Interesting topic as I have had and still a number of 01’s. Good to hear about Dujac doing well in 2001 as we have 1 bottle of Bonnes Mares. Any idea of drinking window for this typically masculine vineyard?
If it were mine, I would say wait another five or six years. If I were dining with you and you gave me free choice in your cellar, I might drink it tonight.
The 2001 Meo Clos Vougeot out of magnum was my Burgundy epiphany wine a couple of years ago. That has indirectly proven to be a REALLY expensive bottle for me—even though it was “free” (brought by someone else) at the time. Adrian was kind enough to bring another example to a dinner last year that was equally stunning - he put forth an interesting theory in his note about the interaction of the house style with a cooler vintage. I’ve also heard experienced tasters comments on how Meo really outperformed in 2001, though I haven’t personally tried any of the other wines. I had mentally filed it as something similar to the Jadot 1997 reputation, though I can’t say for sure how warranted that might be.
On a related and kind of coincidental note, I finally broke down last night and opened one of the most special (given my above history) bottles I own - a 1988 Meo Clos Vougeot. The nose was absolutely stunning, with tons of spice and mature dark fruit, as well as a hint of what I thought might be brett —though whatever this was seemed to blow off with air so perhaps not. Either way, the nose was super complex, though I felt the palate came off a tad rustic—not necessarily in a bad way—it was still nicely balanced and had decent length.
These old Meos are really difficult to track down. I picked up a 1988 Meo Boudots recently thinking that it (might?) have been the last year Jayer made that wine for the Meos. I think his contract ran through 1987, but I had read some comment from Jean-Nicolas Meo that his father had “worked something out” with Jayer in 1988 on those wines because J-N was still at UPenn until 1989. I’m not really sure though.
+1 on Chevillon and Mugneret-Gibourg. Based on few tastings, I think Gouges did well, too – hard to say for sure at this point, since the wines need more time. About a year ago, a friend opened the 01 Gouges Clos des Porrets, and I felt it needed another 3+ years at that point but showed a lot of potential. All my 01 Gouges is LSG/Vaucrains, so I don’t plan on opening one for a while.
See a whole bunch of MSD wines on this list - Dujac, Lignier, Truchot, Lambrays. Now I am a huge fan of wines from MSD, so this does not really shock me in any vintage, but it is interesting here.