Coquelet Question

[lars makie]

Sitting here chasing a shit-ball, grey, snowy, cold Chicago day away with a little bottle of all that is anti that. The 2009 Morgon Cote du Py VV from Damien Coquelet is a welcome respite from the tundra of a winter in our wind-blown, forsaken corner of fly-over land. Man, is this good. As a wise man (SFJoe) once said: "The [Coquelet] 2009 VV Cte du Py is remarkabledeep everything. Color, fruit, structure, the works. Its a ripe vintage and acid is not high, but a ripe full midpalate, a long powerful finish, very tasty wine for the medium term." I can't say I disagree with him, except for maybe the acid part. It ain't exactly high, but it's not low either; I think it's very balanced for a ripe vintage (as in, this is 14.5%, but sure doesn't seem like it). It even stood up quite well to some damn tasty pan-seared flank steak and oven fries we had for dinner. #omnomnom

Anyway, my question is this: does M. Coquelet produce both a Vielles Vignes as well as a non-VV Morgon Cote du Py? I ask, because when I went to CellarTracker to inventory my bottle I noticed that there wasn't a VV option for the '09 Morgon and the non version actually had a different label. Is this just a labeling thing? Is one the vines from Savoye whereas the other isn't? Not that I have a horse in this race, I've never even seen the other bottling. Just curious as to the differences if there are any (other than the obvious vine age).

Pic of my VV label:

Pic of the other label:

And a little audio for chasing the blues (or greys) away:

 

[Kevin Roberts]

Not that I'm really adding anything to anything here, but there's pics of your Coquelet bottles being waxed over on Wineterroirs, linked here.

As for the Buckley, as someone who was subjected to waaaaaaay too much Jeff Buckley, that was a pretty good tune (holy Nick Drake, Batman!)

cheers,

Kevin

 

[Mark Davis]

My only contribution is to note that CT is OFTEN littered with duplicate descriptions of the same wine...

When you identify them, email Eric and he'll "merge" the wines. I do it often.

...not saying that this needs merging, I have no idea whether that is a separate bottling.

-mark

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
Not that I'm really adding anything to anything here, but there's pics of your Coquelet bottles being waxed over on Wineterroirs, linked here.

As for the Buckley, as someone who was subjected to waaaaaaay too much Jeff Buckley, that was a pretty good tune (holy Nick Drake, Batman!)

cheers,

Kevin

Thanks for the link. Seems like I always forget to look over at wineterroirs; that was a nice write up he did (though more on Descombes). You know what they say about the family that waxes together... er, maybe not. Perhaps one of those Coquelet bottles was mine.