Bryan Garcia

Sales Grand Cru Selections

9.5

The key to a great holiday weekend. — 9 years ago

Keith Levenberg

8.9

This was a very weird split personality of a wine. I believe Jancis had a note calling it New Worldy. When I poured the first glass I thought she was on crack. From the pale color barely darker than rosé to its welterweight presence and flavors very reminiscent of a Truchot but sans funk, New World pinot would have been the last thing on my mind. And then... and then! A bit of sweet licorice pokes through the otherwise fairly tertiary and earthy flavors and the material steadily gets more and more glossy. It is a really dramatic change. It's not that it even feels much riper, just shinier. It still has burgundian proportions but dammit if it doesn't taste kind of New Worldy. Maybe more New Zealand like than California though. — 9 years ago

Jeremy Noye

CEO Morrell & Company

9.3

#lapaulee yummy — 10 years ago

Diane Kessler

8.9

I had a heck of a time extracting the cork. Thank you Ah So. Drinking well with lots of acidity, juicy cranberries and minerals. Very nice. — 10 years ago

Akiva Leeder

9.3

Some spice and pep — 11 years ago

Claire Bernard

9.8

Bubbly white wine, wonderful for appetizers — 11 years ago

Michele Smith

Sommelier/Wine Director Brooklyn Fare

10

2000. Sometimes unfiltered brings incredible clarity. I heart Truchot Clos de la Roche — 12 years ago

Chris MacLean

9.7

I want to rate this lower because I had just one glass, but this was transcendent aged Burgundy. Truly memorable. I might have gone 9.9 if drinking it alone. — 9 years ago

with Tim

Rick Pitcher

9.4

The Chenin Master - Jacky Blot. Both lush and lithe at the same time. Slammin'. — 10 years ago

Andrew Fortgang

9.6

There were a lot of bottles at dinner tonight, this is the only one that was emptied. — 10 years ago

Nils Paulson

Sales Martine's Wines

9.4

Brilliant for Bourgogne, Jacky! — 10 years ago

Patrick Arres

9.5

Diner Kowloon Ivan, Jacky, Winnie — 11 years ago

Thomas Pastuszak

Sommelier/Wine Director The NoMad

9.9

Jacky puffy-pants strikes again: Pinot-alternative for the uninitiated, lean, high-toned fruit and plenty of earthiness — 11 years ago

Mark W Smith

Sommelier

9.6

Old Jacky Truchot vineyard!! — 12 years ago

Jonathan Gray

9.4

06. Needs more time. This was the last vintage Truchot made, I guess. Sold a little bit to Weygandt. Great potential here. Awesome texture. — 9 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.3

Deep crimson color, dark by the standards of the producer, with some cloudiness observed as well, this is definitely one rustic Charmes. Some of the usual Truchot funk but it also came across screechy and shrill at first and needed at least an hour in the glass to really come together. Once there, it's plummy and stony and (yes) plenty funky and earthy but there is still a dense core that's not giving up a whole lot. — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.5

2005 vintage. It's from Corsica. This is my last of three bottles bought from Garagiste back when they regularly offered fascinating stuff like this, before they jumped the shark. It was the first and last time they ever offered this wine despite my repeatedly prodding them to do so again after I opened my first two early on. I was floored then - it was like drinking a Truchot, almost impossibly light and gossamer. I've been holding on to this last bottle for years, afraid to open it as I didn't want to ruin that perfect memory. Shouldn't have worried, this is still great. And in fact it's aging very much like a Burgundy, although tasting more mature than a Burgundy of a similar age would be, and it's oddly put on a substantial amount of weight: the color's deeper and the material denser than before. It starts out with slightly spiky acidity that needs a bit of time to sort itself out. Then it has a fresh green aroma, full of Alpine herbs. Then it turns deeper, more savory and earthy, with mushroom and saddle leather, very much like a Burgundy knocking on the door of a tertiary period. It has a very fresh acidic spine with a juiciness that brings to mind orange or tangerine, not ordinarily the type of acidity that you see in a red wine. That adds a youthful perspective to a profile that otherwise feels fairly developed. But the most remarkable thing about it is the texture and sleek, slender proportions, not much changed since those bottles years ago that felt like drinking Jacky Truchot. Won't somebody consider importing this wine again? — 10 years ago

Joe Carroll

Owner/Wine Director Spuyten Duyvil, Fette Sau, St. Anselm & Gotham Artisanal Provisions

9.1

Jacky Fuckin' Blot — 11 years ago

Russ Bus

9.0

Cormoyeux Marne Valley / PM55-PN30-Cha-15 / 2010 base - 2 vintages / 2010 triage / July 2012 disgorge / dosage 8gl/ RS 8gl / ML Ferm / RM / jacky&Valery bochet / clay & chalk / 8.5ha / 6.7k cs / vanilla citrus white flowers brioche — 11 years ago

Peter Sultan

9.2

2nd bottle, better-packed in there, would love 2 taste in 3-5 yrs — 12 years ago