday dinner at home - chicken breasts in tahini sauce with roasted asparagus. This bottle was young, without a hint of oxidation, initially disturbingly acidic but, as it breathed, rounding into complex form, with a nose of lemon grass that developed into white flowers with honey, and impressive body and intensity, clearly of grand cru quality and with many years ahead, very impressive. That leaves one on the horns of a dilemma, does it not? On the one hand, one should open these and drink them before they become oxidized, and on the other, if they are not oxidized, they will not round into form until they are 20 years from harvest or older. I have one bottle left, and I am inclined to keep it for a private dinner, not for guests, and to wait another 5 years to try it. If it is oxidized, it will be good cooking wine, and if it is not, we will have a wonderful experience, but not one that we share with friends.
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Colour: Bright pale–mid straw; seemed very promising as the cork was superb, too.
Nose: Oxidation starting! On initial opening, powerful and intense Grand Cru concentration; dense and penetrating, with some minerals, soft white flowers, vanilla, stewed apples, a slight pastry touch but, sadly, that oxidation. 2 hours hours later; fading significantly, with oxidation quite apparent. Oh dear …
Palate: A contradiction - be warned. Initially – intense, concentrated and emphatic. In part, youthful and taut, with distinct light lemonny acid and a long, lingering, tasty and tight finish. However slightly baggy oxidation flattened the top notes. 2 hours later: oxidation much worse, with fruit fading noticeably. What a shame. You could tell that great bottles would really command respect ( > 90 points) but not this one. Not caused by the cork, by the way, which was long, of high quality and in superb condition.
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Initially very closed. Opens up within an hour and half. A nice CC nose with apples, minerality, something green, maybe sprouts, and many more things. In the mouth this is intensive, but very civilized. Just a bit of oxidation on the aftertaste, but nothing too intrusive.
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Really a nice Corton Charlie and no premox. Sad that one must always be concerned. Just starting to drink well and is beginning to open up quite nicely. Prett classic Bonneau Corton Charlie with steely and mineral notes plus "lemon squirt" acidity. Mid palate is nice as is the finish. One would never call this fat, or fruit driven but steely, refreshing, and very enjoyable. On day 2, equally if not more enjoyable.
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Dinner at Eric's with Lucas/Joyce (Eric's home): Decanted for an hour or so. Good intensity and length. Tightly packed flavors a bit reticent at this stage. Hints of gunpowder. Very primary still. Should be more explosive given a few more years.
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Light yellow color. Aromas of citrus, beeswax, white flowers and a touch of kerosine. Ripe, highly structured intense fruit in the mouth with excellent depth and length and the beginnings of an oily texture. Refreshingly, this wine is still a baby! After so many "pre-moxed" white Burgundies in the past few years I opened this bottle for my guests with some trepidation. Some of my faith is restored in white Burgundy but I realize Bonneau du Martray is known for producing long-lived wines. Bravo Bonneau du Martray!
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gorgeous bottle of white burg. deep honey color in the glass with an intoxicating nose of stewed apples and pears, baking spices, creme brulee, just wonderful. big and fat in the mouth, with a finish that delivered in spades. decanted for 1 hour and was marvelous.
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Last 2 bottles - the first - light golden color, nose a little closed, clean white fruit core, refreshing vigor. Second bottle good but not quite as youthful.
An upbeat end to a case that was plagued with premox. I hope the industry figures out what is wrong.
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The btl I had in late '09 was perfect and youthful. I rolled the dice on this one and lost. it wasn't 100% premoxed but its best days were behind it. Oddly the color was still fairly pale. Tried to find something in the glass but ended up dumping.
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The table was astounded when this was revealed as the 00, most of us were around 05 or 07, it is just so primary and juvenile. It has a complex aroma of white lilies, grated ginger, lemon, white peach and minerals. In the mouth there’s great intensity and near perfect shape and balance. It is an extraordinarily classy bottle of white wine and its such a shame that BdM is subject to premox as good bottles of this 00 should easily be cranking as they enter their third decade.
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From 375 format, typical nose of melon and green apple that is not particularly big. Medium+ palate that is nicely layered, slightly oily, more finesse than usual with super long corn on the cob finish. Drinking wonderfully now but perhaps won't keep too much longer due to the rather low acidity.
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Burgundy Wine Club Dinner: pre-moxed. some said they could, but i found it hard to discern the underlying quality as the butterscotch-y madierization wasjust too much for me. a shame...
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Je n'ai pas voulu trop tarder après l'immense déception du 1996. Malheureusement, il commence lui aussi à être oxydé avec une note de peroxyde. Cela étant dit, il lui restait tout de même une note de foin et autre chose, avec une belle rondeur en bouche, mais c'est décevant pour une bouteille de cet acabit.
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Nutty, some age - green olives, fennel seed and herbal. VERY high acid, very herbal, mealy and tight texture. Nuts echo at the end of the palate. Pretty disappointing, considering its grand cru status and price!
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A more reticent and elegantly-styled year for this wine but it is balanced and beautiful with nice lemon and chalk flavors and a wonderful spicyness on the finely concentrated finish. Still drinks fairly young and no hint of premox.
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nose is buttery with a strong note of lichee nuts, on the palate quite nutty, notes of citrus, fruit tastes stewed, very short finish, acidic on the end but predominant impression of cooked fruits, seems quite oxidized, would be interested to know what others think
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Citrus and butter, fennel and green spices/herbs; some evolvement, a bit short for its class, nuts and spices, lime. Slowly approaching its drinking window.
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Pale yellow with greenish hues. Initially a muted and somewhat funky nose with boiled cabbage. After extended aeration it improved remarkably reveiling citrus fruit and intense minerality. Mid-bodied and elegant with a nice fruit and minerality combination and high acidity. Very long finish. Not the masterpiece we expected.
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Totally Grand Cru CC. This blt was in perfect shape. After an hour open this really filled out and was classic CC. Minerally, chalky, apples, hint of tropical, classy and long. Very pure and serious. Loved it! One more blt left. I'll wait 3yrs or so and see what happens. Everyone raved about it.
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bottle open for 1 hour, perfect temperature, tasted blind (next to a 2002 clos des caillerets puligny from lambrays) very pale yellow, little concentration understated nose, almost sauvignon like citrus nose tastes rather one dimensional nice aftertaste though but to conclude, totally closed (at 10 years age !!), no fun for the moment
keep for 5 more year and hope ....
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At first this was a little bit closed, but with some vigorous swirling and time in the glass it opened up beautifully. Light popcorn and hazelnuts, gunflint and steel, with a edge of musk. The palate shows very good focus, restrained flavours with a tight core of acid driving the line. I’d wait another 4-6 years before opening another, and I think it will be at its best around the later part of that timeline.
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nose: takes a bit to open up, as it does it reveals lovely tones of white fruits, white florals, bits of oils, green apples, lemons, and bits of minerals. Very classy with great depth and well defined flavors that one would expect from a grand cru
taste: excellent medium+ acidity with wonderfully balanced tones of green and red apples, white fruits, bits of honeycomb and tones of oils and real tasty mineral undertones. More fuller feel with a real good long finish
overall: a quality Grand Cru that shows off its class. Drinking at a young stage right now and chock filled with class. Wonderful defined flavors that balance well together, this will certainly improve with some more time, though I have heard some premox concerns for this(which is why I opened my bottle). Cork was fine with little staining on it
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Corked, and if it had not been, would still have been very disappointing. Almost totally devoid of acid, it was flat. Really frustrating to invest $100 in a mess like this.
