Notes on Wines from December 2021 (Wellington, NZ): Served double blind by Larry. Larry is keen on his whole bunch, so this wine shouldn’t have been a surprise, and it was drinking very well, albeit probably close to the end of its prime life. Spices, iron filings, dry brush, earth, dried herbs, red cherry and raspberry aromas. Evolved and mellow. On entry to the palate, dry underbrush, savoury and dried herbal notes, with earth and ferric minerality. But there was still a core of sweet, rich red cherry and red currant fruit. Fruit, acids and tannins largely resolved and integrated. I guessed 2003 then 2002. To drink in the next few years. 92+.
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Light ruby color with pale edges. Some earth in the bouquet. On the palate, much of the fruit has faded, but plenty of complexity and enough acidity to hold things together. A very enjoyable late maturity nuit st. georges.
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Spicy whole bunch nose coupled with perfectly ripe red and black fruits. It has some root vegetables and earth too. There's good volume on the mouth and a delicate lacy texture. The finish has some chew and excellent persistence.
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Beautiful showing! The fruit is dark and rich and shows really good detail and complexity, and is entirely permeated by an attractive secondary muskiness. There is strong minerality here too. The palate is beautifully textured and layered with fruit, animal, and forest flavors, just gorgeous and highly expressive. Great acidity too - so well balanced. The last glass after 2 hours was best, although it was great from opening. But there is a lot of upside left here too. A great showing from this wine, really just a beautiful wine.
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Showing dark Pinot flavors, mild spice, earthy and very Nuits. Quite dense, more masculine style and weighty with noticeable oak but not protruding. The acidity and balance is there. Still can age further.
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Sheer pleasure. Lovely dark fruit and roots nose. Such velvety tannins. Nose of dark berries, autumn undergrowth, warm spices. Berries and black roots. Fine acidity, great length. Very sybaritic for NSG 1er but oh so enjoyable.
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Highly perfumed aromatics of smoke, plant matter, cherry and plum and earth. It is plush and velvety in the mouth with so much flesh. There's some Nuits earth just below the surface and balance is impeccable. This is highly perfumed Nuits that has good depth of flavor and it really fans out on the finish.
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Not much on nose, soft textured, deep and intriguing, there's a very slight stem pong, but the overriding sense is sappiness. Very attractive, but quiet
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Has some sandalwood spice to the nose along with sweet red fruit, smoked meats and some floral stem action. It is velvety in the mouth with good depth of flavour and plenty of spice. There is just a touch of bitterness from the whole bunch on the finish.
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Very nice complex nose of red dried cherry fruit, stems, floral elements. Excellent mid palate lift and balance. Great acidity that carries through on a lovely finish.tannins not obtrusive. Better than the 02 Dujac MSD served alongside IMO.
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Dark Garnet, Slightly Browning. Primary and robust, even disjointed, with further need of age to integrate. Oak is a little obtrusive when married with the whole bunch vinous character. Some sweet confection fruit showing through mid-palate and on the finish nicely tannic, dry and pure.
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Started with a little funkiness that blew off (reduction?) leading to a nice nose of sweet red fruit and a little dried cherry. The palate showed dried fruits and a pruniness, some earth and then a wall of slightly drying tannins. Good acid and med finish though really not sure this wine will be able to resolve the tannins before losing the fruit it still has. Probably best to drink these now if you have them and maybe hold one back as an experiment.
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'Come and get me' nose: alluring, sensual, sweet. What a fabulous wine at its peak right there in front of us! Lots of red fruit, autumn leaves, slight touch of smoke. Not too concentrated, but perfectly balanced. Brought this to a blind 2002 Bourgogne horizontal where this and the JM Fourrier 'Combe aux Moines' stood out. The latter being a potentially far greater wine, while the Clos des Forêts was harder to resist! Lovely, lovely wine!
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Good red pinot fruit and a touch of stem on the nose - youthful. This has approachable cherry red fruits but is still a young wine. Showing a little restraint still, not austere but not flashy either. Good at the moment rather than great.
