1959 Bouchard Père et Fils Meursault 1er Cru Charmes

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 93 points

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  12/20/2013 - Alex H wrote: 91 Points

  Lifted vanilla scents , more like vanilla scented aroma oil. Cream butter and caramel atop lemon creme brûlée. Sour plumish wine type. V intriguing. Spiced stone fruits that seems honeyed sweet but also with good acidity. Superb for the age

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  12/13/2013 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Four Birthdays and a Wedding Anniversary (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): A beautiful way to start the dinner – this was an intriguing wine that started out a bit muted, then grew and grew in the glass until it really showed wonderfully well. The cork fell in and we had to filter this into decanter. Given the golden-yellow hue of the wine, I was a bit worried that it may be past it, but those fears were quickly put to rest. The nose had a disturbing bit of VA at first, with distracting scents of nail varnish remover. Thankfully, that settled down quite nicely with time, and the wine began to show really attractive, matured aromas of cream and butter and nuts, honey and vanilla, even some caramel layered over whiffs of red apples and stone fruit – imagine if you will smelling a crème brulee topped off with little slices of fruit. The palate had a nice richness on the attack as well, with a ripe layer of kumquats and sour plums laced with bright citrusy acidity - very reminiscent of Japanese plum wine (Umeshu). It thinned out a little on the midpalate to show a spine of metallic mineral sticking out amidst the fruit, but then retoured beautifully, fanning out into a long, expansive finish, first with notes of juicy apples and lemons, then a toasty hazelnut accent, and finally a long, long tail of vanilla and spice that just went on and on in the mouth. There was an effortless intensity and complexity to this that only comes when white Burgundies hit a certain age. This is just starting to tire and show signs of its age, so about time to drink up I think, but boy, it was lovely on the night.

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