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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: 92 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Year's Best Burgundy (Oct 2013). Completely seductive when first poured, this is still going strong two days later, a bright, spicy, lovely Chambolle that offers deep satisfaction. It has the coolness of an earthen well, the dark fruit clean and pure. The scent ha a shape, a sense of uplift, like a porcini pushing up through the underbrush. From a vineyard close to the RN74, on the northern (Morey-St-Denis) side of the village.
Score: 90 | March 18, 2013 | Wine Spectator
Zesty and ripe, but balanced by a solid core of acidity and tannins. Aromas of dried cherry and licorice open to briary plum, toasty sage and cracked pepper flavors.
Score: 92 | March 1, 2013 | Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
Good bright red. Musky redcurrant, black cherry, violet, rose petal and sandalwood on the perfumed, elegant nose. Juicy, spicy and intense, with lovely clarity and sappiness to the red berry, cherry and smoky mineral flavors. Very silky Damodes with a long, ripely tannic finish.
Score: 92 | March 1, 2013 | International Wine Cellar
Medium red. Expressive aromas of strawberry, earth and game, lifted by a subtle floral element. Broad and rich on the palate, but with good focus to the red fruit and smoky earth flavors. Finishes with substantial dusty but fine-grained tannins and excellent length. Boasts plenty of early sweetness but I'd lay it down for six or seven years.
Score: 91 | March 1, 2013 | Wine Enthusiast
Elaborate and rich, this wine offers orange, nectarine, honey, vanilla, cream and butterscotch flavors, brightened by zesty acidity.
Score: 91 | March 1, 2013 | Wine Spectator - Web Only 2013
Supple and graceful, featuring delicate plum, cherry and rose petal flavors shaded by smoky oak. Displays elegant balance and mouthfeel, with a lingering finish.
Score: 91 | March 1, 2013 | Wine Spectator - Web Only 2013
Offers an enticing smoky oak edge to the supple black cherry, cola and raspberry flavors, maintaining a tight focus and charming delicacy.