Allen Meadows,
Burghound, April 2007.
A relatively deeply pitched nose of
red pinot and freshly crushed berry nose nuanced by hints of spice and earth
marry into textured, concentrated and sappy flavors that are moderately
somber as the tannins here are also somewhat drying if not tough or aggressive.
Again, I attribute the dryness to the recent mise. 89 points
Stephen
Tanzer's Int'l Wine Cellar, March/April 2007.
Good full ruby-red. Deep, very ripe aromas of black cherry, plum,
leather and minerals. Fat and sweet on entry, then rich and minerally in
the middle palate, with slowly evolving flavors of black cherry, dark berries
and bitter chocolate. Powerful for this cuvee but also aromatic and
fine. Finishes with substantial but sweet tannins and excellent
persistence. This will need a longer elevage. 90-93 points
Geoffroy Choppin
de Janvry said that 2005 gave a “positively superb quality of fruit, particularly
in the sense of fruit/acid/tannin balance. Moreover, the crop was so clean
that it was almost not worth the trouble to bother sorting. .... When you have fruit this good with such ripe
structural elements, the vinification is usually easy and so it was with
2005 too. For me, as good as 1999 is, 2005 is better still.” M. de Janvry
was not boasting about the fruit quality because it is reflected in the
quality of resulting wines and I heartily recommend these ‘05s to you.
Allen Meadows, Burghound, April 2007.
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