Burgundy vintages this decade??

originally posted by VLM: 2006 Baudry Croix Boise blanc that was even better. Achingly beautiful bottle of wine. This wine has beautified so dramatically since landing that I am left astonished. I've said this before, but I think it may bear repeating, this could end up being one of the great white wines of the world.
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V, I've seen this at the ~$38 price point. At what price point does it begin to lose its allure?

. . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by VLM:
We also had a 2006 Baudry Croix Boise blanc that was even better. Achingly beautiful bottle of wine. This wine has beautified so dramatically since landing that I am left astonished.

I've said this before, but I think it may bear repeating, this could end up being one of the great white wines of the world. I think the potential is that strong once the vines age and Matthieu gets more experience.
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Very interesting. I remember being enthralled with this wine at the domain one year ago.

I retained that feeling, but was surprised and let down by a completely lackluster and flat showing of same during Matthieu's visit to NY this spring at a dinner at Five Points.

Yet: epiphany returns. Last week, I opened a bottle of it, obtained last year from them. It was back to glorious. "Achingly beautiful" is spot on.

I have a bottle of the 07 white from just the oxidative barrel (there was an oxidative, older-vine barrel and a sour-tart younger-vines barrel, yet to be blended together), which Bernard B. drew for me, 'cause I love dem oxidatives. I'm very curious to see how it is now.

Maybe for the 1YJeeb.
 
I'm with fb. 01 by a mile. The only thing worth drinking right now is 00. And if I hear another person refer to 00 as surprisingly good I'm good to scream, at least internally.
 
originally posted by Brad L i l j e q u i s t:
I'm with fb. 01 by a mile. The only thing worth drinking right now is 00.
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Not even '06? I haven't had any yet that have closed up.

Though I agree that 2000 has (as a generalization i.e. in most though not all cases) been drinking beautifully for a while. But that should come as no surprise.
 
originally posted by Bwood:

...launches me backward into the nostalgic dreamy, golden undergrad day mists, talking about Historical Materialism, or Dialectical Materialism or the Hegelian Dialectic...
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you got me beat - the height of my intellectual pursuits as an undergrad involved staring at MC Escher prints with a friend and wondering "what was he like?" only to get the reply (sometimes from my friend, sometimes from me), "musta been nuts!"

otherwise, just a haze, at least as much as I can remember, despite all those lit and philosophy classes.

(but not since I turned 18)
 
oh, back to burg - my view of the burg vintages over the past 20 years is that it depends on what I feel like that night - but never 03 (altho tom reddick sent me a small vial of totally fabulous 03 grivot richebourg - but at that price point, it should've been fabulous) or 97 (and haven't had much 94 other than bachelet charmes or 92 other than truchot sorbe so can't really comment on those years) - e.g. drank a delicous, albeit young and still a bit jammy '99 bachelet corbeaux last night. I left the 88 clos du corton and 88 drouhin bressandes standing in the cellar, despite their allure, because I wanted something young and vigourous as opposed to something more mature and more interesting.

hmm...uh, where we we? oh, talking about wine, right?
 
originally posted by maureen:
originally posted by Bwood:

...launches me backward into the nostalgic dreamy, golden undergrad day mists, talking about Historical Materialism, or Dialectical Materialism or the Hegelian Dialectic...
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you got me beat - the height of my intellectual pursuits as an undergrad involved staring at MC Escher prints with a friend and wondering "what was he like?" only to get the reply (sometimes from my friend, sometimes from me), "musta been nuts!"

otherwise, just a haze, at least as much as I can remember, despite all those lit and philosophy classes.

(but not since I turned 18)
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I'd forgotten that every other person had an Escher print on the dorm room wall. Thanks, Maureen.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
It was all Pulp Fiction posters when I hit the freshman scene.
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Sure, go ahead and flaunt your youthfulness.

And the poster on your dorm room wall was...?
 
originally posted by Bwood:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
It was all Pulp Fiction posters when I hit the freshman scene.
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Sure, go ahead and flaunt your youthfulness.

And the poster on your dorm room wall was...?
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I didn't have anything up on the wall. It was an iconoclastic thing. I liked the white wall. My roommate had a map of the NYC subway system and an EU flag up on his side of the room. That was the story for us.

I did have an Andrei Tarkovsky screen saver on the computer for awhile. I'm pretty sure it was this shot.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:

I didn't have anything up on the wall. It was an iconoclastic thing..
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The same reason I avoided the black lights, halogen lamps, tapestries, etc, etc.

But I forgot what I had on my wall.
 
There were too many smushed cockroach stains on the wall to leave ours unadorned, alas. The perils of living in the Back Bay. I may have covered them with a schematic of Neil Peart's drum kit, but honestly I don't remember. Or it could have been the Beacon Street Frisbee Club poster (50 points for sending the disc through both open windows of a car, 100 for a moving car, 200 for a truck, 500 for a taxi, 1000 for a taxi backing up against the one-way traffic, automatic win and Hall of Fame status if any of the preceding was done without the prior agreement of the driver of said vehicle).
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Actually, I think it is quite possible that choice in college-era poster indicates personality
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Those of us who went to college in a certain era just kept the walls unadorned and hallucinated the decoration.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Thor:
There were too many smushed cockroach stains on the wall to leave ours unadorned, alas. The perils of living in the Back Bay. I may have covered them with a schematic of Neil Peart's drum kit, but honestly I don't remember. Or it could have been the Beacon Street Frisbee Club poster (50 points for sending the disc through both open windows of a car, 100 for a moving car, 200 for a truck, 500 for a taxi, 1000 for a taxi backing up against the one-way traffic, automatic win and Hall of Fame status if any of the preceding was done without the prior agreement of the driver of said vehicle).
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In the Peace Corps, we took to naming our cockroaches. Also the jumping spiders, though I drew the line at giant millipedes.

Not that that has anything to do with college, or with Burgundy vintages, for that matter.
 
originally posted by maureen:
e.g. drank a delicous, albeit young and still a bit jammy '99 bachelet corbeaux last night.
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You seem to have this thing lately about drinking 99 premier crus -- they are very young.
 
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