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94+JG
"The 1999 vintage is one of the greatest that I have ever tasted from the Côte de Beaune, and not surprisingly, the 1999 Clos du Château des Ducs is a brilliant wine in the making. The bouquet is very deep, vibrant and classic, as it soars from the glass in a beautiful mélange of black cherries, plums, chocolate, woodsmoke, a great base of soil, fresh herbs and incipient notes of gamebird. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very sappy on the attack, with a rock solid core, beautiful soil inflection, plenty of ripe tannins, excellent focus and great grip and bounce on the long, soil-driven and very pure finish. This is a broad-shouldered Clos du Château des Ducs that retains all of the elegance of this fine climat and offers up stunning potential. However, this is still a very young wine, and while the structural style of the vintage allows this wine to be drunk now, it is tantamount to a crime to be opening bottles today, and I would bury it in the cellar for at least another decade. There is pure magic to come."
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"The 1999 vintage is one of the greatest that I have ever tasted from the Côte de Beaune, and not surprisingly, the 1999 Clos du Château des Ducs is a brilliant wine in the making. The bouquet is very deep, vibrant and classic, as it soars from the glass in a beautiful mélange of black cherries, plums, chocolate, woodsmoke, a great base of soil, fresh herbs and incipient notes of gamebird. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very sappy on the attack, with a rock solid core, beautiful soil inflection, plenty of ripe tannins, excellent focus and great grip and bounce on the long, soil-driven and very pure finish. This is a broad-shouldered Clos du Château des Ducs that retains all of the elegance of this fine climat and offers up stunning potential. However, this is still a very young wine, and while the structural style of the vintage allows this wine to be drunk now, it is tantamount to a crime to be opening bottles today, and I would bury it in the cellar for at least another decade. There is pure magic to come."
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