Edouard Delaunay Bourgogne Septembre Blanc 2023

Edouard Delaunay Bourgogne Septembre Blanc 2023

luscious effort

The 2012s from Diamond Creek represent an homage to founder Al Brounstein and the winery’s 40th anniversary

culminating in a slightly austere and ever-so-mildly dry finish of solid though not exceptional persistence

It is a blend of 70% Tinto Fino

assuming that one of them will be

powerful and firmly muscular large-scaled flavors possess superb mid-palate concentration where the abundant dry extract also buffers the presently unyielding tannic backbone on the massively long finish

with sweet melted tannins nicely integrated

The nose offers ripe pear

Once again the mouthfeel of the medium-bodied flavors is quite sleek if not necessarily more complex on the sappy

the 2010 boasts serious depth and concentration

A highly spiced nose features notes of cassis

Mugnier made first-rate '98s and the Amoureuses is one of the clear successes of the vintage with its higly expressive and wonderfully complex nose that has gone secondary yet remains quite fresh