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Two years after my last bottle this wine is quite transformed. I did aerate it for 2 hours before tasting it, but I could feel the nose was no longer tight as soon as I poured it in the decanter. After the aeration it has shown a generous nose mixing minerals, lemon zest, a hint of butterscoth, fresh herbs and flowers. The palate was rich, creamy, driven by a combination of minerals, citric notes, floral notes, and again just a touch of butterscoth. The finish is very long and more focused on the lemon zest note combined some notes of toasted almonds. It's an outstanding wine. Just don't try to serve it in the patio in the summer as a "drink". It will not forgive that. This is a dense, rich and robust wine that needs to be paired with an elegant seafood meal. From now until 2015.
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Clear bright steely green tinged yellow color. Aromas of lemony creme brulee and orange marmalade. Acidic tones and flavors of citrus.....needs time to open up!
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Pretty nose of chalk, steely minerals and sweet caramel. A more subtle style of this wine but the finsh is big and concentrated with flavors that echo the nose. Elegantly styled but still plenty of richness. A refined vintage of this great and fairly priced CC.
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Incredibly tight - left in an open decanter overnight & it just started to open a little. ALL of my Bonneau du Martray CC's will sit for at least 10 more years, (seriously!)
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gele kleur. iets verkleuring, neus is notig, hazelnoot, iets karamel, licht wat fruit, lichte vorm van oxidatie die later verdwijnt, wijn straalt niet, niet in goede vorm, wellicht op zijn retour, heeft nog wel aantrekkelijke kanten, ronde smaak met wat complexiteit
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Cashew nuts, smoke, graphite and chalky aromas comprise the nose. Lovely richness to the fruit on the palate. Balanced, long and very, very tasty. This is a beautiful wine that will only get better as it develops over the next 8-10 years.
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Pretty green-tinged color. Somewhat muted nose of sweet white flowers and chalk/carbon minerals. Tastes a bit dilute compared to the '99 drunk a few days ago but seems to be holding back some in reserve. With air, beautifully balanced and more elegant than the '99 with lovely succulent flavors of ripe lemons and that hard to describe steely mineral flavor of the vineyard. Quite sappy and palate-staining on the finish with a lovely tip of the tongue complexity. It keeps improving so I'm going to guess it will continue to blossom over the next 5 years. 92+
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Excellent Bonneau Corton. Tight as you'd expect, mineral, taught, steely, yet with some flavors of ripeness. Nice acidity of the finish. Certainyl young and tightly would as you'd expect. Other notes seem to call this too tight, however expecting a tight CC I found it that, with excellent materials, and a pleasure to drink.
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Finally a bottle from this case without any signs of premox. Bright light yellow color, very focused flavors on the palate, young and bracing white. Needs more time in cellar but this premox issue is pushing me to drink these sooner rather than later
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licht geel van kleur, neus is erg open met veel indrukken, citrus met rijpheid, mooie boterje met goed gedoseerd houtgebruik, iets van honing met warmte en ook mineraliteit. smaak is vol en uiterst complex met frisse fruitige tonen maar ook rijpheid en body. mooie balans. rijke wijn die veel geeft. heerlijk
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Very young, and yet quite good. The nose is a bit closed by now, but it should open in 3-5 years. The structure is creamy and rich, with butterscotch, almonds, citrus, honneysuckle, and more. Very long finish and good balance. A great wine for the cellar.
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Dinner with Craig, Chris, and Steve (Chez Moi): I was anxious to try this. The wine is a beautiful medium yellow color. The nose is extremely closed. Fruit and mineral arepresent, but you really have to work the glass to experience them. On the palate this is medium to full bodied. The flavors are very compact and the wine is well structured and balanced. The flavors are more honey and butterscotch with a good minerality. Nice finish. I'm not sure how to rate this. It is not showing much today but the raw material is there to be very exciting with additional bottle age. I will be interested to taste this in the future. Rated 90 to 95 for now.
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Steaks a la Manlin w/ The Dalluges and Friends (Dave's House): Rich honey/gold color. This was stubborn and tight all evening and never really opened up, but was still delicious. A core of butterscotch, fennel, and apricots, with an interesting slightly saline/salty mouthfeel. Well-integrated oak; super-long, balanced finish. This probably needs 5 years to unwind.
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Color a little advance for such a young wine. odd funk on the nose which blew off for the most part after 10 minutes. A little flat on the palate. This wine improved only moderatly in the glass.
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Trip to Burgundy; 3/20/2006-3/24/2006 (Burgundy): Tasting, brief note. Ripe apple, slightly tropical, sweet spice. Very good concentration, if not showing classic linear textures. Give it more time?
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Extremely tightly wound, very good balance of acidity, fruits and power. Took 3 hours to start showing its mettle. Don't touch with anything less than 10 years of bottle age.
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I'm glad Andy brought this bottle to Cafe l'Europe to start our "Bordeaux of the '80s" dinner since I don't usually open a white Burg of this stature so young. It's really tight and folded in on itself, but the marvellous poise and balance can already be appreciated. Lovely medium weight, creamy texture and attractive reticence can be enjoyed even now and it should be splendid in another 10 years.
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2/19/2024 - drjb Likes this wine: 96 Points
A number of Australian wineries have display panels, protected from light, where single vintages of 25 or more bottles of the same white wine, eg chardonnay, riesling, semillon, have been bottled under good quality cork and Stelvin. While the Stelvin sealed bottles matured consistently and steadily, those under cork are all over the place at 10 years with the diversity of outcomes increasing over time.
So too do vintages of Bonneau du Martray CC a potentially great wine owned up until recently by a family led by a great premox denier even when presented with one in his own tasting room ! My experiences are consistent with everything demonstrated by those Australian wineries described above.
This wine unlike others from the same vintage is perfect with a firmly in place cork and clear pale green gold colour that speaks of freshness. The nose is rich and fine with plenty of lemon, lime and tropical fruits balanced by honey, cashews, white flowers and limestone in the rain. The palate is gloriously rich with a mouthful of fruit, flowers and pungent minerality that provides grip and persistence to burn. There is maturity here but no hint of oxidation or undue development. In short this is white burgundy that we dream of - pungent, long aging, savoury yet fruit driven and persistent. If bottled under a decent closure I would have continued to buy this wine beyond 2002 !
So that's 1 bottle of 7 so far that's fulfilled its full potential !
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12/10/2023 - liber Likes this wine: 92 Points
18th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, leaner and meaner than recent bottles (last July 22) but with underlying depth and drive, hint of caramel and flinty mineral, citric edge, sense now of age and way off sensational bottle in 21, plateau, no rush. F (17.5).....bottle variation should be expected even for BdM's normally ageworthy wines (89 and 90 still going strong!!!)
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11/26/2023 - Burgnick wrote: 89 Points
Super youthful but lean and four-squared palate.
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10/4/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A magnificent bottle, pouring out fresh with a green tinge. Just a hint of butter and toast. There’s a sprig of mint and intense lemon fruit. It has some aniseed spice and a rigid mineral spine. It is linear, layered and has such great cut and drive.
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2/21/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 93 Points
Simon Beatty's Memorial Dinner - Table 2 - Richebourg (Noizé, London): Great stand-in for a missing in action 1990. This has great power with white flowers and a little pineapple stalk to the nose. Elevage is well judged. Palate has great line and there is plenty of time ahead here. One of three cracking wines in our white flight.
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9/9/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points
200 Burgundy Grand Crus from vintage 2000, 4-day blind tasting (Singapore): Good but with a bit off, lactic, aromas next to the classics. Decent rather than great like the Leroy and Boillot.
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7/2/2022 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
17th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, pale and unctuous, though seemed to put on more colour with air, citric flavours muted relative to some previous bottles and turning to lemon curd, rich round flavours more like a top Meursault (Lafon) than CC, some mineral but no obvious steel, more development possible but little upside from here I suspect, no rush. VF (18.5).....but I wonder if I'd identify correctly as CC blind.
