To many people, spending several thousand Hong Kong dollars on a single bottle of wine really seems too extravagant.  Unfortunately, I’m deeply impressed with the Montrachet I tried before in tasting session and really would like to know if I would be captivated me if I would be able to enjoy a full bottle.  As the most expensive dry white wine in the world and as the best vineyard for Chardonnay, how best it can be?  To ensure I get the most from the bottle, I bought the wine to Buy Brand Levitra Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed the restaurant one week in advance to ensure it got sufficient rest and hopefully able to show it best.

Unfortunately, I’m really quite disappointed with it initially.  Its aroma and flavour seem so closed that I can just sense Buy Brand Levitra Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed sense some citrus and vanilla flavours out of it.  How can this be?!

Luckily, the wine is to accompany my 8-course dinner and this gave me sufficient time to observe how the wine evolved during the night.  In addition, I’m really glad that the sommelier is able to keep the wine at appropriate temperature and serving it not too cold.

After an hour, this bottle of 2001 Montrachet, Grand Cru, Dom. Henri Boillot finally started to reveal its true potential.  The wine is so powerful and concentrated yet so elegant, pure and refined.  It is really a joy to drink the wine.  Originally, I would like to write down what aromas and flavours the wine got.  However, I suddenly felt I rather not to do this.   The wine is so integrated and highly complexed that breaking it down into different flavours didn’t seem like a good idea to me.  Why not just enjoy the wine?  To know what flavours it got, how about just check Allen Meadow’s Burghound and see what he has written.  The result?  Not a single flavour was written!  Burghound’s tasting note just similarly described the wine with words like “elegance”, “power”, “drive”, “pure” and “refined”!

As good as the ’01 Corton-Charlemagne is, this is at another level altogether with an unusual combination of both more elegance and more power, if not more drive and minerality. This too displays none of the now typical ’01 character of slightly advanced aromas and remains pure and refined, offering a seamless delivery between nose and palate and an explosively long finish. An outstanding wine in the context of an average vintage and one that should reward another 3 to 5 years in Buy zithromax online the cellar. In a word, impressive.  BH94

Purchased from Aqua Wine HK$2,480

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