Ron Siegel

9.4

A pair of the great Truchots — 4 months ago

Joe DAscoli

9.7

Acker birthday auction. Shared by Bill. Unreal wine. Stood out amongst everything but the Truchot — 7 months ago

Ira Schwartz

9.2

Purchased on release . Shame on me, I did a very poor job of allowing it to show its best. I did not decant this hours before. Aromatically reserved with moments of cherry & cranberry. In the mouth generous acidity but built like a block of marble. Once again only hints of what is there. My first time with Truchot and given the pricing likely my last😢. — 3 years ago

Bryan Garcia

Sales Grand Cru Selections

9.5

The key to a great holiday weekend. — 10 years ago

Chris MacLean

9.7

I want to rate this lower because I had just one glass, but this was transcendent aged Burgundy. Truly memorable. I might have gone 9.9 if drinking it alone. — 11 years ago

with Tim

Keith Levenberg

8.9

This was a very weird split personality of a wine. I believe Jancis had a note calling it New Worldy. When I poured the first glass I thought she was on crack. From the pale color barely darker than rosé to its welterweight presence and flavors very reminiscent of a Truchot but sans funk, New World pinot would have been the last thing on my mind. And then... and then! A bit of sweet licorice pokes through the otherwise fairly tertiary and earthy flavors and the material steadily gets more and more glossy. It is a really dramatic change. It's not that it even feels much riper, just shinier. It still has burgundian proportions but dammit if it doesn't taste kind of New Worldy. Maybe more New Zealand like than California though. — 11 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.8

Diego tad milo — 6 months ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Very pretty notes at the top with a lovely gnarly undertow. Very characterful and dense with some tannins on the end of the palate. Delicious — 2 years ago

with Bex

Alvaro Bustillos

9.7

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Pesquis
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Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

This guy is like the Jacky Truchot of Alto Piemonte. Light color, yet amazing finesse and delicacy along with a brilliant texture. Gorgeous nose. Cherries, spice, sawdust, Rainer cherries as well, some lurid feral aromas as well. So complex, delicate and detailed. Palate is beautifully fruited with lovely elegant tannin and gorgeous bright cherries rule the day. Dusty elegant tannin and sappy fruit finish it off. Needs maybe 1 hour to turn into the lace monster it becomes. — 9 years ago

Bryan Garcia

Sales Grand Cru Selections

9.7

Still married, 365 days later. Go me! #CHbirthyear — 10 years ago

Jonathan Gray

9.4

06. Needs more time. This was the last vintage Truchot made, I guess. Sold a little bit to Weygandt. Great potential here. Awesome texture. — 11 years ago

Chris Cottrell

Partner Bedrock Wine Co, Co-founder/Winemaker Under the Wire

9.5

So pretty and lovely last night. — 11 years ago

Joe DAscoli

9.8

Acker birthday auction. Wow. Just wow — 7 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Superb nose, shell limestone. gorgeous nose, unreal cherry fruit and cherry flower, aroma is incredible, I can’t stop smelling this. Elegant and so so pure. wow, so elegant and so juicy. Complex and so dissipating and flavors are all red fruits. Gorgeous and so pure. Like a pillow on the palate. Long and persistent. Wow the length. Outrageous aroma. It’s so like Truchot. Spicey and so pretty. Dense and so weightless. It’s so so pretty. Echoing. structured and dense but can and will age there is a subtle structure. Muschelkalk. Also a savory and meaty element on the finish. The empty glass smells like a true scene in nature. — 2 years ago

PS Michaels

9.2

Former Truchot vines. — 6 years ago

Kenta Hayashi

9.2

Light, semi translucent color. Very perfumed, elegant, floral, and layers of aromatic lift comprising of earth and red cherries. Brilliant when it was first opened, but it then slightly tailed off after a hour. Less concentrated but more pure than the Morey St Denis 2003 we had a few weeks back. Definitely performing above village level as indicated by the blind tasting responses. Most thought it was a Premier Cru. — 9 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.6

"Peut-etre pas si fragile qu'il n'y parait?" asks the producer in a promo sheet I found for the flower cuvees - "Perhaps not so fragile as it seems?" Perhaps not! This is basically showing as a completely different wine than the bottle I had two months ago, substantially sturdier and more expressive, like it had totally awoken from a long sleep - and it was already a pretty thing even when it was groggy. Now, however, it's a knockout. It's got a wide array of enticing flavors and scents, most of them subtle but the cumulative effect is a nice earthy punch on a nimble frame, sort of reminiscent of a Truchot wine but more earthy than funky. These are really wild flavors, not the usual things derivative from fruit and barrels - there's stuff like truffle and carob here. Hard to keep my nose out of the glass, but it delivers on the palate too, where the figure is lean and feminine but quite a bit denser and fruitier than my bottle a few months ago - no more sense of fragility, it's a powered elegance. — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.3

Deep crimson color, dark by the standards of the producer, with some cloudiness observed as well, this is definitely one rustic Charmes. Some of the usual Truchot funk but it also came across screechy and shrill at first and needed at least an hour in the glass to really come together. Once there, it's plummy and stony and (yes) plenty funky and earthy but there is still a dense core that's not giving up a whole lot. — 11 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.5

2005 vintage. It's from Corsica. This is my last of three bottles bought from Garagiste back when they regularly offered fascinating stuff like this, before they jumped the shark. It was the first and last time they ever offered this wine despite my repeatedly prodding them to do so again after I opened my first two early on. I was floored then - it was like drinking a Truchot, almost impossibly light and gossamer. I've been holding on to this last bottle for years, afraid to open it as I didn't want to ruin that perfect memory. Shouldn't have worried, this is still great. And in fact it's aging very much like a Burgundy, although tasting more mature than a Burgundy of a similar age would be, and it's oddly put on a substantial amount of weight: the color's deeper and the material denser than before. It starts out with slightly spiky acidity that needs a bit of time to sort itself out. Then it has a fresh green aroma, full of Alpine herbs. Then it turns deeper, more savory and earthy, with mushroom and saddle leather, very much like a Burgundy knocking on the door of a tertiary period. It has a very fresh acidic spine with a juiciness that brings to mind orange or tangerine, not ordinarily the type of acidity that you see in a red wine. That adds a youthful perspective to a profile that otherwise feels fairly developed. But the most remarkable thing about it is the texture and sleek, slender proportions, not much changed since those bottles years ago that felt like drinking Jacky Truchot. Won't somebody consider importing this wine again? — 11 years ago