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The stems noticeable today, giving a sharp stalky lift, in the background some vanilla oak, to the fore sweet sappy fruit, some smoke, a hint of funk. On this occasion I could sense the Dujac style influence, which I can't usually. I liked this a lot, though Jane was not keen.
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rich, ripe, bacon fat, lush...big red fruits when first opened but the wine comes around after an hour or so. settles down, becomes a bit more serious, rounds itself out. over all a bit of a easy and very likeable wine at this stage. may develop more details with time.
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Wine Education Service - Classic Red Burgundy (LSE): Plenty of age but still red rather than brown. Gorgeous nose, not a lot of fruit but there's vanilla and plenty of attractive development. Great character, not a lot of fruit, silky beautiful balance, lovely, very long.
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L'Arlot are often overlooked when people seek quality Nuits, but judging by the lavishly hedonistic glories present on this nose perhaps we are mistaken to do so. I know 2002s are a bit on the 'tits out for the boys'-end of the Burgundy spectrum in general, but this is a stirringly ravishing nose. It is certainly Nuits, with its dark fruit profile, suggestions of undergrowth and rich earthiness, but its complex, compelling aromas are sybaritic in the extreme. If you wanted to charm a Burgundy neophyte with a bottle of Nuits you'd dream of giving them a wine like this to smell. They'd love to taste it, too. It has enough rigour to the tannins to make it a good example of Nuits, and I think the acid level is perfectly correct, but the ripe, lascivious fruit and powerfully opulent minerality transform the palate into one of joyously profligate dissolution. This is quite brilliant Nuits but definitely for the louche, rakish pleasure seeker - I can manage that and damned well too. It'll last for a decade-plus but bloody well go for it, boys and girls, then rip some clothes off and growl in the most indelicate manner you can manage.
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Much more evolved, but still with a long life ahead. Beautiful Pinot Noir characteristics, and a balanced palate that has neither touches of green nor is it overripe. This drinks nicely now and can be stored for many more years.
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Decanted for one hour before tasting. Ruby with brick coloured edges. Big nose with lots of dark Pinot fruit and spices. Silky smooth on the palate, with great concentration and length. A very nice wine that’s drinking beautifully at the moment.
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In a lovely place right now. The nose offers up a blend of sweet fruit, sweet earth and sweet meats (everything has a sweet element but is countered perfectly by the savoury). It has the usual L’Arlot sappy lift and in the mouth it is lacy and textured with just a hint of underlying Nuits muscle. It finishes with good drive and fans out in the mouth once the wine is swallowed.
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not quite ready for prime time. hints of strawberry jam, leather and earth. closed in the palate and just a hint of fruit on the finish. nicely textured and balance but needs a few more years to open up. didn't get a chance to take a taste on day 2 but the runner couldn't make it to the day 3 mile.
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Tasted at Lay and Wheeler Burgundy tasting. No formal note. Sweet red strawberry fruit, hints of caramel, spice. Lovely purity, decent intensity and length and well balanced. Actually very approachable, but will undoubtedly improve.
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Rich red burgundy, with dark fruit and spices on the nose and a velvety, sumptuous texture on the palate, wrapped up by a medium to long finish with the same aromas revealed on the nose. Still too young, should evolve beautifully for the next 10+ years. Drink from now until 2018.
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Dark cherries and forest fruits intermingle with spice and roasted meat. Supple tannins and great acidity. Worth decanting briefly before serving at this age - it really needed a bit of time in the glass to show well. Look forward to enjoying these in a few years (if I can resist now!).
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Great acidity and texture with bright cherries and dark berries with more subdued but wonderful aromas and flavors of smoke and spices (and others that escape my memory). An excellent wine after a little aeration as it kept getting better in the glass, especially after about an hour as we reached the end of the bottle.
