Chris Coad
Chris Coad
A surprising amount of Robert Denis Touraine-Azay-le-Rideau Demisec.
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What did you drink tonight?
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kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by maureen:
originally posted by kirk wallace:
originally posted by maureen:
Finishing the last couple ounces of a half bottle of Muller Catoir haardter burgegarten rieslaner beerenauslese opened ten days ago and it isas delicious now as it was then. Perfect acidity and r.s. with spherical fruit tasting more of raisins than botrytis. Terrific juice.
Vintage?
Sorry. 1998. Edited.
Yum. yum yum.
me, i had a corked 2013 Chemin de la Brune. or i wanted to before i opened it. but the sink got it instead. and now the sink smells horrible.
refuge in JFG '08 Les Chalasses VV; pretty damn good for chardonnay.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Mozzi 2010 Sasella "Grisone". Half-off sale. There's at least half a wine here. Ha!
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Pizzorni "Ala Rosa" Spumante, an extra-dry sparkler made from freisa and brachetto. Has the dusty-rusty-musty brachetto taste but more body and not so sweet. Served the purpose but no hurry to repeat.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
'12 S. Bize aux Grands Liards Savigny-les-Beaune last night was so pretty; intricate mineral frame wrapped by a lithe skin of fruit. multifaceted on the tongue. Young, but not painfully or unpleasantly so. At all.
A week or so ago in PDX, I had the '02 S. Bize Aux Vergelesses thanks to Mike Wheeler; this '12 Grands Liards may not have quite the depth that the '02 Aux Vergelesses did, but I'd still love to revisit it in 10 years.
A week or so ago in PDX, I had the '02 S. Bize Aux Vergelesses thanks to Mike Wheeler; this '12 Grands Liards may not have quite the depth that the '02 Aux Vergelesses did, but I'd still love to revisit it in 10 years.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by kirk wallace:
'12 S. Bize aux Grands Liards Savigny-les-Beaune last night was so pretty; intricate mineral frame wrapped by a lithe skin of fruit. multifaceted on the tongue. Young, but not painfully or unpleasantly so. At all.
A week or so ago in PDX, I had the '02 S. Bize Aux Vergelesses thanks to Mike Wheeler; this '12 Grands Liards may not have quite the depth that the '02 Aux Vergelesses did, but I'd still love to revisit it in 10 years.
Nice! At first I read "intricate mineral flame."
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
that sounds dangerous....
(or perhaps if the mushrooms that accompanied the wine were not the perfectly grilled maitakes that we in fact had but some other, less tasty but more potent variety....)
(or perhaps if the mushrooms that accompanied the wine were not the perfectly grilled maitakes that we in fact had but some other, less tasty but more potent variety....)
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Kirk, will you take up mushroom hunting in that there PDX? One stamps one's feet.
Make the coming Cascadian quake worth it and all that.
Make the coming Cascadian quake worth it and all that.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
2002 Dönnhoff Norheimer Dellchen Riesling Spätlese 8.5% was swooningly delicious last night.
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
originally posted by kirk wallace:
A week or so ago in PDX, I had the '02 S. Bize Aux Vergelesses thanks to Mike Wheeler; this '12 Grands Liards may not have quite the depth that the '02 Aux Vergelesses did, but I'd still love to revisit it in 10 years.
In my experience it took Bize's premier crus from 2002 a long time to come around. The comparison to this '12 Grands Liards will be very interesting. The good news for me: the 02s gave so little pleasure in their youth that I still have the better part of a case of Vergelesses and Serpentieres.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
that does indeed sound like very good news for you! the '02 Vergelesses that Mike brought was amazing; delicious and thought provoking and clearly many good years ahead of it.
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
Excellent, I haven't had one in 7 or 8 years. I'll have to try one soon!
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
please do report back! i hope your bottle will be as excellent as the one i had.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Knocked back an 07 Bize Aux Vergelesses from 375 a few weeks ago, which showed extremely well.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Last of eight bottles of 2006 Anglore Tavel Rosé combined severe infrastructure with gay superstructure, proving once and for all that infrastructure does not determine superstructure.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Last of eight bottles of 2006 Anglore Tavel Rosé combined severe infrastructure with gay superstructure, proving once and for all that infrastructure does not determine superstructure.
Which just goes to show that infrastructure is not base.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
2012 Ghostwriter Pinot Noir (Santa Cruz County)
I'm on the last glass of my third bottle of this wine, over a period of about a year and a half. It's the only US pinot-based wine I've bought three bottles of ever, except perhaps Biggio Hamina's basic.
Comparisons of US-made pinots with Burgundies are specious, but this wine has a combination of character, idiosyncracy, and pinot fruit character that give it a kind of meta-similarity with a good village Burgundy. Young and out of the bottle, it refuses to flatter, offering chalky tannins and a lean, acidic profile. But even young, it shows more internal energy than most US pinots I've sampled. Today, this 2012 basic, open for three days without refrigeration, is giving a strikingly good one-two punch of acidity with very good - if sightly rich - pinot fruit. A very nicely balanced wine, with more tension and dimension than other non-Burg pinots I've tried. A few points off for abv (13.7) and attendant weight-fruit richness. At $30, nevertheless, a sweet-spot wine.
I'm on the last glass of my third bottle of this wine, over a period of about a year and a half. It's the only US pinot-based wine I've bought three bottles of ever, except perhaps Biggio Hamina's basic.
Comparisons of US-made pinots with Burgundies are specious, but this wine has a combination of character, idiosyncracy, and pinot fruit character that give it a kind of meta-similarity with a good village Burgundy. Young and out of the bottle, it refuses to flatter, offering chalky tannins and a lean, acidic profile. But even young, it shows more internal energy than most US pinots I've sampled. Today, this 2012 basic, open for three days without refrigeration, is giving a strikingly good one-two punch of acidity with very good - if sightly rich - pinot fruit. A very nicely balanced wine, with more tension and dimension than other non-Burg pinots I've tried. A few points off for abv (13.7) and attendant weight-fruit richness. At $30, nevertheless, a sweet-spot wine.
Terry Angleton
Terry Angleton
never seen before: Domaine Elodie Balme, Rasteau 2011
2 glasses with carbonara, tomorrow the rest with ribs
2 glasses with carbonara, tomorrow the rest with ribs
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
originally posted by kirk wallace:
please do report back! i hope your bottle will be as excellent as the one i had.
The '02 Bize Vergelesses, tasted tonight, is just hitting its stride. Deep color, not much fading at the rim, maybe tending away from purple, but no hint of brown or earth tones. Lovely, persistent nose. Minerally, some fruit, even something floral, not easily placed. Great texture and flavor. The wine has moved almost totally away from primary and has settled nicely into secondary bliss. Iron, tiny bit of tobacco, no oak.
Wonderful wine. Decades to go.
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
A quick follow up: the balance is so fine that you don't even think about the alcohol. Nor the acidity, until you finish a bite of food and then you do notice it.