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1/9/2022 - liber wrote: 80 Points
16th of 24, pnp, perfect level, oddly dark cork, dark, POXED, sinked.......grrrrrh!!!! Poor (10).
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12/24/2021 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Excellent wine! Better than the 2010 vintage also tasted during our Christmas Eve meal. Pears, apples and peach in the nose joined by some minerality. Full bodied, complex, and well balanced with nice acidity and a long finish.
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12/17/2021 - WKC Likes this wine: 91 Points
Much better bottle than last one. The color already let us know it was going to be good. Really lovely soft aromas of green apple, peach and flowers. Acidity on the palate with decent length on the mineral laden finish which lasted several seconds. Left for next day and it softened up. Hope my last bottle is going to be similar!
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11/28/2021 - yeastyboy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep yellow. Honeycomb, apple. Salty in the mouth, honeycomb again, strong acidity, good balance. Sherry notes in the finish.
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10/31/2021 - UFGators Likes this wine: 92 Points
An unusual experience. Despite its age the bottle was super closed and required 1.5 hours of air to get it going. From that point I was able to get primary and tertiary flavors. Decent acidity still intact. Good bottle but not everything all that I expected from it. I don't see this wine getting any better. Drink now.
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10/9/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points
Pear with some lemon zest fruit. The palate is fresh, crisp and balanced although not overly voluptuous and there also seemed to be distant hints of nutty ox notes which do not serve as a feature here but rather represent off notes. Apart from that fully intact, both aromatically and structurally. Well balanced with a slightly creamy texture. A bit restrained at first, too, but was developing more intensity with increasing temperature in the glass (served too cold at <10C at first) adding mineral and salty layers, tropical fruit components and an herbal angle that reminded me of lemon grass. Really need to stress the pretty impressive versatility here.
Kept half the bottle in the fridge and revisited the following day. Aeration added an alluring sweet touch which resonated in the 20sec finish. Absolutely no signs left of the off-notes. This presented itself with that bit of decadence I’m looking for in a Corton-Charlemagne.
This being clearly better on day 2, I think best to decant at least 1h, maybe better 2h before serving to fast forward to the sweet spot. 94+
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5/22/2021 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 94 Points
Yes, you can get lucky in this game and last night was my turn. A beautiful bottle that ticked all the boxes. Still very much a pale yellow, it had a beautiful floral, stone fruit and nectarine nose. The body was steely but racy with well integrated oak and fruit. Lovely soft fruit definition and screamed out yumminess. Acidity was still very good so this bottle could have lived for another 6+ years comfortably.
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5/7/2021 - Livonietisr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Intense ripe aromas of peaches, pineapple, vitrus, honey. Fresh and enjoyable.
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3/23/2021 - drjb wrote: flawed
Premoxed !
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3/23/2021 - drjb wrote: flawed
Premoxed.
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3/22/2021 - WKC wrote:
No aroma initially but did open up after an hour and had a weakish palate. Basically this was premoxed. Sad.
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2/7/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 97 Points
15th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, even better than last May's bottle, ridiculously pale and youthful at 21, real drive and freshness to the fruit, almost perfect balance between citric and mineral elements, tightly wound as yet but with underlying GC weight, very persistent and complex, splitting hairs I'd trade some salinity for more steel, but nigh on perfect, still developing. VF+ (19).........a proper ageworthy white Burg with not even the merest hint of pox - it can be done!!!!!
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11/29/2020 - gbanks wrote:
Drank on TG with non-wino friends, who were blown away by it. As for me, I'd have liked a bit more concentration (weird thing to say for a CC); there's quite a lot of acid in this vintage, which actually made it quite lovely with food, but a bit much to contemplate on its own. That said, still a very nice bottle with, I'd imagine, a number of years left in it.
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11/7/2020 - SKAHN2 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bottle in perfect condition. Medium-full bodied, rich color, notes of pear and a bit of honey. Still nice acidity and minerality, and evolved in the glass over the hour it lasted.
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11/4/2020 - cfk49 wrote: 87 Points
Not unpleasant, but lacking in character and precision. Medium-weight, oily texture, a little minerality, but no penetration, energy, or tension. A bottle 5-6 years ago was considerably better. Cellared since original release.
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9/20/2020 - shifter Likes this wine: 90 Points
Surprisingly closed early. Decanted for an hour and it started to show more. Good weight on the palate on top of a backbone of minerality. The pieces were there, but they didn't quite come together.
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5/16/2020 - liber Likes this wine: 96 Points
14th of 24, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, a particularly fine bottle and right back on track, ridiculously youthful robe, leggy, fine energetic fruit beautifully balanced with citric cut, outstanding length, persistence and concentration, traded some steel for almost Chablis like salinity, scope to improve further even at 20 years (unlike some other bottles!). VF (18.5)…...and this mark may be a tad mean.
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12/23/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
13th of 24, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, as May bottle/note. F+ (18).
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10/8/2019 - esuen88 wrote: flawed
Premox
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9/29/2019 - Sovinator wrote: flawed
Unfortunately, this bottle suffered from advanced oxyidation. Instead of being the intended star of the meal, we sipped like a sherry at end with dessert. All to common issue with White Burgungy from the early 2000s
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9/9/2019 - Burgnick wrote: 89 Points
Slightly advanced with honeysuckle and caramel note. A bit flat and one-dimensional.
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8/12/2019 - drjb Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is a terrific bottle of this wine with no trace of premox or advanced ageing but rather a touch of mellowed honeyed character balancing the still intense minerality and grip. The colour is becoming more deeply golden with some residual green. The nose is interesting with lemon, lime and pineapple with touches of red apple and pear and some honey framing the package. The palate is moderately intense with some roundness and honeyed touches yet still finished with a mineral austerity and grip that characterises the best of Corton. Delicious !
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5/23/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
12th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, less fruit and cut than last bottle, excellent roundness, intensity and drive, clean, bags of life! F+ (18)…...a propos October observation below (DAGIJ) on aging potential, all I'd say is that my 64, 86, 89 and 90 BdM CC were fresh and in many ways improving at 25 years plus, by my definition the very epitome of fine wine!
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3/1/2019 - drjb Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pale green gold colour. Nose quite striking with red apples, lemon, touches of pineapple, apricot and quince then limestone austerity. there are touches of butterscotch and honey. The palate quite intense with all those fruit characters again but but with an austere stony follow-through with very good grip and length. The overall effect is slightly more advanced than other bottles but well within the acceptable range for aged CC under cork.
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11/10/2018 - hprphf wrote: 90 Points
La Fete 2018: Reductive still with prominent minerals and stone. Slightly floral but flat. 90
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10/14/2018 - dagij wrote: 60 Points
Drinking a white wine 18 years old is like waiting for a miracle. This was not one. However, it is not about premox, but about the age of the wine. There is clearly something at the back there, in the shadows of this wine, it has just aged out. Deep golden colour, nose of sherry, nothing left but acidity. Too bad, but this is what you get when you wait too long.
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9/29/2018 - rlove wrote: flawed
Oxidized.
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9/21/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
11th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, right back on usual authoritative form, youthful colour, grand cru weight, generosity of top vintage, rich but dry, splendid length and persistence, just needed tad more steel for higher rating, bags of life on this showing. VF (18.5).
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5/21/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 86 Points
10th of 24, pnp, apparently perfect cork and level, heightened colour, lightly POXED, still drinkable with some pleasure but far from splendour (usually VF) of a clean bottle. G+ (15.5).
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3/23/2018 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Farewell to Phil: Honey, toast, pear, smoky bacon and apples. Great texture, this feels really well composed and balanced on the palate. Excellent length. In a good spot but non-oxed bottles will certainly go longer.
