Similar but probably a little more advanced than the bottle belonging to the last poster. It was tired with acidity and tannins outpacing fruit and any interesting secondary nuances. Decanted one hour prior to pouring.
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Time to drink this, but there is still plenty of life left. Fruit is fading but still lingering. Leather, earth, cherries, medium bodied, moderate acidity. It did well on the dinner table.
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Nuits-Saint-Georges and Riesling - Q by Peter Chang (Q by Peter Chang - Bethesda, Maryland): Medium expressive nose displaying black and red fruit, raspberry preserve, black cherry, leather, cinnamon, roasted meat and earth. Medium concentration, subtle red and black fruit, cool and lean, strong acidity, earthy mineral, and a medium long red and black driven finish. This shows a bit more weight than Chaignots but also bitter and lacks midpalate.
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Similar to prior note. This time was a bit more wound up with more prominent fruit and wood on the palate. Probably would have benefited from a decant.
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I would never guess a 2008 here. It seemed more mature and without the piercing acidity some 2008s show. It starts out earthy with a little funk, but the sweet fruit slowly starts to take over, supported by orange zest. For me, it is in the zone, and I will get to my other bottle when the opportunity presents itself.
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Opens with a slightly gamy funk that had me thinking it would be a bit further along the way to maturity than it actually turned out to be. It blew off quickly and might have just been a sign of reduction. It's past its fruit phase and has started taking on crimson, autumnal tones, but it still has a good amount of flesh, especially by the standards of the characteristically slender Les Cailles, and isn't thinning out. The Cailles elegance shows in a silky, open-knit texture and the bottle turns out deceptively easy to drink despite feeling like it's in an in-between stage where the aromas and flavors are on the reticent side. P.S. My notes on this are eerily consistent with my notes taken on release, which I didn't look at until after getting this one down, despite the 11 year snooze.
A bit of funk on the nose, especially on opening, but in a good and interesting way. Elegant and smooth, with floral character (and notes of bergamot?). Great balance of fruit and acidity. Lots of complexity. Paired well with pork, and with quail. Borderline 94 but did not quite have the ‘wow’ factor to round it up.
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Light red. A bit of char and game on the nose to accompany red fruit. Light to medium weight, soft, wafting red berries, earth, and soil with an orange peel lift. The acidity of the vintage comes late with some light tannins. This is excellent, refined Nuits that is definitely in its window. The last time I tasted this some 3 years ago, that bottle was dominated by bizarre tropical oak. It is hard to believe that it was the same wine.
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PNP. Bright crimson. Airy nose, showing bright red cherry, strawberry and spice aromas. The palate is lean and clenched, lightly extracted but definitely shows the 08 austerity and structure. Great with food, a little drying on its own. Very nice.
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An '08 winner. It has the bright acids but enough fruit and structure to keep things in balance. Open-knit and airy, this is delightful with food and will only improve as it continues to unfurl.
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Decanted for 2 hours and this really had a lovely nose of sappy black cherry, plums, damp earth and oak tones that led to a deep, black cherry and earth flavors that maintained good grip through the finish.
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Tasted over 3 hrs -dark red mild clearing -expressive spicy sweet bit of funk -med+/high acidity cuts a swath through entire palate and leaves the finish a bit dried out, med weight sappy intensity fading dark fruit but not terribly complex, finishes with med- tannins and sweet spicy oak that is less prominent than on the nose -not as well balanced as prior bottles as the fruit is fading and the acidity takes center stage
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Burgundy drives me insane!!! Have a few bottle from the start of my collection before I stopped buying Burgundy pretty much completely (until recently after a profound 2015 Grivot CdV experience). Coravin'ed a glass about 2 weeks ago and wasn't that impressed. Seemed kind of closed and not that exciting after storing this for 10 years and moving it to back and forth across the country twice. Today opened the rest of the bottle and initially had same reaction but after about an hour this really opened up with some a nice strawberry and lighter cherry with some additional complexity. So this runs from like an 89 to 92 for me. Interesting but certainly but just not worth all the trouble and storage time. I do have the 08 Vaucrains which I'll try in another year or so.
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Beautiful bouquet and lovely body, elegant, subtle, pure fresh strawberry, raspberry, fully mature, good sweetness, balanced with pretty acidity, very nice texture, some minerals, earthy, and nuanced, long and sedative aftertaste. Bought it at a wine shop in Burgundy in 2010 and been patient with it. Certainly rewarded.
