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Fèvre, Clos 2004-Reveals elements of honeysuckle and oyster liquor, with a benevolence to its maturity and character, just a shade of beeswax. Spherical palate shows a layered depth, its golden fruits nuanced and seductively textured. Long finish, cucumber-saline.
winenoodle.com/2025/03/05/d...
Embracing bouquet, it’s alert on the inside, ripe on the outside. Eau de vie and mirabelle; sea breeze and forest floor; smoked balsam fir and thai basil. The palate is well-textured, holds a proper depth and fullness of yellow, green, and white fruit.
winenoodle.com/2025/02/04/d...
Emonin CdB 1999-On the nose there’s good fruit core, ozonic damp woods, sous bois, cepes, a tea aspect like cold brew lapsang suchong. The palate comes with nice drive and an inviting sweetness, with stylish black woodland berries and spice.
winenoodle.com/2025/02/03/d...
Barthod Cras 1999-If mineral can be delicious, then here it is. A perfectly streamlined palate, an apex of berries and calcaire with notes of orchids now turning to baozhong tea. Quite firm really, especially underneath.
winenoodle.com/2025/02/02/d...
Lafleur 1989-The bouquet has a sweet air, rich, dried fruits such as dates with a mild savory streak of beef stock, dried blood, cepes, blackberry undernotes, a mixture of oily and damp touches of age. There are both salty and pressed flower contributors, sandlewood.
winenoodle.com/2025/01/27/c...
Jadot CSJ 1995-Unlocked nose that is full of fragrance, offers beef stock, forest floor, pressed flower, and blackthorn fruit. The palate is similar – carries a bold sort of black fruit, has a grounded depth and strength. Spice and mineral traces drive it along.
winenoodle.com/2025/02/08/d...
Domaine Moreau-Naudet Chablis Forêts 2009-Intriguing nuances of forest floor and chartreuse, set within an infectiously juicy and palpably saline context. Sweeter suggestions of glacé citrus, then wide open and dramatic in a green-silvery way.
winenoodle.com/2020/01/18/d...
Desaunay-Bissey Grand Ech 1999-The nose carries perfume in an unforced style, offers up organic aromas of sous bois, rose hip, woodland berry, damp moss, mint, five spice powder. The palate gains a spur with ripe red fruits, ties in incense and dried floral lift.
winenoodle.com/2025/01/02/d...
Remoissenet Grand Ech 1999-The bouquet is resolved, has advanced into interesting areas. There is a scented, floral dash before the wine moderates, an immediate thread of asian spice and beet root, an underpinning of forest floor. The palate is correct, neat details.
winenoodle.com/2025/01/01/m...
Raveneau Clos 1999-There is waxy evolution on the nose, with grip and cut on the bouquet. It’s layered in oatmeal, baking spice, and a rich, creamy shellfish stock whipped to a froth. The palate works well via its texture, with droplets of finesse.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/31/d...
Engel Ech 1999-Amply filled, wholesome bouquet, with mocha, morello, fig, spice drawer, earth, a bit of white pepper. The palate is firmly textured, homogenous, and runs fully and consecutively. It holds rich matter, has tannic rusticity, yet achieves good balance.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/31/d...
Angélus 1989-The bouquet is deeply set, sensual, and well stacked, encasing deep, subtle, inviting plum raspberry fruit, and fueled by layers of spicecake, sandalwood, fireside hearth, havana wrapper, and périgord. The palate has another level of concentration.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/31/c...
Minot Charmes 2003-Rich, broad, full scale nose, blueberry, mocha, and a surmise of licorice. Sappy and concentrated and the wine shows a pliant gras richness with borders of smoky tannin. The finish boasts archetype intimations of rocky earth and candy-cap mushroom.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/29/d...
Perrot-Minot, Chambolle-Musigny Les Fuées VV 1999-The bouquet is gracious, has depth and interest. The fruit has sweet traces of spice and animal, flirts with a high tonality close to orange confiture. On the palate there’s a rush of choke cherry and woodland berries.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/30/d...
J.J. Confuron Chambolle-Musigny 1999-Resolved nose, offers damp woods, caramel, plum tart, baking spices. The palate brings a mature generosity and sweetness, with evolved flavors and a countrified rusticity. There’s dark chocolate and lapsong souchong on the finale.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/29/d...