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3/23/2018 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A wonderful bottle with elegant aromas of white peach and white flowers. The palate is fresh with an intense fruit sweet heart. There's real flesh and unctuousness but the wine has great rocky detail and fabulous posture. Length is excellent.
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2/19/2018 - drjb Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pale green gold colour. Great nose of white peach, poached pear, lemon curd, touches of pineapple, apricot and quince then limestone austerity with touches of acacia honey. Palate quite rich and round with all those fruit characters again but a very austere stony follow-through with true grip and length. A delicious bottle of BdM CC - the roulette wheel landed on our number this time !
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12/17/2017 - hsacks Likes this wine: 93 Points
Happily, this, my last of 6 bottles was similar to the outstanding 2/13/16 bottle.
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11/9/2017 - wineappreciation wrote: 91 Points
Almond, melon, hints of iron; rich, thick, cloying, mature, long-lived, balanced, not superb but very good, and engaging
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6/12/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Dense, sharp, direct, salty and rich. So fresh, so intense, so youthful, so good.
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5/19/2017 - MartyL wrote: 90 Points
Opened too young. (Who knew?). It's still all structure now---acid and steel. No sign of age at all. I guess check again in 5 or 10 years.
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4/29/2017 - redders wrote: flawed
Once my favourite white burgundy, the estate is a disgrace since 1996.
One of two bottles opened to celebrate my birthday with local lobster
Horribly corked
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4/19/2017 - ricemanhk Likes this wine:
Much better bottle this time. Light yellow, nose was captivating with yellow flowers and some citrus and vanilla with air. Full body with good acidity that's become more rounded with age. Lots of complexity and class with a long finish. This needs a big round glass to bring out the flavors. Lovely.
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3/4/2017 - DdB wrote: flawed
Sherry. DOA.
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1/27/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This was a bottle that was recently acquired from the Domaine and in as splendid condition as one could hope for. It poured out with an iridescent green tinge. The nose had pure white peach, some aniseed, flint and something lactic. In the mouth it had a rigid spine and the rich peach fruits had a buttery edge. It had great intensity and drive and finished with fabulous grapefruit cut.
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1/22/2017 - ricemanhk Likes this wine:
Light yellow, nose was a bit muted, might have been ever so slightly corked? But body was tremendous, full force of hazelnuts and dried citrus with a lengthy finish. Still the same the next day with muted nose but great body. This is a great wine and I'm hoping my other bottles are better.
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12/31/2016 - paulchen wrote: flawed
Oxidised. Tasting more like a sherry.
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11/12/2016 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
9th of 24, opened 40 minutes, perfect cork and level, clean and pure bottle (at last), if anything needs more time with its fabulous flavour profile, precision and proper grand cru weight, how frustrating these white Burgs are!!! VF (18.5).
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11/4/2016 - liber wrote: flawed
8th of 24 CORKED!!!!
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10/13/2016 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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8/30/2016 - astroman wrote:
Whites that rival Coche: Slightly unwhelming given the pedigree. Perhaps need time to integrate. Muted on the nose and palate with good lively acid and sweet pandan like finish.
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8/30/2016 - kelvchua wrote: 95 Points
Coche dinner: Pronounced intensity, complex aromas of tropical pineapple, melon, grapefruit, green fruits, citrus fruits, stone fruits, flowers, honeysuckle, with some toasted oak, cream and hints of almonds.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, full bodied, rich intense flavours. In a very nice drinking window, well balanced, excellent quality.
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8/5/2016 - straight outta iowa Likes this wine: 94 Points
From mag, with only about an hour to breathe. This is a remarkably consistent wine through the vintages (try the 1990!), and this rendition was heavenly. Ten lobsters were a perfect pairing for the richness of the chardonnay. For me it was in a perfect spot -- while lacking the exuberance of youth, it still had plenty of power. The buttery lobster meat seemed to meld with the wine. At the same time, it also expressed much more of a puligny-like minerality than I would normally notice from CC. Pale straw color. Both the oenophile and beer drinking sides of the family enjoyed this one on Cape Cod!
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6/26/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote:
A Few Miscellaneous Wines in Burgundy, Outside of Meals and Tastings; 6/21/2016-7/1/2016 (Cote d'Or): From magnum purchased today at the Musique et Vin auction, so it had been moved around Burgundy quite a bit in recent days. This shows wha takes this wine so good- power and intense concentration with ripe, rich fruit. But it also came across as more advanced than the best bottles I've had over time. But still very tasty and enjoyable.
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5/10/2016 - nstow Likes this wine: 96 Points
5th of 6. Pale straw. Still youthful. Complex mineral grapefruit flavours with slight biscuity overtones. A lovely wine, probably a bit too good for fish fingers and peas but it went really well. 5/5
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3/27/2016 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
6th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level - yellow, palish, leggy; attractive, more citric than mineral, fewer tropical fruits than previously, touch of honeysuckle; medium, long, persistent and classy, but with less fruit and heightened acidity than usual clean bottles......so on this showing a notch down from my usual very fine.
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2/13/2016 - hsacks Likes this wine: 93 Points
Same as the 7/27/11 bottle in quality but now in later stages of peak drinking period.
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11/1/2015 - nstow Likes this wine: 96 Points
4th of 6. Bottle variation has been staggering. The last bottle drunk in 2013 was showing clear signs of age, darker in colour and nutty. This time the cork looked new and fresh when drawn and the wine when poured was pale straw in colour. It was gorgeous, fresh complex mineral flavours with wonderful length and balance. An outstanding bottle. I purchased quite a few 6 bottle cases of various white Burgundies from the mid 1990's to early 2000's and the inconsistency between bottles in the same case has been unbelievable. A very expensive "pot luck". In this case 5/5.
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10/26/2015 - KenK wrote: 88 Points
A little past peak as showing some signs of butterscotch with nice lemon tea notes. Good richness and reasonable depth of flavors with good purity, but hard to argue best days are behind. Still highly drinkable, just not a lot of freshness and vibrancy.
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10/1/2015 - JVSMagic wrote: flawed
Oxidation noted. Loved the richness and buttery notes but some feel pre-maturely past it's prime.
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9/8/2015 - liber wrote: flawed
5th of 24, opened 45 m, pale but sadly corked, underlying wine, excellent and youthful, usually very fine or better and potentially very long lived.
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8/23/2015 - rmason wrote: 83 Points
This bottle was past its prime. Not decanted.
Honey, almost caramel color, suspicious. Not materized, but past its glory days. Still good structure, alcohol, and acid, with hints of pineapple, but fruit muted and subdued. Have faint hopes for the remaining few bottles.
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7/16/2015 - kenv Likes this wine: 94 Points
White Burgundy Blind: Dead or Alive? (Home of Chef Andrew Plummer, East Greenbush, NY): Light yellow. Muted lemon custard nose. Crisp and complex. Plenty of life ahead.
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7/11/2015 - mjg87 wrote:
Out of a magnum. This was nice to try next to the ’86, and while it was good, it did not stand out.
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7/11/2015 - BradE wrote:
Farve-a-thon 4.0. Saturday lunch and evening. Partial list.: From magnum. This was young and tight. Very nice, but still very early.
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5/1/2015 - RayOB Likes this wine: 96 Points
Drank at Home
Needs time to open but when it does it will blow you away. Rich complex nose of flowers and fruit. Wonderful balanced palate with an incredible depth. Lovely
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12/21/2014 - vindictive wrote:
very light color, high acidity, some apple and spice. This is a young wine. We had this after some older wines, so it was hard to appreciate it. I would hold this for a long time before revisiting.
