Jim & Michelene's 40th Anniversary Dinner (Jim and Michelene's Place, St. Paul, MN): Medium dark red color. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Well this was quite a bit different from bottles a number of years ago, 2017 and 2015 specifically. This bottle for me was particularly herbaceous with a deep green streak that made it feel more youthful, but perhaps that perception was not reality. I'm not sure. There seemed to be lots of ripe fruit, a mix of tart raspberry more on the nose and pure cherry on the palate, texturally velvety, as Siggy noted lots of Nori notes too with stone minerality. This was showing notable vanilla on the palate and it was pretty full on powerful. If I'd never had this before, my impression was that this was younger than it is, but those other bottles didn't leave that impression. 91(+?)pts.
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My last btl on a great evening in at the legendary & "still bringing it", Dell Bar in the WI Dells. Originally, Jimmy's Dell Bar in the 50s/60s/70s. Ate here as kid with my mom & dad. Great memories. PnP on arrival in Burg glasses. Started drinking an hour later after apps with a Bollinger SC. Translucent crimson red with bricking. This is in a state of complete serenity. Resolved, placid burgundy heaven! Pervasive sniffs of sous bois & roses. Sips are lacy, ethereal, refined, classy and seamless. Tertiary earth, forest floor, mineral, mushroom and fading red fruit slowly reverberate in the mouth. This has arrived, delivering burgundy bliss! Perfect tonight with roast brick chicken. 13% alc I don't see this improving. Don't miss the performance before they close the curtain. Drink em if you got em. Loved this graceful soulful glass of Burgundy. Sort of reminds me of 25yr old Lopez Heredia Bosconia Gran Reserva.
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2007 that gave the 2009 and 2010 a run for their money. Very surprised but hey it is what is in the bottle. The most pale in color of the 4 vintages. Close to get settled in on its plateau. Seemed very open and did not need any coercing to provide its beautiful fresh flavors of roses, under brush but the least spice of the group. My co favorite with the 2009
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What we have here is a blend of "just drink that wine tonight" mixed with semi-late celebration of closing on our new house and move. I splurged a bit on this anniversary vintage at $140 "deal" price a few years back, which I believe was from a Last Bottle marathon, but I see it's going for ~$450–650 currently—yowza! Anyway, I have this box of premium wines I brought with me, and am in between on wine storage ATM, so let's drink one!
Well, it's drinking really well tonight, and I'm glad we opened it. Medium ruby to garnet with transparency. Aromas of red fruits, rose petal, violet, honeysuckle, potpourri, black tea, mushrooms, anise, and orange peel. Medium body, medium (+) acid and finish, and flavors of high toned red fruits like cherry and cranberry, black tea, lemon, orange peel, and minerals that linger on the finish. This is really nice. Not $400+ nice, but I'm not sure any bottle of wine is that for me personally. Great bottle though. 👌
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My 2nd of 3 and 4yrs since my last. Slow oxed in Burg glasses and btl for 2 hours prior to dinner. Semi translucent crimson red with bricking. This is in a state of resolved, placid burgundy heaven! Pervasive sniffs of sous bois and roses. Sips are elegant, ethereal, refined, classy and seamless. Tertiary earth, forest floor, mineral, mushroom and fading fruit slowly reverberate in the mouth. This has arrived and delivering burgundy bliss! Where a 2010 may take 20+yrs to get to this place, this 2007 is ready to go. I'll likely drink my last btl before 2025. Loved it tonight with pan seared tuna. Nita's & my 42nd Anni. Who gets married in January! In a 16" snow storm? Not my wife's idea! I've always been a slow learner. 13% alc.
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The 2007 Dujac Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts was a different kettle of fish in this flight. Tasted blind and everyone guessed it was a decade older than 2007. Maturing nose of clean forest floor, mild herbs and smooth cherries. Incredibly light and elegant with a candied scent. One of the most feminine wines of the evening. Georges Noellat Les Beaux Monts 1993? (92/100)
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Floral on the nose with candied fruit, dujac spice and cinnamon. Palate was very transperent with weightless intensity. Despite the weak vintage, the wine had a very solid sweet fruit on the palate. For the 2007 dujac, the malconsort actually showed more intensity than his cdlr. But both of them were great. 93-94
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So at first I thought it was a bit muted and perhaps damaged. This was simply that I needed to re-calibrate my senses to this wine. I have been drinking more up front and fruit forward Burgundy. This is different. It is subtle. The nose has hints of wild forest strawberries with hints of Vosne spice wafting from the bowl of the glass. They subtely assert themselves as you get used to the delicate and light notes from the wine. On taste you think the taste a bit muted - but this is because of the fine tannins overwhelming the front of the palate. The body is light and the taste lasts a long time. It is subtle and sublime. A great wine that needs quite a bit of time for the fine tannins to resolve. It is just unfurling a bit of its charm.
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In a bang up flight of 07 Cristom Eileen/07 Rhys Alpine/07 Dujac Malcansorts. This was aromatically a bit shy but oh so ethereal on the palate. Amazing flavor and spice lift, in a weightless body. Three terrific wines.
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There's dark fruits and a bit of spice here, but the wine lacks real breadth and depth that one expects from this vineyard. Too early to drink? Picked too early? Cellared since original release.
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A little reticent upon the nose when opened, but the wine needed some air or to stretch its legs. After a half hour or so, that Vosne nose came through with forest floor, black cherry, sweet spice, roses, and hoisin. The palate thickened up and the wine was really roaring. Dujac really never disappoints and it will be wonderful to see in ten years how this wine shows, and also witness the progression of quality with this new plot. Drink or hold.
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Chef's Choice Dinner in the North Loop: A Night of Burgundy (David's Place, Mpls): Light medium red color. PNP, drank 1+ glass over an hour plus. Drank side by side with an '06 Dujac Combottes and there really was no comparison. It's been just about 2 years since we last had this and I think this may be starting to peak now. Not that it is in any danger of falling off - this should be able to age for another 10 plus years. But wow, this is in great shape now. Such pretty forest floor notes, raspberry, very high toned nose of cinnamon and mixed spices, cherry and orange peel on the perfumed nose. The palate can fool you when you see the lighter color, but make no mistake, this has great intensity, power and energy with finesse and a caressing mouthfeel. Very well balanced with lovely red fruits and a long spicebox finish. This is a great example of the vintage drinking very well. 94(+?)pts.