Dugat Gevrey 1999-The bouquet has a sweet air and a warm breadth to it. It’s rich, show medjool date and morello cherry with a mild dried florals air, cassis undernotes, a mixture of oily and damp forest touches of age. There are both salt and cedar chest contributors
winenoodle.com/2024/12/26/d...
Gros Frère et Sœur, Grand Ech 1999-The bouquet is precise, direct and full, very 1999. There is a mocha aspect, airs of simmered blackberry, lamb stock, gourmand spices, black truffle. This is pretty seamless, a mature generosity present. Droplets of blueberry compote
winenoodle.com/2024/12/28/g...
Raveneau MdT 1999-Mature nose, rich and slightly gourmand, gives oatmeal, white truffle, musky orchid allied to a feast of lobster boil. On the palate this is delightfully plump and waxy, with ripe orchard fruit, lemon confit, and a marrow-like minerality.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/21/d...
Cotat MD 2004-This is distinctly savory and fusil, conveys a slightly exotic quality of pine nut, persimmon, smoke, clam stock, wild mushroom, and a brothy minerality. On the palate this is densely packed, penetrating and weightless, displaying a wonderful energy.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/22/p...
Burguet Gevrey VV 1990-Lots of velvet and flesh to this ’90, sweet forest red raspberries and cassis. Tertiary notes of potting soil and forest floor. Vivid acidity, good structure. The finish is articulate, dry and mineral-edged. Lusty and rich without the cookery.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/24/d...
Burguet Gevrey VV 1993-More curved bouquet; the '90 is more direct. Shows a softly herbal air, fennel, beet root, chrysanthemum, very much on the forest floor. The palate is founded on a steady Gevrey richness. The length is savory, the simpa maturity running freely.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/24/d...
Bachelet Gevrey VV 1999-Peony, dashi stock, smoke, aniseed, sous bois, very tender black raspberry circulate on the nose. The palate gives a careful display of focused content with savory juice. It takes to the skies in its sweet maturity, floats with grace and depth
winenoodle.com/2024/12/25/d...
Dom 2002-Tree resin, graphite and chalky orchid on her main and beneath her timbers just a hint of the truffle-woodsyness to come. Sappy and ironclad, intense like a coke furnace, with so much material there’s an element of reductive immolation at work. Steel ending
winenoodle.com/2017/09/16/m...
Gouges Vaucrains 1988-Resolved and fragrant on the nose, a pinot perfume of blackberry and morello, christmas spice, forest floor, game notes. On the palate this is still quite structured, the robustness of the fruit has lived long enough to match up to those tannins.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/18/d...
Raveneau Chapelot 1999-Aromatic nose, with a mineral frame, seabreeze, dried white florals, honeycomb, candle wax, oxy overtones of brazil nut and sel gris. The palate is golden and pez concentrated, sugar stick with sea salt counterpoint, lemon apple pear.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/18/d...
Domaine La Pousse d’Or, Volnay Clos d’Audignac 1999-There’s good energy and crackle to its red fruit, summons mocha, pressed flower, toasted spices, sous bois. The palate is Volnay flattering with Pommard density and a bit of grip on the end. Finishes on spicy tannin.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/16/d...
René Engel, Grands-Echézeaux 1999-A profound bouquet that is sustained on its dry soil statement, waves of black and red fruits across the nose with rather noble suggestions of aniseed, vosne spice, soy, second flush darjeeling, beef stock, périgord. Seamless palate.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/08/d...
Bouchard Volnay Caillerets Carnot 1999 - Vigorous wine, with a modern, crisp feel and good poise. Some violet and floral airs, torrefaction and mineral alongside. The palate glides on sleek content imbued with autumn strawberries and bergamot tea. Anise undercurrent.
winenoodle.com/2020/11/28/d...
Lamarche Grand Rue 1999-The nose is into secondary zones, with superior depth and variety, a backing of black fruits, mineral, souk spices, forest undergrowth, leather, ceylon tea. It’s a complex start, and air clarifies it. The palate is concentrated, tannic spine.
winenoodle.com/2024/12/04/d...
Forey Ech 1990-Holds a wide, silken, evolved aroma, where the berry jam rides a little “high”, garlanded by a trope of licorice, fennel, and earth. The palate has scented, older wine flavors, knits black and red fruit with a smoky earl grey tilt, keeps a round shape.
winenoodle.com/2024/09/17/d...
