1997 Domaine Leroy Clos de la Roche

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  12/6/2019 - hprphf wrote: 94 Points

  Zachy's BYO 2019: 0410/878. Amazing depth as always, tannin almost fully resolved into great funkiness and spread florals. Precise, spicy and broad palate. 94

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  3/7/2019 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points

  Zachys La Paulée BYO Dinner (Lafayette NYC): Leroy signature throughout. Nose of exotic spice and black cherry liqueur. Ripe on the palate but in balance and loaded with spice. Appealing and delicious, for sure.

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  3/7/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points

  Zachys La Paulée "Warm-up" Dinner (Lafayette - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Late night. Fully mature and ripe red fruit. Much more Leroy than Clos de la Roche coming across to me. Very good weight.

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  8/4/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A surprising performance, and either this wine has had a positive development path over the last five years or my previous experiences were with less than perfect bottles. Sweet spice, ripe red plum, minerals, iodine and blood, red fruits and then eventually black pepper on the nose. Moderate intensity fruit with a good but somewhat austere mouthfeel. Lacks the impact and elegance of a great wine, but this bottle was still very good right now. Consumed over three hours. Paired with octopus, pate, and cod. 93/94.

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  1/8/2014 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points

  1997 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Seriously good, this was perhaps my favourite wine of the night after a smashing Dujac Echezeaux. It had a wonderful nose, full of spicy nuances dancing around a core of bluberries and flowers, with shades of orange peel and still a little smack of sweet oak trailing away somewhere in there. Really lovely. The palate was just about perfectly put together. While not tremendously complex at this stage of its development - it was still dominated by deep tones of bluberries and mulberries on the attack and midpalate - this was wonderfully integrated and superbly balanced, with soft, lush tannins and fine acidity woven beautifully into the supple, luxuriant textures of the wine. Such a joy to drink. Past that and into the finish, lovely little notes of meat and spice and flowers drifted out to greet the subtly deepy fruited tones, just before a slightly more austere tail of tannins and acidity peeked out right at the end. Lovely, lovely stuff - a very complete wine in every sense of the word. It is drinking very nicely now, but I think a couple more years will actually see it developing even more.

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