1994 Marc Colin et Fils Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  12/15/2012 - Pacalet Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Light yellow in color, nose of citrus fruit, coconut and loads of minerals. Palate still a tad tight which took several hours to unfold, but when it does, quite a special treat. Not as big and oily as 93 but with layers of flavors, and so much minerals that it creaps on you 15 sec after you swallowed. Very good and still onthe way look, hope can revisit this in 3+ years.

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  11/24/2012 - Dave Canada wrote: 88 Points

  The Eleventh Annual Stonefields Dinner (Guelph, ON, Canada): From magnum. Medium lemon colour with aromas of minerals, lemon rind, mint, fresh wax and lime. The palate showed flavours of lemon, minerals and wax again but was quite a bit lighter in texture than the DRC 1995 Montrachet that was poured next to it. The finish also paled in comparison to the DRC....the Colin was medium in length and with only good complexity and persistency
  To me this wine was a bit of a head scratcher as other seasoned burgundy lovers in the room liked this much more than I did. I just did not get what the appeal was. Granted this was only the 4th bottle of Montrachet I have ever had, but to me there seemed to be a large quality gap between these two. I assume that part of this could be attribute to vintage character as 1995 was a much more powerful year and also to sylistic preferences of the two producers.

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  11/24/2012 - alittle wrote: 84 Points

  Once in Lifetime...: From magnum, decanted approximately 20 minutes prior to service, straw colour in the glass with a slight green tinge. Next to the DRC, this wine was a bit of a disaster, in my opinion. To me, the nose was fairly reticent, but with some coaxing, notes of lemon zest, wax and mineral were present, however, this was overlaid by notes of soiled diapers, and a bit of match stick. On the palate, equally unimpressive, much leaner than it's counterpart, with tastes of waxy lemon and mineral, but again, some garbage juice like notes, with some sulfur. Finishes short, but thank goodness for that! This wine was not for me, but others enjoyed it a great deal.

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