2006 Richard Leroy Anjou Le Clos des Rouliers 12.5%

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Oswaldo Costa

Oswaldo Costa
So, last night I opened a bottle of 2006 Richard Leroy Anjou Le Clos des Rouliers 12.5% hoping it would be oxidative so we could drink half and leave the rest to clear (or not) by the following evening. To my intellectual disappointment, there was almost no sign of untoward free thiols or redox-active flavor components; only the barest hint for someone desperately seeking such. I was intellectually disappointed all the way to the end of the utterly delicious bottle and, faced with the uselessness of saving some for another day, we made short shrift of it in half an hour, and could have zipped through a magnum in the time it takes to say acetaldehyde. This forces me to open the 2007 tonight and see if I get lucky this time. Sigh, the life of the humble fact checker in the service of Science with a capital S is not the stuff of romance.
 
We drank the 08 Rouliers about a month ago, and I was misty-eyed by the end of the bottle - like a high-school boy with a new crush.

I think it's the Noelle de Montbensuit, the older vine cuvee, that has that note of oxidation. At least, that's my memory the one time I tasted it.

The Rouliers was extremely dry/sour-tasting for the first hour when we had it; can acidity like that simulate the taste of oxidation?
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
The Rouliers was extremely dry/sour-tasting for the first hour when we had it; can acidity like that simulate the taste of oxidation?
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Believe not. Bummer, only have Rouliers, have to procure some Montbenault.
 
The wines are less marked than they used to be by oxidation and by wood, though I'm sure pab will correct me.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
The Rouliers was extremely dry/sour-tasting for the first hour when we had it; can acidity like that simulate the taste of oxidation?
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Believe not. Bummer, only have Rouliers, have to procure some Montbenault.
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Considering your peripatetic lifestyle, why don't you come through the D.C. area? Then you could swing by the Weygandt outlet store on your way to an off-line at Lavendou. Though I think Tim only has the 09 Montbenault now, which I haven't tried, but Kissack praises.

originally posted by SFJoe:
The wines are less marked than they used to be by oxidation and by wood, though I'm sure pab will correct me.
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Maybe Leroy reduced their acreage. :)
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Considering your peripatetic lifestyle, why don't you come through the D.C. area?
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Thank you, but I have certain minimal standards that I try to adhere to. One of them involves never going to planned cities like DC and Brasilia, if I can possibly avoid it, and New York above 14th Street.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Considering your peripatetic lifestyle, why don't you come through the D.C. area?
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Thank you, but I have certain minimal standards that I try to adhere to. One of them involves never going to planned cities like DC and Brasilia, if I can possibly avoid it, and New York above 14th Street.
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Anyone who thinks that DC is still a planned city clearly hasn't been here in awhile.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Considering your peripatetic lifestyle, why don't you come through the D.C. area?
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Thank you, but I have certain minimal standards that I try to adhere to. One of them involves never going to planned cities like DC and Brasilia, if I can possibly avoid it, and New York above 14th Street.
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Anyone who thinks that DC is still a planned city clearly hasn't been here in awhile.
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I think Oswaldo means badly planned.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

Thank you, but I have certain minimal standards that I try to adhere to. One of them involves never going to planned cities like DC and Brasilia, if I can possibly avoid it, and New York above 14th Street.
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What about planed cities, O.? Those of us in flyover country (when I'm actually there, as opposed to my present circumstances) have plenty to choose from.

Mark Lipton
 
Planed cities are cool, especially those inhabited by professors. Planned cities, otoh, never become unplanned, even if inhabited by professors.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Planed cities are cool, especially those inhabited by professors. Planned cities, otoh, never become unplanned, even if inhabited by professors.
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No love for Haussmann?
 
Some love for Haussmann and Barcelona. They struggle to impose order upon the old and crooked, in Haussman's case even radiantly, but the old and crooked never quite surrender their organicity.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

Thank you, but I have certain minimal standards that I try to adhere to. One of them involves never going to planned cities like DC and Brasilia, if I can possibly avoid it, and New York above 14th Street.
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What about planed cities, O.? Those of us in flyover country (when I'm actually there, as opposed to my present circumstances) have plenty to choose from.

Mark Lipton
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The truth is out: Oswaldo loves Houston and gives a pass to the rectangular survey system.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Planed cities are cool, especially those inhabited by professors. Planned cities, otoh, never become unplanned, even if inhabited by professors.
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The Cities of the Plain also had their charms, and, alas, perils.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
You like Haussmann?

We are no longer friends.

I half-kid, but please to read Louis Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris....
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I said some love, though I can see how someone bent on mischief might convert that to like. I appreciate that a) what he did must be credited with not getting in the way of it being the most wonderful on the planet (not counting Venice, which isn't a "real" city); and, b) he tried to use rays and spokes and what have you, not some numbingly stultifying orthogonality.

Now I guess I have to get a Kindle to download Aragon...
 
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