1977 La Pousse d'Or Volnay 1er Cru Clos de la Bousse d'Or

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  12/14/2011 - celk wrote: 91 Points

  Floral tea with some salinity, interesting but thin.

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  12/11/2011 - Alex H wrote: 86 Points

  A lot of secondary notes. Dries leads and dusty dries earth. Very much secondary. Wet wood and wet soil. A bit scalped. But there is slight sweetness and some florals

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  12/10/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 90 Points

  Chicken stock, barnyard, musky nose. Earthy, mushroom and stewed plum notes. Old ripened cherries and plum too. A little thin and flattish on the finish.

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  12/10/2011 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  A Trip through the Cote d'Or - Alex's 30th Birthday and celebration for William and Gina - (Chui Hui Lim Teochew Restaurant, Keng Lee Road): There was a lot of disagreement around the table on whether this bottle was affllicted by TCA or whether it was just very old smelling. I thought it was. Yet the fault was so slight that the wine was still very enjoyable. The nose was not too pleasant at first, showing nothing much beyond some dried leaves and twigs, dusty dried earth, wet soil and some wet cardboard scents, very secondary, really indicative of TCA. Thankfully, with time, all those twiggy scents gave way to more fragrant aromas of cherries and raspberries, haw flakes, wet soil, black tea. The palate, for such an old wine and possibly a faulty one as well, was very rich, deep, almost multi-layered, with dark cherries, plums and dark berries starting to take on a very slightly sur-maturite, matured character. It was all still very fresh though, so that the wine remained bright all the way into a lively finish that had a wonderful flowery perfume that was so very Volnay. I thought this was a really pretty wine that was drinking very well, drinking a lot younger than its 34 years in fact. Nice stuff, certainly nice enough to rate and even to rate well - yet for all that, I could not help feeling it was a bit scalped by TCA given the little cardboardy notes that popped up here and there. If so, I would love to try a clean bottle.

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