1999 Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard Le Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  1/12/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:

  M&M dinner at Nicolas with pals.

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  1/12/2017 - justburg wrote: 89 Points

  M&M (Montrachet & Musigny) at Nicolas. Couldn't have been a greater contrast to the Remoissenet Monty 99. Vintage aside, the style was perfectly opposite. Yellow gold, with some maturity. A little cheese, funk and barnyard on the initial bouquet, which blew off with extended time to produce more minerality, stone and bright yellow fruit. On the palate, this drank like a Chevalier - elegant, clean with lots of flint, mineral and stone. Light yellow fruits were present, with some earth, spice, lavender and yuzu. For some reason, I couldn't associate this with a Montrachet. Good without being outstanding.

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  1/12/2017 - Paul S wrote: 95 Points

  M&M (Montrachet and Musigny) Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): A lovely, lovely wine. It had a beautiful nose that could only have come from a great white Burgundy. There were notes of cream, sweet ripe apples, flinty mineral, and then just a touch of earth and a hint of hard cheeses, all these perfectly integrated into a lovely seamless bouquet. On the palate, I felt this was a touch lean for a 1999 Montrachet, guessing it as a Criots-Batard instead. Otherwise though, it was very, very nice indeed. Like the nose, it was perfectly integrated into a perfect whole, with pure notes of apples and cream and mineral and gentle spice, all coming together in a beautifully elegant, effortless package. I loved the finish too - long, seamless and powerful, yet completely effortless, with a lovely unfolding of cream and white fruit laced with stony mineral shades. An absolutely beautiful wine, drinking wonderfully at the moment.

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