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Another fine dinner at Soul Flavors.

No paper so I took very sparse notes on my iPad. Hopefully others will fill in with their impressions.

2009 Meulenhof Erdener Treppchen Alte Reben Riesling Spatlese - beautiful floral nose, nearly as lovely on the palate,sweet, balanced, soft but intense citrus flavors. Why haven't I been buying Meulenhof? Congenital idiocy would be the logical answer if I didn't have the defense that I think this is the first one I've tried.

2006 Barthod Chambolle Musigny 'Veroilles' (Magnum) - this opened very slowly over the course of the evening. Rather shut down and tart at first it got better and better showing a very pretty nose and beautiful crushed strawberries by the end of the evening. Betting it would have been even better the next day but it was pretty wonderful anyway.

2010 Roty Marsannay Ouzeloy - Beautiful young Burgundy. His Marsannays have everything I like about Roty but without all the oak (which admittedly integrates with time). I think I need to lay down a bottle or two of this.

2011 Chidaine Baudoin
2011 Chidaine Argiles - I preferred the Argiles but while I enjoyed both I wasn't returning to them the way I did several other wines.

2012 Baudry Granges - Fresh and fruity

2005 Baudry Guillot - Tight and tannic. With air, very enjoyable in a sligthly masochistic way, red fruit and tannins. Melissa (who loved it) said "candied violets in a salad". I'll hold my '05 Chinon a bit longer but I'd love this with a fatty rib eye.

2011 Chidaine P P Y P - very lactic. Yogurty, diacetyl notes. I can't drink it.

1990 Amiot-Servelle Chambolle Musigny Derriere La Grange - Lovely complex delicate nose. A bit tobaccoey on the palate but still has a fragile beauty that I enjoy very much. After about an hour or two it fell apart showing 1990 stewed fruit notes. Drink quickly and you'll have no problem.

2009 Dageneau Silex - Dageneau has never been my thing and this bottle did nothing to change that opinion.

2005 Schaefer Frolich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spatlese - good, but not a patch on the Meulenhof. Pass the Erdener Treppchen please!

2007 Marie Noelle Ledru Ambonnay Champagne - not my favorite

1976 Schloss Reinhartshausen Httenheimer Wisselbrunnen Riesling Auslese - Hauntingly beautiful nose, wonderful crystalline wine. I'm trying to think of a complimentary way to use the word skeletal as it seemed like everything extraneous had melted away leaving only the beauty.

I find I don't have a note on my Barbadillo VORS Oloroso Sec. Well, I'll drink it again and maybe someone else has a comment.

Very nice seeing everyone and meeting Bob for the first time!
 
Apparently I got the spacing wrong. It's P P Y P .

Apologies.

I'm sure Don will be along any minute now to provide details.
 
I'm pretty sure it was a Spatlese but I was having trouble keeping up with writing down the wines.

autocorrect kept "helping" me.
 
A novelty? I believe it's Chidaine's first Spanish wine.
aka "Tres P" or 3P.
It's a blend of Monastrell and Tempranillo. I think I paid under $15 for it.

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Spain isn't really my thing yet, but if you're not sensitive to lactic reds (like me) it's worth a try, if only to see what happens moving forward, assuming he tries it again. I taste the lactic element as a shiny surface/texture that makes the wine seem slightly off-dry.
 
Was your derriere from the same lot as the heat damaged one we had a couple of months ago? Not to yuck your yum, but it sounds similar with the usual Jay Miller happy face attached.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Was your derriere from the same lot as the heat damaged one we had a couple of months ago? Not to yuck your yum, but it sounds similar with the usual Jay Miller happy face attached.
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Same lot but this one was more similar to the 1993 than the 1990 of that day.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Was the Schäfer-Fröhlich just a QbA (which is how you've written it)?
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2005 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spätlese. My bottle..., perhaps that influenced me, but I liked it more than the others. I was impressed to see that it has finally started to open up. It's still dominated by its sugar, but you can see the underlying material now (after double decanting it earlier in the afternoon). I recall it as an imposing sulphur bomb on release.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Was the Schäfer-Fröhlich just a QbA (which is how you've written it)?
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2005 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spätlese. My bottle..., perhaps that influenced me, but I liked it more than the others. I was impressed to see that it has finally started to open up. It's still dominated by its sugar, but you can see the underlying material now (after double decanting it earlier in the afternoon). I recall it as an imposing sulphur bomb on release.
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Fixed that and also added the information that the Meulenhof was their Alte Reben bottling (from old/ungrafted vines).
 
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