2005 Domaine Coste-Caumartin Beaune 1er Cru Chouacheux

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91 points

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  10/2/2023 - Vaucrains Likes this wine: 93 Points

  What a lovely, authentic utterly delicious burg. Fully mature, gossamer and lithesome, soft autumn leaves, faded rose, mature griotte, tiny touch of Xmas spice. Beautiful bouquet, beautiful silk palate. Yum.
  A wine that shows there are still many under-the-radar burgs that never show up on the “ greatest burgs” lists (thank god) and are absolute steals, are a joy to drink, can mature for years and are the epitome of what pinot noir can attain, almost always in the Côte d’Or of France.
  Don’t want to ignite a big debate, but I’m a burg-pn freak for the past 50 years and have been lucky enough to drink 1000s of sublime to simply good bottles (and some bad) from the glittering grand cru greats, to villages, to cotes de Beaune, to bourgogne rouge…as well as many New World pinots- and when I drink a not-famous 18 year old Beaune like this one ( who ever heard of Chouacheux?)- I feel again nowhere else makes Pinot Noir of this level and elegance and complexity- and very low cost. This wine cost me 18 euros on release, a ridiculously low price for a burg of this quality.
  This Chouacheux plot is 47 year old vines, with a meticulous vigneron, no over-oaking, no over-saturation or over-extraction, or high alcohol. Deft touch, sagesse, deft wine. I wish I had 4 more cases.
  Coste Caumartin makes lovely wines. Albert Morot is another Beaune maker of similar deftness, authenticity and value. There are many others in and near Beaune, Pernand, Savigny, Auxey, Monthelie, Mercurey and environs.
  Not “ famous”- but in many ways perhaps the best of burg- because they consistently show what pinot noir can be from dozens of not-grand vineyards on slopes from Beaune down to the Challonais. Where else in the world is so much great Pinot made, from so many vineyards, over such a diversity of climats? And even today, at mostly fair prices.

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  6/14/2015 - DragonChowhound Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Upon opening, cork was worryingly stained, nearly to the top. But no worries here, this bottle is a classic representation of expressive cherry with a neatly muted nose. Color is leaning towards a more mature, yet still clear rosso. My only regret is that this was the last bottle on sale at my local shop. I would load the cellar with this if I could find more.

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