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robert ames

robert ames
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how did this slip past those wonderful people at batf that make america a safe place to live?

the wine was a bit past prime. in the words of yves gangloff, syrah based wines should be drunk within 12 years of the vintage. this wine proved his rule. fruit and flowers were fading and tarryness was becoming dominant.
 
originally posted by robert ames:
where was batf? . . .
DSC00446-2.jpg
how did this slip past those wonderful people at batf that make america a safe place to live?

the wine was a bit past prime. in the words of yves gangloff, syrah based wines should be drunk within 12 years of the vintage. this wine proved his rule. fruit and flowers were fading and tarryness was becoming dominant.
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The art is by Yves brother...one of the paintings was actually in our room in Lyon (a copy)....haven't had the wine recently but I think I still have a bottle or two..sounds like I need to get to it...
 
originally posted by Arno Tronche:
We drunk the '98 Sereine 2 years ago and it was lovely. The wine actually needed a little time to open up.
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current conventional wisdom is that '98 was definitely a better vintage than the uber-hyped '99. could this be yet another time when r.m.p. jr. (mister cough syrup) got it wrong?? alors! (the primrose path to nirvana is littered with the mis-fires of the (at-the-time) great prognosticator. . . .)
 
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by Arno Tronche:
We drunk the '98 Sereine 2 years ago and it was lovely. The wine actually needed a little time to open up.
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current conventional wisdom is that '98 was definitely a better vintage than the uber-hyped '99. could this be yet another time when r.m.p. jr. (mister cough syrup) got it wrong?? alors! (the primrose path to nirvana is littered with the mis-fires of the (at-the-time) great prognosticator. . . .)
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It would not be the 1st time Bob has it wrong !!
 
1999 rostaing cote blonde more or less as underwhelming. . .(r.m.p. jr. 100 pts. street value 400bucks or so. wasn't worth more than $50, but it was bought wholesale at release so that was about what i paid for it. c'est la vie.)
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I never "got" why people like Rostaing.
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Having just tasted a Rostaing for the first time in a couple of decades, I can say that, with 21 years of bottle age, it didn't strike me as oak-inflected... BUT it also didn't impress me as it really disappeared in the mid-palate. Dunno if more recent versions show differently, but really can't be arsed to care.

Mark Lipton
 
Gangloff was the only producer selling a wine that you couldn't taste at the most recent Marche that I attended. We bought a bottle to try it. It tasted like Cote Rotie made by Helen Turley. No thanks.
 
I think I told our own Brézème that his 2008 C-R reminded me of Gangloff. Good thing he has a sense of humour.
 
At least the folks at la vinya del vuit had the decency to roll with the Sylvester Stewart ethos of "everybody is a star" in their vinous paean to 2003 overindulgence:

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-Eden (I was shocked, I tell ya, just shocked when they pulled this one out at polishedmalibu.com during my recent visit!)
 
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