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This is a very cool btl of Burgundy! Note to self, at age 61, keep buying more of these 2007 red Burgs. Its a "middle aged" guy's perfect option because these tend to drink like they're 15 plus years old rather than only 9 plus yrs old. This wine is stellar and, might, add a bit more complexity and nuance but they're drinking very resolved right now. PnP in Burg glass, translucent crimson red color with some bricking. Terrific nose of red fruit, spice and hint of forest floor. Palate continues to offer delicate red fruit, spice earth and a subtle hint of forest floor and mushrooms. Definitely some earthiness. This is so ethereal and finessed! A great btl amongst several other outstanding Burgs tonight. Not sure there was clear red WOTN tonight as the 2008 Chevillon Roncieries with more body & bolder flavors was equally fascinating for me. As was a youthfully great 2006 Dujac Combottes, a very pretty and complex 2001 Louis Remy Chambertin and a still youthfully structured '96 Jadot Beze were all 91pts plus wines and killer tonight. Just an amazing Burg night!
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Wines and Grill (Chicago, IL): This wine was showing absolutely nothing tonight. A smidgen of Dujac spice here, a touch of red fruit there, but that was absolutely it. Barely any aromas, barely anything on the palate besides acidity and tannin. It does mirror a past experience of this wine (although that was from a magnum), but it is particularly more bizarre that a recent 2007 CSD was incredibly expressive and open, while this was just completely closed in on itself. We threw this in a decanter which did absolutely nothing at all.
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Limpid ruby color. Aromas of rose water, pomegranate and spice. This started with a lot of stem action on the finish, but bloomed after it was open two hours and turned to silk. Dark cherry, a toss of earth and a Vosne spice finish. True to place. Fine. This needs a couple of years. 92
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A very nicely balanced wine. It is nicely into the secondary phase and we had some light bits of forest floor followed by a long Bing cherry finish. It sat in our glasses and opened up sigificantly during the hour. Beautiful wine and for me, in the zone now!
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Another very intriguing 07. I own 3 of these so it was nice to check in. I'll wait at least a year to try one of mine if not 3. Like many 07s these are drinking more like they're already 15yrs old but showing no sings of decline.
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A French Night at La Belle Vie with a lot of Burgs and Some Others (La Belle Vie, Mpls): Light medium red color. PNP, Drank 1 glass over over an hour. Wow, another stellar performance. Great nose, perfumed with great aromatics, spiced and earthy, slightly sweet red fruits. This is just so pretty on the palate, wonderful powdery tannins that follow the pretty red fruits. There's a lot of pizzazz going on here with an elegance that just can't be denied. Pretty and perfectly integrated. So tasty...93+pts.
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This is very, very different from the way it was on release but it is still very impressive. Now it has a lot of rich, very fleshy dark fruit that seems to have blossomed from nowhere. This isn't showing much stem character this time mainly because the fruit is so plush and saturating. It has the expected brown-spice aromatics of the site too. Of the four wines tonight, this was the most wide open and the easiest to drink, mostly because it's pretty soft and edgeless and has all that glossy fruit, but for exactly the same reasons it did seem a bit flabby in comparison to the Montille.
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Popped and slow oxed for 10 hours before dinner. I didn't taste on opening as I was at the office but the wine was ready to go with the air it received. Packed with spice and stem character. Full and velvety in the mouth. Medium concentration and satisfying. I'm not in a rush to drink my remaining bottles but this is not a wine for the ages. Still, a gorgeous effort for the vintage.
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Nice and spicy with aromas of dark fruits, roses, and earth. The palate took some time to open up, but I really liked how it came together. Good balance for such a young wine, and it has the proper structure to age very nicely. I know there are sometimes concerns that the fruit in 2007 Burgs won't last, but this had great concentration. Exceptional bottle.
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An excessibe [sic] balla [sic] afternoon at Domaine (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Very pale colour. The nose was classic Dujac -- spice and stems but pointed towards the red fruit direction. The palate was surprisingly austere, and still showing a bit of oak (but nothing overwhelming). This did a lot better with a decanter, but I imagine magnums of this still need a long, long time to rest.
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From mag. The 07 is finally tamed down from its wild youth, when it was incredibly drinkable. It's still reasonably approachable, and a fun drink. Not sure if the best approach is to cellar these or simply enjoy them in their youth. Both sound like good ideas.
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Nez parfumé et enivrant, abondant de fruits rouges, d’anis étoilé, de fraises fraîches, de terre et d’épices douces. La bouche est d’une délicatesse comme on en retrouve rarement, même en Bourgogne. Si féminin, fin et soyeux, tout en conservant un profil de fruité abondant et croquant. Grande pureté aromatique. Quel beau vin! 93
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Popped and poured to accompany roast chicken. Medium ruby color. Healthy, intriguing nose of anise, lily, cherry pits, fecund soil, stone. Nicely integrated, linear layers of delectable raspberry and black cherry fruit laced with brambles, iron, and earth on the palate. Tannins certainly present but not overbearing, with sharp acidity to provide balance. Red fruit, iron, and a bit of oak on the long, grippy finish. Evolving very well, displaying the virtues of the vineyard and the winemaker.
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Showing better this time around. Pretty Dujac nose, some violets. Palate has put on a little weight and substance. Still light and still with some oak. Fruit is more prominent. Starting to drink better and improving with time.
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This wine is moving along and finally starting to show off its stuff. I've been tracking it over the past 3 years and it's coming out of its shut down phase. Still a bit too oaky on the palate for me and it needs to integrate with the fruit, but you do get a gorgeous bouquet on spice and red fruit on the nose. You know what Dujac can do with the malconsort as the 06/08/09 are stupendous good, just the 07 is a step down.
