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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
I've just opened a wine I've had for a few years, a high-end yet unavailable curiosity that was supposed to be good, for its reasons of pedigree and unavailability.

Reaction: yuck!

On the other hand, I feel my opening of it was not just whim, but dubious approach.

2004 DRC Hautes-Ctes-de-Nuits - yuck, green, yuck, seaweed, yuck, let me open Roulot Bourgogne. Ahhhhh, relief.

But I'll admit that I was not expecting a 40 Bourgogne Blanc to suck so massively.

Pour info, it's a bottling by the Domaine de la Romane Conti (yus, that one) sold to aid the erection (heh) of a convent in Burgundy.

Actually, I should have known better, because they served it by the glass two and a half years ago at Le Comptoir and I was underwhelmed. But it seems I dove for the bottle version. It's far, far worse than underwhelming. It's, well, DNPIM. With all dubious respect to M. Kane.
 
It is the Aug bottling. And completely baffling; I also like 04 white Burgundies. This was just heinously weedy.

I threw it in the fridge. Maybe it'll turn into something with a day's reflection.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
It is the Aug bottling. And completely baffling; I also like 04 white Burgundies. This was just heinously weedy.

I threw it in the fridge. Maybe it'll turn into something with a day's reflection.
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Really sounds like '04 red Burgundy disease. I hadn't noticed it in any whites but then I don't drink much of them.
 
Folks, it's Hautes Ctes de Nuits, forgodssakes -- true, it's less difficult to make a decent white up there than a decent red, but still . . ., especially in a vintage like 2004.
 
I've certainly seen the 04 affliction in whites as well. In the reds I see it perhaps 75% of the time, and it is a very rare 04 red that I like much even if untainted to my palate. On the whites, I have quite liked some untainted wines but have found the weedy character in probably 1/3 of the whites I've had in the past year or two.
 
It's somewhat fixed itself. It doesn't have much body, but it has rounded out a little into something somewhat palatable.

And yes, Claude, it's a lowly appellation. But think what better things one could buy for the price. Whence the disconnect, at least to my mind.

Though proceeds do go to help build a convent. The hills are alive.
 
I wonder, is there a lot of unmet demand for convents these days?

Ms. Bowman, the sitch in France?
 
I'll admit I haven't noticed swarms of homeless nuns on the streets of Dijon and Beaune.

New slogan for the effort: "Just do it for the cheese."

Maybe.

Or the candles.

Or the Chartreuse.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
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And yes, Claude, it's a lowly appellation.
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It may be a lowly appellation, but it's high up, and therein lies the problem. ;)

But think what better things one could buy for the price. Whence the disconnect, at least to my mind.
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C'mon, when you bought it, you must have known or at least suspected that it wasn't being competitively priced and that the label was on there just to get you to spend more than you otherwise would have. . . . And it worked.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Folks, it's Hautes Ctes de Nuits, forgodssakes -- true, it's less difficult to make a decent white up there than a decent red, but still . . ., especially in a vintage like 2004.
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Claude, is the Hautes Cotes de Nuits very different from Cote de Nuits Villages?
I had a much better then decent bottle of CdNV recently, but it was from 2005.
 
I always thought the HCdN was a specific place (on top of the hill) whereas CdNV comes from vineyards all over the place.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I always thought the HCdN was a specific place (on top of the hill) whereas CdNV comes from vineyards all over the place.
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Thanks.
Burgundy is confusing.
I would love to visit the vineyards someday.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I always thought the HCdN was a specific place (on top of the hill) whereas CdNV comes from vineyards all over the place.
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I thought it was the top of several hills, but I'm no expert.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I always thought the HCdN was a specific place (on top of the hill) whereas CdNV comes from vineyards all over the place.
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I thought it was the top of several hills, but I'm no expert.
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That is what I meant. And I am also not an expert.
 
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