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Burgundy With A Bit of Age: 2000-2014 (May 2019)

The 2002 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru has a beguiling bouquet with pure brambly red fruit, fine mineralité, hints of sous-bois and pressed flower. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, a fine bead of acidity, not a powerful or decadent Les Amoureuses but complex and mineral-driven. There is a slight earthiness towards the finish…

2014 Red Burgundies: Delicious Terroir-Driven Midweights (Mar 2017)

Medium red. Musky aromas of raspberry, strawberry and violet. Juicy, spicy and quite dry, even a bit youthfully imploded; a lovely sophisticated village Chambolle with saline soil tones carrying through to a subtly long finish featuring substantial dusty tannins.

2006 and 2005 Red Burgundies (Mar 2008)

Good medium red. Dark raspberry, coffee and spicy oak on the nose; this wine’s flamboyant ripeness almost came as a shock following the more reticent 2006s. Big, round, plush and ripe, with spicy dark raspberry and chocolate flavors and considerable density for village wine. Quite smooth and harmonious at the moment: Roumier volunteered that this…

2014 Red Burgundies: Delicious Terroir-Driven Midweights (Mar 2017)

Dark red. A sexy hint of woodsmoke complements sweet scents of cherry liqueur and purple berries. Tight-grained and fine, but with terrific inner-mouth lift to its dark berry, spice and violet flavors. Wonderfully juicy, lively wine with a light touch. Not a fleshy powerhouse, and not showing the obvious mineral structure today of the Ruchottes-Chambertin,…

Blind Vision: 2015 Burgundy Red & White (Nov 2018)

The 2015 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has the most intense bouquet of the five wines from the same vineyard included within this flight, almost overwhelming the senses with precocious dark cherries, raspberry coulis, bergamot and hints of vanilla pod. The palate is medium-bodied, quite powerful and dense – a more masculine Bonnes-Mares that is almost Musigny-like…

Red Burgundy ’16 & ’15: Superb Vintages, Different Styles (Jan 2018)

(13.7% alcohol; 2.9 g/l acidity): Full medium-dark red. Sexy, inviting scents of raspberry, mocha, leather, spices and minerals, plus a whiff of dark chocolate. Dense, sweet and deep, conveying outstanding intensity to its plush flavors of blueberry, blackberry and mocha. Spreads out horizontally to saturate the palate on the very long, slowly mounting finish. This…