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Wonderful nose of spices, violets, dark fruits, and some anise. Deep garnet colour. Perfect balance providing a sense of lightness delivering power. Dark fruit, soy, spice, earth, minerals, silky tannins and plenty of stemminess to integrate still. Good acidity, medium plus finish. Still young with plenty of development upside ahead. That said think this will peak in ~10 years and not go a lot further than 15.
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Friday night, chicken roasting in the oven, could not resist infanticide. Popped and poured then followed for 3 hours. Red ruby color. Piercing nose of anise, sharp cherry pits, cinnamon, flint, violets, earth. Effortless strength on the palate with earth, soy, and beef blood but also beguiling layers of plum and sweet raspberry dancing around on top. Complicating subtle layers of iron also. Lovely fresh acidity and stern tannins still submerged beneath all that red and black fruit. Moderately long finish with a hint of astringency at the end. Whoa, this is going places. Just wait a few years.
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A light pretty nose and elegant palate. A fine fine wine really but unfortunately tonight, was competing against the CSD and Echezeaux. Utterly outclassed but, still, I'm buying 4 at the right price. Pretty and delicious, just don't drink it alongside the CSD or Echezeaux.
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Alcohol :: 13% Opened for 8hrs. Focus, expressive, elegantly aromatic profile that catches my attention immediately. The floral scents and perfume stemminess is outstanding accompany by Red cherry, strawberry, svoriness and autumn leaves. Complex and captivating. Medium bodied, the energy and drive here is top class. It has such good grip at such elegant way. The tannin is silkily fine and te integration is so perfect even at this young stage. Finished long, pure and complex saline mineral. 92-94+
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Lunch with Anthony Hall and Friends (Coppin Grove, Melbourne, Australia): A fantastic wine for its vintage, this has come some way from when I first tasted it at the Domaine, and it was a joy to drink on the night. I liked the nose, with its beguiling notes of slightly green herbs and spices ringed around high-toned black berry and dark cherry aromas. However, it was the palate that really wowed me. It had great depth for a 2007, with lovely, lush flavours of black cherries and dark berries arrayed around a savoury core of meat and a hint of earth, all seasoned with a lovely dose of warm Vosne spice. In spite of all that though, this was still clearly a child of a cool vintage, with lovely fresh acidity racing through its flavours, so that the wine came across as bright, linear, and laser-focused. It could almost have been tart without food, but somehow all the components managed to pull together just on the side of being impeccably balanced. The hint of green that I picked up on the nose reared its head slightly again on the finish, where herb and warm spice notes mingled with a nice earthy undertone. However, this was more an accent that added complexity rather than a distraction. A lovely wine – I was very taken by this. With its balance and structure, it is a 2007 red that should age effortlessly well into its second decade of life.
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Wow. Fantastic right from the pop of the cork. Luscious cherry fruit with a dash of spice and earth and a fantastically smooth texture. The finish just goes on forever. Some might want to put some more age on this one but I like my Burgs with between 5-10 years on them and this one is right in that wheelhouse for me. Awesome.
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Ripe, red fruited and spicy nose. In the mouth quite the same with some unintegrated elements at first. Sappy and with good concentration. Needs a lot of air. Very fine on day 4. Open and intensive. I poured part of the bottle to a .25 small bottle on opening. After 8 days in the fridge this small bottle was just a wonderful drink with very pure taste of Malconsorts and an impressively persistent aftertaste. Just lovely, but needs time.
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40th Birthday Bash (Heidi's, Minneapolis): From magnum. Beautiful brick-red color. Telltale Dujac whole cluster/stemmy nose. A lovely spice bazaar character, which at this youthful stage is partially obscured by oak and stems. The palate shows light- to medium-weight, mellow, harmonious red cherry fruit, minerals, and leafy forest floor, with a beguiling spicy complexity that carries through to the moderately long finish. The Seysses family believes their 2007s have a lot in common with their 2000s, which I love. They didn't own any Malconsorts until 2005, so who knows, but the analogy seems pretty apt with this wine.
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Siggy Turns Forty!!!: From mag. Popped and poured. Thin rusty-red color. Explosive nose, just bursting with aromas red fruit, baking spices and mineral. A wine to smell all night. On the palate this is tasty, but not quite as stunning. Surprisingly light; I'd say barely mid-weight with light red fruit and minimal structure. Flavors on attack are solid, but really fade fast from mid-palate to the finish. After repeated tasting I suspect my score might fall, but that nose is just so mesmerizing. This is definitely worth a look if the price is right.
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I have few 750s of this,so it was fun to try it from mag. Great nose showing whole cluster influence. The palate showed tart red fruit and mienrally flavors. I think the palate needs a littlle more time to achieve a more silky texture. Great Burg!
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Decanted for over an hour. Soaring perfume on the nose. A bit tight on the palate but giving up some classic Vosne spice box notes. More power than elegance. Would love to taste this again in a decade.
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There is a nose marked by one dominating scent I associate with the steminess of whole-cluster vinification. With the would-be grand-cru status of Malconsorts expectations are high and I find the mid-palate lacking somewhat in density or complexity at this moment. Nor do I find the tension or lift I have found in my overachieving '07 villages. A satisfactory 1er cru experience tonight but nothing otherwordly and the overall impression is not vastly different from my recollection of a '01 Jadot NsG Boudots tasted last year.
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The wine needed quite some time to soften and open up, initially it was all sap, spice with a touch of bitter wood. About 30 minutes in the high toned cherry fruit started to show and pick up the palate. The palate stayed light on its feet mixed in with the five spice and tobacco. This wine was more about the subtle nuisances as there was no deep concentrated fruit like the 06 and you had to fight through the subtle tannins. After about two hours the wine shut down hard. It was obvious this wine was too young and I look forward to trying it again in the future.
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From magnum. Dujac's Malconsorts are really terrific, and this mag was incredible, particularly given its youth. Like many 07 burgs, its drinking well right now, and worth a try if you have multiple bottles. Beautiful nose, strong and pleasant spice. Really just flat out gorgeous. Seek this out.
