2015 Marchand & Tawse / Pascal Marchand Pinot Noir Bourgogne

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  3/31/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 89 Points

  A pale watery red, probably the palest bottle I have opened so far, the colour is impossible to accurately describe. Like water with a tiny tiny amount of red dye in it, like a watered-down cranberry juice. You expect it therefore to taste of nothing, but this is far from being the case, it is in fact quite gorgeous, silky and fine, with wonderful freshness all things considered. The fruit is somewhat in the background today, there are smokey and earthy elements in the mix, and the racy acidity is what stands out. Very nice, and a better bottle than the last. One more to go, will it shine or fade? Of note, I've drunk almost the entire case in barely ten weeks, you can take this as a positive endorsement despite the varying scores.

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  3/21/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Still that lovely pale red, gives the impression of being slightly opaque. The wine was a little thinner today, not as impressive as earlier bottles, however still fully in line with expectations (rather than over-delivering). Pleasant, simple, easy-going, cannot fault it for the price. It's funny, based on earlier bottles this year I'd have said OK to keep, based on this one, drink up!

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  3/16/2024 - pinotbestia Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Simple but good. Red fruits (cherry, wild strawberry), some floral notes, and a brooding animal touch of horse saddle. Lively acidity and moderate tannin keep it fresh and eminently drinkable.

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  2/8/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Never has the saying "There are no great wines, only great bottles" been so apt. This was amazing. Glorious even. Pale limpid red, like the red tones in a sun-bleached photograph. Scintillating nose, earthy, damp leaves, raspberry coulis emerging through the rusticity. On the palate it shone with astonishing clarity for the appellation, sweet, racy and precise red fruit, delicate brambles, everything in its place, remarkable clarity. Partly this must be the 2015 effect, and maybe I had had a crappy day and was thus extremely receptive to Red Burgundy, but I've had bottles many times more 'senior' than this that have not even come close to delivering what this did. Magic. I mean it was just delicious, truly delicious. This one bottle has justified the case many times over. This is very careless from Tawse.....why would I buy Champeaux or Mazis on the strength of this?

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  1/19/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Pale red, nice tranlucency - attractive in the glass. Note very much as last time I suspect, simple and forward pinot noir that has the favour and flavour of the 2015 vintage. I felt this bottle had less fruit and more acid than the last however, is imbalance creeping in as time catches up? Drink up! Then again I bought these with the express intention of doing exactly this - not cellar defenders exactly, but I had a gap I needed to fill after a case of village Chorey disappeared and this did the job perfectly.

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