1999 Domaine Chandon de Briailles Corton-Bressandes

Community Tasting Notes (15) Median Score: 92 points

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  4/16/2023 - Ghoulardi Likes this wine:

  Decanted and served at a restaurant.
  This is in great shape. Tart red fruit and spiced tea, with a light suggestion of leather.
  
  I wish everything was perhaps a tad more integrated, and I get what some other tasters are saying about a lack of complexity, but this was quite enjoyable.
  I was surprised how primary this was after so many years, and will wait maybe 3-5 more years for my next (and final) bottle.

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  3/6/2022 - mclanew Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Popped and poured. Every bottle of this I have had is just lovely. Medium bodied with nicely integrated tannins. Black cherry, tea, herbs and spice. This is very easily drinking albeit not overly complex

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  9/11/2021 - mclanew Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Slow ox for two hours. Fully matured but still very much alive. Red cherry, coffee, herbs and earth come through on the palate. The wine is quite round, with full integrated tannins and excellent acidity. It’s a very good wine but not really at the grand cru level in terms of spohistication.

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  8/25/2021 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Dinner at Fragrant Garden (Fragrant Garden Restaurant, Serangoon): A nice wine, but somehow not quite as enjoyable as the last bottle I had. This felt a little tighter and less giving somehow, especially on the palate. The nose certainly smelt mature enough, with secondary notes of earth, mineral and meat, and then little traces of spice playing against a backdrop of black cherries and dark berries. The palate struck a more youthful tone, with brighter flavours of sour cherries and some sour plums, all laced with plenty of fresh, lively, citrussy acidity and a nice spine of fine tannins. There was lots of elegant strength to this I thought, and it drank really youthfully, with a surprising clean and clear feel for a 1999 - a vintage that I normally associate with having a darker, fuller tone. Nice long finish too, very pure and lively, with a lick of mineral and earth, and then just a kiss of spice rounding it off in the tail. With time and air, I thought this started putting on weight, showing a more solid depth too. A but closer to my experience with the last bottle a few years back. All in all, a nice wine, on the more elegant spectrum of Corton. It's drinking okay now, on the cusp of maturity, but a few more years in the bottle will really do it some good.

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  11/14/2020 - mclanew Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Slow ox for five hours. This wine appears to emerging out of a closed period and it remains very youthful not showing its age at all. Aromas of blackberries, violets and a little tar come through. The wine is transparent and nicely balanced with mid weight flavors of black cherry, plum, truffle and a little spice. There still is a fair amount of tannin toward the finish. I would either give this even more air before drinking this big boy or wait another few years. I think this will continue to improve for a long time.

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