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From magnum. Stunning stuff, starts out with an incredible scent combining all sorts of floral elements with orange peel, red fruits and baking spices. There's tremendous complexity and depth on the palate, and at the same time it's very light and finessed with the acidity keeping it very refreshing and precise. Fantastic.
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Tasted after the Lucien le Moine ´07 Gaudichots. The Malconsorts is the more exciting now. Spice, floral, black fruit and earth aromas and flavors. Succulent and firm structure, ripe tannins. Long aftertaste. Outstanding! More structure, concentration as the Gaudichots.
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Drank together with the 2007 Nicolas Potel Gaudichots, which it is actually more similar to in personality than its own stablemate, Dujac's Beaux Monts, which I enjoyed recently. At first it has a razor-sharp spine and a much more forceful stemmy character than the Gaudichots, very much like the Beaux Monts in construction. Here, however, the spine mostly melts away as the wine sits in the decanter, and it's defined less by its structure than by the distinctive array of exotic spices that always characterize wines from this locale. The Gaudichots smells very much the same but there is something hard to put my finger on that makes the Dujac the more enticing of the two. It isn't that it's bolder or deeper in tone; I think what it finally comes down to is that the aromatics here are enriched by a savory brothiness that adds allure even as it's mostly made of the same stuff. Everything that you pick up on the scent also manifests in the taste, which is a good thing since there isn't really a hell of a lot of fruit to it, either in terms of flavor, body, or sheen. This is drier and more dusty in comparison to the extremely glossy Beaux Monts, but also more plush and open-knit.
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Domaine Dujac dinner at Bouley 3/22/2010 (Bouley): Very pale relative to the Gruenchers. There is nothing here either on the nose or the palate. Pinot Noir, haha. Blah. Nothing helped, air, food, time, nothing. Very disappointing and slayed by the other two in this flight.
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La Paulee de San Francisco - The Verticals (RN74 - San Francisco CA): Vertical tasting, brief note. What a sensational 2007. Fresh, incredibly bright red berry aromas and flavors with alluring spice. Perhaps not the most powerful or complex, but this wine is a perfect example of making a great wine out of what the vintage offered.
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I haven’t had such a sensual young wine in a long time. It is not the largest scaled, or dense Burg but titillates the senses with alluring smells and has the most wonderful silky texture. It has notes of summer berries, currants dusted with icing sugar, fruit patisseries, baking spices and the usual Dujac sappy lift. There is a nice crisp, stony minerality to the finish and it really does open up beautifully in the glass and is both complex and expressive.
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Trip to Burgundy; 6/7/2009-6/10/2009 (The Cote d'Or): One of Dujac's more recent acquisitions, and they are already making lovely wines from the plot. Not much difference in the "non-interventionist" treatment from the Morey plots, but the Vosne terroir certainly spoke out. Dark, dark cherries and plums on the nose with plenty of spicy highlights. All very rich and plush, with almost a creme de cassis feel. Palate had that lovely sense of structure again, with fine tannins and clean acidity giving shape to fine cherry flavours mingled with pepper, wood spice, tobacco and a touch of umami. Nice, long finish rounded the wine off. Again, red fruits, cherries, a wreath of smoke and just a touch of coffee. A lovely wine which will definitely improve with age.
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4/16/2024 - Biskuit Likes this wine:
Night of Dujac (will hopefully update note)
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2/18/2024 - Sean Tay wrote: 93 Points
Came too late into the dinner that I did not get enough volume for tasting note and already drank too much
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10/12/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 91 Points
Jim & Michelene's 40th Anniversary Dinner (Jim and Michelene's Place, St. Paul, MN): Medium dark red color. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Well this was quite a bit different from bottles a number of years ago, 2017 and 2015 specifically. This bottle for me was particularly herbaceous with a deep green streak that made it feel more youthful, but perhaps that perception was not reality. I'm not sure. There seemed to be lots of ripe fruit, a mix of tart raspberry more on the nose and pure cherry on the palate, texturally velvety, as Siggy noted lots of Nori notes too with stone minerality. This was showing notable vanilla on the palate and it was pretty full on powerful. If I'd never had this before, my impression was that this was younger than it is, but those other bottles didn't leave that impression. 91(+?)pts.
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10/22/2022 - Diane (LI) wrote:
Pretty, elegant, with mostly fading fruit, but it is still hanging on. Earthy and floral and a joy to drink.
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9/18/2022 - WIBA Likes this wine: 96 Points
More flamboyant, prettier and more elegant than the clos st denis. Beautiful juicy and drinking now. Not sure if this will hold together though.
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5/17/2022 - Chuck Miller wrote:
Very light and translucent in color with some bricking, several folks guessed Truchot in a blind tasting, Ready to drink, in fact, drink up.
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10/5/2021 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points
My last btl on a great evening in at the legendary & "still bringing it", Dell Bar in the WI Dells. Originally, Jimmy's Dell Bar in the 50s/60s/70s. Ate here as kid with my mom & dad. Great memories. PnP on arrival in Burg glasses. Started drinking an hour later after apps with a Bollinger SC. Translucent crimson red with bricking. This is in a state of complete serenity. Resolved, placid burgundy heaven! Pervasive sniffs of sous bois & roses. Sips are lacy, ethereal, refined, classy and seamless. Tertiary earth, forest floor, mineral, mushroom and fading red fruit slowly reverberate in the mouth. This has arrived, delivering burgundy bliss! Perfect tonight with roast brick chicken. 13% alc I don't see this improving. Don't miss the performance before they close the curtain. Drink em if you got em. Loved this graceful soulful glass of Burgundy. Sort of reminds me of 25yr old Lopez Heredia Bosconia Gran Reserva.