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The wine of the night in double blinds at Jason's. The best Chevillon I've probably ever had, and I've had (and still own) bottles of this. Perhaps caught in its best moment, though somewhat surprising for an 08 NSG. Good lift on the nose with some dark fruit, and some dark fruit on the palate with a touch of earth (made me think Gevrey) and good mostly primary fruit with good acidity that isn't intrusive. The finish is a touch short, but otherwise this is lovely.
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I think this wine needs lots more time in the cellar - another 7-10 years, in order to fully reveal itself. Its good now, and it's not because of intense tannins. It's aromas and flavors are inwards, they haven't uncurled yet. It is clearly a lovely wine though. Pretty red fruit, hints of dark plum too. And there are prominent notes of animal fur, there is a feral sense to the nose, that with the other earthy tones almost makes the wine seem rustic. It is a bit rustic, but in a good way. The acidity is at the high end of the range where the wine can still be well balanced. I imagine that with time, the elements will relax and harmonize, and this will be a beautiful combo of pretty fruit and pungent animale earthiness. I want to be there when that happens.
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Light ruby. There are many things to like about this wine-fresh strawberry, soil, spice, excellent acidity, and quite a lot of punch in the mouth. BUT, it is all framed and ultimately swamped by very exotic new oak that reeks of coconut. At times, I thought I was smelling suntan lotion. Bizarre to say the least. I struggle to recall ever being put off by the amount of wood in Chevillon wines, much less exaggerated aromas and flavors like these. The astringent finish was full of wood tannin and sealed the deal in unhappy fashion. A distinct outlier experience for a bottling that I usually admire.
To be fair, this is better the second night. The wood scents and texture are still there to be sure, but not nearly as tropical. It shows good sweetness, fruit, and body for an '08 (granted, some of the latter comes from the oak), and a pleasant citric lift toward the end. Maybe not the disaster I envisioned, but give it time if you open it soon.
Showing quite well with room for growth. Crunchy red fruits, less deeply fruited cherry notes than I've experienced with other vintages. The Chevillon fleshiness plays well with the structure of the vintage. Entering a drinking window, should hold there for a while and improve for folks who like different characteristics.
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This was lovely. Nose shows lovely red fruits, sauvage, underbrush, floral notes and hints of spice. The palate is fresh and vibrant but with very good depth. This shows the positive juicy side of 08 without being thin at all. Really good and still with upside.
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This is right in my sweet spot and, surprisingly, it's drinking well now if you are not adverse to some structure. Beautiful ruby color is a fitting intro to the wine, which shows delicate red and brambly berries with minerals and earth. The texture is open-knit and airy, albeit with fine tannins in the background. The package is sleek and cool and bright and extremely drinkable. Like a 2010 with the volume turned down. This will improve but it's a joy now.
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I think this needs more time. The amazing, crackling fruit and acidity on release is gone, replaced with a bit of muddled fruit that suggests this is in a dumb phase. Balanced, with very high quality material, this should be good when the secondary aromas and flavors start to emerge. Will try to hold my remaining bottles until then.
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Notes of sweet caramel, moss, and humous on the nose. Medium-plus body with somewhat ripe, clean, and somewhat sweet, dark fruit with some savory notes on the palate. While clearly a burgundy, the fruit-forward aspect of this seems quite "new world". Despite the caramel notes on the nose, the oak was well integrated when tasting. Pleasant finish. This is a really pleasurable, fruit forward NSG. While I'd love to experience this with 7 more years of cellaring to see how it develops, this offers fine drinking now ... and personally I don't have the patience to wait that long!
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PopnPour, tasted over 3 hrs -semi-translucent med dark red with purple tinge, no bricking -fragrant spicy fresh exuberant -med+ acidity, barely med weight mid-palate with some earthy spice and wood spice slightly sweet dark red cherry, chalky med tannins on med length finish -somewhat awkward adolescent stage with some oak and sweetness yet to resolve, acid and tannin structure there to ensure it will be near the top of its plateau in another 3-5 years
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Reunion Dinner in DC (Red Hen - Washington, DC): I was really impressed by this young Chevillon. Rumors swirl about how Chevillon's need ages to mature, and while I age my at home, it was great to get to try one through the generosity of a friend. Beautiful aromas of spice, violets, cranberries, and minerals. The palate had great concentration and intensity to it, and I thought the palate was nearly seamless. This will be absolutely gorgeous once some of the secondary and tertiary flavors grow over time.
