2016 Clos Salomon Givry 1er Cru Clos Salomon

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  3/4/2024 - GDa202 wrote: flawed

  I don’t know what phase this 2016 is going though, but this wasn’t pleasant. Very strange taste profile, immensely reductive. Sad because this was a joyous wine. Maybe it will come out of this phase, I assume it will, but no signs of that yet.

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  12/31/2023 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  Pretty oaky and toasty on the nose. This gets a lot better with air. Butter seared meat, toasted spice, roses, minty herbs, tart berries, a little damp soil and beets... tart and lithe on the palate, layers of delicate earth and spice, tart red fruit on the finish... this is in between primary and tertiary and a bit too much secondary nuance (read: oak) is showing, but I think it'll come around, even if it doesn't gain any weight or complexity. Have it with rare red meat, I say.

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  11/30/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 90 Points

  This pours light ruby in the glass. The nose is elegant and restrained, gradually unfurling to show sour cherry, raspberry, rose petals, perfume, sawdust, toasted hazelnut, chalky mineral, and crushed vitamin tablet. The palate is also light and elegant with bright red fruit on entry with medium minus tannin and medium plus acid. The finish shows a touch of orange peel but is dominated by chalky mineral and crushed vitamin tablet. All in all this hasn’t budged much since I last had it. I don’t get quite that much oak so integration seems to be happening, but this still could use more age to really come together.

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  11/21/2023 - braised wrote:

  Cork seepage halfway along the cork but the wine was firm and not tainted. though some reductive aromas held for an hour or more. Great structure, the wine is in the drinking window and will, I believe, reward the patience for keeping it. Medium bodied, primary fruit well balanced by some barnyard aromas and tannins. Just a touch of bitter at the end, but that could be the residue of the cork/reduction.

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  10/13/2023 - GDa202 wrote: 89 Points

  Lovely underlying structure and fruit. Complexity. But currently going through a very reductive phase. Sulfury aromas take a very long time to dissipate

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