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8/7/2021 - Hanibal Likes this wine: 95 Points
2007 that gave the 2009 and 2010 a run for their money. Very surprised but hey it is what is in the bottle. The most pale in color of the 4 vintages. Close to get settled in on its plateau. Seemed very open and did not need any coercing to provide its beautiful fresh flavors of roses, under brush but the least spice of the group. My co favorite with the 2009
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7/14/2021 - decaturwinedude wrote: 95 Points
A Good Tuesday, Vol. V: '10 LdH Rosado, '20 D&R, '07 Dujac, '00 Hudelot, '93 & '01Sandrone (Aria): So very Dujac-y! Nose is full-on stemmy, sous bois, cherry, earth, tea and more. Spicy, seductive, sinewy. A modern polish, with Burgundian sensibilities. Acidity in harmony with fruit and earth tones. Terrific balance. Drinking very well. A gem of a wine.
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5/11/2021 - etyc Likes this wine:
Malconsorts theme’d dinner at IT-Shanghai
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5/6/2021 - studleytrey Likes this wine: 95 Points
What we have here is a blend of "just drink that wine tonight" mixed with semi-late celebration of closing on our new house and move. I splurged a bit on this anniversary vintage at $140 "deal" price a few years back, which I believe was from a Last Bottle marathon, but I see it's going for ~$450–650 currently—yowza! Anyway, I have this box of premium wines I brought with me, and am in between on wine storage ATM, so let's drink one!
Well, it's drinking really well tonight, and I'm glad we opened it. Medium ruby to garnet with transparency. Aromas of red fruits, rose petal, violet, honeysuckle, potpourri, black tea, mushrooms, anise, and orange peel. Medium body, medium (+) acid and finish, and flavors of high toned red fruits like cherry and cranberry, black tea, lemon, orange peel, and minerals that linger on the finish. This is really nice. Not $400+ nice, but I'm not sure any bottle of wine is that for me personally. Great bottle though. 👌
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1/13/2021 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points
My 2nd of 3 and 4yrs since my last. Slow oxed in Burg glasses and btl for 2 hours prior to dinner. Semi translucent crimson red with bricking. This is in a state of resolved, placid burgundy heaven! Pervasive sniffs of sous bois and roses. Sips are elegant, ethereal, refined, classy and seamless. Tertiary earth, forest floor, mineral, mushroom and fading fruit slowly reverberate in the mouth. This has arrived and delivering burgundy bliss! Where a 2010 may take 20+yrs to get to this place, this 2007 is ready to go. I'll likely drink my last btl before 2025. Loved it tonight with pan seared tuna. Nita's & my 42nd Anni. Who gets married in January! In a 16" snow storm? Not my wife's idea! I've always been a slow learner. 13% alc.
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2/17/2020 - BBBH Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicious, delicate but with lovely depth.
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12/4/2019 - BradE wrote:
From mag. Similar to most of my previous notes. A very lovely and approachable Malconsorts. I like this vintage of this wine.
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9/18/2019 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
Creaminess that was tough to place. Didn't love this.
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8/2/2019 - Raizes Likes this wine: 93 Points
樱桃、草莓和水果硬糖，甘草、烟丝、湿地与菌菇，香气浓郁丰富，慷慨又有耐心。入口的感觉和闻香如出一辙，香气甚至更加集中。拥有良好的酸度和结构，但风格优雅温柔，展现了相当出色的酿造技艺，只是在持续力和回味上略微体现出了07年的年份不足。
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5/30/2019 - Jammy Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points
The 2007 Dujac Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts was a different kettle of fish in this flight. Tasted blind and everyone guessed it was a decade older than 2007. Maturing nose of clean forest floor, mild herbs and smooth cherries. Incredibly light and elegant with a candied scent. One of the most feminine wines of the evening. Georges Noellat Les Beaux Monts 1993? (92/100)
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5/2/2019 - ashegedyn Likes this wine:
Similar to previous note although I did not need to re calibrate my taste.
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1/25/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Floral on the nose with candied fruit, dujac spice and cinnamon. Palate was very transperent with weightless intensity. Despite the weak vintage, the wine had a very solid sweet fruit on the palate. For the 2007 dujac, the malconsort actually showed more intensity than his cdlr. But both of them were great. 93-94
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1/21/2019 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Subtlety and delicacy of the vintage...an amazing array of Vosne spice...cherry cordial...pretty perfume florals...a true pleasure! Jonelle's 50th.
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12/1/2018 - BradE wrote:
From mag. I've always enjoyed this wine, and like many 07's it gives a lot of young-stage pleasure.
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11/26/2018 - ashegedyn Likes this wine:
So at first I thought it was a bit muted and perhaps damaged. This was simply that I needed to re-calibrate my senses to this wine. I have been drinking more up front and fruit forward Burgundy. This is different. It is subtle. The nose has hints of wild forest strawberries with hints of Vosne spice wafting from the bowl of the glass. They subtely assert themselves as you get used to the delicate and light notes from the wine. On taste you think the taste a bit muted - but this is because of the fine tannins overwhelming the front of the palate. The body is light and the taste lasts a long time. It is subtle and sublime. A great wine that needs quite a bit of time for the fine tannins to resolve. It is just unfurling a bit of its charm.
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9/29/2018 - Nanda wrote:
In a bang up flight of 07 Cristom Eileen/07 Rhys Alpine/07 Dujac Malcansorts. This was aromatically a bit shy but oh so ethereal on the palate. Amazing flavor and spice lift, in a weightless body. Three terrific wines.
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8/11/2018 - cfk49 wrote: 90 Points
There's dark fruits and a bit of spice here, but the wine lacks real breadth and depth that one expects from this vineyard. Too early to drink? Picked too early? Cellared since original release.
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8/3/2017 - MonkeyBiz101 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very balanced.
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2/3/2017 - Burgfiendnyc Likes this wine: 93 Points
A little reticent upon the nose when opened, but the wine needed some air or to stretch its legs. After a half hour or so, that Vosne nose came through with forest floor, black cherry, sweet spice, roses, and hoisin. The palate thickened up and the wine was really roaring. Dujac really never disappoints and it will be wonderful to see in ten years how this wine shows, and also witness the progression of quality with this new plot. Drink or hold.
