2014 Lamy-Caillat Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru La Romanée

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  3/5/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Epic night at Capasso. Tasted blind. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
  Appearance is clear, very pale intensity, lemon colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of salinity, wet stony minerality, flintiness, citrus lime, bit of roasted nut oak. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, brilliant high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of citrus lemon-lime, white peach, wet stones minerality, salty minerals, light honey, roasted nuts. Long finish.
  Excellent quality. Brilliant crystalline quality to this wine that has a bit of everything in all the right places. On the cooler less ripe side here. I was guessing 2017 Puligny 1er very good producer.

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  10/26/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (The Morris, San Francisco): Light yellow. Wow, what a wine! Gorgeous glycerine texture, a kiss of oak, lemon fruit, and tremendous acidity. Still youthful and coiled, but obviously a towering Premier Cru.

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  3/19/2023 - heegaard Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Fantastic wine.

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  8/27/2020 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 94 Points

  This has been open for two and a half hours. We drank this along side the 2009 Fontaine-Gagnard Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru La Romanée and by comparison, the Lamy-Caillat is way leaner/lither. This is also quite a bit lighter in color. Yeah, this is half as old as the other, but this '14 feels like it could have been bottled yesterday. It is incredibly compact in all aspects, and I love that about it. Sebastian Caillat makes this in a way to age it a long time, so this is to be expected. The notes on the nose are gorgeous, though... lemon rind, lilies and other flowers. The aromas are very on point and very pretty, but they aren't luscious; it's very angular and tight. It's like an apple skin with an almond shell. The palate intensity is absolutely incredible! Wow... intense, robust, compact, elegant... the whole time its in the mouth it just feels like it's this tight compact ball but it's bouncing around everywhere at a million miles per hour. It's dancing in your mouth incredibly quickly. It's just so pretty. The finish is this massive wall of acid... it's almost all acid. Some lemon and very tart green apple skin is there. The acid stays there for a minute, though, ripping your face off. When you sit down and really pay attention to the palate, this wine has supreme elegance... but perhaps right now, it's too young for it. When I was just drinking (not noting) this and the 2009 Fontaine-Gagnard, I think I liked the Fontaine-Gagnard more because it was just more ready... this one is not quite ready, but when paying attention and seeing where this is headed and all that's present, this is clearly a "more there" kind of wine. There's more layers in this Lamy-Caillat. What a beautiful effort and vintage.

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