Jess

9.0

Altugnac Terres Amoureuses Limoux 2021

Pale lemon color.
Aromas of lemon, floral, brioche.
Dry. White peach, lemon, orange blossom, spice, white pepper. Tart finish. Lovely!

Intensity: 4/5
Complexity: 3/5
Balance: 4/5
Finish: 4/5 — 3 years ago

Tony Chen

9.5

Such beautiful burgundy, so awesome! — 5 years ago

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.4

Medium weight, cassis, raspberries. The wine is still closed and needs a good 30 minutes to open in the glass. Next to les amoureuses this is true grand cru. Needs a good 8 to 10 years but like so many 2017s is approachable. — 6 years ago

ADAM STROMFELD

9.7

An absolute rock star knows. Deep dark fruit. Big mouth feel rolling tan and black fruit perfect balance nice acidity. Wow! — 6 years ago

with Maayan, Howard and 5 others

Byron Hewett

9.4

Gorgeous bottle. Lovely red fruits, layered, nice mouth feel. Long finish. — 9 years ago

PS Michaels

9.4

Tiny vineyard bordering les amoureuses. — 10 years ago

Chris Cass

9.5

Clunkier and more powerful than Amoureuses, tea and spice to finish. — 10 years ago

Mary Phillips

9.3

Tried at Cave de Boucles wine tasting and loved. Very complex with some darker flavors. — 4 years ago

Ross Hensley

9.1

Barnyard smell but great color and nose and dark purple color. Cherry snd spice with spice nice long finish. Nice classic Burgundy!! — 5 years ago

with J

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.0

Very light cherry bomb. Doesn’t have the weight that les amoureuses should produce. Enjoyable but a touch disappointing. — 6 years ago

Hickoryburger

9.6

And 2000 Mugnier Amoureuses — 6 years ago

with Jim

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9.7

Good deep red. Aromas of black raspberry, graphite, chocolate, cocoa powder and herbs, plus an earthy tobacco hint of Montecristo No. 2. A wine of great power and energy, just beginning to round into its adult form. Wonderfully savory flavors of dark raspberry and Cuban cigar tobacco, plus a suggestion of honey. Really glistens on the palate, showing an uncommonly suave texture and strong minerality. This wine is at the beginning of a long peak-drinking window; in fact, my sample seemed still to want to tighten up in the bottle. This still-youthful wine finishes with terrific savory grip. I should note that Roumier actually prefers his 1999 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses to this wine! (Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, March 2018) — 8 years ago

Robert Cunningham

Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop

9.2

Lovely aromatics. Very nice wine — 10 years ago

Craig Haserot

Founder and Proprietor Sojourn Cellars

9.2

Very pretty wine, got better with some air. Super nice example of a 1988. — 10 years ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.5

Perhaps there’s no more of a polarizing producer in Burgundy than de Vogüé. The 2008 Musigny was served blind, yielding calls from Dujac Bonnes Mares to Drouhin Amoureuses to actually, correctly Vogüé Musigny. The 2008 showed a lot of oak presence and doesn’t have the typical power of Musigny. But what it lacks in power it makes up for in elegance.

It needed a great deal of air, and it often went back and forth from being shut to then being highly expressive and even wafting from the glass, detectable from a good distance away. There is great focus, concentration and intensity, with a long and gripping finish. Very enjoyable, but I think it needs more time to absorb the oak and balance itself out in order to truly reach its potential. — 5 years ago

Gaurav Tiwari

9.5

Classic chambolle. Elegance is the word! Complex and clean nose with red currant, cherry, roses and primordial earthiness. On the palate, seductive elegance with a silky texture and feather like mouthfeel and outstanding linearity. It slowly peels away the complexity with layers of red fruits, roses and the classic limestone undertones. Borniques is biodynamically farmed with winemaking synched with lunar cycles on a small parcel of 1.4 ha situated right above the famous ‘Les Amoureuses’ with vines planted almost on the rock. It explains the very linear structure. The tannins, acidity and alcohol were in brilliant harmony with a finish where the dance continues for well over 2 mins. I loved this and it reminded me why Chambolle-Musigny is one of my absolute favorite villages in Burgundy. — 5 years ago

Jeremy Noye

CEO Morrell & Company

9.4

Great lift and energy. Full of savory elements. Leafy decay. Perigord truffle. Cedar. — 6 years ago

Kenta Hayashi

9.3

Lovely potential here, charming, pure, and floral. Just consumed too quickly when we should have given it a hour more. — 7 years ago

Mark Royer

9.5

Bright cherry and raspberry. Elegant throughout. Med plus acid with med integrated tannin. Subtle wood spice. Let this one age. — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.3

Excellent bottle of Les Amoureuses. The texture is finely knit, as Les Amoureuses should be, but it's more powerful than most - not the leaner, lighter, more waifish Musigny that many of them are, but rather being much closer to Musigny itself in terms of its scale, density, and solidity as well as in some of the darker gravelly flavors that figure in. The last Amoureuses I had from Frederic Magnien (2002) was too oaky, in fact my notes say the oak totally ruined the wine. Here it is not a problem at all. The wood is still present, but it's developed and aged in much the same way that the rest of the wine ages, suggesting driftwood and some earthy decay more than the simple toastiness or sugar-and-spice of young oak. — 10 years ago