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1/14/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 94 Points
Chef's Choice Dinner in the North Loop: A Night of Burgundy (David's Place, Mpls): Light medium red color. PNP, drank 1+ glass over an hour plus. Drank side by side with an '06 Dujac Combottes and there really was no comparison. It's been just about 2 years since we last had this and I think this may be starting to peak now. Not that it is in any danger of falling off - this should be able to age for another 10 plus years. But wow, this is in great shape now. Such pretty forest floor notes, raspberry, very high toned nose of cinnamon and mixed spices, cherry and orange peel on the perfumed nose. The palate can fool you when you see the lighter color, but make no mistake, this has great intensity, power and energy with finesse and a caressing mouthfeel. Very well balanced with lovely red fruits and a long spicebox finish. This is a great example of the vintage drinking very well. 94(+?)pts.
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1/14/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 94 Points
This is a very cool btl of Burgundy! Note to self, at age 61, keep buying more of these 2007 red Burgs. Its a "middle aged" guy's perfect option because these tend to drink like they're 15 plus years old rather than only 9 plus yrs old. This wine is stellar and, might, add a bit more complexity and nuance but they're drinking very resolved right now. PnP in Burg glass, translucent crimson red color with some bricking. Terrific nose of red fruit, spice and hint of forest floor. Palate continues to offer delicate red fruit, spice earth and a subtle hint of forest floor and mushrooms. Definitely some earthiness. This is so ethereal and finessed! A great btl amongst several other outstanding Burgs tonight. Not sure there was clear red WOTN tonight as the 2008 Chevillon Roncieries with more body & bolder flavors was equally fascinating for me. As was a youthfully great 2006 Dujac Combottes, a very pretty and complex 2001 Louis Remy Chambertin and a still youthfully structured '96 Jadot Beze were all 91pts plus wines and killer tonight. Just an amazing Burg night!
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5/7/2016 - acyso wrote: 83 Points
Wines and Grill (Chicago, IL): This wine was showing absolutely nothing tonight. A smidgen of Dujac spice here, a touch of red fruit there, but that was absolutely it. Barely any aromas, barely anything on the palate besides acidity and tannin. It does mirror a past experience of this wine (although that was from a magnum), but it is particularly more bizarre that a recent 2007 CSD was incredibly expressive and open, while this was just completely closed in on itself. We threw this in a decanter which did absolutely nothing at all.
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4/27/2016 - swade wrote: 92 Points
Limpid ruby color. Aromas of rose water, pomegranate and spice. This started with a lot of stem action on the finish, but bloomed after it was open two hours and turned to silk. Dark cherry, a toss of earth and a Vosne spice finish. True to place. Fine. This needs a couple of years. 92
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4/17/2016 - BradE wrote:
From magnum. Absolutely delicious. Keep on drinking.
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12/31/2015 - sreisgolf wrote: 93 Points
A very nicely balanced wine. It is nicely into the secondary phase and we had some light bits of forest floor followed by a long Bing cherry finish. It sat in our glasses and opened up sigificantly during the hour. Beautiful wine and for me, in the zone now!
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4/15/2015 - chablis28 wrote: 92 Points
Another very intriguing 07. I own 3 of these so it was nice to check in. I'll wait at least a year to try one of mine if not 3. Like many 07s these are drinking more like they're already 15yrs old but showing no sings of decline.
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4/15/2015 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
A French Night at La Belle Vie with a lot of Burgs and Some Others (La Belle Vie, Mpls): Light medium red color. PNP, Drank 1 glass over over an hour. Wow, another stellar performance. Great nose, perfumed with great aromatics, spiced and earthy, slightly sweet red fruits. This is just so pretty on the palate, wonderful powdery tannins that follow the pretty red fruits. There's a lot of pizzazz going on here with an elegance that just can't be denied. Pretty and perfectly integrated. So tasty...93+pts.
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2/13/2015 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is very, very different from the way it was on release but it is still very impressive. Now it has a lot of rich, very fleshy dark fruit that seems to have blossomed from nowhere. This isn't showing much stem character this time mainly because the fruit is so plush and saturating. It has the expected brown-spice aromatics of the site too. Of the four wines tonight, this was the most wide open and the easiest to drink, mostly because it's pretty soft and edgeless and has all that glossy fruit, but for exactly the same reasons it did seem a bit flabby in comparison to the Montille.
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2/13/2015 - EhrlichDY Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped and slow oxed for 10 hours before dinner. I didn't taste on opening as I was at the office but the wine was ready to go with the air it received. Packed with spice and stem character. Full and velvety in the mouth. Medium concentration and satisfying. I'm not in a rush to drink my remaining bottles but this is not a wine for the ages. Still, a gorgeous effort for the vintage.
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1/17/2015 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
Nice and spicy with aromas of dark fruits, roses, and earth. The palate took some time to open up, but I really liked how it came together. Good balance for such a young wine, and it has the proper structure to age very nicely. I know there are sometimes concerns that the fruit in 2007 Burgs won't last, but this had great concentration. Exceptional bottle.
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1/17/2015 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
An excessibe [sic] balla [sic] afternoon at Domaine (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Very pale colour. The nose was classic Dujac -- spice and stems but pointed towards the red fruit direction. The palate was surprisingly austere, and still showing a bit of oak (but nothing overwhelming). This did a lot better with a decanter, but I imagine magnums of this still need a long, long time to rest.
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6/7/2014 - BradE wrote:
From mag. The 07 is finally tamed down from its wild youth, when it was incredibly drinkable. It's still reasonably approachable, and a fun drink. Not sure if the best approach is to cellar these or simply enjoy them in their youth. Both sound like good ideas.
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5/6/2014 - BigJul Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nez parfumé et enivrant, abondant de fruits rouges, d’anis étoilé, de fraises fraîches, de terre et d’épices douces. La bouche est d’une délicatesse comme on en retrouve rarement, même en Bourgogne. Si féminin, fin et soyeux, tout en conservant un profil de fruité abondant et croquant. Grande pureté aromatique. Quel beau vin! 93
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3/29/2014 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Popped and poured to accompany roast chicken. Medium ruby color. Healthy, intriguing nose of anise, lily, cherry pits, fecund soil, stone. Nicely integrated, linear layers of delectable raspberry and black cherry fruit laced with brambles, iron, and earth on the palate. Tannins certainly present but not overbearing, with sharp acidity to provide balance. Red fruit, iron, and a bit of oak on the long, grippy finish. Evolving very well, displaying the virtues of the vineyard and the winemaker.