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Vibrant aroma, not red, but more dark fruited - blackberry, blueberry, and black boy peach. Finely structured on the palate - savoury and vinous with a touch of bitterness though nicely balanced with light lingering fruit sweetness. Fine tannins pull the wine together resulting in a near perfectly, reserved, well defined wine.
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Bottle still has a good chill and was decanted. Tasted in a restaurant so it was difficult to determine the color although the clarity looked good. I smelled a little dried moss and earth as it warmed up. Surprised by the acid level, really enjoyed it, which resulted in a crisp light mouthfeel, no flab here. Nice reserved fruit, light spice, and zip on the finish. Rounded tannins and medium finish. Drinking nicely with plenty of air.
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Opened about 2 hrs ago. Drinking with a light chill, proper stem. This has a dusty, red cherry profile with game and iron, and when it warms up, it reflects some blue fruited edges. The fruit is not shy and it fills in pretty solidly. Like the bottle in 2011 I noted previously, there is good, tangy acidity too. The wine is headed to dinner and I'll splash decant it before we depart, to give it a final blast of air before we finish it over dinner....and dinner did see the bottle get emptied. I enjoyed the last glass, pretty well knitted together, although I did find some tension/structure in the wine. Lots of acid, yet enough fruit here too in balancing the wine out.
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This is one stubborn bottle. Pnp and drank over 2 hrs. The nose was shy and had some elements of cranberries and dried cherries and what I can only describe as wet iron. Mouthfeel was clean with a med. finish and refreshing amount of acid. Cherries and spice is all that I could coax out of it. This needs time as this bottle didn't move at all. Enjoyable now, but man I would wait.
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Beautiful and pure - and also pretty approachable right now. I get the feeling this is delivering a fraction of its potential, but it's pretty great right now.
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Popped and poured. Iron, minerals and cranberry on the nose. The palate is lean and silky with a tight core of cherry fruit flavor and some drying tannins on the back end. I suspect this is somewhat closed but with food it was a nice companion this evening.
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Deep dark evil color of night greets me from the glass. Immediately accessible and seducing, giving me exactly what I crave. Like a fix after several days without your favourite drug, this immensely intoxicating concoction of Nuits spices and power blows through your mind like a bullet looking for a target. Severely addictive and dangerously easy to like, this wine from one of my favourite producers delivers again and again and again.... Cannot wait to open the next bottle of this madness. It's a rabid dog on a short leash waiting to jump to your throat. The bottles left in my cellar are vibrating on the shelf with a gentle hum. They really want to be opened and pour their inner evil into the glasses of innocent young wine-drinkers, corrupting their fragile little souls....
50+5+13+17+8 (93p)
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Tasted slowly over 4 hrs and Day 2 -dark red/maroon -lifted sour/black cherry aromatics, herbal element -med+ zippy acidity with plenty of mid-palate sap to buffer it, pretty black cherry fruit, steely minerality, touch of earth, dusty slightly coarse med tannins, trace wood? on moderately long finish, more expressive on Day 2 -sure, it's too young and yielding only a glimpse of what it will be, but this is something special now, a great example of how beguiling, dynamic and alive a young Burg from a higher acid vintage can be, the structure and underlying material here suggests a deeper slumber to come soon, then a long life ahead of it, WIN
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Una ganadora fácil. Profunda, equilibrada, floral y potente, todo al mismo tiempo. La nariz es tímida. En boca, amaderada. Bastante buena para ser del 08, exceptuando ese corto postgusto.
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Been open 2 hours, slow oxing. Really beautiful, with a nice core of blue and raspberry fruit. Stony, with an herbal note hanging in the background. A meaty note too, like what I found in the wine over the summer. Tangy finish. The balance on this wine is pefect, the stony mineral in the finish. I love the 08 Chevillons......overnight, I let the wine settle, so too with my palate. Enjoying today, really a nice melange of flavor, perhaps less of the flash today, more sturdy and stony with cherry notes and a long finish. Aromatically, a rose petal note comes through today. Really impressive still and what a beautiful bottle of wine.
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This doesn't offer quite the luxe experience of the Les Saint Georges but it's a mighty fine Nuits. The concentration is a little sparser, which results in more prominent woodspice for awhile, but despite that it still has a sensation of fleshiness and doesn't come across as slender as Cailles sometimes does. Overall, it's fairly plush in texture. Some stony earth and a note of something vaguely gamy add intrigue to the red-fruited flavors.
