1998 Domaine Taupenot-Merme Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru La Combe d'Orveau

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  11/7/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 91 Points

  deep prunes, dark red flowers, sour cherries on the nose. Fresh red fruit, raspberries, sour cherries, some roots and orange peel.

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  11/7/2011 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  Public Holiday Lunch at Kel's (Natura Loft): Pretty good, but after a whole series of surprising round and mellow 1998 red Burgs, this was a bit of a shock to the system, showing all the little idiosyncracies that so tarnished the vintage's image when it was first released. I am not saying it was a bad wine though - this was actually a good drink. The nose was very interesting, with lots of almost Vosne-like wood spice, earth, a core of dark cherry and berry scents, some fresh cut flowers that drew one back to Chambolle, and a slightly disturbing ring of rubber and metallic notes. Not exactly a beautiful Chambolle nose, but pretty attractive nonetheless. The palate was very fresh and lively, again showing lots of spice and another ring of metallic mineral and bloody notes on the attack. That subsided somewhat by the midpalate, which was marked with some dark cherries before the wine slid into a long finish where the woody, spicy notes reasserted themselves again. A good quality wine, one I enjoyed quite a bit, but I thought there was just a tad too much of stereotypically 1998 hard woodiness at the finish. It was rather inelegant for a Chambolle too. All this aside though, a pretty nice, very interesting wine. I had quite forgotten having had this a year or so ago, but looking back, this bottle seems to have been a bit weaker than what I remembered. At the end of its peak drinking maybe - E remarked that the wine faded a bit even in the half hour or so we nursed it in our glasses.

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  6/21/2011 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  Pinots, Riesling, Dim Sum and Duck (Asia Grand, Odeon Towers): I enjoyed this. It had a lovely floral nose, with violets and roses, some sandelwood and jasmine, and then earth, bramble and dusty mineral floating alongside some sweet scents of red berries and strawberries. With time, a lush, mushroomy forest floor base to the bouquet emerged. Lovely stuff, fill of complexity. Quite unexpectedly, the palate came across far younger, still a bit hard at the edges surprisingly, but the core of the wine had resolved into a lovely clear expression of Chambolle, with pure, transparent flavours of cherries and berries, a ring of florals, and a nice tail of dusty, stony mineral. Not the richest or deepest wine, but full of charm, and very nice with peking duck.

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