TN: In the Cellar (April 18, 2015)

[Jeff Grossman]

attendees: Swinton, Ira, Ray, Jeff

Oof, so many cases coming and going that our usual table is shifted into a hallway. No matter, we have glasses and corkscrews:

Bouchard 2004 Corton-Charlemagne GC - this is excellent: as minerally as many Chablis, pure and crisp, great wine

Dom. Guiberteau 2010 Saumur Blanc "Breze" - Ray opened this last night and it was too oaky/coconutty to drink; indeed, most of the bottle is here today... and it's better, though no one's favorite: showing tired from it's burden of wood, the acidity is tongue-curlingly sharp, why did they do this to otherwise nice chenin (and charge a high price for it, too)?

Ch. Musar 2002 Rouge - so sturdy and vigorous, years to go on this one, very typique for Musar: berries and VA, yum

Dom. de Courcel 2002 Pommards 1er "Grand Clos des Epenots" - we're all nervous that this will be nowhere near ready to come out and play but we're wrong: drinking very well, suave even, a treat

A couple other bottles from home:

Debize 2011 Beaujolais "Les Cambertiers" (Lot 20) - Day 1 this is quite grapey but a good glou-glou wine; Day 3 it has gained some weight, pleasing (but no rush to buy again)

Franchino 2008 Gattinara - ah, my only bottle but it does not disappoint: a glass of decent nebbiolo mountain wine, it won't make the earth move but I'm happy for it

 

[slaton]

Pleasantly amused to hear that '02 Courcel Epenots is civil, or generous even.

And quite surprised by the reaction to the 2010 Guiberteau Breze. I adored this last fall, although to be fair I drank it over about 4 days and it just kept getting better. It never came across as alarmingly oaky, though it was completely closed for the first day +/-.

Still yet to be moved even a smidgeon by a Guiberteau SC rouge, though.

Or Thierry Germain's, for that matter. Two complete useless 2012s when I was in Paris recently, I think that might merit a separate post.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by slaton:
Or Thierry Germain's, for that matter. Two complete useless 2012s when I was in Paris recently, I think that might merit a separate post.

Do it.

But out of curiosity, how does this happen?:

I drank it over about 4 days

So unappealing? Or...?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

I found the Breze too woody too.

 

[Rahsaan]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:


But out of curiosity, how does this happen?:

I drank it over about 4 days

So unappealing? Or...?

Maybe too many other things were open? That's the only excuse I could fathom!

 

[Unknown]

originally posted by slaton:
Pleasantly amused to hear that '02 Courcel Epenots is civil, much less generous.

Home Depot. Aisle 12.

 

[Todd Abrams]

originally posted by slaton:
Or Thierry Germain's, for that matter. Two complete useless 2012s when I was in Paris recently, I think that might merit a separate post.

Which bottle from Thierry Germain? Current count is seven Saumur Champigny cuvees that are all considerably different.