CWD: On a bus with too much time

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Yixin

Yixin
So the 2 Dog Point Vineyard chaps were in HK and I had time to kill before dinner ('05 Xisto drinkable, '08 Penfolds 128 less so). I thought the block 94 Sauvignon Blanc was good, more Chavignol than Pouilly-Fume, and definitely more Marlborough than either, without some of the crazier yeast-induced effects. The Chardonnay and Pinot Noir were okay.

Camille Saves night before was pretty disappointing - disjointed and overly lean. Really, you're from Bouzy? No way.

'05 Penfolds St. Henri Shiraz - great as marinade.
 
I thought the block 94 Sauvignon Blanc was good, more Chavignol than Pouilly-Fume, and definitely more Marlborough than either, without some of the crazier yeast-induced effects.
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Well, feral yeast, or at least it was at inception.

I think both sauvignons taste of the resentment over the recipe winemaking that half that team was forced to practice at Cloudy Bay, but I could be overstating. Even with the inoculated version, they're doing way better with that fruit than Goldwater was.

Did they show the native yeast pinot noir?
 
Ian - NV. Don't have disgorgement date. Will check my other bottle.

According to Ian (one of the winemakers), only the basic SB sees inoculated yeast. We had the '07 Pinot Noir - good but too linear. I thought both '07 and '08 Chardonnay showed more promise. I agree the stuff is better than whatever Goldwater put out, with the possible exception of the '96. The issue is that the block 94 is close to USD40. Ooh la la.
 
I didn't know they'd dropped inoculation for the rest of the lineup. Interesting. So then the pinot noir I was referring to was a mythical Section bottling that I have read about but have never seen (and it's not on their web site, either, so maybe it's as ephemeral as Tom Hill's Turley white zin).

The price on the Section 94 is well over $40 here, I think. I haven't bought it in a while, and that's the reason.
 
carte blanche or carte d'or ?

no issues with either one, for years, unless you are dealing with a new release i have not had yet
 
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