Two Burg half nots

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Oswaldo Costa

Oswaldo Costa
A pair of 375s accompanying a two course dinnner.

2006 Henri Boillot Volnay 1er Cru Les Chevrets 13.0%
Enjoyed a few Jean-Marc Boillot’s reds, so decided to check if there was a family resemblance. Deep inky red, too dark. Smells of nouveau wood, lard and mulberries. No pinosity in nasal sight. Good weight, decent acidity, light final bitterness, but fruit's too ripe, with an almost burnt sugar aspect to the sweetness. As a whole, with all the oak, tastes like newfangled modern yuck. Gave little pleasure, and reminded me of stuff I avoid, like Bertrand Amboise and Magnien pop & sonny. Maybe Racine Boillot de la Fontaine Molière, but I won’t.

2006 Bernard Morey & Fils Santenay 1er Cru Grand Clos Rousseau 13.5%
To show you how much I fear not ridicule, I'll admit that I thought this was a whitey, and turned red when out it came red. Nonplussed, switched it to second, gave it time to warm. Not quite as dark as the Boillot, but still too dark. Kinda mute, with some cherry and anise. Again no pinosity; methinks I smell another rodent. Fresher than the Boillot, the fruit less ripe, but still too much wood, and an acridly bitter finish. Pass.

With "models" like these, who can blame new world copycats for thinking they nailed it?
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Does that expression mean "getting it backwards"? Can't find it in google...
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That is how I intended it but I am making it up. (I was riffing on the phrase 'having the dog by the tail', which is sometimes said of tigers, oo.)

My point, lost in idiolectic vagary, is that the Burg domaines might be imitating the Calif makers, not the other way round.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
That is how I intended it but I am making it up. (I was riffing on the phrase 'having the dog by the tail', which is sometimes said of tigers, oo.)
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Wow. You're totally beyond anything I know. Tiger by the tail? Yes. Tail wagging the dog? Sure. But dog by the tail? Don't know it. (Except, maybe, as admonitions to small children as to what not to tug on.)
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Two Burg half notsA pair of 375s accompanying a two course dinnner.

, and reminded me of stuff I avoid, like Bertrand Amboise and Magnien pop & sonny.
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It is too bad that Magnien's style is so variable. I have really enjoyed his Les Blanchards from several vintages. Hardly the oaky mess that I more often find from his C-M bottlings, a characteristic that doesn't seem to aflict his Morey St Denis crus as often.
 
originally posted by Tristan Welles:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Two Burg half notsA pair of 375s accompanying a two course dinnner.

, and reminded me of stuff I avoid, like Bertrand Amboise and Magnien pop & sonny.
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It is too bad that Magnien's style is so variable. I have really enjoyed his Les Blanchards from several vintages. Hardly the oaky mess that I more often find from his C-M bottlings, a characteristic that doesn't seem to aflict his Morey St Denis crus as often.
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I should be less trigger happy with the generalizations.
 
Never heard suchlike. Thought I recalled you once citing Moliere's (?) doctor's 'dormative principle,' as an example of an unexplaining explanation. Bateson does exactly the same thing in one of his essays, so I made the leap - improperly, as it turns out.

Cheers.
 
Moliere.

I certainly enjoy poking holes in academic smoke-screens. I fondly recall one sitting of a very august seminar going through the nonsense that is Gibson's theory of affordances.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Mouliere's (?)
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Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitz! How can you expect me to come to DC after this? Especially when I showed you how to spell it in the review of the first wine above.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Mouliere's (?)
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Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitz! How can you expect me to come to DC after this? Especially when I showed you how to spell it in the review of the first wine above.
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In his defense, he was eating shellfish while he was posting.
 
Sorry, edited. Were you thinking of coming before? If so, be assured that most of the folk out this way are attentive spellers.

Sorry to read your take on the H. Boillot, fwiw; I chanced a couple of bottles of recent vintages. Maybe with time the oak and ripeness will come into proportion.

Cheers.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Never heard suchlike. Thought I recalled you once citing Moliere's (?) doctor's 'dormative principle,' as an example of an unexplaining explanation. Bateson does exactly the same thing in one of his essays, so I made the leap - improperly, as it turns out.

Cheers.
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Plenty more people than Bateson use this example. It's up there with learning that one is speaking in prose.
 
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