Nose has fresh cherry syrup (whole cluster stems and all), cold dark chocolate, moist garden soil and dried unsweetened cranberry.
Palate has dried cherry, fresh cherry, cocoa powder, smoked oak plank, iron-biased soil with medium-firm tannins.
A great village level wine, from a low production vintage, so only the best fruit makes it into a barrel, rejoice!
Cork pulled for a slow ox., about 4h, then ~60m decant, perfect amount of time. Future bottles should be 2024-2030+
A great pairing with a salt-brined, slowly baked turkey, basted with a sage/rosemary/oregano/bay/onion/garlic/celery reduction based around Rodenbach Grand Cru/fish sauce/bone broth sauce, sounds unique, but umami! Delicious.
Nose has fresh cherry syrup (whole cluster stems and all), cold dark chocolate, moist garden soil and dried unsweetened cranberry.
Palate has dried cherry, fresh cherry, cocoa powder, smoked oak plank, iron-biased soil with medium-firm tannins.
A great village level wine, from a low production vintage, so only the best fruit makes it into a barrel, rejoice!
Cork pulled for a slow ox., about 4h, then ~60m decant, perfect amount of time. Future bottles should be 2024-2030+
A great pairing with a salt-brined, slowly baked turkey, basted with a sage/rosemary/oregano/bay/onion/garlic/celery reduction based around Rodenbach Grand Cru/fish sauce/bone broth sauce, sounds unique, but umami! Delicious.
Apr 26th, 2020
Soft as satin, but very persistent. This is a négociant cuvée of the Vosne-Romanée based domaine (Henri Jayer, one of Burgundy's greatest winemakers, used to be the winemaker here until the late 1980's). The parcel in Fixin is just at the foot of the 'côte', next to the 1e cru vineyards. Here, the domaine aims for balance and purity of fruit (they destem all grapes for example) and they succeeded big time. Definitely a re-buy!
Soft as satin, but very persistent. This is a négociant cuvée of the Vosne-Romanée based domaine (Henri Jayer, one of Burgundy's greatest winemakers, used to be the winemaker here until the late 1980's). The parcel in Fixin is just at the foot of the 'côte', next to the 1e cru vineyards. Here, the domaine aims for balance and purity of fruit (they destem all grapes for example) and they succeeded big time. Definitely a re-buy!
Oct 5th, 2015
Fixin, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France