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11/8/2014 - drjb Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pale green gold colour. Nose very beautiful with red apples, lemon curd, touches of pineapple, apricot and quince then limestone austerity. Touches of acacia honey. Palate quite intense with all those fruit characters again but a very austere stony follow-through with true grip and length. In great shape at 14 years with real drive and presence highlighting that slightly exotic touch of a true Grand Cru CC.
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10/13/2014 - boreddoughboy wrote: 94 Points
Incredible golden color. Nose with some Brett. Apricot flavors with green apple and long oak dusted finish. Improves so much with time.
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9/18/2014 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
Chicago: wine, food, friends...cigars!; 9/17/2014-9/20/2014 (Blackbird, Les Nomades, Naha, with lunch at Shaw's Crab House): {en magnum} Light-medium straw color, no sign of age. Great typicity on the nose and palate, with extra textural depth and lively acids. One of those wines that's hard (read: impossible?) to put down, even harder in this format. The sea, chalk, citrus, orchard fruit and toasted pecans. Still quite fresh, but also exhibits some softness at the shoulders that comes with age. Continued to unfold over 2 hours. I'm not sure I'd wait, it's just so good right now. recommended
Served non-blind; prolly best with at least 30 minutes in decanter. Paired just as well with asparagus, shaved truffle, asparagus gelée, jamon iberico as it did with the stone crab salad, endive, truffle purée and avocado.
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9/1/2014 - jmoon wrote: 91 Points
initially slightly oxidised and plump . came to life after an hour with more minerality and some salinity and peach, but still slightly ox which created conflict in my soul.
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8/27/2014 - Smooth Jazz wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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8/10/2014 - boreddoughboy wrote: 92 Points
Golden with thin meniscus. Full oxidized flavors with green apple and smooth oak. Tasted next to a Louis latour corton.
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6/22/2014 - boreddoughboy wrote: 93 Points
Pale yellow with clear meniscus. In getting peach and green apple. So tasty like a salt lick. This is the wine that turned me in to to corton charlemagne.
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5/18/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Le Serbet/ Becky Wasserman's 35th Anniversary Celebration (Château de Sully - Southern Burgundy): Bottle that stayed in Burgundy its entire life, much better than bottles I've had that were exported at release to the US. This was fresh and vibrant, with apple and pears on nose and palate with good acidity and impressive minerality. Good bottles such as this should age gracefully going forward.
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4/12/2014 - Harley1199 Likes this wine:
I'm not a foodie but visit regularly fine restaurants elsewhere. If I do this its b'cause wine and the full, complete experience, always all around fine wine.
Sincerely I don't care about all those 'Chef TV programs'. Where the hell is the wine?
After this principles declaration, wanna tell you that here we've
another NO pre-ox bottle. Again.
Pale yellow, little artificial, colour.
Timid at first but becoming great on the nose smelling like a catholic cathedral with all these candles burning, all those flowers, that old wood furniture...
That buttery aromas belong to a Grand Cru bottle. No doubts about it. On the other hand, neither the most honeyed Martray ever.
Palate? Potent citrus mouthfeel, oily at the same time. Nice acidity and quite long aftertaste.
This is not the best vintage ever for such a Charlemagne like this yet a pretty delicious bottle. Perhaps lacking some of the usual charm.
Last glass was the best one so time ahead for this.
Paired with...never mind!
No soy un comilón pero regularmente visito buenos restaurantes en cualquier parte del mundo. Si lo hago es por el vino y la experiencia, siempre todo gira alrededor del vino fino.
Sinceramente no me importa todos esos "programas chef"de la tele. ¿Dónde narices queda el vino?
Después de esta declaración de principios me gustaría contarte que aquí tenemos una botella sin oxidación prematura. De nuevo.
Color amarillo pálido, un poco artificial.
Tímida al principio pero volviéndose grande en nariz oliendo a catedral con sus velas ardiendo, sus flores, su mobiliario antiguo...
Esos aromas bañados en mantequilla pertenecen a una botella de Grand Cru. No hay dudas. De otra parte, no es la Martray más melosa que haya tomado jamás. Quizá carecía algo del encanto habitual.
¿Paladar? Sensación en boca a potentes cítricos, oleaginosa al mismo tiempo. Buena acidez y un postgusto bastante largo.
No es la mejor añada de todos los tiempos para un Carlomagno como esta pero es una botella deliciosa.
La última copa fue la mejor así que a esto le queda tiempo por delante.
Maridada con...¡a quién le importa!
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11/5/2013 - nstow wrote: 86 Points
More developed than expected based on previous bottles, very nutty and biscuity. Still has a fresh underlying acidity and was good with strong English cheese. Slightly bitter on finish. Ok but not great and certainly not worth the original price let alone the current price. 3+/5 (86-89)
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7/24/2013 - paolonardi wrote: 93 Points
Un giallo paglierino pieno contrasta con l'anno stampato sulla bottiglia. Decisamente brillante anche se appena illuminato dalle luci del tramonto. Il naso è tesissimo, all'inizio austero. Delicatamente si fa avanti una traccia minerale importante di roccia bianca, di iodio, di lime freschi, di fiori bianchi. Tutto in sordina, sottile, accennato. Sembrerebbe un giovane chablis. Se dovessi fare un'immagine della bocca penserei ad una ballerina vestita di un leggero velo bianco che volteggia osservata da uno spettatore uomo. L'importante struttura del vino si poggia sulla lingua , quasi fosse trasparente, ma con un "sapore" di grande ricchezza e incredibile persistenza. Sale, torna il lime, inutili i descrittori, inscindibili nel complesso gustativo, questo vino ha un sapore suo. Lungo, equilibrato, di facile beva, gran carattere, unico. Note: berne il maggior numero possibile di bottiglie quanto prima.
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7/18/2013 - coyler Likes this wine:
Visual: Light yellow color with good transparency
Nose: Honey, apple, white flowers and a hint of oak
Palate: Green apples and honey. with well-balanced structure and a bit of minerality.
I was afraid that this might be pre-moxed; however, out of the gate it was showing very nicely. After about 30 minutes or so, oxidation began to appear and the wine went down hill fast. Overall B-, had it not gone downhill, it would have been a B+
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2/9/2013 - LWI wrote: 90 Points
Ok, but lacks depth and length. No ox
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1/12/2013 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
40th B'day (spread across several meals); 1/10/2013-1/12/2013: Decanted and drunk over 90ins. Mid straw. Nice and fresh on the nose, minerally with a touch of custard apple. Similar n palate, good grip on the attack, mineral, really quite intense and long. Mid weight, quite viscous in the glass, silky smooth but persistent on the palate. Really lovely. Shows its class. Top ****
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1/4/2013 - austincarty Likes this wine: 92 Points
A&H. T. M&L. Careysville smoked salmon. Golden honey. Very restrained nose. Generous fruit, a little greengage. Wonderful balance with acidity just right
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1/4/2013 - MBannon Likes this wine: 92 Points
Was worried this would be badly oxidized (can you really call it premox after 12 years?), but if anything it was maybe under aged! Tight, crisp, very minerally. An excellent bottle of Burgundy.
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12/12/2012 - NineteenEightyTwo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bang in-between the prior two bottles from this lot. Pale maize colored. Nose is fully rounded out, a beautiful ball of lemon juice, squash blossom, honey and buttered corn bread. On the palate, enters smooth, with a mellow citrus note before adding a bit of freshly cut grass and a final acid zing on the end. Lovely, mature white Burgundy.
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12/8/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points
Eighth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Popped and poured. Mature ripe apple aromas, Similar flavors come through on palate with good concentration. Became less interesting the longer it was open. Surprisingly advanced for the vintage. This was a Chateau & Estates bottle, with which I've experienced more challenges than with European market bottles.
