2008 Pinon Vouvray Tradition

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Mark Lipton
I haven't had a bottle of this for about a year, but with lightly smoked salmon with baked, stuffed Poblano peppers on the menu for tonight, I opened my last bottle and it was in fine form, still vivid acidity and lots of quince/apple fruit, but now with a slightly honeyed note. It does down easy, it does. Sure, it may last for another 10 years but it's pretty fine right now, too.

Mark Lipton
 
I've only had Pinon's 07 Silex Noir, which has been lovely. Your note reminds me to try some more of his wines and put a few away.

The guys at CSW say his non-dosage is pretty special. Or guy; this was a year or two ago.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
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08!

I am so with Mark, my favourite since the 02, a gorgeous balance of sweetness, acidity, earthiness and flora, and none of that pesky Mediterranean heat.
 
It's amazing how good the '08 Vouvrays can be.

I guess it's because they all bailed on organic viticulture that year.
 
But there isn't an exact same bottling in 10, is there ? I somehow lost track. Is it Argile now, or has it been split up into Argile and Tradition?
 
Les Trois Argiles vs. Silex Noir now.

The combination used to be Tradition.

Then the Argiles was Tradition for a year or two while Silex was on its own.

I think it's stable now.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by SFJoe:
10!
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08!

I am so with Mark, my favourite since the 02, a gorgeous balance of sweetness, acidity, earthiness and flora, and none of that pesky Mediterranean heat.
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Agreed. I'm loving the '08's. I opened an '08 Foreau Moelleux last night that was brilliant. This morning the remains are Einstein.
 
originally posted by Yixin:
It's L3A and Silex Noir now. 2005 Cuvée Botrytis is pretty good as well.
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2005 CB is sheer madness, but it is beginning to transform. Entering that neither here nor there stage, no ?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
For the slow folks in the crowd, Mark's wine has much longer than 10 good years ahead of it.
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Yeah, I figured that that was your point (unless you'd suddenly taken to pointillism) but I am hamstrung in this regard by a) not buying in sufficient quantity and b) by being married to a woman who still views white wines as ephemeral beauties to be drunk in their youth. That's why there's also so little Trimbach and Prum in the cellar.

Mark Lipton
 
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