Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Drinking pretty much solo these days, so picked up a few halves of inexpensive, locally available Burgs, and came to them with correspondingly low expectations.
2009 Bertrand Ambroise Bourgogne 13.0%
Hooray, screw caps in Burgundy, even if at the low end. Not bad aromas of sour cherry and iodine. Decent zip, good balance, surprisingly tannic, but with a dark flavor streak that I can’t place, and that, combined with a sour finish, obstructs the kindling of pleasure. Don’t know this producer, but he bottles several Grand Cru and 1er Cru vineyards.
2007 Jean-Marc Boillot Bourgogne 13.0%
Attractive crushed rose petals and bright red berries. Juicy, fruity, zippy and bouncy, like curls jumpy with dippity-do. Simple, but hits the limbic sweet-spot. Delivers pleasure with the simplicity of folk wisdom. Vanishes in a jiffy, following the consequential inevitability of elemental truths.
2008 Frédéric Magnien Côte de Nuits-Villages Croix Violette 13.0%
Bottleneck smells oaky and international. In the glass, smells like reduced NZ pinot. Aeration improves the reduction aromas. Tastes chocolaty, caramelly, ideal for cola palates. Has acidity, but it’s strident and disjointed, perhaps added. Bah. Maybe it’s in a dumb phase, but there’s little to suggest intelligence down the road.
2008 Frédéric Magnien Marsannay Ronsoy 13.5%
After the Croix Violette, expected to hate this too, but didn’t. Nose is pretty closed (aeration did nothing to improve it, unlike reduction), but tastes surprisingly acceptable. Before food, shows good body and balance, with civilized alcohol and no sense of oak. Should be quite drinkable in a few years. With food, loses its balance, but retrieves it when back on its own. Went down fairly rapidly, suggesting that the senses were more receptive than the mind.
2009 Bertrand Ambroise Bourgogne 13.0%
Hooray, screw caps in Burgundy, even if at the low end. Not bad aromas of sour cherry and iodine. Decent zip, good balance, surprisingly tannic, but with a dark flavor streak that I can’t place, and that, combined with a sour finish, obstructs the kindling of pleasure. Don’t know this producer, but he bottles several Grand Cru and 1er Cru vineyards.
2007 Jean-Marc Boillot Bourgogne 13.0%
Attractive crushed rose petals and bright red berries. Juicy, fruity, zippy and bouncy, like curls jumpy with dippity-do. Simple, but hits the limbic sweet-spot. Delivers pleasure with the simplicity of folk wisdom. Vanishes in a jiffy, following the consequential inevitability of elemental truths.
2008 Frédéric Magnien Côte de Nuits-Villages Croix Violette 13.0%
Bottleneck smells oaky and international. In the glass, smells like reduced NZ pinot. Aeration improves the reduction aromas. Tastes chocolaty, caramelly, ideal for cola palates. Has acidity, but it’s strident and disjointed, perhaps added. Bah. Maybe it’s in a dumb phase, but there’s little to suggest intelligence down the road.
2008 Frédéric Magnien Marsannay Ronsoy 13.5%
After the Croix Violette, expected to hate this too, but didn’t. Nose is pretty closed (aeration did nothing to improve it, unlike reduction), but tastes surprisingly acceptable. Before food, shows good body and balance, with civilized alcohol and no sense of oak. Should be quite drinkable in a few years. With food, loses its balance, but retrieves it when back on its own. Went down fairly rapidly, suggesting that the senses were more receptive than the mind.
