Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
A couple of the usual hopeless addicts, offering tantalizing sips to innocent passersby and sharing grog with the locals, did not-nearly-unspeakable things with these wines:
J-P Brun 10 Cote de Brouilly - I am a big fan of JPB and a big fan of this cuvee but, um, not this bottle of it. It certainly shows the purity that all his wines show but this is not an exciting kind. Lots of this leftover when I departed.
Vignes du Maynes (Julien Guillot) 2010 Macon-Cruzille Rouge "Cuvee 910" - Here's the old way: the vineyard has been used for 1000 years (hence the name); the wine is a field blend of gamay, pinot noir and chardonnay; foot trod and left to ferment in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch. It is cloudy, pale enough to pass for pink, looks kinda like sturm (for those of you who have drunk wine in Austria shortly after the picking), funky nose somewhat like gamay but also somewhat like fruit-left-in-a-big-vat-for-a-while, lively, fun, we drink this one down pretty quickly.
Pavelot 2001 Savigny-les-Beaune "La Dominode" - A recent good experience with "Aux Gravains" suggested to Jay that he might open one of these. Good choice. Still quite young and vigorous but it is definitely open for business, with the cherry-cranberry flavors starting to have an under-carriage of tarragon and wet dirt. Beautiful. (And, Hell's bells, I laugh now when I remember that I only started drinking Cote de Beaune because Cote de Nuits costs so damn much.)
J-P Brun 10 Cote de Brouilly - I am a big fan of JPB and a big fan of this cuvee but, um, not this bottle of it. It certainly shows the purity that all his wines show but this is not an exciting kind. Lots of this leftover when I departed.
Vignes du Maynes (Julien Guillot) 2010 Macon-Cruzille Rouge "Cuvee 910" - Here's the old way: the vineyard has been used for 1000 years (hence the name); the wine is a field blend of gamay, pinot noir and chardonnay; foot trod and left to ferment in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch. It is cloudy, pale enough to pass for pink, looks kinda like sturm (for those of you who have drunk wine in Austria shortly after the picking), funky nose somewhat like gamay but also somewhat like fruit-left-in-a-big-vat-for-a-while, lively, fun, we drink this one down pretty quickly.
Pavelot 2001 Savigny-les-Beaune "La Dominode" - A recent good experience with "Aux Gravains" suggested to Jay that he might open one of these. Good choice. Still quite young and vigorous but it is definitely open for business, with the cherry-cranberry flavors starting to have an under-carriage of tarragon and wet dirt. Beautiful. (And, Hell's bells, I laugh now when I remember that I only started drinking Cote de Beaune because Cote de Nuits costs so damn much.)