Middle aged Burgundy at Chloe

originally posted by mlawton:
I did notice a troubling amount of oak character in the jadot, but maybe once it develops some wine character, that will be in the background.
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Hmm. Jadot is not a big new oak user. Usually somewhere around 30%.
 
my impression was of a muted wine, with a strong impression of caramel/toffee. My thought at the time was that the wine was just too young and therefore mute which led to other undesirable elements coming to the front.

Maybe it was cooked at some point? I don't suppose it really matters where it came from - oak or otherwise (channeling an earlier rant I saw), I just didn't like it.
 
originally posted by Dan McQ:
I liked the Rousseau best, the Meo second, and the Dugat third.
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Dan, we were in close agreement, which is nice. The group had the Meo first (16 pts), Rousseau and Leroy tied for second (15 pts), the Bouchard Bonnes Mares fourth (11 pts) and the Dugat fifth (6 pts) and the Bouchard Cazetiers sixth (2 pts). Of course, this assumes I am reading Greg's drunken handwriting even remotely correct...
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Dan McQ:
a 1978 Rieussec sang at the end of the evening.
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Do stickies sing sappy songs? Show tunes? "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow"?
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Je ferais la tour du monde
Ca ne tournerait pas plus que a.
La terre n'est pas assez ronde
Pour m'tourdir comme toi.

Unless there's none left at the end of the table, at which point someone else sings

Laissez-le moi encore un peu pour moi.
 
Funnily enough, I always think of Montlouis when I hear "Mon mange moi" about a year ago, I was stuck in terrible traffic down by the river in Montlouis, trying to get to Tours (by way of Amboise), I forget why. The radio played that song, and now the place and the Piaf tune are indissociably linked in my mind.

So maybe Rieussec will have to try for something a little more upscale? Carla Bruni?*

*I must shamefully admit to enjoying Carla Bruni's music of the pre-Sarko era.

Now we get a different, guilty kind of pleasure from it, for the sheer awfulness of its sappy lyrics. Everyone should listen, fingernails pressed to palms, to the first single from her Sarko-era album, where she intones (to said presidential inamorato), "Tu es ma came... Plus dangereux que la blanche colombienne" (translation: You are my smack... More dangerous than the white stuff from Colombia).
 
Il portait des culottes, des bottes de moto
Un blouson de cuir noir avec un aigle sur le dos
Sa moto qui partait comme un boulet de canon
Semait la terroir dans toute la rgion!
 
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