What did you drink tonight?

Not quite as exotic or close-to-the-wine as Oswaldo, but we had our own delicious little trip to Charleston SC. Non-stop good eating and drinking, although the latter was mostly beer. We got home lateish yesterday evening and needed a quick wine for dinner so the 2007 Salinia Heintz Ranch Syrah found its way open. At first I was very excited by the friendly and accessible yet focused and fresh fruit. Just what I needed. Over time, it seemed relatively-simple and didn't have the tension that I crave in my favorite syrahs. And it cost more money than my benchmark ESJ! (Tough bar to beat, I know)

Still, I'll be on the lookout for these wines when in restaurants.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
2012 Briords. Shockingly good. Wow.
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The same could be said of everything to come out of M. Ollivier's cellars that year. That Briords is something special, even so.

Mark Lipton
 
07 Foillard Morgon from magnum. Mildly disruptive bite the first day, the second smooths into a very fine presentation of low-key raspberry fruit framed by crystal-clear acidity and a background of integrated tannins. It's surprising to discover how clear and fine, almost delicate, is the structure that emerges with time out of the plentiful fruit dominating these wines in their youth.
 
A twenty dollar pinot noir from who knows where, so honest and easy, could drink a whole barrel. Wow. Label says Les Vigneaux, Du bout des doigts Pinot 2013 Vin de France, Helene et Christophe Comte.

Domaine des Bodines, Arbois Chardonnay 2011, Emilie and Alexis Forteret is a fresh fruited, earthy white with great body. Opens up well over three days. Not oxidative, but a great taste of the Jura.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
A twenty dollar pinot noir from who knows where, so honest and easy, could drink a whole barrel. Wow. Label says Les Vigneaux, Du bout des doigts Pinot 2013 Vin de France, Helene et Christophe Comte.
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Google thinks it's in the Ardeche.
 
2008 Domaine de Montrieux Coteaux du Vendômois Blanc 13.5% (100% Chenin) smelled like jack fruit and asparagus (surprisingly acceptable combo) with mild oxidation. Caramel & nuts, good acidity and body, but the oxidation did not seem of a piece (must have been a little poxed).

2008 Domaine de Montrieux Le Verre des Poètes 13.0% (100% Pineau d’Aunis sans soufre) carbonic ecclesiastic spices over red fruit, forest floor, and cloves. 220V acidity. With food, became simply sensational.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
A twenty dollar pinot noir from who knows where, so honest and easy, could drink a whole barrel. Wow. Label says Les Vigneaux, Du bout des doigts Pinot 2013 Vin de France, Helene et Christophe Comte.
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Google thinks it's in the Ardeche.
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Thanks, Jeff. A closer look at the bottle confirms it.
 
chignard's fleurie 99 beats a poke in teh eye. it repays time, and has repaid time well.

dolde 13 silvaner vv is tightly wound, and it too repays teh recent unaccustomed bout of patience showing at teh fatschloß. pear, lime, and a nice mixture of 13 transparency and low yield intensity.

while we waited... it seems that elusive interwebz persona barret f snuck some german riesling into teh fatcave.

stern words will be exchanged.

the randomly plucked flagon we broached is called something along teh lines of enkircher-escheberg-batterieburg-etc. quite. it's kind of sweet, and honied, but not so much in a sink teh titanic kind of way.

maupertuis les plages 11 reminds me that hipster wine can be good. which is more than i can say for teh fleurie-13-that-shall-remain-nameless that tastes of pork chops.

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'12 beluard Le feu. Charity cocktail party drank a whole case of '12 Knauss G in record time. I had to give them the rest of my '12 les alpes on hand. They were modified.* I kept the Le feu for myself. Tonight a bottle is so refreshing and yet with great tension and young. I do love this wine.

ETA: typo for mollified. Apologies.
 
originally posted by kirk wallace:
No pork chops in'12 beluard Le feu. Charity cocktail party drank a whole case of '12 Knauss G in record time. I had to give them the rest of my '12 les alpes on hand. They were modified. I kept the Le feu for myself. Tonight a bottle is so refreshing and yet with great tension and young. I do love this wine.
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You are a generous host, hopefully your guests appreciated the Belluard and the Knauss wines.

We had some brown rice cooked with matsutakes with 2010 Baudry domaine.

The Chinon was open and delicious with the pine mushrooms.

No rush on the Baudry but no crime to drink it now either.
 
originally posted by kirk wallace:
No pork chops in'12 beluard Le feu. Charity cocktail party drank a whole case of '12 Knauss G in record time. I had to give them the rest of my '12 les alpes on hand. They were modified. I kept the Le feu for myself. Tonight a bottle is so refreshing and yet with great tension and young. I do love this wine.
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I wonder if a cork would slow down consumption of '12 G at charity parties. Too easy to open.

Having thought about it, no, it would not.

I am rather enjoying 2012 Morgon Le Clos de Lys Chamonard at the moment. The finish is the best, the purest part of the wine right now.
 
originally posted by kirk wallace:
No pork chops in'12 beluard Le feu. Charity cocktail party drank a whole case of '12 Knauss G in record time. I had to give them the rest of my '12 les alpes on hand. They were modified.* I kept the Le feu for myself. Tonight a bottle is so refreshing and yet with great tension and young. I do love this wine.

ETA: typo for mollified. Apologies.
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Which G?
 
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