2012 Le Grappin Beaune 1er Cru Boucherottes

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  9/9/2021 - jwebtx wrote:

  Mature. Lovely. Must be some bottle variation (I suspect due to cork choice).

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  8/1/2021 - red.red.vino wrote:

  In the decanter 45 mins prior to drinking. Very tertiary, raisened, almost oxidised on the nose, soupy, wet and dried leaves, earth and all very savoury. At the end of its shelf life, drink up

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  8/7/2018 - king-bing wrote:

  Hmmm. A funny one this. Something not right - little on the nose an little on the palate. Corked or very closed? What there is on the palate is very dark like a southern Rhone. From other recent CT notes, this seems sadly flawed. Cork seemed fine.

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  2/2/2018 - grapenomad wrote: 94 Points

  Rare are those moments in service that urge me to immediately retreat to a dark room and do blitz-research on a liquid that just blew me away. Luckily, this always happens when the restaurant is in cruise mode. So why Le Grappin? Named “one of the top 10 unsung Burgundy producers”, Andrew Nielsen (chief winemaker) is one of THOSE people – those people that quit their mind-numbing advertising job to become one with Gaia, i.e. to produce fantastic Pinot Noir in Cote de Beaune. His whole philosophy – hand-picking, manual bottling, ledger paper labels and the absence of capsules – digs deeper than just “try the wine, sell the wine”. It employs a no-bullshit approach to create purity of unfathomable measures. The Boucherottes offers luscious notes of dried cranberry, mocha, ripe strawberry, wet wood, barnyard and hints of Mediterranean herbs. Grippy structure, with a savoury ending that lasts and lasts. Acidity on point, alcohol on point, everything on point. Un vrai délice!

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  1/21/2017 - Chasse_spleen wrote: 90 Points

  Dark coffee nose, some smoke. Good acidity, with depth. Long and rewarding taste, but too little fruit. Not sure it will be much better with longer cellaring.

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