2020 Jean-Philippe Fichet Auxey-Duresses Rouge

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  12/15/2023 - Sagan99 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Never had an Auxey-D.
  So, in my bid to Drink The Rainbow, and since my wine store guy said try it, I obliged.
  
  This wine's fruit comes from between Meursault and Volnay, but the processing in Meursault, though it's across a fence line, so it is named accordingly.
  
  Though I'm more a Cote de Nuits lover, have quaffed both appellation's wines in my past.
  This is a two bottle experiment. Let's see if the Cote du Beaune has changed in 20 years?
  
  Gotta wait overnight. It's only, ok?
  
  Pale Ruby
  The usual PN character, but it seems a little "green woody, or at least a nose of stems etc?
  
  
  Body medium
  Alcohol medium
  Acid medium
  Viscosity
  Tannin medium
  Finish medium 40-45 seconds
  
  Auxey-D and surrounding this wines holdings, are mostly white wines.
  I'll be interested to have this overnight to see it's longevity and ageability. I think it's already apparent as it was in a magnum decanter for 90 minutes.
  But who knows... Stranger things have happened.
  
  
  Addendum -
  The greenness from something remains, though an overnight airing has opened and mellowed this to be a reasonably enjoyable sipper.
  I've one more bottle... Maybe I'll keep it a few years just to do a taste test. But, this Auxey, similarly to Santenay for me, has a specific character in its nose especially, but subsequently biased in the palate, where it's never going to be great.
  Good it's it's ceiling unfortunately.
  
  C'est la vie...
  
  PN 100%
  13.5 abv
  
  PS -Drink The Rainbow!

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