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12/5/2012 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Chris's Birthday at Black by Ezard (Sydney, Australia): Pear, peach and slightly honeyed aromas with some nutty oak aromas. The fruit seems to have softened since my last bottle 3 years ago, though it is still quite restrained with good acid cutting through. Another couple of years should serve it well as long as the bottle is sound.
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11/30/2012 - TheMounty wrote: flawed
Bottle was fully oxidized. Undrinkable. $150 down the drain along with some very high hopes.
Premox? Maybe...
Do not hold these in your cellar any longer! Maybe you'll get luckier than me.
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11/20/2012 - MattTM wrote:
Icon Dinner (Chambar - Vancouver, BC): This appears to be in a difficult stage right now. Super tight and light on the nose, and after vigorous swirling exposes faint lemon juice, saline, crushed oyster shells, and a hint of oak. Very restrained on the palate as well, showing lemon, crushed sea shells, salty sea spray, some floral notes, sour orange zest and some charred oak. Plenty of acidity present, with a medium- length finish ending on notes of lemon and charred oak. Difficult to judge at this stage, this was flat and pretty shut down. I'm not sure how the bottle was prepared, but it clearly needs more time in the cellar or a long decant. Withholding judgement
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11/10/2012 - MC wrote:
Holding, but not improving. Solid white burg but nothing too special. B+/A-
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10/20/2012 - RCarlyleParker wrote: flawed
Bottle tasted like we awaited one year too long. Bummer
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9/16/2012 - rsazima Likes this wine: 94 Points
Outstanding chardonnay (pear, vanilla, great balance and length), but not as mindblowing as I would expect after reading the WS (96 pts) review...
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9/10/2012 - Nosey Nose wrote: flawed
Corked. Bummer because this bottle is fresh, lovely and extremely well balanced.
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8/4/2012 - NineteenEightyTwo wrote: 94 Points
Decanted for two hours, consumed over the next two hours. Unlike the prior bottle this was not at all oxidized and remained totally fresh and vivacious. Started out extremely closed at cellar temperature. Some minerality but not much else. Only reached its full potential at room temperature around hour 3.5. Key lime, basil, menthol and salted butter on the nose. The wine unfolds across the tongue with the same flavors, with an acidic vibration throughout. Finish spreads laterally across the back of the tongue and up the throat. Would gladly let this mellow for another ten years if the premox issue wasn't such a "crap-shoot," as a prior taster put it. Excellent wine.
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8/1/2012 - hsacks wrote: 93 Points
Same as the 7/27/11 bottle.
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7/5/2012 - NineteenEightyTwo wrote: 93 Points
Deep gold color. Menthol and honey notes on the nose, with an aromatic funk. Likely oxidized to some extent, but I have a high tolerance for that and find it mildly pleasant. This also dissipated over time, and after about two hours at room temperature the wine started to express more of its underlying character. On the palate, a harmonious combination of buttery smoothness, minerality and acidity. The latter appears to be fleeting, and I plan to drink my remaining two bottles soon. A charming wine for my tastes but I can see where others might find this odd or repellent.
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6/20/2012 - Margauxguy wrote: 93 Points
Delicious, rich, and deep. Good acidity, butterscotch, vanilla. Yum yum
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6/15/2012 - markjanes wrote: 94 Points
Epic Boys Trip; 6/13/2012-6/17/2012 (Napa and San Francisco): Very light color, very intense and young aromatically… lemon, citrus oil, tons of minerality that continues to expand and deepen all night long… great new oak aromas, some malo, some lees contact but doesn’t feel stirred. On the palate the wine shows is grand cru ness with high acidity, a focused firm/powerful but light on its feet feel… moderate alcohol. Great balance, 45-60 sec length, great intensity, very good complexity at this very young age. Fantastic finesse, a fine texture, classic expression of place. Has depth of flavor/structure to improve over the next 3-5 and then hold for quite a while after that. Fantastic wine!
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4/17/2012 - cdunn wrote: 85 Points
Round, relatively lifeless, probably pre-moxed but without much deep coloring or caramelization. This is my last bottle of a very disappointing vintage of BdM. I know some have had mixed reactions based on assumed bottle variation, and that is likely true, but my 4 bottles, bought upon release, were consistently bland. I had the '05 a few weeks ago, which was considerably better, but clearly not up to past quality in terms of depth and vitality. No more purchases of Bonneau du Martray for me.
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4/6/2012 - aikane wrote: 93 Points
This one is a premox crap-shoot. Just over a year ago we had a partially oxidized bottle that was still drinkable and, with some imagination, showed intimations of greatness, but was served for guests on a special occasion and disappointed, especially since the guests knew enough about wine to detect the oxidation. This time I opened a bottle just for me and my wife for Friday dinner at home - chicken breasts in tahini sauce with roasted asparagus. This bottle was young, without a hint of oxidation, initially disturbingly acidic but, as it breathed, rounding into complex form, with a nose of lemon grass that developed into white flowers with honey, and impressive body and intensity, clearly of grand cru quality and with many years ahead, very impressive. That leaves one on the horns of a dilemma, does it not? On the one hand, one should open these and drink them before they become oxidized, and on the other, if they are not oxidized, they will not round into form until they are 20 years from harvest or older. I have one bottle left, and I am inclined to keep it for a private dinner, not for guests, and to wait another 5 years to try it. If it is oxidized, it will be good cooking wine, and if it is not, we will have a wonderful experience, but not one that we share with friends.
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4/2/2012 - austincarty wrote: 88 Points
I had expected this to be magnificent but it was quite ordinary. No great abundance of fruit. Nothing faulty, just dull.
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2/24/2012 - Margauxguy wrote: 92 Points
Big beastly, apricot, butterscotch, pear, tons of acidity, needs time to open and calm down. Very good
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2/17/2012 - Lord Rayas wrote:
Alex/Nanette dinner with Julian/Ada (Bella Vita): not undrinkable, but definitely traces of premox. shame.
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1/16/2012 - Lord Rayas wrote: 93 Points
Dinner with Alex/Bettina, Marc/SY, Martin/Yvonne (The Principal): beautiful after half an hour in decanter. round and sweet with notes of honey and baked spongecake!
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12/24/2011 - Greg Munyard wrote: flawed
Colour: Bright pale–mid straw; seemed very promising as the cork was superb, too.
Nose: Oxidation starting! On initial opening, powerful and intense Grand Cru concentration; dense and penetrating, with some minerals, soft white flowers, vanilla, stewed apples, a slight pastry touch but, sadly, that oxidation. 2 hours hours later; fading significantly, with oxidation quite apparent. Oh dear …
Palate: A contradiction - be warned. Initially – intense, concentrated and emphatic. In part, youthful and taut, with distinct light lemonny acid and a long, lingering, tasty and tight finish. However slightly baggy oxidation flattened the top notes. 2 hours later: oxidation much worse, with fruit fading noticeably. What a shame. You could tell that great bottles would really command respect ( > 90 points) but not this one. Not caused by the cork, by the way, which was long, of high quality and in superb condition.
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11/19/2011 - VHJV wrote: 94 Points
Initially very closed. Opens up within an hour and half. A nice CC nose with apples, minerality, something green, maybe sprouts, and many more things. In the mouth this is intensive, but very civilized. Just a bit of oxidation on the aftertaste, but nothing too intrusive.
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9/18/2011 - ski695 wrote: 92 Points
Really a nice Corton Charlie and no premox. Sad that one must always be concerned. Just starting to drink well and is beginning to open up quite nicely. Prett classic Bonneau Corton Charlie with steely and mineral notes plus "lemon squirt" acidity. Mid palate is nice as is the finish. One would never call this fat, or fruit driven but steely, refreshing, and very enjoyable. On day 2, equally if not more enjoyable.
