Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
One floor above the bookshop that I'm currently running are the offices of the most exciting wine importer in Finland, the aptly named Funky Wine Imports. Their owner comes by every now and then with a glass or ten of their new stuff. Today he brought a Burgundy barrel sample.
Bret Brothers Macon-Chardonnay Climat "La Roche" 2010 is what it said on the bottle (no real label of course since it's just a sample sent to a potential importer). It seemed like a completely finished wine (unlike the few other barrel samples I have had) and a fantastically good one at that! Wonderful purity, aromas of fresh hay, no oak that I can sense; ripe but crunchy and refreshing; endless and moreish. Good stuff. I did't spit this sample out (I must have looked very distinguished at the bookshop with my bass flute hanging from my neck sipping white wine during the lunch hour rush - do I detect a reason for it being a slow day today?). Why these brothers have a reputation for overblown and unsubtle wines I cannot understand from tasting this one sample. Was this an exception? For one that doesn't usually care for white Burgundy - make that Chardonnay in general in a non fizzy form - I felt this was good enough to make me want to try more from these Brets.
Bret Brothers Macon-Chardonnay Climat "La Roche" 2010 is what it said on the bottle (no real label of course since it's just a sample sent to a potential importer). It seemed like a completely finished wine (unlike the few other barrel samples I have had) and a fantastically good one at that! Wonderful purity, aromas of fresh hay, no oak that I can sense; ripe but crunchy and refreshing; endless and moreish. Good stuff. I did't spit this sample out (I must have looked very distinguished at the bookshop with my bass flute hanging from my neck sipping white wine during the lunch hour rush - do I detect a reason for it being a slow day today?). Why these brothers have a reputation for overblown and unsubtle wines I cannot understand from tasting this one sample. Was this an exception? For one that doesn't usually care for white Burgundy - make that Chardonnay in general in a non fizzy form - I felt this was good enough to make me want to try more from these Brets.