Croix D'or
La Pousse d'Or
"Clos des 60 Ouvrées" Les Caillerets Monopole Volnay 1er Cru Pinot Noir 1988
Domaine Bernard Baudry
La Croix Boissée Chinon Cabernet Franc 2005
Sage, thyme, red cherry tomato red currant red plums smoke pepper amaro BITTERS. Wild herbs and underbush. Minerality. Drinks like a northern Italian wine… — 2 months ago
La Pousse d'Or
Clos de la Bousse d'Or Volnay 1er Cru Pinot Noir 2009
Delightful wine and vintage with deep color and a nose of dark fruit, forest floor and wet granite that truly entertains! Not fruity but with well developed structure in the glass; more tannins than typical of a burgundy because we did not decant the wine in advance and we were drinking a magnum. This wine should be great for another couple of decades! — 11 days ago
La Pousse d'Or
Clos des 60 Ouvrées Volnay 1er Cru Pinot Noir 2009
Recommend 3-4 hour decant. — a month ago
Château La Croix St. Georges
Pomerol Red Bordeaux Blend 2009
Vintage 2009 | This is a Pomerol with a certain strictness. We tasted it blind next to a left bank wine but the tasters did not recognize this as a right bank wine. It seems to be made for the long haul, with clear tannines even after 15 years. Good integrated wood with a light vanilla impression. — 18 days ago
Château La Croix de Gay
Pomerol Red Bordeaux Blend 2005
Balanced, no trace of evolution, elegant but shy, with plums, blackcurrant anf a hint of minerality — a month ago
Aaron Tan
One of the best evenings of wine I’ve had this year, and it was just focused on this duo. Opened as inspirations for this year’s red pick at Miao Lu (a name to remember for those reading. I’ll say it here first - some of the best Pinot’s and Chard’s in the world will be coming out of this project high up in Yunnan!), they both gave great context to the task.
Gerard Potel is a true master of his craft. So much so that he rarely made bad wines in spite of vintage conditions (maybe except 83’ which many claim can be hit or miss). 1988 is by no means bad, not touted as the best but good by most accounts. My experience with the vintage, limited of course, has been a little mixed, but my feeling when drinking this wine was that it transcended the vintage. Heck, I thought it flirted with the very best I’ve tasted - an epitome of aged Burgundy beauty and a perfect example of why “all roads lead of Burgundy”.
Like all of Potel’s wines from this era, the 88’ 60 Ouvrees carries a weightless intensity, with a silky texture that glides while maintaining a sense of immense depth. Crystalline and perfumed, it offers layers of damask rose, incense, strawberries, orange zest, white peach, nutmeg, white pepper, and hints of turned earth. With air, it grows sweeter, brighter, and even more primary - its youth is renewed like an eagle’s. Absolutely insane! To me, the wine straddles this perfect balance between youthful energy and serene maturity. Incredible, and easily the best red I’ve tasted this year.
— 8 days ago