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Opened and poured, this showed a youthful bouquet of red fruits, spice and subtle earth notes. This is more forward and accessible on the bouquet than the 2005 Chevillon "Cailles" tasted the previous evening. The color is a youthful medium to dark ruby with an underlying purple hue. The medium bodied palate shows well but lacks the completeness of the 2005. This shows well now for it youthful fruit and aromatics and will benefit from a couple of additional years of bottle age.
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So young and so pure... this is just quivering with that young burgundy raw fruit thing. Not a monolithic wine, seems to be spicier with more clarity and precision than with the Pruliers. There's this unique tangy chocolatey note on the palate and on the finish that really stands... I wonder if this is something to do with the vineyard? You get the sense that this could age on it's balance for a very long time. So much energy locked up in this wine that's just waiting to come out with time in the bottle. While this is a wonderful drink now, I can't help but think that this is one of those burgundies that requires bottle age to really reveal what's behind the Komono. After confirming that this is indeed good burgundy, I won't be touching my remaining bottles for some time.
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Burg Dinner At The Murray Casa (The Murray's): Pulled late in the game but in time for it to join the flight. I threw it into a decanter to help aerate it. Meaty, gamy and spicy with what seemed to be much darker fruit, as compared to the 08 Rion Amoureuses that preceded this Chevillon in the same flight. Admittedly, should have decanted this more and planned ahead but with all the burg we had going on, wanted to add to the mix.
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I could not have said it better myself, so I adopt Richard Jennings' 3/12/2011 review: "Dark cherry red color with pale meniscus; lovely, expressive, roses, ripe cherry, ripe raspberry nose; tight, ripe raspberry, baked cherry, floral, mineral palate with lift and delicacy; medium-plus finish". I add only that I paid about $20 less for the bottle that I carried back in my luggage from Beaune. In the end, I probably paid about $5000 more for the bottle than Richard paid at Palo Alto retail. Thanks Richard.
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12/31/2023 - Neecies wrote:
Similar but probably a little more advanced than the bottle belonging to the last poster. It was tired with acidity and tannins outpacing fruit and any interesting secondary nuances. Decanted one hour prior to pouring.
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12/3/2023 - Diane (LI) wrote:
Time to drink this, but there is still plenty of life left. Fruit is fading but still lingering. Leather, earth, cherries, medium bodied, moderate acidity. It did well on the dinner table.
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7/2/2023 - stivo wrote: 93 Points
A strong wine and still expressive.
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5/27/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
Vertical/Horizontal Tasting of Chevillon Nuits St. Georges Premier Crus (San Francisco): Light ruby, faded edge. Stalky, green aromas that are unattractive. Lean, angular, licorice, and not much fruit. Dry, tannic finish. Some people thought this had low grade TCA, which I did not sense, but at any rate, I definitely did not care for this.
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3/1/2023 - dcwino wrote: 92 Points
Nuits-Saint-Georges and Riesling - Q by Peter Chang (Q by Peter Chang - Bethesda, Maryland): Medium expressive nose displaying black and red fruit, raspberry preserve, black cherry, leather, cinnamon, roasted meat and earth. Medium concentration, subtle red and black fruit, cool and lean, strong acidity, earthy mineral, and a medium long red and black driven finish. This shows a bit more weight than Chaignots but also bitter and lacks midpalate.
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11/8/2022 - weezie Likes this wine: 92 Points
Similar to prior note. This time was a bit more wound up with more prominent fruit and wood on the palate. Probably would have benefited from a decant.
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9/18/2022 - hargy Likes this wine: 92 Points
a big wine into its drinking window - full of spice and pepper, this was quite delicious - strangely, it completely lost its sparkle on day 2
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9/10/2022 - Diane (LI) wrote:
I would never guess a 2008 here. It seemed more mature and without the piercing acidity some 2008s show. It starts out earthy with a little funk, but the sweet fruit slowly starts to take over, supported by orange zest. For me, it is in the zone, and I will get to my other bottle when the opportunity presents itself.
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4/18/2022 - WEB,III Likes this wine: 92 Points
Classic Chevillon purity.
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4/11/2022 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opens with a slightly gamy funk that had me thinking it would be a bit further along the way to maturity than it actually turned out to be. It blew off quickly and might have just been a sign of reduction. It's past its fruit phase and has started taking on crimson, autumnal tones, but it still has a good amount of flesh, especially by the standards of the characteristically slender Les Cailles, and isn't thinning out. The Cailles elegance shows in a silky, open-knit texture and the bottle turns out deceptively easy to drink despite feeling like it's in an in-between stage where the aromas and flavors are on the reticent side. P.S. My notes on this are eerily consistent with my notes taken on release, which I didn't look at until after getting this one down, despite the 11 year snooze.
