SIMON BIZE - Bourgogne Blanc Les Champlains - 2012
- - 90 points-
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Marc Chapleau , Février 2015Despite its modest name generic burgundy, this is a high quality white, smoky, mineral, and beeswax...
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Despite its modest name generic burgundy, this is a high quality white, smoky, mineral, and beeswax...
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"Good deep red-ruby. The nose combines a port-like black cherry note with scents of violet and...
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Deep ruby. Complex, highly perfumed bouquet evokes fresh red and dark berries, incense, violet and...
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(30% new oak): Inky ruby. Deeply pitched toffee and cherry compote scents are complicated by notes...
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(a rarely seen villages that is situated on the Vosne side just beneath the 1er Bousselots; 30%...
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(from a huge 2.10 ha parcel). This is aromatically cool to the point of being almost mute though...
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(from a .72 ha parcel on the Vosne side in the middle against the wall). A completely different...
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(from a .55 ha parcel). There is just enough post-bottling reduction to mask the detail of the...
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A beautifully elegant, spicy and intensely floral nose exhibits notes of violets and rose petal...
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The spicy and gamy nose features subtle earth and smoke nuances on the ripe and very fresh red...
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A wonderfully spicy and solidly complex nose offers up aromas of both red and dark currant aromas...
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The Mazis bottling from Faiveley always marks a contrast with the Latricières, being rounder,...
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An outstanding wine in 2012, this is almost as good in 2013. The vineyard is stony and well...
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Based on the Ladoix side of the Grand Cru, this is a Faiveley monopoly on an east-facing site. It's...
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As it was last year, this is a lighter style of Echézeaux, sourced from a vineyard that is so...
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This is one of the cooler Premiers Crus in Gevrey, situated close to the northern end of...
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Faiveley is almost on its home turf in Les St Georges, which is situated close to its headquarters...
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(blended from 3 separate parcels). Like the Clos des Issarts this is earthy, cool and brooding with...
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(from a very large 1.2 ha parcel). A relatively high-toned nose features extremely fresh notes of...
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Reduction. There is outstanding richness to the beautifully textured, powerful, concentrated and...
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Here the reduction is sufficiently pronounced to flatten the fruit and render it hard to evaluate....
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A generous dollop of moderately toasty oak mixes with the highly layered nose of black cherry,...
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A notably spicy and attractively floral-suffused nose features notes of plum, rose petal, violets...
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Deep, bright red. Candied black cherry and licorice on the nose, along with a funky note of...
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