tonight is a flower night on the biodynamic guide

[maureen]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:Were you dining alone or with a friend?

ha! Actually I was with a group of insurance tax professionals (mostly from Deloitte although some from companies) who were in town to attend a conference. I dropped the mag off at dino a few days ago but everything else (also an 04 weil spatlese) was ordered off the list - and one of the deloitte partners picked up the check!

so who knows how that 04 compares to the 06 blend posted about elsewhere on this board?

also - tonight and tomorrow night (well the early part of it) good wine nights!

 

[SteveTimko]

originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Opened a bunch of stuff tonight (Trimbach, Meulenhof, Cornelissan, Truchot, Leroy) & every bottle showed really well. Fuck the biodynamic calendar.

Yeah, but how good would they have been if it were a flower night?

 

[VLM]

anywhere?

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Glad the ex-cellar Theuron came out well. It was a purty bottle.

 

[David M. Bueker]

originally posted by SteveTimko:

originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Opened a bunch of stuff tonight (Trimbach, Meulenhof, Cornelissan, Truchot, Leroy) & every bottle showed really well. Fuck the biodynamic calendar.

Yeah, but how good would they have been if it were a flower night?

Well in the case of the Cornelissen that could have been dangerous. It was the ros, and it already smelled like an umbrella drink. On a flower night Rupert Holmes might have been at the next table. (gag)

 

[maureen]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Glad the ex-cellar Theuron came out well. It was a purty bottle.

well, two corrections here, Ian - Morot spells it without the "h" and this wasn't one of the ex-cellar mags- Cole got a bunch a few years ago at auction and I bought a couple of them. My Teuron '88 ex-cellar is in 750 - the mags are 85 bressandes and 88 marconnets.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

I feel straightened out. Thanks. Glad it was good, in any event.

 

[kirk wallace]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by kirk wallace:
('06 Groffier Sentiers last night was fine too -- still a bit disjointed with oak not fully integrated, but I think most on here would blame Groffier for that and not the BD calendar.)

Kirk, do you feel like Groffier ever sorts out?

I gave up a few years ago because of a distinct lack of success. The only really good Groffier was an 87 Amoureusses at Tahn Dihn more than a decade ago on the rec of Freddy Vifian.

Other than that, mostly bleh.

I recall the '99 Sentiers and Hauit Doix very fondly when they were about 5 years old; have not opened one since. As I noted, not a lot of love for Groffier on this bored.

I left about 2/3's of the bottle vacu-vin'd and in the fridge; hope to see how it has fared since Thursday.

 

[kirk wallace]

originally posted by kirk wallace:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by kirk wallace:
('06 Groffier Sentiers last night was fine too -- still a bit disjointed with oak not fully integrated, but I think most on here would blame Groffier for that and not the BD calendar.)

Kirk, do you feel like Groffier ever sorts out?

I gave up a few years ago because of a distinct lack of success. The only really good Groffier was an 87 Amoureusses at Tahn Dihn more than a decade ago on the rec of Freddy Vifian.

Other than that, mostly bleh.

I recall the '99 Sentiers and Hauit Doix very fondly when they were about 5 years old; have not opened one since. As I noted, not a lot of love for Groffier on this bored.

I left about 2/3's of the bottle vacu-vin'd and in the fridge; hope to see how it has fared since Thursday.

The bottle is nice tonight; left out of fridge for about an hour; is lovely in the glass; delicate spicy nose (admittedly more oak than pure pinot fruit, but there is a nice touch of earth and cherries and currents); drinking nicely; still too much oak and as a result a less than stellar finish (a bit bitter and hot, and then too dry), but has perfectly nice Chambolle delicacy and fruit in the front and middle of the palate. With a bowl of le puy lentils it is just fine. (Not quite Tahn Dihn.)