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The first smells were supremely sweet red and dark fruits dusted with icing sugar. 20 minutes breathing and it started to look more like NSG with telltale meat, soil and earth characters appearing. Another 20 minutes and it started to look like L’Arlot with some delightful sap joining with the graphite/mineral character to provide a steely backbone. This is a wine that shows all the flesh and sweet up front fruit of the vintage yet it is well structured with good poise, balance and length. A wine that will age for a decade or more.
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1/3/2022 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 Points
Notes on Wines from December 2021 (Wellington, NZ): Served double blind by Larry. Larry is keen on his whole bunch, so this wine shouldn’t have been a surprise, and it was drinking very well, albeit probably close to the end of its prime life. Spices, iron filings, dry brush, earth, dried herbs, red cherry and raspberry aromas. Evolved and mellow. On entry to the palate, dry underbrush, savoury and dried herbal notes, with earth and ferric minerality. But there was still a core of sweet, rich red cherry and red currant fruit. Fruit, acids and tannins largely resolved and integrated. I guessed 2003 then 2002. To drink in the next few years. 92+.
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1/26/2020 - BarneyOng Does not like this wine:
Past its prime, unfortunately..
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5/26/2018 - CHINACAT wrote: 92 Points
Light ruby color with pale edges. Some earth in the bouquet. On the palate, much of the fruit has faded, but plenty of complexity and enough acidity to hold things together. A very enjoyable late maturity nuit st. georges.
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10/16/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Spicy whole bunch nose coupled with perfectly ripe red and black fruits. It has some root vegetables and earth too. There's good volume on the mouth and a delicate lacy texture. The finish has some chew and excellent persistence.
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6/27/2017 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
Beautiful showing! The fruit is dark and rich and shows really good detail and complexity, and is entirely permeated by an attractive secondary muskiness. There is strong minerality here too. The palate is beautifully textured and layered with fruit, animal, and forest flavors, just gorgeous and highly expressive. Great acidity too - so well balanced. The last glass after 2 hours was best, although it was great from opening. But there is a lot of upside left here too. A great showing from this wine, really just a beautiful wine.
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9/20/2016 - Wardyn Likes this wine: 90 Points
Showing dark Pinot flavors, mild spice, earthy and very Nuits. Quite dense, more masculine style and weighty with noticeable oak but not protruding. The acidity and balance is there. Still can age further.
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3/19/2016 - cannym Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sheer pleasure. Lovely dark fruit and roots nose. Such velvety tannins. Nose of dark berries, autumn undergrowth, warm spices. Berries and black roots. Fine acidity, great length. Very sybaritic for NSG 1er but oh so enjoyable.
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11/2/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Highly perfumed aromatics of smoke, plant matter, cherry and plum and earth. It is plush and velvety in the mouth with so much flesh. There's some Nuits earth just below the surface and balance is impeccable. This is highly perfumed Nuits that has good depth of flavor and it really fans out on the finish.
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2/4/2015 - TheFrog Likes this wine: 92 Points
A noble knight in an old chain mail walking in the woods. A great wine with a soul.
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4/5/2014 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points
Not much on nose, soft textured, deep and intriguing, there's a very slight stem pong, but the overriding sense is sappiness. Very attractive, but quiet
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1/31/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Has some sandalwood spice to the nose along with sweet red fruit, smoked meats and some floral stem action. It is velvety in the mouth with good depth of flavour and plenty of spice. There is just a touch of bitterness from the whole bunch on the finish.
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8/5/2013 - rnellans wrote: 92 Points
Very nice complex nose of red dried cherry fruit, stems, floral elements. Excellent mid palate lift and balance. Great acidity that carries through on a lovely finish.tannins not obtrusive. Better than the 02 Dujac MSD served alongside IMO.
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7/15/2013 - mike wrote: 90 Points
Dark Garnet, Slightly Browning. Primary and robust, even disjointed, with further need of age to integrate. Oak is a little obtrusive when married with the whole bunch vinous character. Some sweet confection fruit showing through mid-palate and on the finish nicely tannic, dry and pure.
