Zachys La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Lafayette - New York NY): Small glass, late night, brief note. Good density with both black and red fruit. Ripe but well balanced, but slightly less textural elegant than my favorite Freddy wines. No hurry to drink this soon.
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Mugnier's 1990 Bonnes Mares is aging gracefully. A bouquet of red and black fruit, woodsmoke, dried herbs, venison and dark soil tones is followed by a wine of notable power, volume and savoury intensity on the palate, with some fine structuring tannins in evidence and nice chalky minerality. Blind, the wine's sauvage qualities and its power allied with tension led me to Ruchottes-Chambertin, and to the 1993 vintage as 1990 torrefaction isn't an issue here.
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7/20/2022 - WIBA Likes this wine: 93 Points
Surprised me. Very fresh and great bottle. Beautifully mature with secondary profiles oozing. Drinking very well but I would drink up.
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7/20/2022 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
But fuzzy all around with sousbois aromatics. Good color but slight cloudiness and modest length.
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4/27/2021 - WIBA Likes this wine: 94 Points
Batard George - Fresh and clean with beautiful acidity. rarely a mugnier i like that'd not all dark and deep. Great bottle.
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3/9/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Zachys La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Lafayette - New York NY): Small glass, late night, brief note. Good density with both black and red fruit. Ripe but well balanced, but slightly less textural elegant than my favorite Freddy wines. No hurry to drink this soon.
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8/28/2016 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 93 Points
Mugnier's 1990 Bonnes Mares is aging gracefully. A bouquet of red and black fruit, woodsmoke, dried herbs, venison and dark soil tones is followed by a wine of notable power, volume and savoury intensity on the palate, with some fine structuring tannins in evidence and nice chalky minerality. Blind, the wine's sauvage qualities and its power allied with tension led me to Ruchottes-Chambertin, and to the 1993 vintage as 1990 torrefaction isn't an issue here.
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