There’s a touch of honey on the nose, faint melon too. The palate is a little shy and and understated – but it’s finely constructed – long and complex with good minerality. This is a young but super wine, really fine.
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2001 Bouley Jean-Marc Pommard Les Rugiens
From Rugiens Hautes. Deeply coloured. The nose is dominated by toasty oak, it needs at least 45 minutes before black, coffee edged fruit takes over, eventually with an edge of cream. The palate is lithe and fresh with pretty good tannins and quite some length. The fruit has good sweetness once you get past the oak, the acidity, however, is not fully ‘joined-up’ – it seems to stand proud and prickly from the wine. To be honest it took me quite a while to warm to this wine, but the last glass was really starting to come together and become interesting – worth returning to in 2-3 years.
2001 l'Arlot Nuits St.Georges Clos des Fôrets St.Georges
Medium, medium-plus cherry-red colour. Starts a little tight and diffuse, taking a few minutes to develop more depth and with it precise red & black cherry fruit. More delicate and precise that the 01 l’Arlot. Lots of complexity, and good acidity – this is a seriously lovely wine and beautifully presented in 2001.
2001 l'Arlot Nuits St.Georges Clos de l'Arlot
Medium colour. The nose is denser than the other l’Arlots, more plummy and mature, hints of rose petal – atypical fruit profile. Apparently the wine was like this since it was in barrel – the domaine were a little concerned, but as the wine continues to remained stable they are less and less worried about it tumbling into early maturity. It seems less precise than the other wines but has a nice ‘gras’ and mouthfeel. Atypical l’Arlot, a nice wine but I prefer the clarity and precision of the previous bottles.
2001 Mugneret Dr Georges Chambolle-Musigny les Feusselottes
Medium colour, that halfway-house between cherry and ruby. Deep and intense with a mineral, slightly spicy edge, the fruit is rather linear and red but still with real depth. Soft entry, but this wine has a bit of a peacocks tail, it just gets wider and wider with a lovely finish. It’s only medium density but has a lovely back-bone of acidity and you hardly notice the tannin.
2001 Lamarche Francois Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts
2001 Prieur-Brunet Meursault Charmes
Pale gold colour. The nose is round and a little more exotic than the 2002. The palate shows just a little more balance and texture but without quite the same power and fat of the 2002. I prefer this by a short-nose. There’s that slightly nutty Meursault thing starting to happen vs the more primary fruit of the ’02. Good length. I prefer the texture and balance of this wine, but prefer the fruit of the ’02 – such is life – still a good wine.
2001 Pavelot Jean-Marc et Hugues Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Guettes
2001 Pavelot Jean-Marc et Hugues Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Gravains
Typically 25% new oak for the elevage. The soil is a mix of different sediments, including a little gravel. This wine has a younger colour than the previous two. The deep nose shows a little earth and much more primary fruit than the last two 2001’s. This is a wine of purity rather than force, very elegant too. A lovely wine.