Tale of two Bordeaux + 1

[MarkS]

Moulin Saint Georges 2000 kicked the pants off an Haut Batailley Pauillac from the same vintage (damn! Fass was right!?), but then the Haut Batailley knocked the socks off a Domaine Etxegaraya Irouleguy 2005, which was all dusty berries and stirred Chinese clay. Of course, the Basque was supplied with a plastic cork, so it probably was meant to be drunk up soon and was still holding it's own, so there's a minor victory.

Btw, the MSG was like stepping into a blackberry patch in the middle of summer high season, sans thorns. The HB tasted of termite-infested chokecherry wood, with more cedar and drying fruit, old school, more British.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by MarkS:
The HB tasted of termite-infested chokecherry wood...

You have the experience to support this assertion, n'est-ce pas?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

I am in awe of "stirred Chinese clay" as a descriptor.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

I was puzzling over that one.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by MarkS:
The HB tasted of termite-infested chokecherry wood...

You have the experience to support this assertion, n'est-ce pas?

Of course, in the backyard when I was growing up. You think I make these things up?

 

[Keith Levenberg]

Moulin St Georges is a Vauthier wine, isn't it?

 

[Keith Levenberg]

I don't remember rubber cork on my Lehengoas. I'll have to check. Hopefully not since I have a case cellared. It gave every indication of being a long ager on release, but closed up so hard since then it hasn't paid to open one.

 

[Thor]

I had to dump a fair quantity of the Etxegaraya a while back, though that was from an earlier vintage and (like Mark's) not the Cuve. You'd better pull a capsule on one, just to make sure.

 

[Zachary Ross]

The Lehengoa is fitted with natural corks. The regular cuve is not.

 

[Lyle Fass]

Yes....sometimes I get some things right. Not too often.