2003 Domaine Michel Gaunoux Corton-Renardes

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91 points

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  3/10/2020 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 93 Points

  More than seven years out since the last note on this wine, I feel like I have a bit of free reign to wax poetically. While I am not quite sure how poetic I might be, this wine is certainly enticing: subtle fruit, earth, anise on the nose, with tartness, slightly stewed fruit, and forest floor on the palate. Delightful. 2003 was a difficult year for most of France (intense heatwave), but this Grand Cru seems to have suffered far less than others. thedrunkencyclist.com

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  1/13/2013 - ecola Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Slightly oxidized on the nose. Ripe red fruit and solid acidity on the palate. Pure cherry on the soft finish.

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  3/31/2012 - jonradus wrote: 89 Points

  This is my second bottle of this. Great nose of strawberry cotton candy and licorice. The taste is nice and minty, with fresh cherry and spicy clove; a little watery but still good. The finish is racy with more minty clove. I got a wicked hangover from this wine last time. Hopefully it was a circumstantial thing and not a sulfate/chemical thing.

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  3/24/2012 - Old Doug wrote: 92 Points

  4th bottle I've had, seemed not so tannic as the others; perhaps it's that I already discounted its tannincy. In any case, oh-so-good, perhaps the best-looking wine, not opaque but divinely translucent, garnet - orange - brown - lavender - violet, liquid sunset in a bottle. Bought 6 bottles 5 months ago - they'll never see their "proper" age here. Maybe one of those last bottles will at least get to breathe for a while.

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  3/10/2012 - Old Doug wrote: 92 Points

  As below - tonight I truly craved a tannic though smooth wine, and this one, popped and poured, hit the spot perfectly. Right away in the glass, it smells and tastes tannic, and, that said - tonight the wine was served nicely cool, right at 54 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's beautiful.

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