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3/11/2022 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
A bit of funk on the nose, especially on opening, but in a good and interesting way. Elegant and smooth, with floral character (and notes of bergamot?). Great balance of fruit and acidity. Lots of complexity. Paired well with pork, and with quail. Borderline 94 but did not quite have the ‘wow’ factor to round it up.
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2/17/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light red. A bit of char and game on the nose to accompany red fruit. Light to medium weight, soft, wafting red berries, earth, and soil with an orange peel lift. The acidity of the vintage comes late with some light tannins. This is excellent, refined Nuits that is definitely in its window. The last time I tasted this some 3 years ago, that bottle was dominated by bizarre tropical oak. It is hard to believe that it was the same wine.
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1/21/2022 - rc@ughey wrote:
Something was off here. Funky, cheesy nose. Disjointed palate.
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1/11/2022 - llink wrote: 92 Points
PNP. Bright crimson. Airy nose, showing bright red cherry, strawberry and spice aromas. The palate is lean and clenched, lightly extracted but definitely shows the 08 austerity and structure. Great with food, a little drying on its own. Very nice.
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11/20/2021 - jnewman77 wrote:
Corked...
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9/2/2021 - rc@ughey wrote: 92 Points
An '08 winner. It has the bright acids but enough fruit and structure to keep things in balance. Open-knit and airy, this is delightful with food and will only improve as it continues to unfurl.
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4/1/2021 - Donjcorleone Likes this wine: 93 Points
Decanted for 2 hours and this really had a lovely nose of sappy black cherry, plums, damp earth and oak tones that led to a deep, black cherry and earth flavors that maintained good grip through the finish.
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9/12/2020 - Cote d'Or wrote:
Tasted over 3 hrs
-dark red mild clearing
-expressive spicy sweet bit of funk
-med+/high acidity cuts a swath through entire palate and leaves the finish a bit dried out, med weight sappy intensity fading dark fruit but not terribly complex, finishes with med- tannins and sweet spicy oak that is less prominent than on the nose
-not as well balanced as prior bottles as the fruit is fading and the acidity takes center stage
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8/14/2020 - yeti575rider wrote: 91 Points
Burgundy drives me insane!!! Have a few bottle from the start of my collection before I stopped buying Burgundy pretty much completely (until recently after a profound 2015 Grivot CdV experience). Coravin'ed a glass about 2 weeks ago and wasn't that impressed. Seemed kind of closed and not that exciting after storing this for 10 years and moving it to back and forth across the country twice. Today opened the rest of the bottle and initially had same reaction but after about an hour this really opened up with some a nice strawberry and lighter cherry with some additional complexity. So this runs from like an 89 to 92 for me. Interesting but certainly but just not worth all the trouble and storage time. I do have the 08 Vaucrains which I'll try in another year or so.
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8/8/2020 - Hawk94 wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful bouquet and lovely body, elegant, subtle, pure fresh strawberry, raspberry, fully mature, good sweetness, balanced with pretty acidity, very nice texture, some minerals, earthy, and nuanced, long and sedative aftertaste. Bought it at a wine shop in Burgundy in 2010 and been patient with it. Certainly rewarded.
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7/18/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:
The wine of the night in double blinds at Jason's. The best Chevillon I've probably ever had, and I've had (and still own) bottles of this. Perhaps caught in its best moment, though somewhat surprising for an 08 NSG. Good lift on the nose with some dark fruit, and some dark fruit on the palate with a touch of earth (made me think Gevrey) and good mostly primary fruit with good acidity that isn't intrusive. The finish is a touch short, but otherwise this is lovely.
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4/28/2020 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
I think this wine needs lots more time in the cellar - another 7-10 years, in order to fully reveal itself. Its good now, and it's not because of intense tannins. It's aromas and flavors are inwards, they haven't uncurled yet. It is clearly a lovely wine though. Pretty red fruit, hints of dark plum too. And there are prominent notes of animal fur, there is a feral sense to the nose, that with the other earthy tones almost makes the wine seem rustic. It is a bit rustic, but in a good way. The acidity is at the high end of the range where the wine can still be well balanced. I imagine that with time, the elements will relax and harmonize, and this will be a beautiful combo of pretty fruit and pungent animale earthiness. I want to be there when that happens.
