2006 Charvin, a non-tasting note

[robert ames]

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Brad Kane:
I'd pay money to see the professor shoot a hare.

My name is Professor Jonathan Loesberg. I own a mansion and a yacht.

do you pronounce that throatwarblermangrove?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by pab:

originally posted by MarkS:


Not so particularly, but since I got a great price on it I decided to buy a full case of it, so, yeah, you could say I'm invested in its outcome. That, and the crinkly red fruits from the under-ripe year give me good reasons for hope.

Hello,
2008 wasn't under-ripe for Charvin Cdp's. It was ripe. Try a bootle : it's ripe grappes.
Best regards
pierre-alain

I think he meant less ripe than other vintages. The 08 reminds me of the 04. Like the 04, it showcases the minerally, earthy spicy side of Charvin. It is still CdP, though, and I expect the Jay Millers of the world still will not like it.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Well, not some of them.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Well, not some of them.

Jay, who may chime in, took one taste of the 06 some time ago and immediately poured the rest into the pour bucket on the table. So if you liked it, you are officially not one of the Jay Millers of the world.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Oh, I simply meant that there are other Jay Millers out there.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Right, I forgot about that other guy. But he only drinks big goopy wines from Spain and Australia, I thought.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by pab:

originally posted by MarkS:


Not so particularly, but since I got a great price on it I decided to buy a full case of it, so, yeah, you could say I'm invested in its outcome. That, and the crinkly red fruits from the under-ripe year give me good reasons for hope.

Hello,
2008 wasn't under-ripe for Charvin Cdp's. It was ripe. Try a bootle : it's ripe grappes.
Best regards
pierre-alain

Of course it's "ripe", otherwise it wouldn't be good CdP! I'm talking about the vintage being less-than-spectacular (which is fine by me) ripeness as in 2007 and 2009, both of which I am not a fan of. And I have had a bottle. The Professor is coorect: it does remind me of the 2004 which I've liked immensely and has aged well to boot.

 

[pab]

Last saturday, another Charvin 2003 was tremendous with a roasted grouse. The big vintage was balanced by the power of the grouse.

 

[Yule Kim]

"the power of the goose"

words to live by

 

[Unknown]

thanks pab.

grouses are fingerbanging good. powerful flavours, and yet they know how to behave in the back of teh cab.

takes me back to times long long ago.

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