2007 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay

All we can get out here on the left coast is the pineau d'aunis and now thankfully the cabernet, so every time this thread gets updated it drives a little stake further into my heart.

Okay, not really. I just felt like saying that. I'll probably get over it when the 2007 Cot arrives.
 
'06 Cabernet has different problems from the Gamay. Thankfully not as ripely rich, it's unfortunately a bit dilute and tails off on the finish. A pleasant light drink but no more.

I think I should stock up on '07s.
 
originally posted by slaton:
All we can get out here on the left coast is the pineau d'aunis and now thankfully the cabernet, so every time this thread gets updated it drives a little stake further into my heart.

Okay, not really. I just felt like saying that. I'll probably get over it when the 2007 Cot arrives.
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Well...up here in Seattle we get it all, because we're special.
 
originally posted by Arjun Mendiratta:
K&L has the '05 pink Pineau d'Aunis for $6. Thoughts?
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Fuck me! For $6, I'd buy chartreuse Pineau d'Aunis without a moment's hesitation, and you're talking about CRB wine here.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Jay:

For those benighted souls who - like me - have never heard of CdRB Gamay, could you tender a few words of description?

Thanks.

Ian
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I can usually manage a few words of description if I have the wine in front of me but I'm neither so skilled at palate memory nor the many-flavoured school of wine writing to give it to you now. You'll have to wait until my next bottle.

Meanwhile the '07 CRB Pineau d'Aunis Rose was wonderfully minerally and melony last night.
 
It's CRB (limestone soil giving a dominant crunchy minerality) and gamay (red fruity grape with good acidity). Complex, interesting, and unlike any Beaujolais you've ever had. But ssshhh. There isn't much of it to go around.
 
From notes and memory: Drinks like a cab franc from the Loire. Earthy, minerally, bright acidity. Powerful, yet light on its feet and on the palate. Extracted in color, intensity and power but no over ripe fruit. Crunchy fruit, like cranberries and blueberries. Tastes like old vines but I do not know how old they are.

This stuff is much better than the majority of gamay out there post 2004. What is with the "New World Style" that seems to have infected so many producers in the last couple of years?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
It's CRB (limestone soil giving a dominant crunchy minerality) and gamay (red fruity grape with good acidity). Complex, interesting, and unlike any Beaujolais you've ever had. But ssshhh. There isn't much of it to go around.
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Don't forget the geraniums.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by JasonA:
What is with the "New World Style" that seems to have infected so many producers in the last couple of years?
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You mean the Sun?
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That is the question isn't it? So, if Beaujolais has been blessed (or infected) with California weather what is vigneron to do? Strut around all young, handsome and tanned? I am sure the mass marketer's are reveling in it but what of the cru producers? Do you mess with a product that we have grown accustomed to? Me, I'm having a much harder time finding that thin acidic stuff that tastes like dirt these days - the stuff that I enjoy.
 
Thanks Jay, Joe, Jason. Now trying these wines is a new homework assignment.

I read somewhere that these are all tres vielles vignes, by the way, FWIW.
 
originally posted by JasonA:
Me, I'm having a much harder time finding that thin acidic stuff that tastes like dirt these days - the stuff that I enjoy.
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I feel this way sometimes myself, but I have assumed it's because I've been drinking the wrong wines. For example, I have a lot of respect for Vissoux and I've definitely enjoyed a number of the wines. But I've stopped buying, as stylistically the wines almost always push my boundaries on ripeness.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Thanks Jay, Joe, Jason. Now trying these wines is a new homework assignment.

I read somewhere that these are all tres vielles vignes, by the way, FWIW.
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I believe the only really old vines at Clos Roche Blanche are the ct.
 
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