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Tasting notes for Domaine de la Romanee-Conti. Please note some wines are tasted from cask, and this is indicated in the tasting note. All Tasting notes Wines tasted from bottle - recent first …
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Tasting notes for Domaine du Comte de Vogue. Please note some wines are tasted from cask, and this is indicated in the tasting note. Tasting notes 2011 vintage Tasting notes 2010 vintage Tasting notes 2009 vintage Tasting notes 2008 vintage Tasting notes 2007 …
The DRC Echezeaux 2002 is a wonderful and very drinkable wine. Ripe and fresh fruit, typical 2002, with quite a nice minerality and length. It's not a very complex wine, but it offers a very good balance and pure pinot flavors. Offers pleasure now, but will keep. A very fine wine. (now - 2025) …
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The Richebourg 1999 is a very intense and dark wine, with loads and loads of fully mature pinot fruit. It's a very powerfull and direct Burgundy, from the rich 1999 vintage. Tasted against the Richebourg 1999 from Meo Camuzet, it did very well, being bigger, better and more complex - by a fair …
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La Tache 1959 is a big, masculine, robust and slighly rustic wine. I must say I prefered the 1971 to the 1959, but were on the same level. Very fine complexity and a lot of nuances asian spices and fresh pinot fruit. The 1959 has great depth and length, while lacking the elegance and sheer …
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