>Vincent Girardin, Savigny-les-Beaune, "les Peuillets", 1999
>
>A deeper red than pinot should be. Smokey menthol and black fruit nose. In
>the glass I get those same black fruits, camphor, with some spice on the
>finish. Obvious oak here, but this vintage can pull it off, having enough
>fruit to flesh it out I believe. Not my favorite style of burgundy but not
>bad either.
>Could use a couple of years to lose some of the oak and tannin.
>B / 87
>
Hey, not dissimilar to a '99 Girardin Maranges I had this weekend, ws just
about to post notes! Thanks for datapoints (I was recently looking at '97
Poujeaux, sounds ok but not sorry I didn't buy).

Best,
Dale

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