to me, the best Suchots and now priced at grand cru levels, this is a fantastic wine just entering prime drinkability with a long future ahead.
Fabulous multifaceted nose, creamy texture with crisp crunchy fruit, plum and cherry, black and red fruited, Vosne spice, ripe tannins, a lovely complex wine. Great mouthfeel, pillowy and gentle while delivering lots of classy fruit.
Love this wine in most vintages and this is a great one.
Nice report, Alan. I’m interested to know if you still buy this wine (not to pry). Pricing seems to have become ridiculous.
stopped with 05. But, with rare exception, stopped almost all red Burg purchases in 05. Backfill when able, but not this one.
The 78, courtesy of Steve Plotnicki, was a revelation. Other vintages are great, too.
I was looking at buying this very bottle at an auction this past weekend, except it hammered at $275 or so. My limit was $250. What’s funny is last week I bought the 06 RSV from Arnoux for almost as much as the suchot O_O
I have never really been an Arnoux RSV fan, but love the Suchots. I love when the lesser wine overperforms.
You got more of it?
Nice.
My experience (only once) with the 78 A-Suchots was rather mean, but I think it was a later release, probably recorked, certainly nothing special -
but all other vintages from 1990 onwards have been as fine as ever … the 99 close to (but not 100%) maturity … I think the 98 is more spot on now (but not THAT high in quality). The 93 a few months ago was not fully mature either IMHO.
Nice Alan, I think I’ve only 2 more of these left, the last one (two years ago) seemed a very long way from maturity - like most 99s, for my taste…
The 99 I contributed to our recent arnoux suchots vertical dinner was corked! Looks like I need to try another one soon although I thought the other wines showed very young that evening and that led me to believe the 99 could benefit from at least another 5 years.
Still holding onto my 99s - the first vintage I bought. But it was the 78, drunk frequently and way too young, that made me a lover of burgundy thirty years ago.
Wow you people drink them way too young. Still have a case I haven’t touched.
Yea the Arnoux Suchots is pricey! I just bought a few Patrice Rion 2002 Suchots … anyone compared these two producers?
thanks for the note
we had a suchots tasting last year and Arnoux won easily .
Arnoux are impossible to find in Australia these days.
The only real rival to Arnoux-S is Comte Liger-Belair (since 2006) … but not cheap either.
Hudelot-Noellat, Cathiard while really excellent have to take a back seat …
and there is a lot more (Cacheux, Rion, Lamarche, Prieuré-Roch … ), often good but in a lower league …
have read great things about Grivot Suchots and own some 05 but have never tasted it. Maybe it is time. It is not imported into the US.
Always a huge fan of this producer/vineyard. Alan, thanks for the TN, I’ll have to check in on this in the near future
Alan - the Grivot is, indeed, very fine.
Not in the same league, but I’ve always been a fan of the Confuron-Cotetidot bottling. I just love that stemmy style. Am pretty sure that they own the largest portion of Suchots.
Cheers,
M
Well, I´m not - and never was - a great Grivot-fan … but they have their fans …
(and the cork rate in the 90ies is horrible …)
Gerhard, the one Suchots that’s harder to find here.
Alan, I usually see the Grivot available in the U.K. Normally much cheaper thn here also.