TN: Chavannes, Haut Bailly, Doisy-Vedrines, Huet Petillant, Meulenhof

originally posted by Brian C:
In my experience there's nothing about Chavannes worth building a platform on for dogmatic ideologies.
Several experiences with their wine from each of the last five vintages have brought me many happy bottles, never mind blowing but occasionally startlingly good, and always honest. Inexpensive, humble, and smile inducing. I have not noticed the "sameness" other than that they strive for elegance over extract.
The intellectual posturing is just fine, these guys ain't your poster child though.
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You mean 'posture child,' right?
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

2002 Huet Petillant, first bottling

Opened to toast my son's birthday. Texturally nice at first, but hard- and bitter-tasting. Needs a decant, then shows some flattering roundness and biscuity richness. Nice, but still young, I'd guess.
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A bottle a year ago was so shut down I decided to wait at least a year before opening another one.

Guess it's at least another year.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

2002 Huet Petillant, first bottling

Opened to toast my son's birthday. Texturally nice at first, but hard- and bitter-tasting. Needs a decant, then shows some flattering roundness and biscuity richness. Nice, but still young, I'd guess.
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A bottle a year ago was so shut down I decided to wait at least a year before opening another one.

Guess it's at least another year.
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This bottle doesn't sound all that much improved. I'm still waiting on mine.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

2002 Huet Petillant, first bottling

Opened to toast my son's birthday. Texturally nice at first, but hard- and bitter-tasting. Needs a decant, then shows some flattering roundness and biscuity richness. Nice, but still young, I'd guess.
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A bottle a year ago was so shut down I decided to wait at least a year before opening another one.

Guess it's at least another year.
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If you don't have enormous quantities (like I do) or a special reason to open one (like I did), my take-away would be to hang on a while yet. Even after loosening up, the taste qualities were subdued, relative to what it showed a couple of years ago.
 
originally posted by Brian C:
The current release of the Chidaine Petillant is drinking pretty fabulously right now while you're waiting.
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vintage ? TIA
 
That would be the 08, me thinks - their lot numbers don't work like AP numbers, e.g. the 05 is LMMX210105 .
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Since Thor's not posting any more, it'll have to be me who tells you methinks is one word.
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Yeah, what happened? Is he stuck in Paris without the intertubes?
 
Sais pas. He's active in his blog, but I've seen nary a word from him here in a while. Possibly he swore off WD as a New Year's resolution.
 
I do, but you raise an interesting question of usage. I figured "Lutheran pogrom" would mean a pogrom done to Lutherans, just as colonic irrigation means irrigation done to, not by, colons.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I do, but you raise an interesting question of usage. I figured "Lutheran pogrom" would mean a pogrom done to Lutherans, just as colonic irrigation means irrigation done to, not by, colons.
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Knowing how careful with language you are, I did think about whether you were employing a usage with which i wasn't familiar. A quick check -- admittedly not careful or extensive -- seems to suggest that a "Lutheran pogrom" would indicate a pogrom conducted by Lutherans (on whom one has to guess). Anti- ____ pogrom is unambiguous as to the targets, but does leave the perpetrators unnamed.
 
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