Small boat load of cheap, but good, crap

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Kay Bixler

Kay Bixler
Got to try and pick up the slack while Chris is on hiatus so here are some notes that I hope someone will find useful.

Had just a glass of 2008 Domaine des Sablonnettes Anjou grolleau and it was juicy with a silky texture. Nice honest light red wine to drink up this summer.

Managed half a bottle of 2006 Tissot Arbois poulsard Vieilles Vignes. Lots of color and the same silky, sans sulfite texture as above but somewhat astringent. At least this bottle. Great with lamb sausage. I'll save a little for fall.

From the archives comes a 1997 Mark Olliver Clos des Briords Muscadet. It is golden orange colored and smells of wool and lemon cream. This is loaded with botrytis, right? The next night it tasted like a dry Sauterns if you can imagine that. I'm not sure where this wine is headed but can't wait to try another bottle.

2007 Domaine Rimbert Les Travers de Marceau Saint-Cinian has a certain almost sadness to it. Not sad like a sad attempt at wine but sad like it has something on its mind. Maybe it's the carignan. Anyway the wine is little gloomy but very comforting. I could happily drink this everyday.

2008 Bloomer Creek Finger Lakes canernet franc--tasted from tank. This is delicious, honest to jeebus slightly under ripe cab franc and will probably be bottled as a "Cafe Red." It will be the bargain of the year.

2005 Clos Roche Blanche pineau daunis rose is beautiful still, despite the plastic cork. It tastes like cherries stuffed with baby aspirin wrapped in wild flowers and spread over rocks. Honestly, I would like to age this wine forever but without the natural cork I'm too scared.

Well, that's about it. Chris, come back soon!

Best,
Kay
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I think the '97 Briords is better now than it will be in a few years.
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Yeah, I can understand that. But on the plus side I think it is better now than it has been in a few years.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Managed half a bottle of 2006 Tissot Arbois poulsard Vieilles Vignes. Lots of color and the same silky, sans sulfite texture as above but somewhat astringent. At least this bottle. Great with lamb sausage. I'll save a little for fall.
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I had a bottle of the same wine (my first poulsard) this weekend and was blown away by the fresh-off-the-vine-into-the glass fruit. Definitely some upright tannins on this one, but thoroughly enjoyable now. Awesome pure wine, and you're right - perfect for fall...
 
I agree with Joe about the Briords, but most of my experiences with that wine, whether in NY or France, have been with him present.

I haven't had a Sablonnettes grolleau in a couple of years. I need to remedy that.

As achingly beautiful as the pineau d'Aunis rose can be from CRB, I really can't imagine it aging in interesting ways.

2 year old Renadart Bugey and 2007 Gurrutxaga rose were both past it last night. Not that it has any bearing on your wine, I'm just saying.
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
boy do you have a way with words, Kay.
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Right? We need Chris Coad now more than ever before.

Nathan, did you drink these wines indoors or outdoors? Also, how far are you from an ocean?
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
boy do you have a way with words, Kay.
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Right? We need Chris Coad now more than ever before.

Nathan, did you drink these wines indoors or outdoors? Also, how far are you from an ocean?
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I don't feel safe outdoors and won't swim in water I can't see though.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
The '59 was pretty good a couple of years ago, but it was demi-sec.
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To me, those wines aren't things that I judge as good or not. They are items of interest in and of themselves.
 
originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
I've had several bottles of older CRB pineau d'aunis rose and they have always been in various states of "dead."
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Probably a lot of people (Nathan) would call my '05 dead, but the soul was still in the body!
 
Sorry to hear of your dislikes of saltwater but I find the joys of Summer incomplete without a swim and preferably a long one, in the ocean or even better, the Mediterranean. The buoyancy that the salt provides allows you to float, bob and flirt with weightlessness. Swimming in saltwater, the pull of the moon and life all around you - a truly primal experience.

Stickiness or crustiness is another summer experience/memory that I get to relive every year. There is something timeless about spending a day at the beach and having that combination of slight sunburn and salt crust on your skin when pull on your clothes, pack up and head back to the car/house. Couple that with driving barefoot with the windows down - the joys of Summer.

The cure to all that stickiness is likely a finer experience than incurring it in the first place - the outdoor shower. Private of public, you don't really understand the the meaning of sweet water until you've showered off all that salt and sneaked a sip of the water as it runs down your face.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:

2008 Bloomer Creek Finger Lakes canernet franc--tasted from tank. This is delicious, honest to jeebus slightly under ripe cab franc and will probably be bottled as a "Cafe Red." It will be the bargain of the year.
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Any idea when this will be released? I'll have to stop by the winery and try it.

I have a 2001 Bloomer Creek Pinot Noir that I plan to open some time this summer.
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:

2008 Bloomer Creek Finger Lakes canernet franc--tasted from tank. This is delicious, honest to jeebus slightly under ripe cab franc and will probably be bottled as a "Cafe Red." It will be the bargain of the year.
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Any idea when this will be released? I'll have to stop by the winery and try it.
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No idea. I don't know what it will be called or even if it will be blended away.
 
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