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5/19/2013 - kultcha wrote:
Started with a little funkiness that blew off (reduction?) leading to a nice nose of sweet red fruit and a little dried cherry. The palate showed dried fruits and a pruniness, some earth and then a wall of slightly drying tannins. Good acid and med finish though really not sure this wine will be able to resolve the tannins before losing the fruit it still has. Probably best to drink these now if you have them and maybe hold one back as an experiment.
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12/15/2012 - walkerjfw wrote: 92 Points
Dinner at Blue Morel with Gary/Tom/Bob. From a magnum. Opened up nicely after about 30 minutes. Burgundy nose of fruit, bacon fat, floral.
Raspberry, dusted cherry, red fruits, some spice/smoke. Seems to in its zone right now.
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12/7/2012 - JesperR wrote: 92 Points
'Come and get me' nose: alluring, sensual, sweet. What a fabulous wine at its peak right there in front of us! Lots of red fruit, autumn leaves, slight touch of smoke. Not too concentrated, but perfectly balanced.
Brought this to a blind 2002 Bourgogne horizontal where this and the JM Fourrier 'Combe aux Moines' stood out. The latter being a potentially far greater wine, while the Clos des Forêts was harder to resist!
Lovely, lovely wine!
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10/7/2012 - kevin h wrote: 90 Points
Good red pinot fruit and a touch of stem on the nose - youthful. This has approachable cherry red fruits but is still a young wine. Showing a little restraint still, not austere but not flashy either. Good at the moment rather than great.
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5/6/2012 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
The stems noticeable today, giving a sharp stalky lift, in the background some vanilla oak, to the fore sweet sappy fruit, some smoke, a hint of funk. On this occasion I could sense the Dujac style influence, which I can't usually. I liked this a lot, though Jane was not keen.
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4/2/2012 - christopher wish wrote: 89 Points
rich, ripe, bacon fat, lush...big red fruits when first opened but the wine comes around after an hour or so. settles down, becomes a bit more serious, rounds itself out. over all a bit of a easy and very likeable wine at this stage. may develop more details with time.
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3/21/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 86 Points
DIVA Burgundy Tasting; 3/21/2012-3/22/2012 (Maison Champy - Beaune): Wine tasting. Black fruit aromas with a distinct barnyard character. Similar black fruit on palate, good but not really precise and elegant. Doubt this will improve with more age.
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12/12/2011 - tendring Likes this wine: 91 Points
Wine Education Service - Classic Red Burgundy (LSE): Plenty of age but still red rather than brown.
Gorgeous nose, not a lot of fruit but there's vanilla and plenty of attractive development.
Great character, not a lot of fruit, silky beautiful balance, lovely, very long.
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9/11/2011 - David Strange Likes this wine:
L'Arlot are often overlooked when people seek quality Nuits, but judging by the lavishly hedonistic glories present on this nose perhaps we are mistaken to do so. I know 2002s are a bit on the 'tits out for the boys'-end of the Burgundy spectrum in general, but this is a stirringly ravishing nose. It is certainly Nuits, with its dark fruit profile, suggestions of undergrowth and rich earthiness, but its complex, compelling aromas are sybaritic in the extreme. If you wanted to charm a Burgundy neophyte with a bottle of Nuits you'd dream of giving them a wine like this to smell. They'd love to taste it, too. It has enough rigour to the tannins to make it a good example of Nuits, and I think the acid level is perfectly correct, but the ripe, lascivious fruit and powerfully opulent minerality transform the palate into one of joyously profligate dissolution. This is quite brilliant Nuits but definitely for the louche, rakish pleasure seeker - I can manage that and damned well too. It'll last for a decade-plus but bloody well go for it, boys and girls, then rip some clothes off and growl in the most indelicate manner you can manage.
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8/26/2011 - Maestro wrote: 91 Points
Much more evolved, but still with a long life ahead. Beautiful Pinot Noir characteristics, and a balanced palate that has neither touches of green nor is it overripe. This drinks nicely now and can be stored for many more years.
