2002 Dominique Laurent Charmes-Chambertin

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92 points

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  7/3/2023 - Tgood wrote:

  Rewarding nose of lightly roasted sweet ripe strawberries, raspberries and red cherries along with orange juice and orange oil and then menthol and fragrant flowers - juicy tea leaves on a creamy silky juicy palate with drying tannic spicy bitter edge at close - extraordinarily compelling wine. Glad to have multiples.

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  6/3/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:

  The label says Vieilles Vignes although it is tan, not black. Interpreting Laurent bottlings from this era can be treacherous. Muddled light ruby center, not entirely clear, mature browning outer quarter. Attractive aromas with immediate game and char, and then dull red fruits on the nose. Lighter weight, faintly earthy. Remarkably, the naturally sweet fruit has almost equal measures of bright red berry and piquant citrus, as pronounced a dollop of the latter as I have found in any red wine recently. Excellent acidity and faded tannins. What is notably absent is any trace of wood from this period when Laurent was known for his "200% oak". All in all, an excellent drink and a very enjoyable, reasonably complex, fully mature wine. It showed almost exactly as it did 4 years ago when I felt it was fully expressed. I think the lack of real Grand Cru depth and excitement are a function of both climat and producer. One point in its favor is that like other Laurent wines I've held for this long, amazingly, the wood really can be absorbed, but that is not quite enough to make a great bottle.

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  12/17/2019 - martin_e Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Excellent! Color (palish garnet) indicates mature state, but the wine's still very enjoyable. Incredibly aromatic with complex notes of mushrooms, smoked beacon, and prune. On the palate, blueberry, tart cherry, blackberry. Red current notes come after long decanting. Structure's fresh with acidity, but no point in more aging.

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  5/19/2019 - Mistress of Wine Likes this wine:

  This is more like it. The last bottle was clearly flawed. Medium ruby with a little bricking. Lovely aroma of sour cherry, earth and minerals. Nice palate coverage and mellow tannins. This is likely at peak but no sign of fading.

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  3/28/2018 - robferguson1 wrote: 91 Points

  Lovely cherry , bricking at edge but long life still ahead as it has a very long finish.

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