From a Pen Pal in the Rhone

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Nicolas Mestre

Nicolas Mestre
Copied and pasted from an e-mail I received this morning:

"Hi from cdp,

Just tasted with dom banneret. Great stuff, at last a cdp i can derive pleasure from. The 04' is tasting great, the 07' is good (im surprised wine spec gave 92pts, not their style i would have thought) but should spend time in the cellar. Tasted the 07 reynard with allemand yesterday along with a 2000 sans souffre , 96' and 85'. Not in love with 85' the rest was amazing. You would be all over the sans souffre but most years he dilutes it between chaillot and reynard to lower the volatile (this logic was completely lost on me but there you go).
Best
XXXXX"
 
originally posted by Nicolas Mestre:
The 04' is tasting great, the 07' is good (im surprised wine spec gave 92pts, not their style i would have thought)
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Not all that surprising - James Molesworth is probably the only Wine Spectator critic whose aesthetic might coincide with what might be considered a disorderly "house palate", at least where the Rhne is concerned.

-Eden (I trust Molesworth's wine notes almost as much as I trust Josh Raynolds', but I don't think I'd take any music recommendations from James)
 
I've got a bottle of the 1999 Banneret ready to drink in the next month or so. I haven't tried it before and this is good news.
 
A little, purely anecdotal note on the French language: Thierry Allemand's cuve is called 'sans soufre', not 'sans souffre', with a single f. This way, it means 'without sulfur' (or 'sulphur' the English language is more generous and admits both spellings, at least in some countries), and not something like 'without suffer', from the verb 'souffrir'.
 
Although if I am to be persnickety in return, I would say that "sulphur" has an antique air to this chemist.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Although if I am to be persnickety in return, I would say that "sulphur" has an antique air to this chemist.
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That's the spelling in the UK, Joe. Go slug it out with the limeys, what can I say...
 
originally posted by VS:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Although if I am to be persnickety in return, I would say that "sulphur" has an antique air to this chemist.
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That's the spelling in the UK, Joe. Go slug it out with the limeys, what can I say...
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They're an antique bunch.
 
Accept diversity!! If there is enough room in the world for both poulsard and plousard, why can't we show the same love for sulphur and sulfur? Or are you coloured by your perceptions?
 
originally posted by Nicolas Mestre:
From a Pen Pal in the RhoneCopied and pasted from an e-mail I received this morning:

"Hi from cdp,

Just tasted with dom banneret. Great stuff, at last a cdp i can derive pleasure from. The 04' is tasting great, the 07' is good (im surprised wine spec gave 92pts, not their style i would have thought) but should spend time in the cellar. Tasted the 07 reynard with allemand yesterday along with a 2000 sans souffre , 96' and 85'. Not in love with 85' the rest was amazing. You would be all over the sans souffre but most years he dilutes it between chaillot and reynard to lower the volatile (this logic was completely lost on me but there you go).
Best
XXXXX"
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Allemand made a 1985? I was under the impression that 1991 was the first vintage? It's the oldest I've seen anyway.
 
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