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4/9/2020 - robferguson1 wrote: 90 Points
I was disappointed in this bottle , felt it was lacking in length , but I had rated another bottle 93 , so maybe I had a bad day and not the bottle
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3/3/2020 - WillersC wrote: 94 Points
More elegant and refined than the Vaucrains. Tight initially but opened up really nicely over a few hours. Elegant, yet with great depth. Very good!
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1/2/2020 - InVinjeVeritas wrote: 89 Points
Quite austere and tannic. But good match with roasted guinea fowl.
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7/22/2019 - PSUSteve Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP. No formal notes but all were somewhat surprised by the depth of this wine along with great acidity and balance.
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6/23/2019 - robferguson1 wrote: 93 Points
This has incredible length and softness and elegance, why the NSG area is looked down upon amazes me but it also provides inexpensive drinking.
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3/24/2019 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light ruby. There are many things to like about this wine-fresh strawberry, soil, spice, excellent acidity, and quite a lot of punch in the mouth. BUT, it is all framed and ultimately swamped by very exotic new oak that reeks of coconut. At times, I thought I was smelling suntan lotion. Bizarre to say the least. I struggle to recall ever being put off by the amount of wood in Chevillon wines, much less exaggerated aromas and flavors like these. The astringent finish was full of wood tannin and sealed the deal in unhappy fashion. A distinct outlier experience for a bottling that I usually admire.
To be fair, this is better the second night. The wood scents and texture are still there to be sure, but not nearly as tropical. It shows good sweetness, fruit, and body for an '08 (granted, some of the latter comes from the oak), and a pleasant citric lift toward the end. Maybe not the disaster I envisioned, but give it time if you open it soon.
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12/23/2018 - agodea Likes this wine: 94 Points
Red fruit, smoke and floral nose, some spice and tannins on the mouth, long tangy finish.
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11/28/2018 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 92 Points
Showing quite well with room for growth. Crunchy red fruits, less deeply fruited cherry notes than I've experienced with other vintages. The Chevillon fleshiness plays well with the structure of the vintage. Entering a drinking window, should hold there for a while and improve for folks who like different characteristics.
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11/22/2018 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:
This was lovely. Nose shows lovely red fruits, sauvage, underbrush, floral notes and hints of spice. The palate is fresh and vibrant but with very good depth. This shows the positive juicy side of 08 without being thin at all. Really good and still with upside.
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6/17/2018 - rc@ughey wrote: 93 Points
This is right in my sweet spot and, surprisingly, it's drinking well now if you are not adverse to some structure. Beautiful ruby color is a fitting intro to the wine, which shows delicate red and brambly berries with minerals and earth. The texture is open-knit and airy, albeit with fine tannins in the background. The package is sleek and cool and bright and extremely drinkable. Like a 2010 with the volume turned down. This will improve but it's a joy now.
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7/3/2017 - beerenauslese wrote: 89 Points
This was disappointing. Even after a long decant. Not much fruit, slightly bitter finish. Perhaps could use more time, but I'm not optimistic.
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12/29/2016 - Chris Newport wrote:
I think this needs more time. The amazing, crackling fruit and acidity on release is gone, replaced with a bit of muddled fruit that suggests this is in a dumb phase. Balanced, with very high quality material, this should be good when the secondary aromas and flavors start to emerge. Will try to hold my remaining bottles until then.
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3/19/2016 - SteadyEddy wrote: 92 Points
Notes of sweet caramel, moss, and humous on the nose. Medium-plus body with somewhat ripe, clean, and somewhat sweet, dark fruit with some savory notes on the palate. While clearly a burgundy, the fruit-forward aspect of this seems quite "new world". Despite the caramel notes on the nose, the oak was well integrated when tasting. Pleasant finish. This is a really pleasurable, fruit forward NSG. While I'd love to experience this with 7 more years of cellaring to see how it develops, this offers fine drinking now ... and personally I don't have the patience to wait that long!
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2/18/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
C-cubed--Chevillon Chaignots and Cailles Verticals (Arlequin Wine Merchant, San Francisco): After a thin, corked bottle, the second bottle still had some mustiness but showed better red fruit and attractive weight. Tonight, not as good as the '08 Chaignots though.
