I felt I’d been slumming it a bit in the last couple of weeks, so I pulled this out of storage at the end of the day. I let it settle for an hour or so after the jossling of the trip back home, but it sure doesn’t seem any worse for wear.
Out of the box, this has wonderful sour cherries and damp leaves on the nose, then quite sweet sour cherries in the mouth, along with a lot of earthiness. It’s lush, sweet and approachable in an almost New World way (fairly low acid, too), but also quite refined. And this is just the ounce or two I used to rinse the glasses. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes from here. It’s off to a great start.
This is a very nice wine, with quite pure fruit, but it never really went anywhere over several hours. (It was decanted.) It really could be a refined New World pinot, with all its fruit and a trace of cherry candy. It went well with lamb chops and melange of root vegetables that had some natural sweetness (beets, Jerusalem artichokes, carrots, sweet potatos and potatoes). It’s missing the structure I expect in a premier cru Burgundy (tannin, acid and a good vibrant mid-palate) – exactly the things that would have created problems with those vegetables if the wine had been more typical. Overall it, it’s a bit facile; not at all challenging.
I remember being shocked by how approachable this wine was three or four years ago. It doesn’t seem to have shut down … or evolved. 87/88 points for me.
i feel kinda the same way with a lot of 07s (in regards to approachability) they’ve just kinda stayed in the same place. Either they weren’t that approachable and still aren’t, or they have been and still are. But a lot of them miss that vibrant mid palate you mention. Maybe it’s just a characteristic of 07. I went reasonably deep due to how inexpensive it was for the vintage, but that hollowness kinda rings through. Hope it changes with some age on it.
Wonderful way of putting it. How great to have recent Burgs that are pop and pour. At least with 2007 you know what its role is. 2006: Keep? Drink? Sell? Wait? 2008: what is your tolerance for leanness? 2004: did you lose a bet? But 2007 fits a niche: wonderful to drink now and worth the money; also a GREAT introduction to Burgundy newcomers.