1999 Patrick Lesec Chateauneuf-du-Pape, "Les Galets Blonds", alc 14%.....I has passed over this in the cellar many times because I thought it would be "too clean".....the nose is garrigue and horse poop...the palate shows "animale" and layers of fruit and interest....great finish...drinking at peak.....reminds me of a good Pegau....I was certainly wrong...
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"99 Lesec CndP Les Galets Blonds
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originally posted by drssouth:
"99 Lesec CndP Les Galets Blonds1999 Patrick Lesec Chateauneuf-du-Pape, "Les Galets Blonds", alc 14%.....I has passed over this in the cellar many times because I thought it would be "too clean".....the nose is garrigue and horse poop...the palate shows "animale" and layers of fruit and interest....great finish...drinking at peak.....reminds me of a good Pegau....I was certainly wrong...
The problem I would expect with a Patrick Lesec wine is the oak treatment that it suffers in its youth. Time wounds all heels, though, so perhaps you've given it enough time for the oakiness to integrate, at which point it probably would seem far more traditional in nature.
Mark Lipton
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by drssouth:
"99 Lesec CndP Les Galets Blonds1999 Patrick Lesec Chateauneuf-du-Pape, "Les Galets Blonds", alc 14%.....I has passed over this in the cellar many times because I thought it would be "too clean".....the nose is garrigue and horse poop...the palate shows "animale" and layers of fruit and interest....great finish...drinking at peak.....reminds me of a good Pegau....I was certainly wrong...
The problem I would expect with a Patrick Lesec wine is the oak treatment that it suffers in its youth. Time wounds all heels, though, so perhaps you've given it enough time for the oakiness to integrate, at which point it probably would seem far more traditional in nature.
Mark Lipton
just swigged a bit more....no oak showing (and I am sensitive to oak usually)....I don't usually believe in "integration of oak" but this is possibly true this time
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by drssouth:
just swigged a bit more....no oak showing (and I am sensitive to oak usually)....I don't usually believe in "integration of oak" but this is possibly true this time
It does happen (just look at Roty) but I'll be darned if I can predict when it will.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
I would never have predicted a Lesec would come out tasting like a Pegau. Next we'll start hearing about how Cambie and Tardieu-Laurent wines age into Rayas.
Like Jay, I've experienced oak integrating, but I don't know how to predict it.
Like Jay, I've experienced oak integrating, but I don't know how to predict it.
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I would never have predicted a Lesec would come out tasting like a Pegau. Next we'll start hearing about how Cambie and Tardieu-Laurent wines age into Rayas.
Like Jay, I've experienced oak integrating, but I don't know how to predict it.
I share your surprise....