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5/26/2015 - Cote d'Or wrote:
PopnPour, tasted over 3 hrs
-semi-translucent med dark red with purple tinge, no bricking
-fragrant spicy fresh exuberant
-med+ acidity, barely med weight mid-palate with some earthy spice and wood spice slightly sweet dark red cherry, chalky med tannins on med length finish
-somewhat awkward adolescent stage with some oak and sweetness yet to resolve, acid and tannin structure there to ensure it will be near the top of its plateau in another 3-5 years
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2/4/2015 - tooch wrote: 93 Points
Reunion Dinner in DC (Red Hen - Washington, DC): I was really impressed by this young Chevillon. Rumors swirl about how Chevillon's need ages to mature, and while I age my at home, it was great to get to try one through the generosity of a friend. Beautiful aromas of spice, violets, cranberries, and minerals. The palate had great concentration and intensity to it, and I thought the palate was nearly seamless. This will be absolutely gorgeous once some of the secondary and tertiary flavors grow over time.
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12/30/2014 - mike wrote: 92 Points
Vibrant aroma, not red, but more dark fruited - blackberry, blueberry, and black boy peach. Finely structured on the palate - savoury and vinous with a touch of bitterness though nicely balanced with light lingering fruit sweetness. Fine tannins pull the wine together resulting in a near perfectly, reserved, well defined wine.
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11/9/2014 - brigcampbell wrote:
Bottle still has a good chill and was decanted. Tasted in a restaurant so it was difficult to determine the color although the clarity looked good. I smelled a little dried moss and earth as it warmed up. Surprised by the acid level, really enjoyed it, which resulted in a crisp light mouthfeel, no flab here. Nice reserved fruit, light spice, and zip on the finish. Rounded tannins and medium finish. Drinking nicely with plenty of air.
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11/8/2014 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Opened about 2 hrs ago. Drinking with a light chill, proper stem. This has a dusty, red cherry profile with game and iron, and when it warms up, it reflects some blue fruited edges. The fruit is not shy and it fills in pretty solidly. Like the bottle in 2011 I noted previously, there is good, tangy acidity too. The wine is headed to dinner and I'll splash decant it before we depart, to give it a final blast of air before we finish it over dinner....and dinner did see the bottle get emptied. I enjoyed the last glass, pretty well knitted together, although I did find some tension/structure in the wine. Lots of acid, yet enough fruit here too in balancing the wine out.
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3/7/2014 - etc wrote: 91 Points
This is one stubborn bottle. Pnp and drank over 2 hrs. The nose was shy and had some elements of cranberries and dried cherries and what I can only describe as wet iron. Mouthfeel was clean with a med. finish and refreshing amount of acid. Cherries and spice is all that I could coax out of it. This needs time as this bottle didn't move at all. Enjoyable now, but man I would wait.
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10/27/2013 - Tavastgatan wrote: 93 Points
Les Cailles is just as good as the literature says. Spicy cherry fruit and refreshing acidity. You keep wanting more. Chevillon's 2008's are stunning.
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10/25/2013 - christyler Likes this wine: 92 Points
Beautiful and pure - and also pretty approachable right now. I get the feeling this is delivering a fraction of its potential, but it's pretty great right now.
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9/27/2013 - danstrings Likes this wine: 91 Points
As last bottle -- nicely balanced mix of fruit, earth and minerals
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7/30/2013 - llink wrote:
Popped and poured. Iron, minerals and cranberry on the nose. The palate is lean and silky with a tight core of cherry fruit flavor and some drying tannins on the back end. I suspect this is somewhat closed but with food it was a nice companion this evening.
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5/13/2013 - danstrings Likes this wine: 91 Points
Showing great, spicy silky fruity goodness. Cool pine meets ripe fruit, with a bit of old fashioned crayon shavings thrown in!
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4/13/2013 - Shiaxonna wrote: 93 Points
Deep dark evil color of night greets me from the glass. Immediately accessible and seducing, giving me exactly what I crave. Like a fix after several days without your favourite drug, this immensely intoxicating concoction of Nuits spices and power blows through your mind like a bullet looking for a target. Severely addictive and dangerously easy to like, this wine from one of my favourite producers delivers again and again and again.... Cannot wait to open the next bottle of this madness. It's a rabid dog on a short leash waiting to jump to your throat. The bottles left in my cellar are vibrating on the shelf with a gentle hum. They really want to be opened and pour their inner evil into the glasses of innocent young wine-drinkers, corrupting their fragile little souls....
