2006 Pavelot Pernand-Vergelesses Les Vergelesses

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This was one of the wines I took to a friend's house last night for seder and it was the best of the bunch (05 Barthod Bourgogne, 05 Mortet Bourgogne, 05 Ferrando Carema white label, 06 Conterno Cascina Francia Barbera) so it gets the note.

This is a really terrific wine, at least for current consumption. Both lacey and intense and perfectly balanced. Fragrant and flavorful while light on the palate. Bummed that I only have one more as I'm always trying to figure out what's in my cellar that shows well now and this is one. Just great.
 
Thanks for the note. We opened an 07 about a year ago that was hard as a rock, obviously too young.

But I think I'll let the 06 Dominodes snooze for bit yet.
 
Ian, this was the wine you kept asking me to get for you - and then when I could, you didn't want it! Your initial instincts were right.
 
sometimes you need to listen to those voices in your head.

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originally posted by fatboy:
sometimes you need to listen to those voices in your head.

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The voices in my head are telling me that les V comes around disproportionately sooner than Ile des V, from more than one producer. I recently had a fabulous 2005 ( this is the part where fatboy tells me to stop listening to the voices ) les V that progressed linearly in the glass.
 
originally posted by .sasha
The voices in my head are telling me that les V comes around disproportionately sooner than Ile des V, from more than one producer.
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I think it's more than just the voices in your head. I thought it was the conventional wisdom.

A few months ago I had the 99 Les Vergelesses and the 99 Ile des Vergelesses from Chandon de Briailles on consecutive nights. They both showed pretty well to me but the Les Vergelesses was gushing so much more and in the existence of any storage limitations I would find it hard to justify holding onto more bottles (in this case it happened to be my last bottle, so no worries there).
 
In honor of my planned city friends, met and unmet, tonight we opened a bottle of 2006 Jean-Marc Pavelot Pernand Vergelesses 1er Cru Vergelesses 13.0%. Locally sourced, to my faction, both stupe and satis.

Deep and lovely cherry. Nothing more, but who needs it, when one true thing delivers like a hole in one. Fine balance, clear acidity, pleasantly bitter finish. But, lurking in the cracks, a light oaky note. Lactic, like Foradori yogurt. Alas, these lipids increased with temperature.

Your scribe must be going through a biodynamically heightened quercophobic misalignment, because that smidgen of oak was sufficient to impede full agreement with the above encomiums. That and the color, dark, redolent of modernity’s evil intent. Perhaps a decade will bring out its true colors - a lighter shade of pale - and show its way to be less milky. But tonight the excellence seemed planned, and the demise smelled of L'Enfanticide. But you are not to trust me, since Maureen has forgotten more about Burgundy than I have ever remembered.
 
Oak is a funny thing in that part of the world. Some very fine producers do show oak at these intermediate stages, others do not. This will get masked by natural structure if mother nature so chooses.
It's unlikely that modernity is applicable to Pavelot, but 2006s are unusual in that they can come across as fairly extracted, from the best of them. At least they did after a year or two in bottle; more so than from barrel. I mean, how else does one justify maintaining 2005 prices? Oh shit, did I just say that??
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
In honor of my planned city friends, met and unmet, tonight we opened a bottle of 2006 Jean-Marc Pavelot Pernand Vergelesses 1er Cru Vergelesses 13.0%.
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Thanks for this note. I like Pavelot but I never worry about the color of his wines nor the little oak note. I don't recall having one that showed lactic, however.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
Oak is a funny thing in that part of the world. Some very fine producers do show oak at these intermediate stages, others do not. This will get masked by natural structure if mother nature so chooses.
It's unlikely that modernity is applicable to Pavelot, but 2006s are unusual in that they can come across as fairly extracted, from the best of them. At least they did after a year or two in bottle; more so than from barrel. I mean, how else does one justify maintaining 2005 prices? Oh shit, did I just say that??
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Truth. It's precisely this "fairly extracted" business that's worrying me. Satori requires lightness.
 
Anyone have recent info on the 99 Pavelot Les Vergelesses? I'm thinking of bringing it to Friday's Loesberg Soul Flavors jeebus.
 
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