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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
Why, you are asking me, have I opened a 2005 C. & P. Breton Bourgueil "Les Perrires"?

Word of mouth is a vicious and uncontrollably viral thing, and someone told someone who told me that it was drinking well. I was agog. What the...? The O-5? That thing was closed down hard as a piece of tuffeau wrapped in iron when I left a case of it in my previous cellar a year and a half ago. Alas, birds of prey got at that case of wine and I have just one bottle left at present.

A bottle that has now been opened. Is breathing. Is singing its little cantata in the glass.

I forgot I liked this shit. [Various scrambly gruff things redacted.]

Lovely. Violets. Open. Unaged yet ageless.

And, for the love of all that's Halloweenishly unholy, the thing is seamless.

I want to stand on a chair and do some kind of sports fan gesture in the air, screaming, "SEAMLESS!"
 
Interesting news. I have four bottles socked somewhere in the depths of my storage that I had no plan of touching anytime soon. Maybe I can try to fish one out. Sounds worth it. Between Jim's Bouchard experience and this, there seems to be some revelatory drinking going on.
 
Ian, here at Potlatch Enterprises, we always recommend fire.

Lars, I have to iterate that I was a little dubious about the 05 Perrires and its readiness. But it is so very pretty-ready.

My wife thinks so, too.

(Pssh, sorry for that. No ill-intentions toward Florida Jim. Though I will use this soapbox to say that what he drank (02 La Parcelle) shouldn't be conflated with what Bouchard makes, because, well, they were made by different people. Even though Bouchard felt great affinity to the previous vigneron's wines.)
 
It is impossible that this wine is this ready to drink. So I will open one tonight in an attempt to prove that you are sadly mistaken.
 
Thank you, Bwood. Then come back and hold my hand and we can cry together.

(That's what Wine Disorder needs; a kind of hyperemotive side.)

(Maybe not, though.)
 
Oh, I was so swept up by the pleasurable sound of my own voice (so to speak) that I didn't even notice you were writing about Breton's 05 Perriers. I have some of this! That never happens. And some Senechal! I join you in the sports fan gesture.

Say more about Bouchard and Champagne, please.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Oh, I was so swept up by the pleasurable sound of my own voice (so to speak) that I didn't even notice you were writing about Breton's 05 Perriers. I have some of this! That never happens. And some Senechal! I join you in the sports fan gesture.
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What about the drinking part? I mean what's the point on being on the team if you're not willing to take one for the team?
 
There is an active thread on this board about a wine much appreciated by Florida Jim, related in very touching prose, which is the 02 "La Parcelle" released by Cdric Bouchard. Others spoke of their experiences with the wines of Bouchard, but I'd just noted in that thread that the La Parcelle wines were made by someone else (Peter Liem says a family friend, Cdric told me it was his father). He bought the plot and back wines, will release his own in a few (started making in 07, none out yet). So, to my mind, Florida Jim's exceptional experience with an 02 La Parcelle is even more saisissant, because it's this mythical, wonderful, to all testimonials exceptional wineand one that shall never be again, because its winemaker isn't making it anymore. Like Robert Denis, whose wines I've never tasted and which no longer exist, though the vineyards do, with wines made by someone else.

I was frustrated to see people start up the Bouchard lawnmower, when that wasn't really what was at stake, at least for me.
 
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
 
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Oh, I was so swept up by the pleasurable sound of my own voice (so to speak) that I didn't even notice you were writing about Breton's 05 Perriers. I have some of this! That never happens. And some Senechal! I join you in the sports fan gesture.
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What about the drinking part? I mean what's the point on being on the team if you're not willing to take one for the team?
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Maybe next week. I'm trying to finish my thesis now, damn it!
 
originally posted by .sasha:
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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Thanks; knew you'd be able to shed some light. Sounds like those bottles might be cheap at the price.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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'96 Senechal was absolutely lovely a couple weeks ago.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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Odd, since Snchal vines are between 15 and 30 years old while Perrires vines are closer to 70.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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Got forbid you drink something with fruit left in it.
 
originally posted by lars makie:
originally posted by .sasha:
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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'96 Senechal was absolutely lovely a couple weeks ago.
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and so is 96 Perrieres now, but it could have been so, so much better without the wood

but 05 Perrieres has no new wood, as the winemaker had wisely surmised that it did not need any
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by .sasha:
on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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Odd, since Snchal vines are between 15 and 30 years old while Perrires vines are closer to 70.
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who knows.

Perrieres is from the Galichets part of the hill, flatter and with much richer soil, no ? Senechal is way up there. Vinification must be different as well, I bet. Where is comrade Connell.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by .sasha:
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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Got forbid you drink something with fruit left in it.
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This is not pinot noir, dude.

not that I am opening any of those from 2005, either
 
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by .sasha:
yeah, this gang told me to *enjoy* a bottle of 05 senechal last year

fool me once....

on the other hand, if I had no other options, I would certainly drink perrieres earlier than senechal
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Got forbid you drink something with fruit left in it.
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This is not pinot noir, dude.

not that I am opening any of those from 2005, either
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'05 Egly-Ouriet Ambonnay Rouge drinking well now.
 
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