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3/28/2014 - bpj87 wrote:
Beautiful Dujac nose of vivid florals and spice. Light bodied with red fruits and some oak. Such a lovely, pretty wine.
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3/28/2014 - FYC wrote:
Showing better this time around. Pretty Dujac nose, some violets. Palate has put on a little weight and substance. Still light and still with some oak. Fruit is more prominent. Starting to drink better and improving with time.
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3/28/2014 - clayfu wrote:
This wine is moving along and finally starting to show off its stuff. I've been tracking it over the past 3 years and it's coming out of its shut down phase. Still a bit too oaky on the palate for me and it needs to integrate with the fruit, but you do get a gorgeous bouquet on spice and red fruit on the nose. You know what Dujac can do with the malconsort as the 06/08/09 are stupendous good, just the 07 is a step down.
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3/1/2014 - kultcha wrote:
Wonderful nose of spices, violets, dark fruits, and some anise. Deep garnet colour. Perfect balance providing a sense of lightness delivering power. Dark fruit, soy, spice, earth, minerals, silky tannins and plenty of stemminess to integrate still. Good acidity, medium plus finish. Still young with plenty of development upside ahead. That said think this will peak in ~10 years and not go a lot further than 15.
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11/9/2013 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Friday night, chicken roasting in the oven, could not resist infanticide. Popped and poured then followed for 3 hours. Red ruby color. Piercing nose of anise, sharp cherry pits, cinnamon, flint, violets, earth. Effortless strength on the palate with earth, soy, and beef blood but also beguiling layers of plum and sweet raspberry dancing around on top. Complicating subtle layers of iron also. Lovely fresh acidity and stern tannins still submerged beneath all that red and black fruit. Moderately long finish with a hint of astringency at the end. Whoa, this is going places. Just wait a few years.
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9/1/2013 - Flavito wrote: 92 Points
Very spicy nose, lots of complexity here. Elegant and light bodied, tails off at the end with some bitterness, on a fairly long finish.
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8/7/2013 - FYC wrote:
A light pretty nose and elegant palate. A fine fine wine really but unfortunately tonight, was competing against the CSD and Echezeaux. Utterly outclassed but, still, I'm buying 4 at the right price. Pretty and delicious, just don't drink it alongside the CSD or Echezeaux.
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5/10/2013 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 92 Points
Alcohol :: 13%
Opened for 8hrs. Focus, expressive, elegantly aromatic profile that catches my attention immediately. The floral scents and perfume stemminess is outstanding accompany by Red cherry, strawberry, svoriness and autumn leaves. Complex and captivating. Medium bodied, the energy and drive here is top class. It has such good grip at such elegant way. The tannin is silkily fine and te integration is so perfect even at this young stage. Finished long, pure and complex saline mineral. 92-94+
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2/23/2013 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Lunch with Anthony Hall and Friends (Coppin Grove, Melbourne, Australia): A fantastic wine for its vintage, this has come some way from when I first tasted it at the Domaine, and it was a joy to drink on the night. I liked the nose, with its beguiling notes of slightly green herbs and spices ringed around high-toned black berry and dark cherry aromas. However, it was the palate that really wowed me. It had great depth for a 2007, with lovely, lush flavours of black cherries and dark berries arrayed around a savoury core of meat and a hint of earth, all seasoned with a lovely dose of warm Vosne spice. In spite of all that though, this was still clearly a child of a cool vintage, with lovely fresh acidity racing through its flavours, so that the wine came across as bright, linear, and laser-focused. It could almost have been tart without food, but somehow all the components managed to pull together just on the side of being impeccably balanced. The hint of green that I picked up on the nose reared its head slightly again on the finish, where herb and warm spice notes mingled with a nice earthy undertone. However, this was more an accent that added complexity rather than a distraction. A lovely wine – I was very taken by this. With its balance and structure, it is a 2007 red that should age effortlessly well into its second decade of life.
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9/2/2012 - Rob MacKay wrote: 94 Points
Wow. Fantastic right from the pop of the cork. Luscious cherry fruit with a dash of spice and earth and a fantastically smooth texture. The finish just goes on forever. Some might want to put some more age on this one but I like my Burgs with between 5-10 years on them and this one is right in that wheelhouse for me. Awesome.
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3/20/2012 - BradE wrote:
From mag. A great nose. This has been drinking well young, but I think its time to leave these alone and let them age.
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2/26/2012 - VHJV wrote: 94 Points
Ripe, red fruited and spicy nose. In the mouth quite the same with some unintegrated elements at first. Sappy and with good concentration. Needs a lot of air. Very fine on day 4. Open and intensive. I poured part of the bottle to a .25 small bottle on opening. After 8 days in the fridge this small bottle was just a wonderful drink with very pure taste of Malconsorts and an impressively persistent aftertaste. Just lovely, but needs time.
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11/5/2011 - Siggy wrote: 93 Points
40th Birthday Bash (Heidi's, Minneapolis): From magnum. Beautiful brick-red color. Telltale Dujac whole cluster/stemmy nose. A lovely spice bazaar character, which at this youthful stage is partially obscured by oak and stems. The palate shows light- to medium-weight, mellow, harmonious red cherry fruit, minerals, and leafy forest floor, with a beguiling spicy complexity that carries through to the moderately long finish. The Seysses family believes their 2007s have a lot in common with their 2000s, which I love. They didn't own any Malconsorts until 2005, so who knows, but the analogy seems pretty apt with this wine.
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11/5/2011 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 93 Points
Siggy Turns Forty!!!: From mag. Popped and poured. Thin rusty-red color. Explosive nose, just bursting with aromas red fruit, baking spices and mineral. A wine to smell all night. On the palate this is tasty, but not quite as stunning. Surprisingly light; I'd say barely mid-weight with light red fruit and minimal structure. Flavors on attack are solid, but really fade fast from mid-palate to the finish. After repeated tasting I suspect my score might fall, but that nose is just so mesmerizing. This is definitely worth a look if the price is right.
