Sur La Velle Monthelie 1er Cru Pinot Noir

Haven’t had in over a year. Love this wine. Nose is perfect dark red cherries. Some glorious spice and earth. Terrific texture and purity. Grippy and glorious with vivid red cherry fruit and some faint licorice and awesome freshness. Very sneaky length.

Lovely aromas of cherry, minerals (limestone) cherry flower and some hints of red licorice. Very bright nose and very lifted. Palate is juicy and acid driven with terrific energy and wonderful driving minerality. Slight reductive funk on the nose blows off very quickly. A pretty wine and drinking well now. Very tangy and fresh with pretty tannins that are ripe. Like many 17’s this is gorgeously skinny.

Boussey killed 19. All the wines. Gorgeous cherry. Mid season and just perfect ripeness. Some spice and an intense minerality. The purity and vividness of the fruit cannot be contained. Palate is gorgeous. Awesome pure and deep fruit. Round and rich with awesome energy. So sappy and pure. This is killer and so well made.

Big exuberant nose. Soppy bright red cherries. Mid to late season. Loads of earth, moss and minerals underneath. Spice and florals as well after air. Palate is insanely juicy and dense but with next level freshness and depth. Fruit has energy for days. So pure and deep. Loads of tiny berry cherry intensity fruits here. A great 1er Cru Monthelie. Very exciting. Love this level for 2018 for now and for cellaring. Mouth coating and ripe tannins but also smothered and enclosed with minerals which also provide freshness. Epic. Drink now through 2038 or so. An ager but a great drink every day along the way.

Glorious nose. I love this 1er Cru. Red or white. Gorgeous cherry fruit, licorice and spice. Alluring mineral. Floral. Beguiling and hypnotizing nose. Juicy and also structured and tannic with exquisite balance and purity. 17 is so good and correct. Red fruits galore and superb depth. Earthy sweetness and wonderful hint of that Monthelie earthiness. Love sap and length. Just an awesome wine.

With air nose comes alive! Wow. Sour cherry and insane cherry spice complexity. Perfumed. This is so good. Stunning sappy and sweet fruit.

This was all out of sorts yesterday. Today it has a gorgeous nose of cherry fruit with a lipstick like intensity and loads of rocky minerals. Lovely spice and mint. Truly a great nose. Full of juicy fruit and luscious ripe tannins. From an ugly duckling to a swan overnight.

Man I love 2018. Huge pungent lipstick like fruit. Gorgeous mid to late season red and black cherries. Stunning. Such purity and aromatic depth. Has a gamey depth as well. Palate just has “crank it up” fruit. Juicy, dense, complex and full of big ripe velvety tannins. Amazing density and purity. What a finish. This is so epic. Such tiny berry fruit intensity. So good. Amazing concentration. Long, succulent, tangy and sappy. So fresh and energetic. Long. What a version of this. Sickness!

Awesome nose. Big cherry fruit. Like a cherry lipstick. So so aromatic. That 2015 sunshine is on display. Loads of spice and wet earth. Gorgeous. Palate is juicy and full of tiny berry fruit enveloped by wet leaves, minerals and earth. Very juicy and terrific balance. Fresh and fruity like the best 15’s are. Has guts to age 10-12 years. Superb.

A 1er Cru that is a sleeper but really rocks. Big cherry nose. Licorice and such dazzling bright cherry fruit. Mid season and ripe. Raspberry. So alluring and precise. Palate is elegant and sweet with terrific freshness and purity. Lovely sweet fruit but buffered by terrific minerality and spice. Really terrific 15.

Nose is stunning cherry lipstick. Deep and very clean.

Palate is fresh cherry juice. Maximally delicious. So fresh. Some glycerol. So clingy.

lingering finish.

Really good.

Bought from fass selections