Depressed cork. Perhaps not perfect storage conditions. Agree with tasting notes below but this bottle finished with a lot of musty flavors which held it back from being better.
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Notes on Wines from December 2021 (Wellington, NZ): Initially served double blind. Another enticing bouquet but this of an evolved and resolved (20+ years old) Burgundy. Cedar, old tobacco, preserved red fruit … so complex with spices, herbs, warm earth and rust. On palate, rounded red fruit, tilled dry soil, smoky barbequed game meats and rust. To me, de Montille Rugiens with 20+ years from a good vintage is one of the great, quintessential red Burgundy experiences, as here. These wines can sit on their optimal drinking plateaus for many years (in this case, I'd be confident it will continue to drink well until at least 2025).
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Fresh, bright and well-integrated ... notes of cherries, strawberries and gorgeous earth, cedar. I'm still new(er) to Burgundy, but one was lovely by itself and worked really well with sushi.
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2/19/2024 - Grapetimescomin Likes this wine: 91 Points
Depressed cork. Perhaps not perfect storage conditions. Agree with tasting notes below but this bottle finished with a lot of musty flavors which held it back from being better.
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1/3/2022 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 95 Points
Notes on Wines from December 2021 (Wellington, NZ): Initially served double blind. Another enticing bouquet but this of an evolved and resolved (20+ years old) Burgundy. Cedar, old tobacco, preserved red fruit … so complex with spices, herbs, warm earth and rust. On palate, rounded red fruit, tilled dry soil, smoky barbequed game meats and rust. To me, de Montille Rugiens with 20+ years from a good vintage is one of the great, quintessential red Burgundy experiences, as here. These wines can sit on their optimal drinking plateaus for many years (in this case, I'd be confident it will continue to drink well until at least 2025).
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3/9/2020 - Som-Geo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fresh, bright and well-integrated ... notes of cherries, strawberries and gorgeous earth, cedar. I'm still new(er) to Burgundy, but one was lovely by itself and worked really well with sushi.
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12/19/2019 - Paul D wrote: flawed
Christmas Winps (La Trompette, Chiswick): From magnum, but quite markedly corked.
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5/4/2018 - steinersing wrote: 92 Points
A well showing Pommard - perfectly evolved
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