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Asimov Suplexes '07 Chateauneuf
- Thread starter Yule Kim
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I had a glass of 2007 Richaud Cairanne tonight. It's a wine I have liked pretty well in other vintages, but this version seemed lacking in acid. I am in no place to make vintage generalizations about southern Rhone wines in 2007, I've only had a couple. Prof L, is this typical, do you think?
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
originally posted by SFJoe:
I had a glass of 2007 Richaud Cairanne tonight. It's a wine I have liked pretty well in other vintages, but this version seemed lacking in acid. I am in no place to make vintage generalizations about southern Rhone wines in 2007, I've only had a couple. Prof L, is this typical, do you think?
I've always like Richaud, but I've also found them to be low acid, and for early drinking. Their Ebrescade can have more structure but also way too much oak for me. I did find the 07 a little flaccid, though, when I tasted it this summer. Typical is a harder call since many places at the Cairanne wine fete weren't showing their 07s because they had sold out to their importers and were offering 06s. I remember preferring Rabasse-Charavin and I have liked the cuvees from Grand Bois that see less wood more.
On a different note, I reread the Asimov piece as it appeared in the paper this morning. I still think his selection stresses poster children for overripe wines and his remark about the 03 to be just odd. That said, both this thread and the one on the Parker board seem a tempest in a teapot. He says about the wines 1)they are in balance, 2)they will age and 3)those that like fruit forward wines will like these (does he think Janasse will really taste different in 04 or 06?) and about Parker, essentially says, as a matter of modesty that the most important critic of the regions wines (my word and "important" means here, most widely read by potential buyers of the wine, so please spare the protests in favor of JLL, who may have a better palate but who reaches far fewer people) disagrees with him, so take note. He then states a stylistic preference, all the while giving a high number of these wines 3 stars. I don't think it a very knowledgeable piece, but in comparison to the kinds of extreme positions that get staked out on wine boards (more Parker's than here, but still), it's an admirable model of restraint.