Just amazing.
Red fruit core.
VERY long finish and so precise.
Special.
+1
Great to hear Don. I have one bottle and have high hopes for it.
People always tell me that they enjoy their Burgundy at all ages, but it seems to me that waiting for wines such as this is the right thing to do. There can be great pleasure in drinking them young but it is shallow compared to the pleasure to be had from a wine such as this.
Not had that one but had other vintages of Clod de Vougeot which were very good (and few Echezeaux and Grands Echezeaux too).
The prices on the old REs have been soaring for the past few years.
I think it’s a combination of
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They’re getting to be collectibles since the sale of the estate, and
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Word is FINALLY getting out as to how special the REs really were.
BTW, do the new Eugenies bear any resemblance to the old REs?
Or has the RE magic departed this world forever?
Thanks for note, Don, and info, Nathan; I’ve never had an Engel, but recently took a flyer on a well priced '88 Engel Echezeaux that I was going to open soon. Looking forward to it even more now…Fingers crossed it provides an experience even remotely similar!
The Eugenies are not the same to me. I haven’t really had a ton of them however.
Theme-drift warning (albeit slightly): if there is any interest in having an offline in SoCal focused on RE, I’d be keen to join, and have some '97s/'98s to contribute.
I have limited experience with the Eugenies, but I thought the '10 Eugenies were quite special and worth searching out.