2003 Dominique Laurent Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  7/20/2023 - Valaprop Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Didn't know what to expect from this 20 year old bottle. Opened (but not decanted) about 90-120 minutes before we started drinking it (with excellent NY strip steak). It was a wonderful surprise. I thought it would be thinned out or thinning at least. Not at all: it had plenty of stuffing. Beautiful fruit, complex flavors, long finish. Lovely round old-world Pinot Noir. Drunk alongside a 2009 Chambolle 1er Cru from Drouhin; the Laurent from '03 blew away the wine from the much more highly touted vintage. Some takeaways: (1) as I've noted before, the drinking window of a fine red Burgundy is often much longer than the "expert" reviews would indicate. At 20, this wine appears to have at least a few years of satisfying life ahead. I don't know whether the better producers have since changed the way they make their wines, so that they drink better when young and perhaps don't last as long. (2) It is nowhere more true than in Burgundy that the producer is more important than the vintage.

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  3/11/2007 - Hillbilly wrote: 90 Points

  failed to make a contemporaneous note...this was a delicate lighter colored burg. Light fruit, nice mouthfeel, some mushroom and earth. nice enough.

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