Jay Miller
Jay Miller
These were served in flights, blinded within each grouping though people who were paying attention would have known which bottles comprised each group. I apologize for the scores but since I was using this as a method of determining what I would like to buy it was necessary at the time. And given the paucity of my notes it's a little something else to fill out the post. They are really only relevent in context and represent only my impressions of the wine as it was drinking that evening and thus does not take into account reports of certain of these wines having begun to shut down. No judgements of the worth of any of the producers as human beings or winemakers is intended or implied by any of these notes. Prolonged reading of these notes may result in the following side effects: drowsiness, headache...
We began with the Fleuries:
2009 Chermette Fleurie Poncie - V. nice red fruit B
2009 Coudert Fleurie Clos de Roilette Cuvee Tardive - nicely tart, a bit tannic B/B+
2009 Coudert Fleurie Clos de Roilette - beautiful, a bit less voluptuous than wine #4 but gorgeous depth. A
2009 Domaine de la Grand Cour Fleurie Terroir "Champagne Cuvee VV" - ripe and fleshy but deep and beautiful. Gorgeous wine. A-
Then we had a flight of miscellaneous:
2009 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay - lovely, lovely wine. Pure minerality. I comment that this had better be the Clos Roche Blanche or I'm even more totally hopeless as a blind taster than I thought. Others complain of a green note. They're crazy. A-/A
2009 KERMIT LYNCH Dupeuble Beaujolais - strong cherry candy flavors. C
2009 Nicole Charvin Cote de Brouilly Domaine de la Voute des Crozes - a bit ripe, a bit dull. Improved with air but there was a lactic note that I found offputting (though that's an element which I'm hypersensitive to). Others liked it more than I did and some fools named it wine of the flight. Okay, pretty much everyone other than me said that but they're mad! Mad I say, mad!! C+
The the flight of the night, the Morgons:
MMIX Marcel Lapierre - Nice, tannic, pure lovely fruit. B/B
2009 Breton Morgon VV - very good. Intense, concentrated red fruit B+
2009 Lapierre Morgon - first bottle was corked but a second was opened. beautiful bright red fruit bursting from the glass. A bit of earthiness emerges with air. A-
2009 Thevenet Morgon VV - lovely, a bit irper, lush and layered. WOTF and possibly WOTN A
2009 KERMIT LYNCH Foillard Morgon Cote du py - lots of everything but in balance. B+
Lastly an underwhelming flight of Moulin a Vents (though several people liked these much more than I did):
2009 Jadot Chateau des Jacques Moulin a Vent - not my thing. lactic, ripe, feh, feh, feh. D+
2009 Jadot Chateau des Jacques Clos de Rochegres Moulin a Vent - Nice structured, good cherry fruit, a bit four square. B-
2009 Brun Moulin a Vent - Interesting, complex, dense, young. B
2009 Pacalet Moulin a Vent - nic nose, lovely refined cherry fruit, my favorite of the flight. B+/A-
2009 Jadot Chateau des Jacques Clos des Thorins Moulin a Vent - earthy nose, a bit skunky. Nice enough. C+
We began with the Fleuries:
2009 Chermette Fleurie Poncie - V. nice red fruit B
2009 Coudert Fleurie Clos de Roilette Cuvee Tardive - nicely tart, a bit tannic B/B+
2009 Coudert Fleurie Clos de Roilette - beautiful, a bit less voluptuous than wine #4 but gorgeous depth. A
2009 Domaine de la Grand Cour Fleurie Terroir "Champagne Cuvee VV" - ripe and fleshy but deep and beautiful. Gorgeous wine. A-
Then we had a flight of miscellaneous:
2009 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay - lovely, lovely wine. Pure minerality. I comment that this had better be the Clos Roche Blanche or I'm even more totally hopeless as a blind taster than I thought. Others complain of a green note. They're crazy. A-/A
2009 KERMIT LYNCH Dupeuble Beaujolais - strong cherry candy flavors. C
2009 Nicole Charvin Cote de Brouilly Domaine de la Voute des Crozes - a bit ripe, a bit dull. Improved with air but there was a lactic note that I found offputting (though that's an element which I'm hypersensitive to). Others liked it more than I did and some fools named it wine of the flight. Okay, pretty much everyone other than me said that but they're mad! Mad I say, mad!! C+
The the flight of the night, the Morgons:
MMIX Marcel Lapierre - Nice, tannic, pure lovely fruit. B/B
2009 Breton Morgon VV - very good. Intense, concentrated red fruit B+
2009 Lapierre Morgon - first bottle was corked but a second was opened. beautiful bright red fruit bursting from the glass. A bit of earthiness emerges with air. A-
2009 Thevenet Morgon VV - lovely, a bit irper, lush and layered. WOTF and possibly WOTN A
2009 KERMIT LYNCH Foillard Morgon Cote du py - lots of everything but in balance. B+
Lastly an underwhelming flight of Moulin a Vents (though several people liked these much more than I did):
2009 Jadot Chateau des Jacques Moulin a Vent - not my thing. lactic, ripe, feh, feh, feh. D+
2009 Jadot Chateau des Jacques Clos de Rochegres Moulin a Vent - Nice structured, good cherry fruit, a bit four square. B-
2009 Brun Moulin a Vent - Interesting, complex, dense, young. B
2009 Pacalet Moulin a Vent - nic nose, lovely refined cherry fruit, my favorite of the flight. B+/A-
2009 Jadot Chateau des Jacques Clos des Thorins Moulin a Vent - earthy nose, a bit skunky. Nice enough. C+