Acker "Paulee" Burgundy Dinner (Capital Seafood - Beverly Hills CA): Paulée style dinner. I was particularly excited to try this wine because I’ve never had a great bottle, but have heard stories of its greatness. Tonight’s was good, certainly charming, but slightly more dirty than I’d consider ideal. Good balance with Grand Cru density.
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Decanted to remove cork sediments. This wine changes every fifteen minutes from musky to translucent to dirty to lifted. Cherry and blue fruit, smoke, earth, grass, fully resolved, very good acidity lovely vintage expression. Someone remarked it is Leroy-esque. Not sure why it is unstable. 93
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A bit underwhelming, showing much more tired than the 96' I had one year ago. Reaches its peak after 1 hour in the decanter, sous bois and floral nose with vivid acidity on the palate. Faded in the glass later. 92-93 tonight
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Opened in the course of a very happy family lunch so slight bias. Classic pinot colour on opening. Clear apart from a bit of sediment. Some funk on opening and at first seemed to have a slightly over-emphatic structure. If on a tour of France this was suggestive of a summer evening in Marseille. Then funk cleared and we returned to the Cote de Nuits with a very well balanced midweight. Quite earthy and lovely on nose and (more) palate. A wine for drinking with 2-4 rather than more. Not the biggest wine but a real joy to drink. it lives up to the name of the vineyard.
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2/28/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Acker "Paulee" Burgundy Dinner (Capital Seafood - Beverly Hills CA): Paulée style dinner. I was particularly excited to try this wine because I’ve never had a great bottle, but have heard stories of its greatness. Tonight’s was good, certainly charming, but slightly more dirty than I’d consider ideal. Good balance with Grand Cru density.
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5/5/2023 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Decanted to remove cork sediments. This wine changes every fifteen minutes from musky to translucent to dirty to lifted. Cherry and blue fruit, smoke, earth, grass, fully resolved, very good acidity lovely vintage expression. Someone remarked it is Leroy-esque. Not sure why it is unstable. 93
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5/5/2023 - burg++23 wrote: 93 Points
A bit underwhelming, showing much more tired than the 96' I had one year ago. Reaches its peak after 1 hour in the decanter, sous bois and floral nose with vivid acidity on the palate. Faded in the glass later. 92-93 tonight
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6/15/2019 - PeterFrancis Likes this wine: 95 Points
Opened in the course of a very happy family lunch so slight bias. Classic pinot colour on opening. Clear apart from a bit of sediment. Some funk on opening and at first seemed to have a slightly over-emphatic structure. If on a tour of France this was suggestive of a summer evening in Marseille. Then funk cleared and we returned to the Cote de Nuits with a very well balanced midweight. Quite earthy and lovely on nose and (more) palate. A wine for drinking with 2-4 rather than more. Not the biggest wine but a real joy to drink. it lives up to the name of the vineyard.
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4/26/2019 - fcxj wrote: 86 Points
Charmes dinner. Felt a bit cooked on palate.
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