Jeff Connell
Jeff Connell
Thierry Puzelat KO Clos de la Roche Appellation Touraine Controlée 2003
This wine is so primary it tastes like a cup of fresh wine still macerating on the skins, pips, stems, and all. It is weighty and tactile, but carries its weight with ease. Perhaps just a bit exaggerated for all that material, but the balance is impeccable, and I'm putting this on hold.
Yannick Amirault Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil 1993 Vieilles Vignes Les Graviers
Well beyond primary, the fruit is generous and open, accompanied by wonderful earth tones, sous-bois, some very soft leather. This is in a perfect place right now, and the reason why we cellar our wines.
Huet Viticulteur "Le Haut-Lieu"
Clos du Bourg Appellation Vouvray Controlée Moelleux 1970
The last bottle of a much-abused case picked up for a song many years ago, many bottles of which went for cooking wine. This one was not so badly ullaged. The top of the cork was intact and provided a good seal (the bottom kind of crumbled). So, the wine was good, deep golden and all in tertiary flavours of baked fruit, caramelized honey ever-so-slightly burnt, a touch of toasted almond. The last of the bottle held up rather well for a couple of days afterward. A Henry Cavalier Selection - Specially Selected by Macy's. "Personally tasted at the grower's cellar."
This wine is so primary it tastes like a cup of fresh wine still macerating on the skins, pips, stems, and all. It is weighty and tactile, but carries its weight with ease. Perhaps just a bit exaggerated for all that material, but the balance is impeccable, and I'm putting this on hold.
Yannick Amirault Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil 1993 Vieilles Vignes Les Graviers
Well beyond primary, the fruit is generous and open, accompanied by wonderful earth tones, sous-bois, some very soft leather. This is in a perfect place right now, and the reason why we cellar our wines.
Huet Viticulteur "Le Haut-Lieu"
Clos du Bourg Appellation Vouvray Controlée Moelleux 1970
The last bottle of a much-abused case picked up for a song many years ago, many bottles of which went for cooking wine. This one was not so badly ullaged. The top of the cork was intact and provided a good seal (the bottom kind of crumbled). So, the wine was good, deep golden and all in tertiary flavours of baked fruit, caramelized honey ever-so-slightly burnt, a touch of toasted almond. The last of the bottle held up rather well for a couple of days afterward. A Henry Cavalier Selection - Specially Selected by Macy's. "Personally tasted at the grower's cellar."