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Score: 91 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Year's Best Burgundy (Oct 2013). This has the gentleness of Echézeaux with an underlying power, a light red glow of strawberries and minerals. The delicate fragrance keeps giving from a cool focal point of ripeness, persistent and graceful. Check on this ten years from the vintage.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Year's Best Burgundy (Oct 2013). Cherry-rich and cushioned with full, meaty fruit, this feels round and complete. The floral notes suggest some of the complexity that may develop with bottle age.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
From a triangle of vines adjacent to the Château du Clos de Vougeot, this block has been planted to white grapes at least as far back as 1110. Jasper Morris in his article, “Nuits Blanche” (W&S, October 2012), writes that the soil here is different from the rest of Clos de Vougeot, “an unusual salmon pink conglomerate of the Oligocene period.” Today, the monopole is planted mostly to chardonnay (95 percent) with a small amount of pinots gris and blanc. It produces a golden wine, the 2010 ripe with beeswax scents and fruit notes that range from lemon to pineapple. A tight structure holds all the ripeness, keeping the wine cool, focused for long aging.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
More generous and straightforwardly brisk than Le Clos Blanc, this wine has fresh melon flavors and a broad, smoky finish. Its deep, golden savor will develop into complexity over the next several years.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Airy and fresh, with creamy notes of vanilla and the crust of crème brulée, this has tart acidity to spark up the finish, bringing out bright orange citrus flavors that last. Oak brings a puff pastry richness to the wine, but it’s balanced by all the citrusy fruit. Decant it for a cream-based seafood stew.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Dense pear and red peach skin flavors give this wine a cool tone. Impacted with fruit, the generous fullness of the wine is balanced by equally rich lemony acidity. The lasting impression is dark and smoky, seeming to hold complexities that will emerge with bottle age.
Score: 88 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
New oak weaves into the fruit of this wine to create a single line of flavor, carrying through to a salty-sweet finish. Seemingly New World in style, this may gain more expression as it ages.
Score: 87 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
A smoky, nutty, crowd-pleasing chardonnay, this is warm and creamy with some greenness to the flavors. The soft structure makes it an easy aperitif.
Score: 87 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Transparent and rosy, this is a brisk, simple Burgundy with vibrant acidity and exotic spice. The tannins carry more than their fair share of oak, but they would be comforting in the company of a t-bone steak.
Score: 87 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Concentrated and velvety, this is a full-bodied pinot with warm, baked cherry flavors. It’s soft and round, ready for braised beef.