2014 Faiveley Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Roy

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  6/19/2021 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Orange peel, rustic, sour cherry. A little closed. Similar to the previous bottles. Need some time.

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  4/2/2021 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Appearance: pale, garnet.
  Nose: medium intensity; aromas of rhubarb, beetroot, rustic, toast, red roses, sour cherry, strawberry, match flint. It's developing.
  Palate: dry, high acidity, medium tannins, medium alcohol, medium body, medium plus flavour intensity, medium plus finish.
  Overall, it's a very good wine. Can drink now, has potential for further ageing.
  Has everything you expect from a wine with this price point. Good balance between fruit, earthy notes, but nothing exciting. There're a few good new world producer that can beat this easily (Curly Flat as an example).
  Decanting (2hrs) seems to help the floral notes to come through more with some fennel and baking spices.

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  11/18/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Appearance: pale ruby.
  Nose: medium intensity; aromas of fresh raspberry, tar, toast, mint, red cherry, rhubarb, green olive, flint. It's developing.
  Palate: dry, high acidity, medium tannins (silky), medium alcohol, medium body, medium plus flavour intensity, a lot of red fruits and rhubarb come through. The finish is medium plus.
  Overall, it's a very good wine. Can drink now, has potential for further ageing.
  Fresh pinot with some bottle ageing characters. On the nose, it presents some Barolo characters of tar and earthiness with good complexity of red fruits and oaky toasty notes. It tastes very fresh on the palate with good balance between high acidity and primary fruits. The flavour intensity isn't outstanding and feels lack of concentration, but the finish is good with lovely chocolate and cherry. This bottle is not as impressive as the last one.
  Using Repour to drink through 3 days. Interestingly, day 3 is the best with seducing perfume of floral notes, cloves and savoury characters. Need to mark this down for the next bottle. DECANTE FIRST!

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  5/2/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Appearance: pale garnet with orange at the rim
  Nose: medium intensity; aromas of cranberry, raspberry, sour cherry, leather, earth, dusty/funkiness, toast, nutmeg, fresh orange peel, a little bit of mushroom, a little leafiness (whole bunch). It's developing.
  Palate: dry, high acidity, medium tannins, medium alcohol, medium body, medium plus flavour intensity, flavours align with nose. The finish is medium plus.
  Overall, it's a very good wine. Can drink now and has potential for further ageing.
  This wine is quite elegant with restrained colour and tannins extraction. It still possesses the charm of typical Burgundy (earth and funkiness), different from new world pinot, whilst it is fresh and red fruit dominant. Great to enjoy either young or a few years in the cellar. The bottle ageing does give it more complexity of tertiary characters of leather and mushroom. However, the flavour intensity and finish are still a little shy comparing to the neighbours of similar quality level in Cote du Nuit.

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  7/12/2019 - Phillip66 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  It’s been a couple years since I’ve looked at one - 2nd of 6. So delicious. Positively evolving. Lovely sweet floral and candied nose...sensual.
  
  Delicious on the palate! Perfect balance...fantastic value.

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