1974 Bouchard Père et Fils Clos de la Roche

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91 points

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  12/1/2012 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points

  Stern and serious. Red fruits with spice and Chinese medicinal herbs. Firm almost angular tannin structure. Shows character and not as likable as the musigny before it but definitely has a firmer red fruit core.

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  11/30/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Brian's Birthday Dinner (Buono Restaurant, Singapore): A solid CdLR, especially coming from a less than spectacular vintage. This started-off a bit rough though, smelling very old and a little tired when first popped and poured, with funky mud, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar notes floating around a core of dark fruited, plummy notes with a slight toasty, burnt accent. Thankfully, the funkier notes cleared up in awhile, revealing prettier aromas of violets and blueberries. It was never the nicest bouquet though, especially when compared with the ravishing 1973 Musigny that we had alongside. Thankfully, the palate was a whole lot better. Here, there were delicious flavours of sour cherries and fresh blueberries, with licks of undergrowth and spice, fresh cut flowers and orange peel, all still really fresh and lively, if not quite possessing the authority and depth of a great Clos de la Roche. It was lovely though, with great charm wed to a masculine structure that still gave the wine a rather stern grippiness as it moved into a fresh finish, where black and blue fruit were wreathed with generous wafts of spice and violets. Very enjoyable, and probably at a good place to drink now, though I could see this still going on for quite a few more years.

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