CWD: '00 Voge Cornas VV

[MLipton]

Over the weekend, opened a bottle of the 2000 Alain Voge Cornas Vieilles Vignes that I'd purchased locally a few years ago with a BBQ dinner. The wine was drinking very well, with the expected smoked meat-tinged dark berry character and fine acidity with some unexpected minerality. I don't see the wine getting much more appealing than it now is, though there's no particular hurry to drink it. This won't displace Verset or Clape from my affections, but it's a very appealing rendition of Syrah nonetheless. The match with the BBQ was iffy at best.

Mark Lipton

 

[lars makie]

Don't know if you saw mention of this elsewhere here, but a week or so ago Jay Miller brought a bottle of the 2000 Verset Cornas to dinner in NYC that was showing incredibly. I think it was unanimously the best wine at the dinner. With the tea-smoked duck it was like crack.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by lars makie:
Don't know if you saw mention of this elsewhere here, but a week or so ago Jay Miller brought a bottle of the 2000 Verset Cornas to dinner in NYC that was showing incredibly. I think it was unanimously the best wine at the dinner. With the tea-smoked duck it was like crack.

Easily the best wine at dinner.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by lars makie:
Don't know if you saw mention of this elsewhere here, but a week or so ago Jay Miller brought a bottle of the 2000 Verset Cornas to dinner in NYC that was showing incredibly. I think it was unanimously the best wine at the dinner. With the tea-smoked duck it was like crack.

In other surprising news, the sun rose in the East this morning.

Mark Lipton

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by lars makie:
Don't know if you saw mention of this elsewhere here, but a week or so ago Jay Miller brought a bottle of the 2000 Verset Cornas to dinner in NYC that was showing incredibly. I think it was unanimously the best wine at the dinner. With the tea-smoked duck it was like crack.

In other surprising news, the sun rose in the East this morning.

Mark Lipton

Captain Obvious reporting for duty.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by lars makie:
Don't know if you saw mention of this elsewhere here, but a week or so ago Jay Miller brought a bottle of the 2000 Verset Cornas to dinner in NYC that was showing incredibly. I think it was unanimously the best wine at the dinner. With the tea-smoked duck it was like crack.

In other surprising news, the sun rose in the East this morning.

Mark Lipton

It wasn't at all obvious. I was worried that the 2000 would be a bit of the 1997, which I've never really liked. It wasn't. At all. It's not the 1995, but it was a damn fine wine in a fine place enjoyed with good company (excluding me of course).

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by lars makie:
Don't know if you saw mention of this elsewhere here, but a week or so ago Jay Miller brought a bottle of the 2000 Verset Cornas to dinner in NYC that was showing incredibly. I think it was unanimously the best wine at the dinner. With the tea-smoked duck it was like crack.

In other surprising news, the sun rose in the East this morning.

Mark Lipton

It wasn't at all obvious. I was worried that the 2000 would be a bit of the 1997, which I've never really liked. It wasn't. At all. It's not the 1995, but it was a damn fine wine in a fine place enjoyed with good company (excluding me of course).

As I mentioned to you in Durham, my experiences with Verset, mostly from the '80s, have been uniformly revelatory. You have the best of me when it comes to later edition Versets, but as a noted Chemistry professor once said about Linus Pauling's nuttier ideas about vitamin C: "I will not doubt the Master."

Mark Lipton