Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
2002 Rollin Pernand Vergelesses 1er Sous Fretilles
I'm chardo-skeptic, but this wine blew my mind. Closed on opening, with warming and air it went through a kind of minerally liquid rock tactile stage and then relaxed into a brothy cinnamon-hazelnut melange, still minerally, pungent and powerful, no butter, lean and vigorous, engrossing. I'm still weak from the experience.
2002 Pavelot Narbantons
Over two nights, initially simple fruit over a hard, unyielding inner layer. Night two, soft and floral, modest and elegant, very nice Burgundy. Very different from the 01 Guettes we've been drinking, which is stony closed and startlingly muscular when it opens up.
Apropos 09 Beaujolais, I'll grind the last meager shreds of my reputation here underfoot by mentioning that the Jadot villages is altogether viable as a weekday meal-time wine. Utterly slurpable, under-$10 Jadot Bojo.
I'm chardo-skeptic, but this wine blew my mind. Closed on opening, with warming and air it went through a kind of minerally liquid rock tactile stage and then relaxed into a brothy cinnamon-hazelnut melange, still minerally, pungent and powerful, no butter, lean and vigorous, engrossing. I'm still weak from the experience.
2002 Pavelot Narbantons
Over two nights, initially simple fruit over a hard, unyielding inner layer. Night two, soft and floral, modest and elegant, very nice Burgundy. Very different from the 01 Guettes we've been drinking, which is stony closed and startlingly muscular when it opens up.
Apropos 09 Beaujolais, I'll grind the last meager shreds of my reputation here underfoot by mentioning that the Jadot villages is altogether viable as a weekday meal-time wine. Utterly slurpable, under-$10 Jadot Bojo.