Had our annual doctors+Colin lunch on Friday and the general standard was very high. Anyone in Adelaide looking for medical advice late in the day Friday afternoon may have struggled, as the city’s top surgeons were loaded on Burgundy.
2015 Domaine Jacques Carillon Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Perrières: Very fine and pure. There are perfectly ripe white peach fruit notes, coupled with white flowers and mineral. It is piercing in the mouth and possesses excellent line and exquisite balance.
2011 Domaine Thomas Morey Bâtard-Montrachet, Grand Cru: An elegant rendition of the vineyard but certainly of short on power. There’s plenty of sappy orchard fruit action. It has some cooler nettle and lily things buried below the flesh and there’s some freshly grated ginger. It has good shape and presence and length is very long and oozes minerality.
2001 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault: A little too developed on the nose, with honey and brulee dominating. It still has a core of exotic fruits and is a rich wine, but detail has been planed off by oxygen.
2006 Etienne Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes: Just about in the perfect place right now for mine. The ripe orchard fruit aromas and flavours are nicely countered by floral spice. It is unctuous in the mouth, layered with flavour and tastes a bit like a Pine Lime Splice. It has good depth and excellent persistence.
1986 Domaine Trapet Latricières-Chambertin, Grand Cru: Mature but still muscular Burg. There are whiffs of meat, pine needles, earth, coffee and leather. It is sweet and vinous in the mouth with a nice lacy feel against the gums. There’s still structure on the back-end and it finishes very savoury with the taste of root vegetables and smoked meats.
1989 Haegelen-Jayer Clos Vougeot, Grand Cru: There are plump and sweet black fruits a plenty in this delicious wine. It has a meatiness to it and plenty of mineral just below the flesh. It is complex, balanced and ethereal and a joy to drink now.
1999 Domaine des Chezeaux Griotte-Chambertin, Grand Cru: Delicious red and black cherry fruits are perfectly ripe. There’s some earth, smoked meats and ginger too. It is a wine with a cool stony heart and plenty of flavour. Tannins are sweet and there’s good cut from the minerally acidity. Length is imposing.
2003 Lucien Le Moine Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses: The nose is very floral and there is dense and sweet cherry fruit. It is very stony and loaded with other mineral things. It has some cinnamon and whilst there are ripe elements to the wine there is a coolness that you just don’t usually see in ’03. It is sweet and very long on the finish.
2007 Domaine d’Eugénie Clos Vougeot, Grand Cru: This was really good. It has an intoxicating aroma of sandalwood, rose petals, smoke, meat and brown spices. It has good flesh and detail in the mouth and really builds through the palate, fanning out on the finish.
2012 Mongeard-Mugneret Grands-Echezeaux, Grand Cru: Lovely nose of aniseed, ginger, red berry and sweet cherry. It is full, spicy and sappy with excellent depth and a finish that is long and complex.
2005 Domaine Robert Sirugue Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Petits Monts: Loaded with spice laden dark berries. It is deep, creamy and relatively tight. There’s good depth and round, sweet tannins.
2012 Faiveley Echezeaux, Grand Cru: Fine and mid-weight with nice balance and proportion. There are notes of red fruits and floral spice. It is silky of texture and quite persistent.