Nose exhibits tart cherry, oak, spice, earth, graphite, and dark fruit. On the palate, the wine is rich, bold and powerful with tart red fruit, which has taken more than 3 hour of air to fully open up. Unlike the 96 Laurent Bonnes Mares and Mazis Chambertin that are drinking well with fully-resolved oak, the CDLR still needs some time for the oak to fully integrate. The 96 vintage is one of the best vintages for Laurent in my view.
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Theoretically single blind, but by this point I knew this was my bottle. There's a very strong and dominant tart cherry note on the nose, which is quite pleasant, and which continues on to the palate. There's decent concentration and while the acidity is present, for a 1996, it's not dominant like in nearly all wines of this vintage. It definitely drinks younger than its vintage, though I think some of that has to do with the oak treatment. There's no oak obviously present, and I'm quite sensitive to it, but I do think there's some here. Overall, it's a nice but slightly simple bottle of wine, though for a terrible vintage it's a nice effort.
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Negoce wine. Powerful intense aromas. Lots of tar. Chambertin style - muscular, spices. Lots of black &red fruits, black cherry. Oaky, but doesn't disturb.
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What an excellent wine. At first the nose was reticent but then displayed the perfectly aged fruit so well. The bright red fruits that began the profile were in contrast to the dark fruits that finished the profile. fine grain tannins and bracing acidity provided depth and length. The integrated complexity are something.
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7/26/2023 - dsiii wrote: 86 Points
Disappointing
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12/9/2022 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 91 Points
Nose exhibits tart cherry, oak, spice, earth, graphite, and dark fruit. On the palate, the wine is rich, bold and powerful with tart red fruit, which has taken more than 3 hour of air to fully open up. Unlike the 96 Laurent Bonnes Mares and Mazis Chambertin that are drinking well with fully-resolved oak, the CDLR still needs some time for the oak to fully integrate. The 96 vintage is one of the best vintages for Laurent in my view.
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1/16/2021 - Nicephoras wrote:
Theoretically single blind, but by this point I knew this was my bottle. There's a very strong and dominant tart cherry note on the nose, which is quite pleasant, and which continues on to the palate. There's decent concentration and while the acidity is present, for a 1996, it's not dominant like in nearly all wines of this vintage. It definitely drinks younger than its vintage, though I think some of that has to do with the oak treatment. There's no oak obviously present, and I'm quite sensitive to it, but I do think there's some here. Overall, it's a nice but slightly simple bottle of wine, though for a terrible vintage it's a nice effort.
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5/26/2019 - StasMedvedev.lv wrote: 92 Points
Clos de la Roche exploration. (Winil - Moscow, Russia): 🏅Rating 92+/100 (4,25)
Negoce wine.
Powerful intense aromas. Lots of tar. Chambertin style - muscular, spices. Lots of black &red fruits, black cherry. Oaky, but doesn't disturb.
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1/1/2018 - Tudz Drkl Likes this wine: 94 Points
What an excellent wine. At first the nose was reticent but then displayed the perfectly aged fruit so well. The bright red fruits that began the profile were in contrast to the dark fruits that finished the profile. fine grain tannins and bracing acidity provided depth and length. The integrated complexity are something.
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