2007 Michel Colin-Deléger et Fils Chevalier-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  3/17/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

  2011 Simple Dinner Series 3 :: Mark visit (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 14%
  The wine was really tight at first, with lots of oak, creamy vanilla and butter, cold mineral tones that dominated the nose and palate. When I tried the wine again at the end of dinner (approx in the glass for an hour or maybe more), it was singing. Bright, cold fresh herbs, alluring spices, creamy butter, very deep, complex and classy. Full bodied, palate staining indensity, large scale and stunning depth, layer and layer of complex flavors, herb, white fruits, white floral, creamy butter, nuttiness that completely buffer off the high level of oak. The fresh cold mineral is slight sharp and powerful that made this wine need your patience and attention to really know that there is this sense of elegance and finesse hiding deep inside the core. The immensely long finish is electrifying that last for a min with the pure fresh mineral aftertaste lingering effortlessly. This is no doubt a wine for the long haul. It is not really hard to say this is my WOTN. Buy - Yes.

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  3/17/2011 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  2011 Simple Series III: Dinner with Mark Robertson of Goedhuis (Jade Palace, Forum Galleria): Way too young, but really good stuff. This was tight and rather cloaked with oak notes at first, but opened up at a glacial pace through dinner until it showed solid quality right before we were about to leave. On first pour, there were lots of oaky vanilla scents, some toast and tons of butter on the nose. But beneath that, there were pure Monty scents with layers of savoury earth, button mushrooms, chalky and gunpowdery mineral and gobs of rich white fruit hanging in the background. It took awhile to coax out, but there was plenty going on in there. There was a solid core of concentration in the wine's creamily textured palate, but this too was rather buried under a layer of creme fraiche, salted butter and butterscotch, with clearly rich white fruit beneath that struggling a little to show-up. However, underneath the buttery oak, this was clearly classy stuff, with a sure sense of Chevalier definition, balance and poise. With time, the cloak of oak slowly opened up to reveal some lovely clarity in the wine, so that it was clean, clear, almost ringing with purity in its sweet lemon and white fruit notes framed by fresh acidity. Love the precision here. There was great length too, with lots of concentration to boot. However, this too was doused with butter at the moment. This wine needs quite a bit of time, but it was clear that it was packing a lot of quality, with just pitch perfect balance that should see this aging gracefully for a long time. Solid.

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  3/17/2011 - Dbrane wrote: 91 Points

  Dinner with Goedhuis (Jade Palace, Forum): Oaky and restrained in the beginning but really showed its stuff with some time in the glass. Lemons and resin on the palate and the nose got so much better. Not a bruiser ala Batard. Great persistence but perhaps a little drying at the back-end. Many years ahead of it.

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