Jeebus at Szechuan Gourmet

originally posted by Salil Benegal:
originally posted by Brézème:
A very special place (soils are very complicated and can change a lot from one vineyard to another), warmer than Brézème, but the vines there have been cultivated for generations without chemicals (not even copper) and some of the older vineyards (70 years old) are totally clone free (they use marcottage to replace died vines.

Due to the soil (Gneiss, sandstone, decomposed granit) the wine is much closer to Cornas in style than to Brézème (limestone and clay).
Of course whole cluster, short maceration native yeasts and no so2 before bottling.
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Just had a bottle yesterday evening. WOW!
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Drinking this now - agreed, wow. Cornas-like in its brooding depth and tannin intensity, but not smoky and more floral. Superb effort. And actually quite captivating right out of the gate, opening gorgeously with air. Super-duper pure. I'll try to wait on the other bottles.
 
originally posted by Zachary Ross:


Drinking this now - agreed, wow. Cornas-like in its brooding depth and tannin intensity, but not smoky and more floral. Superb effort. And actually quite captivating right out of the gate, opening gorgeously with air. Super-duper pure. I'll try to wait on the other bottles.
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Well, I'll disagree. I thought it needed over 30 minutes of air to be become captivating and an hour and half before I'd describe it as gorgeous. But that it was.
 
I've had my bottle open for over two hours and I'm still waiting for captivating. (Admittedly for the beginning of that time it was not being drunk much, so perhaps our timing comparisons are not in sync!)

Don't get me wrong, it's very nice and delicious, but so so primary. Yet I'm not complaining. Curious to see how it evolves the rest of the evening and of course over future months/years.
 
Didn't have a timer, but the bottle I had was oscillating between different types of captivating/fantastic with air throughout the evening.

On an aside, had the chance to try another bottle of the '04 Juge Cuvee C and it was also quite disappointing - lactic and awkward, consistent with the experience we had at Sich Gourmet.
 
Ok. By the end of the bottle I am convinced. Lots of facets to the wine. But will be interesting to see in the future.
 
When I stopped by CSW last Sunday to do some speed shopping, a bin for this wine was clearly marked with nary a bottle in it. Upon inquiry, I was told that all had been sold out "but we'll be getting more in a month or so." Little help for a one-off shopping expedition and I was heard muttering imprecations involving Keith Levenberg's name as I exited (with, it should be noted, some '07 Dom. de Pergault to salve my wounds with). I hate yez; I hate yez all.

Bitterly yours,
Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
Rat Bastards! All of yez!When I stopped by CSW last Sunday to do some speed shopping, a bin for this wine was clearly marked with nary a bottle in it. Upon inquiry, I was told that all had been sold out "but we'll be getting more in a month or so." Little help for a one-off shopping expedition and I was heard muttering imprecations involving Keith Levenberg's name as I exited (with, it should be noted, some '07 Dom. de Pergault to salve my wounds with). I hate yez; I hate yez all.

Bitterly yours,
Mark Lipton
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Just in case you didn't check your email traffic today, the wine is back in stock at CSW.
 
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