What did you drink tonight?

Just to fuck with Jay, I'm posting in this thread:

2008 Morel Saint-Aubin (from Comrade Lyle) was opened in response to a request from Jean for a light red to consume with lightly smoked shrimp and salmon on a surprisingly cool summer night here in Flyover Country. It started out lean and taut, with a fairly typical Bourgogne profile, but soon opened up to show a more savory side and also gain some flesh. Great acidity throughout and enough guts to handle the smoke. No hurry on this one, though.

Mark Lipton
 
2009 Overnoy Poulsard was this deep dark red thing.
2011 Overnoy Poulsard was this ethereal, almost salmon-colored, fragrant thing.

You can guess which one I liked better.

Some people drink a Montrachet and are like, whoa, I now understand the point of white burgundy.

I have never had a Montrachet, but drinking 2008 Ganevat Chalasses Marnes Bleues Savagnin is my version of that experience.

One time SFjoe opened a corked bottle of old Huet and said "This is corked." 2004 Overnoy Vieux Savagnin Ouille last night was similar, except SFjoe wasn't there.

I could go on, but I have to rest for awhile.
 
originally posted by kirk wallace:
Last night '03 la Parcelle Bouchard. Just ok. Perhaps the warmth of the summer was just too much. Blowzy, soft. Still nice flavors, but not precise or convincing. Or I'm coming around to Sharon's view generally. The former I suspect.
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Funny thing is, it wasn't made by Bouchard.

Peter Liem:

"La Parcelle is a 50-are, southwest-facing parcel of pinot noir in Celles-sur-Ource that Bouchard purchased in 2007, from an old friend of the family. Its previous owner made a little wine but never sold it, and Bouchard was so impressed with the viticulture and the winemaking that when he purchased the vineyard, he also bought all of the old stocks of champagne, and is now releasing them under the Inflorescence label, which is permissible through the ND registration. [...] The 2007 vintage will be the first wine from this parcel that Bouchard actually made himself, although this won't be released for at least another several years."
 
Out monthly blind wine group met last night:

2006 Pierre Peters Chetillons
2004 Veuve Clicquot La Grand Dame
1998 Kistler Vine Hill
1998 Mayacamas Chardonnay
2003 Mt. Eden Vineyards Chardonnay
2003 Clos des Papes
2003 Domaine Janasse Cuvee Chaupin
2003 Mas de Boislauzon, Cuvee Quet
1979 Gaja Barbaresco
1997 Albino Rochoa Vgneto Barbaresco Bric Ronchi
1997 Giacosa Barbaresco San Stefano di Neive
1988 A. Pieper Konigswinterer Drachenfels Beerenauslese

I really liked the Champagnes.
 
Wait, you hate Grenache. And you drank '03 CdPs! Three of them, no less. Were you kidnapped, blindfolded, and told that if you didn't drink these, you'd never taste another bottle of Sherry again?
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Wait, you hate Grenache. And you drank '03 CdPs! Three of them, no less. Were you kidnapped, blindfolded, and told that if you didn't drink these, you'd never taste another bottle of Sherry again?
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I'm sure it was all worth it for some well-matured Kistler.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Wait, you hate Grenache. And you drank '03 CdPs! Three of them, no less. Were you kidnapped, blindfolded, and told that if you didn't drink these, you'd never taste another bottle of Sherry again?
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Arnold commented on my return that it didn't seem as though I had much to drink that night.

I liked the Champagne.

As bad as the Chateauneufs were the Albino Rochoa was worse.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
Out monthly blind wine group met last night:

2006 Pierre Peters Chetillons
2004 Veuve Clicquot La Grand Dame
1998 Kistler Vine Hill
1998 Mayacamas Chardonnay
2003 Mt. Eden Vineyards Chardonnay
2003 Clos des Papes
2003 Domaine Janasse Cuvee Chaupin
2003 Mas de Boislauzon, Cuvee Quet
1979 Gaja Barbaresco
1997 Albino Rochoa Vgneto Barbaresco Bric Ronchi
1997 Giacosa Barbaresco San Stefano di Neive
1988 A. Pieper Konigswinterer Drachenfels Beerenauslese
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you should introduce them at to least one friend who can read labels.

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originally posted by Jay Miller:
About 12 or 13 years ago I picked up a bottle of 1996 M. Esmonin Clos St. Jacques at auction. After coddling it all this time turns out it was heat damaged.

I'm sad.
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Not so sure it was heat damage - M. Esmonin wines have always tasted "off" to me. Maybe something in the elevage? I'm sure Brother Claude could chime in here.
 
originally posted by Andrew Zachary:
originally posted by Jay Miller:
About 12 or 13 years ago I picked up a bottle of 1996 M. Esmonin Clos St. Jacques at auction. After coddling it all this time turns out it was heat damaged.

I'm sad.
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Not so sure it was heat damage - M. Esmonin wines have always tasted "off" to me. Maybe something in the elevage? I'm sure Brother Claude could chime in here.
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I loved the 1993 of this.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
1996 Closel Clos du Papillon Cuvee Speciale - very sweet and young. Even the color was more green than gold. A really great showing. Density and finesse and also delicious.
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So glad to hear. After having been over-powered by this wine once or twice when it was very young, in maturity (relative) I've never had anything but beauty from this wine. Premox? It's been so solid, it's hard to imagine.
 
Trebbiano d'Abruzzo 2013, Francesco Cirelli
You know when yellow plums are in season - when they are fully ripe and fresh from the tree; still firm but brimming with flavour and juice. Sometimes a wine has a moment like that.

Then, in the second day - though this bottle is still on its first night - it bakes a little, gets richer and deeper, starts to wave at the Trebbiano we sometimes dream of.
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
1996 Closel Clos du Papillon Cuvee Speciale - very sweet and young. Even the color was more green than gold. A really great showing. Density and finesse and also delicious.
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So glad to hear. After having been over-powered by this wine once or twice when it was very young, in maturity (relative) I've never had anything but beauty from this wine. Premox? It's been so solid, it's hard to imagine.
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I believe you had some premoxed '96 from the bottle I brought to Dressner's 25th anniversary party at Ten Bells in '09, Jeff. The wine hasn't shown well in years, in my experience, and I know a lot of folks in the NY group have certainly had poor bottles of it since then at various jeebi.
 
originally posted by Andrew Zachary:
originally posted by Jay Miller:
About 12 or 13 years ago I picked up a bottle of 1996 M. Esmonin Clos St. Jacques at auction. After coddling it all this time turns out it was heat damaged.

I'm sad.
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Not so sure it was heat damage - M. Esmonin wines have always tasted "off" to me. Maybe something in the elevage? I'm sure Brother Claude could chime in here.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
A pretty good way to drink '99 Renaissance Merlot is to pour a glass, forget to put the cork back in the bottle, and drink the rest of the bottle the next day. Though I think I recorked it in the morning. Either way it's in a really nice place right now - loads and loads of gorgeous fruit, but held in delicious balance.
 
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