50+5+13+17+8 (93p)
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2/8/2013 - Jhcwine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Limited tasting notes
Nose - Also still tannic, at openning.
Palette - Nice fruit. Some tannin. Reasonably delicate. 93. My WOTN.
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11/26/2012 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
Tasted slowly over 4 hrs and Day 2
-dark red/maroon
-lifted sour/black cherry aromatics, herbal element
-med+ zippy acidity with plenty of mid-palate sap to buffer it, pretty black cherry fruit, steely minerality, touch of earth, dusty slightly coarse med tannins, trace wood? on moderately long finish, more expressive on Day 2
-sure, it's too young and yielding only a glimpse of what it will be, but this is something special now, a great example of how beguiling, dynamic and alive a young Burg from a higher acid vintage can be, the structure and underlying material here suggests a deeper slumber to come soon, then a long life ahead of it, WIN
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4/19/2012 - Harley1199 wrote:
Chevillon en Nuits St. Georges con Luis Gutierrez (Enoteca Barolo - Madrid): An easy winner.
Profound, balanced, flloral and potent, all at the same time.
Nose is timid. On the palate, oaky.
Pretty good for a 08, excepting that short aftertaste.
Una ganadora fácil.
Profunda, equilibrada, floral y potente, todo al mismo tiempo.
La nariz es tímida. En boca, amaderada.
Bastante buena para ser del 08, exceptuando ese corto postgusto.
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11/12/2011 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Been open 2 hours, slow oxing. Really beautiful, with a nice core of blue and raspberry fruit. Stony, with an herbal note hanging in the background. A meaty note too, like what I found in the wine over the summer. Tangy finish. The balance on this wine is pefect, the stony mineral in the finish. I love the 08 Chevillons......overnight, I let the wine settle, so too with my palate. Enjoying today, really a nice melange of flavor, perhaps less of the flash today, more sturdy and stony with cherry notes and a long finish. Aromatically, a rose petal note comes through today. Really impressive still and what a beautiful bottle of wine.
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10/24/2011 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 92 Points
This doesn't offer quite the luxe experience of the Les Saint Georges but it's a mighty fine Nuits. The concentration is a little sparser, which results in more prominent woodspice for awhile, but despite that it still has a sensation of fleshiness and doesn't come across as slender as Cailles sometimes does. Overall, it's fairly plush in texture. Some stony earth and a note of something vaguely gamy add intrigue to the red-fruited flavors.
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10/23/2011 - sehill Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opened and poured, this showed a youthful bouquet of red fruits, spice and subtle earth notes. This is more forward and accessible on the bouquet than the 2005 Chevillon "Cailles" tasted the previous evening. The color is a youthful medium to dark ruby with an underlying purple hue. The medium bodied palate shows well but lacks the completeness of the 2005. This shows well now for it youthful fruit and aromatics and will benefit from a couple of additional years of bottle age.
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10/22/2011 - Chris Newport wrote:
So young and so pure... this is just quivering with that young burgundy raw fruit thing. Not a monolithic wine, seems to be spicier with more clarity and precision than with the Pruliers. There's this unique tangy chocolatey note on the palate and on the finish that really stands... I wonder if this is something to do with the vineyard? You get the sense that this could age on it's balance for a very long time. So much energy locked up in this wine that's just waiting to come out with time in the bottle. While this is a wonderful drink now, I can't help but think that this is one of those burgundies that requires bottle age to really reveal what's behind the Komono. After confirming that this is indeed good burgundy, I won't be touching my remaining bottles for some time.
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6/11/2011 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Burg Dinner At The Murray Casa (The Murray's): Pulled late in the game but in time for it to join the flight. I threw it into a decanter to help aerate it. Meaty, gamy and spicy with what seemed to be much darker fruit, as compared to the 08 Rion Amoureuses that preceded this Chevillon in the same flight. Admittedly, should have decanted this more and planned ahead but with all the burg we had going on, wanted to add to the mix.
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4/4/2011 - jpinsb wrote: 93 Points
I could not have said it better myself, so I adopt Richard Jennings' 3/12/2011 review: "Dark cherry red color with pale meniscus; lovely, expressive, roses, ripe cherry, ripe raspberry nose; tight, ripe raspberry, baked cherry, floral, mineral palate with lift and delicacy; medium-plus finish". I add only that I paid about $20 less for the bottle that I carried back in my luggage from Beaune. In the end, I probably paid about $5000 more for the bottle than Richard paid at Palo Alto retail. Thanks Richard.
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