What did you drink tonight?

originally posted by MLipton:
If you could ask your Rabbi for the precise time and place for that wine, I'll note it down for future reference. If he refuses to be pinned down, we'll just have to try it at that hypothetical dinner at Racine's.
Mark Lipton
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You underestimate the wisdom accumulated through centuries of Talmudic studies. I am quite certain that, by time and place, he was referring to climate cycles and terroir.
 
originally posted by Marty L.:
2002 Pascal Cotat Le Monts Damnes makes a Damnes good argument for cellaring these wines. The nose has picked up a honeyed character, but on the palate it's got plenty of crispness and verve to it (with an almost paradoxical weight at the same time). World class stuff and great with salmon.
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Can someone cross-post to Cotat premox Wiki please?
 
originally posted by VLM:
2012 Lauer Barrel X, not quite Immich CAI level, but pretty damn delicious.
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Just want to make sure you are comparing apples to apples - is Alt Scheidt typically at feinherb levels? I know '13 will be.
 
I don't remember a vintage where I was so excited by Jean Boxler's Pinot Gris as the 2013s we tasted in tank and foudre today. So there is hope for the grape.
 
originally posted by Yixin:
I don't remember a vintage where I was so excited by Jean Boxler's Pinot Gris as the 2013s we tasted in tank and foudre today. So there is hope for the grape.
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At the prices charged for Boxler hereabouts, it'll have to compete with DRC R-C for my affections.

Mark Lipton
 
Tonight, with roast chicken on a chilly Spring night, it was the 2008 Catherine et Claude Marechal Cuvée Gravel. Still very youthful, it had a very interesting herbal quality to it alongside the raspberry and minerals. If you have it, give it another few years and it should be singing.

Mark Lipton
 
holger koch grauburgunder herrenstueck 2010 . this was supposed to be the 08, but i wasn't paying enough attention. es tut mir leid. opens closed, with a hint of the christmassy barf note that gerontophiles dig in the cote d'or (maybe this is what teh pointsguys were pimping, way back when). thankfully, this blows off with time, leading to fresher notes of melon, quince and brass. powerful, but not exactly aromatic. crunchy and mineral in teh mouth.

jochen beurer's weiss trocken 2013 offers comfort for those seeking something more conventional. a blend of muller-thurgau, silvaner and weissburgunder from a mix of gipskeuper and various jurassic soils, this is playful, saline and surprisingly lengthy. initally a tad shy, the silvaner -- which is all about smell in 13 -- dominates the aromatics, which become positively beguiling with air. yeah, it sings with teh spargel, but really i want to drink it by the bathload.

domaine des cavarodes chardonnay guille bouton 2011 is cool shit. though the ginger snap phenolics on the nose put me in mind of long gone ramonets, in the mouth this is pure jura. a nice reminder of the transparency of chardonnay in teh right hands. send etienne thibaud a carrier pigeon and see if he'll sell you some.

domaine bablut anjou villages brissac 2010 is a pretty wine that reminds me that 30% cab sauv is too much for this fatguy in teh loire. well made shit, or so says teh fatsink.

a bottle of ch cornelie, haut medoc 2010 is opened in its stead. it reminds me that despite the vicissitudes, teh sauv has a time and a place. i dig this. turns out you really can flog a dead horse.

finally, we broach some clos du jaugueyron, haut medoc 2008 and luxuriate in teh retro journey. a tad reduced on opening, it ultimately shows much finer than the cornelie. a svelte, crisp and gently regal bottle, it drinks like a jason molina song about the days where ripe bordeaux did not mean 13+ degrees of alcohol (let alone fucking 15).
 
originally posted by fatboy:
jochen beurer's weiss troken 2013 offers comfort for those seeking something more conventional. a blend of muller-thurgau, silvaner and weissburgunder
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comfort in the glass, or comfort in knowing that they don't need to seek something more conventional?
 
originally posted by .sasha:


comfort in the glass, or comfort in knowing that they don't need to seek something more conventional?
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ah shit. i miss teh days when we had conventional conventions.

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originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Puppy pictures?
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originally posted by kirk wallace:
2010 Prevost les beguines. A great wine when it was released, better now, but still young.
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Last night, 2011 Prevost Les Beguines. Very good, but not quite as good as the 2010, and a bit tight at this stage.
 
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