What did you drink tonight?

originally posted by MLipton:
2012 Pepiere regular bottling last night was so damn good it was scary. Opened it to go with some sushi and it just went down way too easily. Yes, the Briords is a step up, but this is one of the best Pepiere normales that I've had.

Mark Lipton
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Our local supermarket chain carries it so we've taken to buying one or two every time we shop. I think we're lucky if a bottle lasts 20 minutes between the two of us.
 
2006 Sapience Champagne by Benoit Marguet. 3 grams dosage, all organic farming. Extraordinary. Austere and etched enough for Sharon, I hazard, but rich enough for me. Weightless and complex enough for both of us. Can only imagine what benefit a few more years will do to it.
 
originally posted by VLM:
Had a really nice 2002 Briords with mark e last weekend and a, more surprising, really nice 2004 last night with Noel.
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I don't know Noel, but yeah, mark e is a tough act to follow
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by MLipton:
2012 Pepiere regular bottling last night was so damn good it was scary. Opened it to go with some sushi and it just went down way too easily. Yes, the Briords is a step up, but this is one of the best Pepiere normales that I've had.

Mark Lipton
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Yep, but we've been out for a while down here.

Had a really nice 2002 Briords with mark e last weekend and a, more surprising, really nice 2004 last night with Noel.

Also, CA Muscadet, AKA Broc Mara Vineyard chardonnay 2012 and St. Innocent Momtazi pinot noir 2011.
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Do you not put 2004 in the top category for Briords? I've always loved it, though I haven't had one for awhile.
 
originally posted by kirk wallace:
Pre-dinner2006 Sapience Champagne by Benoit Marguet. 3 grams dosage, all organic farming. Extraordinary. Austere and etched enough for Sharon, I hazard, but rich enough for me. Weightless and complex enough for both of us. Can only imagine what benefit a few more years will do to it.
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Nice.
 
originally posted by Cliff:


Do you not put 2004 in the top category for Briords? I've always loved it, though I haven't had one for awhile.
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I put it pretty high. These days, with all the premox in 2002, it has to be considered a much better bet.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Cliff:


Do you not put 2004 in the top category for Briords? I've always loved it, though I haven't had one for awhile.
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I put it pretty high. These days, with all the premox in 2002, it has to be considered a much better bet.
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I've said this before - without Kane's Premox Vintage Charts, we are all lost.
 
2001 ESJ Wylie-Fenaughty Syrah, a gift from a friend.

Just faboo--resolved, ready, (was that a bit of NFO, Claude?), delicious.

Purchased on release and well-stored, the red stain was only the perfect disk on the wet end of the cork.
 
2007 Chateau de Selle Domaines Ott Rose, Cotes de Provence, alc14%
...pale salmon colored...nice crushed strawberry notes on the palate...good acidity....texturally interesting....quite nice
 
originally posted by Cliff:
originally posted by VLM:


Yep, but we've been out for a while down here.

Had a really nice 2002 Briords with mark e last weekend and a, more surprising, really nice 2004 last night with Noel.

Also, CA Muscadet, AKA Broc Mara Vineyard chardonnay 2012 and St. Innocent Momtazi pinot noir 2011.
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Do you not put 2004 in the top category for Briords? I've always loved it, though I haven't had one for awhile.
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2004 Briords is my favorite vintage of the naughties.
 
'12 Montesecondo Rosso. Just lovely. A little structure, but that's not the story. Pretty red fruits; everything is just easy and pleasing. This is a great every day wine with dinner.
 
Luneau-Papin Excelsior Poyet 2002: Opens dumb. With 30-60 minutes air time, becomes a cord of rather fine mineral-acid tension. Flavor-aroma profile is modest throughout, but a fine wine with impressive presence that seduces.

Burgaud Cote Rotie, 1999: At 15, a lovely dark crimson hue, tannins are fine and well-integrated, acid is brisk and refreshing. Flavors? Sour cherry, almost cranberry, without the sweetness. At 12.5 % abv, pretty light on its feet, but full of impact. Good with rack of lamb. Drink or hold.

Opened a corked magnum of 2002 Pepiere Briords for Easter dinner with the relatives, alas.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Luneau-Papin Excelsior Poyet 2002: Opens dumb. With 30-60 minutes air time, becomes a cord of rather fine mineral-acid tension. Flavor-aroma profile is modest throughout, but a fine wine with impressive presence that seduces.

Burgaud Cote Rotie, 1999: At 15, a lovely dark crimson hue, tannins are fine and well-integrated, acid is brisk and refreshing. Flavors? Sour cherry, almost cranberry, without the sweetness. At 12.5 % abv, pretty light on its feet, but full of impact. Good with rack of lamb. Drink or hold.

Opened a corked magnum of 2002 Pepiere Briords for Easter dinner with the relatives, alas.
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I thought 2004 was the first year for magnums of Briords?
 
Buronfosse Sous le Monceau 2012

Filigree Poulsard in style. Didn't have the floral qualities I appreciate in some other Poulsards but was refreshing. Too reductive for me, though -- at least during the several hours I gave it in the decanter. I remember really liking the 2011 vintage when I drunk it in a restaurant.
 
Last night it was the '10 Dupasquier Gamay, a very light and floral example of the grape that went down way too easily for comfort. Just the stuff to wash down a roasted chicken.

Mark Lipton
 
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