report of Clos St. Hune premox

originally posted by Thor:
As I was saying to David, perhaps in code, there are producers that are, in general, exceptions to the rule. Those are two of them.
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Why oh why cannot wine play by simple rules? Like more points is better?

But yes, though I overlooked your previous comment (the dreaded drift phenomenon makes som threads hard to follow), these are two I would suspect as exceptions as well. That said, the 97 FE is ready for drinking, think I have one left, while my few 96s and 99s are slumbering.
 
Yep. Just drank one of my very limited supply of '97s, and based on that performance the rest is going to be opened over the next little while. No reason to wait, especially when so many other vintages are nowhere near ready.
 
Opened one last week that was medium-yellow, drinking pretty nicely, with vigorous acids and intensity, but with some modest Sherry notes. Not screechy, but such fruit flavors as were present filled in the background space. My wife liked it more than par for a Riesling-based wine.

I don't claim to be wise in the ways of Emile, but to my tyro tongue, this wine doesn't bubble over with effusive promises of continuing improvement for years to come. The sherry note wasn't off-putting, but it was an eccentricity. I think we'll open another one soon, and perhaps an 00, as well.
 
My last '96, not that long ago, was angry at being opened what must have been at least five years too early, and probably many more. Sorry to hear of your bottle's performance.
 
Very slightly darker than the pale paleness of release. A little under-developed color-wise, actually.
 
Maybe mine were not given sufficient TLC in transport: this one had yellowed a good deal. Better crack another one next week to see what's going on.
 
Well, it has been explained to me that even mentioning even the slightest possibility of an underperforming bottle is the same as calling someone's mother an unfortunate name, so I won't.

But yes, there is the possibility that your bottle was, um, differently-abled.
 
originally posted by Thor:
Well, it has been explained to me that even mentioning even the slightest possibility of an underperforming bottle is the same as calling someone's mother an unfortunate name, so I won't.
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Oh, puhleeze. Would someone buy this guy a drink, he's cranky.
 
You try being stalked by insane people, deleted by who knows who, and told you're complaining in a message without a single complaint, and see whine how whine whine whine you whine whine whine whine kind of mood whine whine whine.*

But gosh, thanks for the most unflattering comparison imaginable.

Would someone buy this guy a drink, he's cranky.
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As long as I don't have to sign a contract that says I won't say anything but shiny happy stuff about it, I'll take it. And a refill, please.

*Not a malicious Politburo edit. I wrote this myself. I felt like the whiny guy who wrote it needed it.
 
I had no idea that Thor had such strong feelings about Neil Young.

I'm not wild about Young, but have fond memories of his first album and of seeing him in Santa Cruz in 1969.

Despite my reservations, I would rather hear Neil Young than have my "eardrums pierced by a syphillitic slime mold wielding a gangrene-encrusted cattle prod."

Thor goes for the cattle prod.

It seems that Thor is under a great deal of prodding from celebrity sommeliers, critics, misquoters, SF Joe, vicious Politburo members (although Thor allows for the possibility that perhaps Thor himself deleted his own posts). Sort of a mini Reichstag fire.

Bringing Hitler into the picture is always so gratifying. They ought to have a name for the phenomenon.

Many disorderlies enjoy Thor's posts. I don't really see anyone waging a campaign of terror against the poor guy. Personally, I don't know what is riling up Thor but I and many of the board's lurkers hope he calms down.
 
My friend Arturo (not the bartender, the mycologist) is a slime mold expert. He travels all around the world to study them.

He reports that the food in rural Madagascar is the worst he's ever had.

Slime molds are actually pretty cool, they just need to rebrand. They are free-living single-celled organisms, yet they come together to cooperate when required. It's an interesting model of how multicellularity might have evolved.

But back to recriminations....
 
Funny, my son and I were just reading about slime molds together last night. I didn't realize they come in different colors. Has your friend eaten in Cairo?

Wait a minute ... what were we talking about?
 
It's true that I think Neil Young is the opposite of (good) music. Though he's far from the worst offender. Do any slime molds record semi-atonal crap to Parkeresque acclaim? Because I might be interested, if so.

The restraining orders advise me to avoid answering stalkers, so I don't really know what else there is to say.

I can't answer for anyone else's personal issues.
 
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