This was about at prototypical “Burgundy” as I could imagine. Everything seemed to be in the right place. Truck loads of red and blue forest fruits with some celery root, all wrapped in a velvet glove with enough acid and tannin for the long haul.
This was about at prototypical “Burgundy” as I could imagine. Everything seemed to be in the right place. Truck loads of red and blue forest fruits with some celery root, all wrapped in a velvet glove with enough acid and tannin for the long haul.
May 8th, 2018
L'empreinte du millésime marque le vin, sec en bouche, notes de roses fanées faisant penser à Rayas
L'empreinte du millésime marque le vin, sec en bouche, notes de roses fanées faisant penser à Rayas
Jan 31st, 2016
Soy, leaves, balsamic, persistence and length on the dark Vosne spectrum. Wow
Soy, leaves, balsamic, persistence and length on the dark Vosne spectrum. Wow
Jan 31st, 2026
2020 September. I approached this with some trepidation as the last bottle (opened a few years back) was hard, tart and weedy. I find some reactions to the 2004 vintage character overblown, but this wine had lived down to the stereotype. This bottle, though, was different - the greenness had melted into a rather open, fairly complex and rich wine which more than hinted at its origins. Dark berries, spice, game, etc. So perhaps that mean green thing was just a very long and very awkward middle phase after all. I have one more bottle, and it’ll be very interesting to see where this ends up in a several more years. I’d say the same for my other remaining 2004s.
2020 September. I approached this with some trepidation as the last bottle (opened a few years back) was hard, tart and weedy. I find some reactions to the 2004 vintage character overblown, but this wine had lived down to the stereotype. This bottle, though, was different - the greenness had melted into a rather open, fairly complex and rich wine which more than hinted at its origins. Dark berries, spice, game, etc. So perhaps that mean green thing was just a very long and very awkward middle phase after all. I have one more bottle, and it’ll be very interesting to see where this ends up in a several more years. I’d say the same for my other remaining 2004s.
Sep 20th, 2020
Vosne-Romanée, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France