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5/15/2011 - Pebben wrote: 91 Points
No change from the last note – just great!
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3/13/2011 - Pebben wrote: 91 Points
Decanted for one hour before tasting. Ruby with brick coloured edges. Big nose with lots of dark Pinot fruit and spices. Silky smooth on the palate, with great concentration and length. A very nice wine that’s drinking beautifully at the moment.
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1/29/2010 - jstan wrote: 89 Points
Crimson color, slightly floral and grassy nose, light to medium body, some red fruit, medium finish with tinge of acidity.
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6/15/2009 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 Points
De Bruijn Wijnkopers Annual Tasting (Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn, Netherlands): Nicely matured, drinking well, finely tuned, ethereal and earthy at the same time.
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5/17/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
In a lovely place right now. The nose offers up a blend of sweet fruit, sweet earth and sweet meats (everything has a sweet element but is countered perfectly by the savoury). It has the usual L’Arlot sappy lift and in the mouth it is lacy and textured with just a hint of underlying Nuits muscle. It finishes with good drive and fans out in the mouth once the wine is swallowed.
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10/21/2008 - Rupert wrote:
Burghound comes to London (One Great George Street): This was showing much better than the younger wines - juicy, fragrant, fresh, a little lick of vanilla, very attractive [89]
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6/14/2008 - br wrote:
not quite ready for prime time. hints of strawberry jam, leather and earth. closed in the palate and just a hint of fruit on the finish. nicely textured and balance but needs a few more years to open up. didn't get a chance to take a taste on day 2 but the runner couldn't make it to the day 3 mile.
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2/20/2008 - biggles wrote: 85 Points
Lovely vegetal pinot drinking nicely now
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2/9/2008 - Rupert wrote: 88 Points
A bit tight and metallic, some cherry pinot fragrance - perhaps this is closing up a bit
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10/7/2007 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Following the 2001, this was softer, riper, with vanilla oak in evidence, less focused, but with gorgeous strawberry and redcurrant fruit.
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8/25/2007 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points
Liquorice, raspberries and black cherries, layers of flavour, ethereal perfume, young but lovely already
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6/23/2007 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points
Dense, gamey fragrance, not fully open, but already expressive, intriguing, long and balanced
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5/3/2007 - Paul D wrote:
Tasted at Lay and Wheeler Burgundy tasting. No formal note. Sweet red strawberry fruit, hints of caramel, spice. Lovely purity, decent intensity and length and well balanced. Actually very approachable, but will undoubtedly improve.
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4/1/2007 - gjberdy wrote: 90 Points
medium red. Aromas of cherries, strawberries. Flavor of cherries, minerals. Nice finish
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4/1/2007 - Maestro wrote: 90 Points
Rich red burgundy, with dark fruit and spices on the nose and a velvety, sumptuous texture on the palate, wrapped up by a medium to long finish with the same aromas revealed on the nose. Still too young, should evolve beautifully for the next 10+ years. Drink from now until 2018.
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4/30/2006 - rooview wrote: 92 Points
Dark cherries and forest fruits intermingle with spice and roasted meat. Supple tannins and great acidity. Worth decanting briefly before serving at this age - it really needed a bit of time in the glass to show well. Look forward to enjoying these in a few years (if I can resist now!).
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12/31/2005 - rlysecky wrote: 91 Points
Great acidity and texture with bright cherries and dark berries with more subdued but wonderful aromas and flavors of smoke and spices (and others that escape my memory). An excellent wine after a little aeration as it kept getting better in the glass, especially after about an hour as we reached the end of the bottle.
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7/10/2004 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
The first smells were supremely sweet red and dark fruits dusted with icing sugar. 20 minutes breathing and it started to look more like NSG with telltale meat, soil and earth characters appearing. Another 20 minutes and it started to look like L’Arlot with some delightful sap joining with the graphite/mineral character to provide a steely backbone. This is a wine that shows all the flesh and sweet up front fruit of the vintage yet it is well structured with good poise, balance and length. A wine that will age for a decade or more.
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