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11/5/2011 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
I have few 750s of this,so it was fun to try it from mag. Great nose showing whole cluster influence. The palate showed tart red fruit and mienrally flavors. I think the palate needs a littlle more time to achieve a more silky texture. Great Burg!
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11/5/2011 - BradE wrote:
From mag. A beguiling nose, and a palate that almost matches. A terrific young burg, that continues to drink well notwithstanding its youth.
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9/25/2011 - JOsgood wrote:
Decanted for over an hour. Soaring perfume on the nose. A bit tight on the palate but giving up some classic Vosne spice box notes. More power than elegance. Would love to taste this again in a decade.
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7/23/2011 - BradE wrote:
From mag. Great performance, drinking well.
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7/9/2011 - palfr2 wrote: 90 Points
There is a nose marked by one dominating scent I associate with the steminess of whole-cluster vinification. With the would-be grand-cru status of Malconsorts expectations are high and I find the mid-palate lacking somewhat in density or complexity at this moment. Nor do I find the tension or lift I have found in my overachieving '07 villages. A satisfactory 1er cru experience tonight but nothing otherwordly and the overall impression is not vastly different from my recollection of a '01 Jadot NsG Boudots tasted last year.
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5/22/2011 - clayfu wrote: 90 Points
The wine needed quite some time to soften and open up, initially it was all sap, spice with a touch of bitter wood. About 30 minutes in the high toned cherry fruit started to show and pick up the palate. The palate stayed light on its feet mixed in with the five spice and tobacco. This wine was more about the subtle nuisances as there was no deep concentrated fruit like the 06 and you had to fight through the subtle tannins. After about two hours the wine shut down hard. It was obvious this wine was too young and I look forward to trying it again in the future.
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12/30/2010 - BradE wrote:
From magnum. Dujac's Malconsorts are really terrific, and this mag was incredible, particularly given its youth. Like many 07 burgs, its drinking well right now, and worth a try if you have multiple bottles. Beautiful nose, strong and pleasant spice. Really just flat out gorgeous. Seek this out.
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11/10/2010 - salil wrote: 94 Points
From magnum. Stunning stuff, starts out with an incredible scent combining all sorts of floral elements with orange peel, red fruits and baking spices. There's tremendous complexity and depth on the palate, and at the same time it's very light and finessed with the acidity keeping it very refreshing and precise. Fantastic.
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10/20/2010 - ews3 wrote: 91 Points
Zachys Robin Hood 2010 Wine Tasting (La venue, NYC): Dark fruit profile, with some "light" dark chocolate notes. Raspberry. I found the combination of flavors weird, but I liked it.
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5/30/2010 - Barry Rothof wrote: 93 Points
Tasted after the Lucien le Moine ´07 Gaudichots. The Malconsorts is the more exciting now. Spice, floral, black fruit and earth aromas and flavors. Succulent and firm structure, ripe tannins. Long aftertaste. Outstanding! More structure, concentration as the Gaudichots.
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4/18/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 93 Points
Drank together with the 2007 Nicolas Potel Gaudichots, which it is actually more similar to in personality than its own stablemate, Dujac's Beaux Monts, which I enjoyed recently. At first it has a razor-sharp spine and a much more forceful stemmy character than the Gaudichots, very much like the Beaux Monts in construction. Here, however, the spine mostly melts away as the wine sits in the decanter, and it's defined less by its structure than by the distinctive array of exotic spices that always characterize wines from this locale. The Gaudichots smells very much the same but there is something hard to put my finger on that makes the Dujac the more enticing of the two. It isn't that it's bolder or deeper in tone; I think what it finally comes down to is that the aromatics here are enriched by a savory brothiness that adds allure even as it's mostly made of the same stuff. Everything that you pick up on the scent also manifests in the taste, which is a good thing since there isn't really a hell of a lot of fruit to it, either in terms of flavor, body, or sheen. This is drier and more dusty in comparison to the extremely glossy Beaux Monts, but also more plush and open-knit.
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3/22/2010 - Matt Neel wrote:
Domaine Dujac dinner at Bouley 3/22/2010 (Bouley): Very pale relative to the Gruenchers. There is nothing here either on the nose or the palate. Pinot Noir, haha. Blah. Nothing helped, air, food, time, nothing. Very disappointing and slayed by the other two in this flight.
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3/12/2010 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
La Paulee de San Francisco - The Verticals (RN74 - San Francisco CA): Vertical tasting, brief note. What a sensational 2007. Fresh, incredibly bright red berry aromas and flavors with alluring spice. Perhaps not the most powerful or complex, but this wine is a perfect example of making a great wine out of what the vintage offered.
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1/17/2010 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
I haven’t had such a sensual young wine in a long time. It is not the largest scaled, or dense Burg but titillates the senses with alluring smells and has the most wonderful silky texture. It has notes of summer berries, currants dusted with icing sugar, fruit patisseries, baking spices and the usual Dujac sappy lift. There is a nice crisp, stony minerality to the finish and it really does open up beautifully in the glass and is both complex and expressive.
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8/25/2009 - peternelson wrote: 90 Points
Campanile: Tight, wrapped up, not as expressive, but pretty, and will unleash grt things
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6/9/2009 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Trip to Burgundy; 6/7/2009-6/10/2009 (The Cote d'Or): One of Dujac's more recent acquisitions, and they are already making lovely wines from the plot. Not much difference in the "non-interventionist" treatment from the Morey plots, but the Vosne terroir certainly spoke out. Dark, dark cherries and plums on the nose with plenty of spicy highlights. All very rich and plush, with almost a creme de cassis feel. Palate had that lovely sense of structure again, with fine tannins and clean acidity giving shape to fine cherry flavours mingled with pepper, wood spice, tobacco and a touch of umami. Nice, long finish rounded the wine off. Again, red fruits, cherries, a wreath of smoke and just a touch of coffee. A lovely wine which will definitely improve with age.
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