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Tasting Notes for Clos Vougeot - Grivot, Jean, 2005:
A 2005 Clos Vougeot offers a nose of blackberry, wreathed in wood smoke. Firmer in tannin and with less surface polish than most of GrivotÕs wines, it exhibits chalky, black-fruited depth, and overt density, palate-coating richness, but also notable freshness and grip all the way through to its long if ultimately rather austere mineral finish. Figure waiting for 5-7 years just to check back on this. Etienne Grivot aimed this year for gentle extraction (essentially without pigeage), then watchful preservation of the freshness, subtleties and refinement inherent in near-perfect raw material. He performed some very light chaptalization to extend the fermentations. Given the health and natural concentration of his vinous raw material, he felt no need to sulfur or rack the wines until shortly prior to bottling (without filtration), which was the stage at which I tasted. Wine Advocate # 170 Apr 2007
Parker Points: 90-91
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Tasting Notes for Corton Pougets - Jadot, Louis, 1993:
The Corton Pougets, which is the least-known great wine of the Jadot portfolio, is powerful, as well as frightfully tannic. Although it possesses the potential to be excellent, it will never be a great wine. Its high tannin, combined with shrill acid levels make for an austere mouthful of Pinot Noir. Give it 5-6 years of cellaring and keep your fingers crossed that the fruit does not fade. Jadot produced a high percentage of successful wines in 1993. There are also disappointments, particularly in the lower appellations which have turned out tough and tannic. There is no Jadot house style, save for rich, well-delineated, structured wines that stand the test of time. As a vintage, 1993 is less consistently excellent than 1990 or 1989. In 1988, all the grand crus were bottled without filtration. That vintage was followed in 1990 and subsequent vintages, with all the premier and grand crus bottled without fining or filtration. Robert Parker Wine Advocate
Parker Points: 88
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Tasting Notes for Gevrey Chambertin Cherbaudes - Fourrier, 2002:
I love the wines from this property. They are the epitome of what I think red Burgundy should taste like; vibrant, fruity, velvet-textured with a ripe tannic structure. Red fruits - creamy summer pudding flavoured. Good vibrant acidity. Ripe finish. Sweet.
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Tasting Notes for Gevrey Chambertin Lavaux St Jacques - Potel, Nicolas, 2005:
ItÕs hard to put names on the intense floral and mineral aromatics of PotelÕs 2005 Gevrey-Chambertin Lavaux St.-Jacques but suggestions of rose petal, sea breeze and crushed stone are woven throughout this wine. Salt-crusted red currant, raspberry and beef marrow wreathed in flowers and truffle scents on the palate lead to a mysteriously multi-registered, rarified finish possessed of truly ethereal floral and distilled red fruit notes. The refinement of texture and interplay of flavors here are rather white wine-like. As superb as it is intriguing, I would suggest anyone lucky enough to latch on to a few bottles check it out in at most three more years, as one would not want to miss out on anything that is present now. Wine Advocate # 171 Jun 2007
Parker Points: 94-95
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Tasting Notes for Gevrey Chambertin Lavaux St Jacques - Potel, Nicolas, 2005:
ItÕs hard to put names on the intense floral and mineral aromatics of PotelÕs 2005 Gevrey-Chambertin Lavaux St.-Jacques but suggestions of rose petal, sea breeze and crushed stone are woven throughout this wine. Salt-crusted red currant, raspberry and beef marrow wreathed in flowers and truffle scents on the palate lead to a mysteriously multi-registered, rarified finish possessed of truly ethereal floral and distilled red fruit notes. The refinement of texture and interplay of flavors here are rather white wine-like. As superb as it is intriguing, I would suggest anyone lucky enough to latch on to a few bottles check it out in at most three more years, as one would not want to miss out on anything that is present now. Wine Advocate # 171 Jun 2007
Parker Points: 94-95
Drinking Period:  -