We did 21 barrel samples so 2020 bottle shot. Bottled in August. Super expressive nose, ripe and exotic. green pea, salt, but so complex and detailed. So much nuance. Silky and complex and has amazing finesse and elegance with an exciting and sapid finish, what energy as well. So mineral on the finish and tremendous complexity. Also a purity that is out of hand.
— 2 years ago
Paid $34 at Blanchards in Allston for a full bottle. Nice straw color. crisp clean flavor. Mimi likes it. — 5 years ago
smooth! not super fizzy. crushable — 7 years ago
2023 vintage. Light-medium body with a consistent palate presence. No über-demonstrative characteristics but no gaping holes either. Pleasant, pretty and unafraid to converse throughout. At $15.10 resto cost a bottle, beyond decent value with most red Bourgogne efforts running me $35-$50 these days. Picked up two cases. The proverbial cheap chicken and the nice price. 03.28.25. — 6 months ago
Green apple, pear, hay, sweet, sparkling, grape. — 5 years ago
Best burgundy I’ve ever tasted. — 6 years ago
Light and yummy — 7 years ago
BREAD. Evokes layers of rich dough, rye, hazelnut, malted barley — 7 years ago
Sun Valley. Wotn — 8 months ago
Light, smooth, grapefruit accent, very nice aperitif. — 2 years ago
Nose has dried grape vines, (old) neutral oak barrel, dried black cherry, dried garden soil, (cooled) grilled tomato, graphite mechanical pencil refills, old coffee grounds and very dry compost/soil.
Palate has dried cherries resurrected in bacon fat, several day old sliced fresh cherries, blend of moist/dry soil with medium tannins. Cork pulled for a slow ox. for ~6h, then decanted ~1h. Picking up some since decanting, but still not moving the needle much. Likely great 5+ years ago, acceptable this evening.
Paired to a local pig, grilled pork chops from our favorite just over the border farmer (Highland Farm, Old Chatham, NY). Courtney only raises about six pigs every year, I'm overjoyed when we land some for our freezer, delicious factor 2x over just about anything else in the region.
(Pork was 93 points, if I had been more observant on internal temps would have been 95 points, still grilled to a wonderful medium.) — 5 years ago
Délicieux, tres fort en bulles, s'évapore en bouche. — 7 years ago
Matthew Cohen
Nose: white flowers. Richness. Fucking ethereal.
Palate: elegant richness. Sick. Fucking sick. Hint of honey. Lingering craziness.
Fass selections. — 6 months ago