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9/7/2011 - Lord Rayas wrote: 91 Points
Dinner at Eric's with Lucas/Joyce (Eric's home): Decanted for an hour or so. Good intensity and length. Tightly packed flavors a bit reticent at this stage. Hints of gunpowder. Very primary still. Should be more explosive given a few more years.
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7/27/2011 - hsacks wrote: 93 Points
Light yellow color. Aromas of citrus, beeswax, white flowers and a touch of kerosine. Ripe, highly structured intense fruit in the mouth with excellent depth and length and the beginnings of an oily texture. Refreshingly, this wine is still a baby! After so many "pre-moxed" white Burgundies in the past few years I opened this bottle for my guests with some trepidation. Some of my faith is restored in white Burgundy but I realize Bonneau du Martray is known for producing long-lived wines. Bravo Bonneau du Martray!
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7/16/2011 - caeleric Likes this wine:
gorgeous bottle of white burg. deep honey color in the glass with an intoxicating nose of stewed apples and pears, baking spices, creme brulee, just wonderful. big and fat in the mouth, with a finish that delivered in spades. decanted for 1 hour and was marvelous.
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7/2/2011 - paul195 wrote:
Last 2 bottles - the first - light golden color, nose a little closed, clean white fruit core, refreshing vigor. Second bottle good but not quite as youthful.
An upbeat end to a case that was plagued with premox. I hope the industry figures out what is wrong.
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2/25/2011 - chablis28 wrote: flawed
The btl I had in late '09 was perfect and youthful. I rolled the dice on this one and lost. it wasn't 100% premoxed but its best days were behind it. Oddly the color was still fairly pale. Tried to find something in the glass but ended up dumping.
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2/12/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
The table was astounded when this was revealed as the 00, most of us were around 05 or 07, it is just so primary and juvenile. It has a complex aroma of white lilies, grated ginger, lemon, white peach and minerals. In the mouth there’s great intensity and near perfect shape and balance. It is an extraordinarily classy bottle of white wine and its such a shame that BdM is subject to premox as good bottles of this 00 should easily be cranking as they enter their third decade.
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2/9/2011 - Biskuit wrote: 92 Points
No notes, but really nice, especially after half an hour in the glass.
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1/29/2011 - Pacalet wrote: 93 Points
From 375 format, typical nose of melon and green apple that is not particularly big. Medium+ palate that is nicely layered, slightly oily, more finesse than usual with super long corn on the cob finish. Drinking wonderfully now but perhaps won't keep too much longer due to the rather low acidity.
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1/8/2011 - brooklynguy wrote: flawed
Burgundy Wine Club Dinner: pre-moxed. some said they could, but i found it hard to discern the underlying quality as the butterscotch-y madierization wasjust too much for me. a shame...
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12/26/2010 - Partenaire wrote: 81 Points
Je n'ai pas voulu trop tarder après l'immense déception du 1996. Malheureusement, il commence lui aussi à être oxydé avec une note de peroxyde. Cela étant dit, il lui restait tout de même une note de foin et autre chose, avec une belle rondeur en bouche, mais c'est décevant pour une bouteille de cet acabit.
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12/26/2010 - dougie wrote: 92 Points
Beautiful wine.
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11/20/2010 - microbox wrote: flawed
crumbly cork. strong apple notes. oxidized
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11/14/2010 - Marc wrote: 89 Points
Nutty, some age - green olives, fennel seed and herbal. VERY high acid, very herbal, mealy and tight texture. Nuts echo at the end of the palate. Pretty disappointing, considering its grand cru status and price!
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8/25/2010 - dream wrote: 91 Points
A more reticent and elegantly-styled year for this wine but it is balanced and beautiful with nice lemon and chalk flavors and a wonderful spicyness on the finely concentrated finish. Still drinks fairly young and no hint of premox.
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8/23/2010 - jim francis wrote:
nose is buttery with a strong note of lichee nuts, on the palate quite nutty, notes of citrus, fruit tastes stewed, very short finish, acidic on the end but predominant impression of cooked fruits, seems quite oxidized, would be interested to know what others think
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8/21/2010 - LWI wrote: 91 Points
Citrus and butter, fennel and green spices/herbs; some evolvement, a bit short for its class, nuts and spices, lime. Slowly approaching its drinking window.
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7/20/2010 - Yiannis wrote: 91 Points
Pale yellow with greenish hues. Initially a muted and somewhat funky nose with boiled cabbage. After extended aeration it improved remarkably reveiling citrus fruit and intense minerality. Mid-bodied and elegant with a nice fruit and minerality combination and high acidity. Very long finish. Not the masterpiece we expected.
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7/16/2010 - chablis28 wrote: 94 Points
Totally Grand Cru CC. This blt was in perfect shape. After an hour open this really filled out and was classic CC. Minerally, chalky, apples, hint of tropical, classy and long. Very pure and serious. Loved it! One more blt left. I'll wait 3yrs or so and see what happens. Everyone raved about it.
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7/15/2010 - Eric wrote:
STG does White Burgundy and a bonus Cabot tasting (Gig Harbor, WA): Young, young, young! A bit of magic marker and marshmallow on the nose followed by a hint of resin. This is seriously wound up on the palate, very savory, crazy minerality.
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1/17/2010 - dadizele wrote: 80 Points
bottle open for 1 hour, perfect temperature, tasted blind (next to a 2002 clos des caillerets puligny from lambrays)
very pale yellow, little concentration
understated nose, almost sauvignon like citrus nose
tastes rather one dimensional
nice aftertaste though
but to conclude, totally closed (at 10 years age !!), no fun for the moment
keep for 5 more year and hope ....
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9/8/2009 - jeff nowak wrote: 89 Points
an uninspring showing. somewhat tired, but not premoxed. in the end, too much oak.
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8/1/2009 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
At first this was a little bit closed, but with some vigorous swirling and time in the glass it opened up beautifully. Light popcorn and hazelnuts, gunflint and steel, with a edge of musk. The palate shows very good focus, restrained flavours with a tight core of acid driving the line. I’d wait another 4-6 years before opening another, and I think it will be at its best around the later part of that timeline.
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7/11/2009 - KeithAkers wrote: 93 Points
nose: takes a bit to open up, as it does it reveals lovely tones of white fruits, white florals, bits of oils, green apples, lemons, and bits of minerals. Very classy with great depth and well defined flavors that one would expect from a grand cru
taste: excellent medium+ acidity with wonderfully balanced tones of green and red apples, white fruits, bits of honeycomb and tones of oils and real tasty mineral undertones. More fuller feel with a real good long finish
overall: a quality Grand Cru that shows off its class. Drinking at a young stage right now and chock filled with class. Wonderful defined flavors that balance well together, this will certainly improve with some more time, though I have heard some premox concerns for this(which is why I opened my bottle). Cork was fine with little staining on it
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6/28/2009 - cdunn wrote: flawed
Corked, and if it had not been, would still have been very disappointing. Almost totally devoid of acid, it was flat. Really frustrating to invest $100 in a mess like this.
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6/17/2009 - Rupert wrote:
Eclectic wine dinner at The Ledbury (The Ledbury, London): Pale, quiet, waxy, edgy - powerful, but lacking zing - fine if it was a 2000 Hermitage, but it's not, and I think something was wrong with this bottle
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5/31/2009 - dougie wrote: 92 Points
Really opened up after some air and warming up. Full flavored. Excellent.
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4/11/2009 - Maestro wrote: 92 Points
Two years after my last bottle this wine is quite transformed. I did aerate it for 2 hours before tasting it, but I could feel the nose was no longer tight as soon as I poured it in the decanter. After the aeration it has shown a generous nose mixing minerals, lemon zest, a hint of butterscoth, fresh herbs and flowers. The palate was rich, creamy, driven by a combination of minerals, citric notes, floral notes, and again just a touch of butterscoth. The finish is very long and more focused on the lemon zest note combined some notes of toasted almonds. It's an outstanding wine. Just don't try to serve it in the patio in the summer as a "drink". It will not forgive that. This is a dense, rich and robust wine that needs to be paired with an elegant seafood meal. From now until 2015.
