The best Morgon in many a moon

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07 G Descombes Morgon VV Roses, slightly fading, beef, blood, iron, impeccable balance, and tons of glu glu.

07 was such a good vintage.
 
OMG, the doghead just struck me dead with a lightning bolt, and I communicate to you from the afterlife.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
OMG, the doghead just struck me dead with a lightning bolt, and I communicate to you from the afterlife.
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Joe the Bishop: "the Good Lord would never disrupt the best vintage of my life"
 
originally posted by BJ:
This is all beyond me. Really, I'm still just a noob.
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Two things, and you are up to date.

This:

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And this.
 
originally posted by BJ:
The best Morgon in many a moon07 G Descombes Morgon VV Roses, slightly fading, beef, blood, iron, impeccable balance, and tons of glu glu.
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The 2005 of this wine was mind-bogglingly good, and yet my bottles cracked up within a few short years. I'm not familiar with the SO2 regimen here, but am glad to hear the 2007 is holding up well.
 
originally posted by slaton:
originally posted by BJ:
The best Morgon in many a moon07 G Descombes Morgon VV Roses, slightly fading, beef, blood, iron, impeccable balance, and tons of glu glu.
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The 2005 of this wine was mind-bogglingly good, and yet my bottles cracked up within a few short years. I'm not familiar with the SO2 regimen here, but am glad to hear the 2007 is holding up well.
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Not just SO2 (which I believe is light but nonzero), but more the extraction. The wines are not built the same way as Coudert, say, so one should put an earlier expiration date on them in the cellar.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Not just SO2 (which I believe is light but nonzero), but more the extraction. The wines are not built the same way as Coudert, say, so one should put an earlier expiration date on them in the cellar.
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Agreed.

I checked my notes and was reminded that what I experienced was not the old wine thing, but rather the wines spoiling and refermenting. I went from "best bottle yet" to a sparkling pickle-barrel inside of a year. The '05 Brouilly VV (also delicious, if a touch bretty) followed a similar trajectory.

From a perusal of TNs in the usual place, it appears others are still enjoying these wines. So perhaps my bottles were mistreated somewhere in the chain.
 
I will say that in the vast majority of cases 2007 seems to have produced some of my favorite Beaujolais of the decade along with 2002 and 2005. Once again in the vast majority of cases I have preferred it to 2009.

As you can see, a modicum of good judgement in phrasing helps avoid unusual meteorological phenomena.
 
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