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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
By the time I left there was a roaring crowd.

People and bottles.

attendees: SFJoe, Sharon, .sasha, Alex, Jay, Jeff, Randy+Barb, George+Anna, Craig

Fuligni 1988 Brunello - beautiful, a point

Ch. Branaire 1995 St-Julien - also drinking well, maybe a little too old

Foillard 2007 Morgon "Cuvee 3.14" - young but excellent, stones and wet earth and none of that bubble-gum thing

Ballatore NV "Gran Spumante" - a 30-year-old bottle; sherried, of course; undrinkable, of course; it's a monument to what an insipid wine it was to begin with that it is only mildly awful today

Torres 1982 Gran Coronas Reserva Black Label - a tinny note blows off after about 10 minutes, dancing, lilting texture, cranberry-ish

Camus-Bruchon 2008 Bourgogne - deep cherry, from a traditional house in Cotes de Beaune

La Pousse d'Or 2000 Volnay 1er "Clos de la Bousse d'Or" - opinion is divided on this wine (Jay likes it, most others think it stinks of wood)

Nigl 1997 Veltliner-Privat Senftenberger Piri - lovely

Huet 1989 Vouvray "Le Mont" "Debut Presse" - SFJoe takes one look at the label and asks Jay, "Why are you opening wine like that for the likes of us?"; amazingly solid acidity, heavenly

More were being opened as I departed.

ETA: Subsequent posts indicate that these wines were also opened:

1982 Drouhin Meursault Perrières
2009 Ganevat Chalasses Marnes Bleues
FX Pichler 2002 Riesling "M"
Chave 1996 Hermitage
Chave 1997 Hermitage
 
originally posted by BJ:
I have some of the Fin du Presse 89. Is that any good? Maybe I should check.
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What would really be fun is to get a Debut Presse, Fin de Presse, Temoins, Biodynamique and Constance together and really party hardy. Better yet, a whole 1989 Huet-a-thon with every bottle the domaine made in '89.
 
originally posted by BJ:
I have some of the Fin du Presse 89. Is that any good? Maybe I should check.
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Yes, it should be supernal. The Fin contains more phenolics because the juice has been in contact with the skins/pulp/etc during the whole press.
 
1982 Drouhin Meursault Perrières - Thirty years old and with the appropriate blowsily oxidized flavors, though kept in check by its mineral backbone. Needs a blowsy lobster dish, but I kind of liked it anyway. (And shh, don't tell anyone, but so did SFJoe.)

2009 Ganevat Chalasses Marnes Bleues - Zow. Zow, zow. Ping.
 
FX Pichler 2002 Riesling 'M'

A whole lotta wine in that bottle, but all of it in some massive balance. Think I'll see what happens to the next one in 5 years or more.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Ballatore NV "Gran Spumante" - a 30-year-old bottle; sherried, of course; undrinkable, of course; it's a monument to what an insipid wine it was to begin with that it is only mildly awful today.
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Well put. This was like the void staring back at me.

I also loved that on the neck label, it said, "WARNING - NATURALLY FERMENTED"
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
A couple more1982 Drouhin Meursault Perrières - Thirty years old and with the appropriate blowsily oxidized flavors, though kept in check by its mineral backbone. Needs a blowsy lobster dish, but I kind of liked it anyway. (And shh, don't tell anyone, but so did SFJoe.)
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Sssssh.

That Drouhin should have been opened ten years ago, really. It retained remarkable minerality and Meursault-ness, but the oxidation intruded a bit.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Ballatore NV "Gran Spumante" - a 30-year-old bottle; sherried, of course; undrinkable, of course; it's a monument to what an insipid wine it was to begin with that it is only mildly awful today.
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Well put. This was like the void staring back at me.

I also loved that on the neck label, it said, "WARNING - NATURALLY FERMENTED"
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I bet it saw an awful lot of SO2 as well.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by BJ:
I have some of the Fin du Presse 89. Is that any good? Maybe I should check.
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What would really be fun is to get a Debut Presse, Fin de Presse, Temoins, Biodynamique and Constance together and really party hardy. Better yet, a whole 1989 Huet-a-thon with every bottle the domaine made in '89.
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If you guys do it, I'll wend my way up for it, hands empty, but mouth open. like the ever hopeful pilgrim I am.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
A couple more1982 Drouhin Meursault Perrières - Thirty years old and with the appropriate blowsily oxidized flavors, though kept in check by its mineral backbone. Needs a blowsy lobster dish, but I kind of liked it anyway. (And shh, don't tell anyone, but so did SFJoe.)

2009 Ganevat Chalasses Marnes Bleues - Zow. Zow, zow. Ping.
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I had a recent wow experience with the Ganevat Chalasses MB. Try it with 24-48 of air. Also, crazy good with a lightly curried, cold mussel soup.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
That Drouhin should have been opened ten years ago, really. It retained remarkable minerality and Meursault-ness, but the oxidation intruded a bit.
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Maybe it just needed some air.
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
I had a recent wow experience with the Ganevat Chalasses MB. Try it with 24-48 of air. Also, crazy good with a lightly curried, cold mussel soup.
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That sounds great.
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by SFJoe:
That Drouhin should have been opened ten years ago, really. It retained remarkable minerality and Meursault-ness, but the oxidation intruded a bit.
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Maybe it just needed some air.
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You might be right about that.
 
I played with a similar bottle of 82 drouhin perrieres over the winter, and I did not think it had changed much over a couple of hours. I think it's already been Heredified. But it did do wonderful things with carefully selected and less carefully prepared food. Perhaps extrapolating from that earlier experience, I was a big fan of yesterday's bottle.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
A couple more1982 Drouhin Meursault Perrières - Thirty years old and with the appropriate blowsily oxidized flavors, though kept in check by its mineral backbone. Needs a blowsy lobster dish, but I kind of liked it anyway. (And shh, don't tell anyone, but so did SFJoe.)
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Sssssh.

That Drouhin should have been opened ten years ago, really. It retained remarkable minerality and Meursault-ness, but the oxidation intruded a bit.
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Holy shit! Too oxidized for you?? It probably would have killed me.

Reductio ad bonum
Mark
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by BJ:
I have some of the Fin du Presse 89. Is that any good? Maybe I should check.
Click to expand...

What would really be fun is to get a Debut Presse, Fin de Presse, Temoins, Biodynamique and Constance together and really party hardy. Better yet, a whole 1989 Huet-a-thon with every bottle the domaine made in '89.
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Didn't we have several of the '89s at the DC Huet-a-thon?
 
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