Recent content by Charles Anderson

Indeed! (Why'd I only buy one? Eejit!)

Pee being "desert Bactine", I bought Degli Ulivi's Gavi Filagnotti and its antidote, the P'tit Blanc. My piss-poor palate mistook the micturition for mint. Emphatically agreed on Pinon, though: wife and I both flipped for his inaugural Les Déronnières. Nice surprises for me and my battered...

'Twas my first go at the Gras Moutons, but I didn't get it either. To me it was unappealingly chubby (1); I wanted to put it through a vinous version of a pencil sharpener. Maybe with the right food and/or age, and not bracketed by peppier Pépières, I'd dig it. Maybe blind with no Muscadet...

By around six, his answer had distilled to "normal vintage." Guess he meant on average. Was he pouring the 15 (per my liberally perforated memory, but not the syllabus which says 14 Gras Moutons, 13 Monnieres - St. Fiacre, 13 Clisson)? In my narrative I was surprised by how much I liked it.

Maybe la peste europeo: in the last year I've opened a pair of chicken-stock dark, bruised-appley Albariños (three-year-lees-aged 2009 Fefinañes "III Año"; may as well have been Tres Ano). And Rias Baixas is three quarters of a megameter from the Gallic border. Others dead by oxidation: a 2009...