A simple, good thing

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
Sitting at my desk of an evening, I took a short break to head to the kitchen and throw a scored duck breast into a pan with a couple of garlic cloves and some thyme.

I opened a 2001 Taupenot Auxey-Duresses red.

What a simple and good thing! The kind of thing that makes you want to write like Ernest Hemingway, in fine, clean sentences.

Good pinot with just the right age, a little floral and light and cherried. So good in that. Another 2001 I like. Another village no one ever drinks, and for what obscure aversion?

This set me back, like, I kid not, 11.

Reminds me of when I was in Volnay in 2005, and an old man was watching the Tour de France. He speculated, "Do you think they're going to let the American win again?"

Yesterday evening, they let the American win.
 
I haven't been as big a fan of the reds (though my experience is not vast); same can be said of Saint-Romain, where there are some very pretty whites.

Actually, what's interesting in those two appellations is how certain more "natural" winemakers can pull off a white (viz. great Chassorney St-Romain blanc), but the reds are yucky, carbonic rotty-fruit things. (Don't get me started on Derain.)

Would you cite someone like Hubert Lamy as a good red producer for St-Aubin? Or...?
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I haven't been as big a fan of the reds (though my experience is not vast); same can be said of Saint-Romain, where there are some very pretty whites.

Actually, what's interesting in those two appellations is how certain more "natural" winemakers can pull off a white (viz. great Chassorney St-Romain blanc), but the reds are yucky, carbonic rotty-fruit things. (Don't get me started on Derain.)

Would you cite someone like Hubert Lamy as a good red producer for St-Aubin? Or...?
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Some people like Lamy more than I do, but the wines can be good.

I really like Prudhon, in both red and white. Very racy wines.

Colin and Morey, in many family forms, make good whites.

I would've thought you'd love Derain????
 
I had a Lamy red once and it was good. It was afflicted with a bit of that '05 over-density, but it was perfumed, composed, elegant even... all of those things that are nice about red Burgundy.
 
originally posted by Arjun Mendiratta:
I had a Lamy red once and it was good. It was afflicted with a bit of that '05 over-density, but it was perfumed, composed, elegant even... all of those things that are nice about red Burgundy.
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Car or wine?
 
Pen, actually.

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originally posted by SFJoe:
Oh, let's kick Derain for a while as long as they're down.

I can't recall one that I've enjoyed.
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I just opened a 2009 Derain Bourgogne "Les Riaux" and am enjoying it quite a bit. I was wary of Derain because of opinions offered in this thread, but my local retailer, who had never had a Derain he had ever liked before this one, pushed it on me. It is pure Pinot pleasure, with great acidic snap and tart red fruits, just a wee bit funky but very well done and quite refreshing. Maybe the domaine has turned a corner?
 
I opened a 2001 Taupenot Auxey-Duresses red.

What a simple and good thing! The kind of thing that makes you want to write like Ernest Hemingway, in fine, clean sentences.
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He had come to the board in hope of insight, in these dying days of his last Burgundy bottles. A dusty village, a forgotten valley, somewhere good men and women of the earth toiled without scores. He had thought of calling Sharon, but that took him back to that dirty little bar on the right bank, and the Salade aux Lardons incident. Now here she was, offering him an honest drink, all past forgotten. A palate can be destroyed, but not defeated.
 
We opened an 02 Lamy 1er Derriere Chez Edouard not long ago that was very good - there's a note here somewhere, I think. May open another soon.
 
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