If you pop and pour this wine, you will be disappointed as the coffee flavor and the tartaric acid sourness dominate. If you decant for one hour, the fruit begins to emerge and the subtly complex nose and taste offer a pleasant experience and a really fine experience with a traditional dish like beef bourguignon. The wine is medium ruby colored with no hint of browning but shading out to the rim. At its peak drinking now I would say. The nose is subtle with red and black current in the background and a combo of liquorice, clove and coffee up front. No earth or mushroom that I could detect. At 13.3 ABV, the wine has a light to medium mouthfeel, much lighter than the powerful tastes would indicate. For me that is the one of the joys of Burgundy. Initially the sour acidity is high, but mellows out quickly with air. Well structured with pleasing tannin and fruits nicely balanced in an extended finish. Lack of fruit lowered the score here.
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Friday Night Double Blind Tasting $40+ (Bin 75): Dull ruby with paler rim, see through; some sulfur, watermelon, violets, sour dark cherry; palate shows white stone, leaner, sour cherry, more tart red fruit than nose suggests; very pretty.
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Friday Night Double Blind Tasting $40+ (Bin 75): See through ruby to rim; some watermelon, dominating sulfur, sour cherry, white rock, roses; leaner, hard red fruit, cherry, roses, longer finish; tasty though not much Gevrey fat.
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1/28/2020 - hosscrow wrote: 91 Points
If you pop and pour this wine, you will be disappointed as the coffee flavor and the tartaric acid sourness dominate. If you decant for one hour, the fruit begins to emerge and the subtly complex nose and taste offer a pleasant experience and a really fine experience with a traditional dish like beef bourguignon. The wine is medium ruby colored with no hint of browning but shading out to the rim. At its peak drinking now I would say. The nose is subtle with red and black current in the background and a combo of liquorice, clove and coffee up front. No earth or mushroom that I could detect. At 13.3 ABV, the wine has a light to medium mouthfeel, much lighter than the powerful tastes would indicate. For me that is the one of the joys of Burgundy. Initially the sour acidity is high, but mellows out quickly with air. Well structured with pleasing tannin and fruits nicely balanced in an extended finish. Lack of fruit lowered the score here.
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8/28/2019 - eharris Likes this wine: 90 Points
Medium body. Ample fruit with nuanced layers. Nice wine. Drink now but it shouldn’t peak for a few more years.
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10/3/2014 - Rezy13 wrote:
Friday Night Double Blind Tasting $40+ (Bin 75): Dull ruby with paler rim, see through; some sulfur, watermelon, violets, sour dark cherry; palate shows white stone, leaner, sour cherry, more tart red fruit than nose suggests; very pretty.
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6/6/2014 - Rezy13 wrote:
Friday Night Double Blind Tasting $40+ (Bin 75): See through ruby to rim; some watermelon, dominating sulfur, sour cherry, white rock, roses; leaner, hard red fruit, cherry, roses, longer finish; tasty though not much Gevrey fat.
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3/2/2013 - EMichels wrote: 88 Points
Funky nose - not in a good way; Very tart
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