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3/8/2009 - WineArchitect wrote: flawed
This bottle is oxidized!
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1/7/2009 - WineArchitect wrote: 91 Points
Clear bright steely green tinged yellow color. Aromas of lemony creme brulee and orange marmalade. Acidic tones and flavors of citrus.....needs time to open up!
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10/22/2008 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Served from magnum. Very classic, restrained but didn't shine next to the droin chablis and Fichet puligny.
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10/21/2008 - Rupert wrote:
Burghound comes to London (One Great George Street): Soft, buttery, toffee nose, some intrigue on the palate, but lacking bite - I think this was premoxed
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10/18/2008 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Pretty nose of chalk, steely minerals and sweet caramel. A more subtle style of this wine but the finsh is big and concentrated with flavors that echo the nose. Elegantly styled but still plenty of richness. A refined vintage of this great and fairly priced CC.
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8/24/2008 - Tubbs wrote:
Incredibly tight - left in an open decanter overnight & it just started to open a little. ALL of my Bonneau du Martray CC's will sit for at least 10 more years, (seriously!)
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8/19/2008 - Biglama wrote: 89 Points
gele kleur. iets verkleuring, neus is notig, hazelnoot, iets karamel, licht wat fruit, lichte vorm van oxidatie die later verdwijnt, wijn straalt niet, niet in goede vorm, wellicht op zijn retour, heeft nog wel aantrekkelijke kanten, ronde smaak met wat complexiteit
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7/1/2008 - jeff nowak wrote: 91 Points
13.5% alcohol. no premox. strong lemon and mild oak. average structure to drink or hold 3-5 more years.
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6/2/2008 - CamWheeler wrote: 93 Points
Cashew nuts, smoke, graphite and chalky aromas comprise the nose. Lovely richness to the fruit on the palate. Balanced, long and very, very tasty. This is a beautiful wine that will only get better as it develops over the next 8-10 years.
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2/16/2008 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Pretty green-tinged color. Somewhat muted nose of sweet white flowers and chalk/carbon minerals. Tastes a bit dilute compared to the '99 drunk a few days ago but seems to be holding back some in reserve. With air, beautifully balanced and more elegant than the '99 with lovely succulent flavors of ripe lemons and that hard to describe steely mineral flavor of the vineyard. Quite sappy and palate-staining on the finish with a lovely tip of the tongue complexity. It keeps improving so I'm going to guess it will continue to blossom over the next 5 years. 92+
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10/27/2007 - ski695 wrote: 93 Points
Excellent Bonneau Corton. Tight as you'd expect, mineral, taught, steely, yet with some flavors of ripeness. Nice acidity of the finish. Certainyl young and tightly would as you'd expect. Other notes seem to call this too tight, however expecting a tight CC I found it that, with excellent materials, and a pleasure to drink.
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7/15/2007 - RCarlyleParker wrote: 89 Points
Did not have the depth I expected
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6/8/2007 - paul195 wrote: 91 Points
Finally a bottle from this case without any signs of premox. Bright light yellow color, very focused flavors on the palate, young and bracing white. Needs more time in cellar but this premox issue is pushing me to drink these sooner rather than later
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6/3/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote:
All bones. Showing structure and nothing else besides a dusting of chalk. Don't open this again for a long time.
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5/5/2007 - Biglama wrote: 93 Points
licht geel van kleur, neus is erg open met veel indrukken, citrus met rijpheid, mooie boterje met goed gedoseerd houtgebruik, iets van honing met warmte en ook mineraliteit. smaak is vol en uiterst complex met frisse fruitige tonen maar ook rijpheid en body. mooie balans. rijke wijn die veel geeft. heerlijk
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4/4/2007 - mattiasjansson wrote: 90 Points
Backstreet - Pinot Noir (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix, AZ): Rich, complex. A bit flabby, hot.
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4/4/2007 - kstoddard wrote: 86 Points
Phoenix eRP Offline - Pinot Noir (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix): Caramel, pears, ammonia. Very oaky for my tastes. Not particularly well balanced.
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3/30/2007 - Maestro wrote: 90 Points
Very young, and yet quite good. The nose is a bit closed by now, but it should open in 3-5 years. The structure is creamy and rich, with butterscotch, almonds, citrus, honneysuckle, and more. Very long finish and good balance. A great wine for the cellar.
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2/21/2007 - Dave Dalluge wrote:
Dinner with Craig, Chris, and Steve (Chez Moi): I was anxious to try this. The wine is a beautiful medium yellow color. The nose is extremely closed. Fruit and mineral arepresent, but you really have to work the glass to experience them. On the palate this is medium to full bodied. The flavors are very compact and the wine is well structured and balanced. The flavors are more honey and butterscotch with a good minerality. Nice finish. I'm not sure how to rate this. It is not showing much today but the raw material is there to be very exciting with additional bottle age. I will be interested to taste this in the future. Rated 90 to 95 for now.
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2/21/2007 - Siggy wrote: 94 Points
Steaks a la Manlin w/ The Dalluges and Friends (Dave's House): Rich honey/gold color. This was stubborn and tight all evening and never really opened up, but was still delicious. A core of butterscotch, fennel, and apricots, with an interesting slightly saline/salty mouthfeel. Well-integrated oak; super-long, balanced finish. This probably needs 5 years to unwind.
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2/17/2007 - paul195 wrote: 88 Points
Color a little advance for such a young wine. odd funk on the nose which blew off for the most part after 10 minutes. A little flat on the palate. This wine improved only moderatly in the glass.
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1/6/2007 - shine wrote: 93 Points
Tight, somewhat austere. Good acidity with hints of tropical fruit. Improved over an hour. Will wait at least another year to try another bottle.
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12/18/2006 - KellyW wrote: flawed
Oxidized!
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11/19/2006 - Melli wrote: 96 Points
Superb after 30 munutes of air. Perfect match for seafood pasta with crean sauce
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7/28/2006 - Melli wrote: 88 Points
Not very exciting for Grand Cru. Expected much more
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5/11/2006 - paul195 wrote: flawed
Pre mox.....dark sherry like appearance, chalky white cork.
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3/22/2006 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Trip to Burgundy; 3/20/2006-3/24/2006 (Burgundy): Tasting, brief note. Ripe apple, slightly tropical, sweet spice. Very good concentration, if not showing classic linear textures. Give it more time?
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3/17/2006 - asianwinehunter wrote: 93 Points
Extremely tightly wound, very good balance of acidity, fruits and power. Took 3 hours to start showing its mettle. Don't touch with anything less than 10 years of bottle age.
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8/24/2005 - sdr wrote: 92 Points
I'm glad Andy brought this bottle to Cafe l'Europe to start our "Bordeaux of the '80s" dinner since I don't usually open a white Burg of this stature so young. It's really tight and folded in on itself, but the marvellous poise and balance can already be appreciated. Lovely medium weight, creamy texture and attractive reticence can be enjoyed even now and it should be splendid in another 10 years.
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6/14/2005 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Oxidized - returned for credit
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12/30/2004 - PhDP wrote:
Sanglier des Ardennes 2004 (groupe du mercredi, Oignies-en-Thiérache, Belgium): Terrine de biche aux pruneaux et foie gras de canard
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2/2/2004 - paul195 wrote: flawed
Pre Mox
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12/1/2003 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
Really lovely Bonneau. Smooth and polished with tell-tale tropical fruit flavors. One of the best wines of the evening. 12/31/03
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