2002 Romanee St Vivant
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The 2002 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is showing brilliantly. It has a very complex bouquet with dark berry fruit, sea spray, crushed rose petals and minerals that seem to blossom with aeration. The palate is beautifully balanced with filigree tannin, a perfect line of acidity, perhaps just a little chewiness on the entry but there is a wonderful crescendo and such purity on the finish. Before its identity was revealed I suggested it might be a Richebourg and I continued to think that way after. Superb. (NM)
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Jancis Robinson MW
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I completely under-estimated this upon release. Here the RSV has a refined, well-defined bouquet with light strawberry, rosemary, boysenberry and rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied and very finely balanced with red cherry, mandarin, crushed stone, fanning out wonderfully towards the under-stated finish that is so sensual. Lovely. Drink now-2020. Tasted March 2010. (NM-Wine Journal)
Medium red. Sexy aromas of raspberry, lavender, cocoa powder, smoke and underbrush. Silky, suave and pure, with highly nuanced but understated flavors of cherry pit, flowers, menthol and underbrush. Offers terrific but very subtle mouth coverage and solid underlying structure. A tangy note of rose petal lifts the smooth finish.
Cask sample. A bit vegetal/autumnal. Round, but not yet seductive. Still quite jagged though it should get there in the end. For lovers of old-fashioned burgundy. (JR)
About the producer
Founded in 1962 by Alain Hudelot and based in Chambolle-Musigny, Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat is today run by Alain’s grandson Charles van Canneyt and has become one of the region’s most respected estates.