1995 Domaine Jean Grivot Clos Vougeot

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  5/19/2018 - MC wrote:

  Followed over 3 hours. This is tight and tannic. There is some fruit there but mostly minerals and tannin. I don't know that this will ever balance out, but certainly years away and not sure I would bet on it. B?

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  12/10/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 91 Points

  Ordered off a list very late into the evening, so no proper notes, but recall that this was very clean and fresh. Well built, down the middle red cherry fruit with mild spice. Some oak polish. This bottle was far superior to the most recent experiences I've had with '95 Grivot Beaux Monts, which were VA-heavy and ranked 88-90. Pretty classic, if not overly intriguing.

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  4/26/2017 - acyso wrote: flawed

  Blind 1995 Bordeaux at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): Served blind in flights of 1995 Bordeaux. My bottle, so I knew what I was looking for. It was lightly corked. Interestingly, no one picked it out as pinot, though most didn't get past the TCA.

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  8/21/2016 - fokker Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Birthday dinner with lots of friends. Thus pulled out this 95 Grivot Clos Vougeo en Magnum. This is 2nd and last one drunk, after purchase from Sotheby's auction this Spring. Not decanted and poured after opening. It got better and better over the 3 hour dinner.
  Quite dark in colour, with no brick rim, and actually darker than the 1990 Vieux Chateau Certan afterwards, it had pleasant nose of cherries and plums, with well-integrated cinnamon oak, lots of forrest floor and mushrooms. The palate of red cherries lingered on well to match the steamed pork with scallions and roasted butterflied-duck Cantonese style.
  Qutie full bodied, but not multidimensional enough to earn a score into the mid 90s.
  I noticed some of the negative comments from earlier reviews. Judging from my personal experience with Grivot Clos Vougeot from various vintages, it is a somewhat awkward style of Burgundy. It is darker and fuller-bodied/more tannic than most others. So if the vintage is no good or average, you drink it too early, it tastes monolithic and the tannin sucks. You drink it too late , the fruit is gone and complexity left to fate.
  Thus the advantage of Magnum: the fruit can hold on longer for the tannin to settle and complexities to develop.

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  5/7/2016 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Wines and Grill (Chicago, IL): Super reductive and ornery at first, this really grew into its own with air -- I had poured out a half glass of this to give the bottle some headroom for oxygen. This was dark and quite dense, with an awesome amount of earth as well as some tart black-fruited 1995 acids. Really, really rustic, this had the tannic structure and power to pair as well as any cabernet could with some ribeyes. Certainly not the most elegant expression of pinot, this is one to be admired for its rusticity.

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