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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
At least of the CRB stripe. A bottle of the 2006 at Racines NY two days ago was an object lesson. Savory balanced perfection in a glass.

Arno is doing the good work with the offerings at said restaurant.

As a gamay—and especially, Beaujolais—agnostic, I am enlightened. Of course, perhaps one could always define the Clos Roche Blanche as an outlier. So, lay it out, on, etc.

And also, 2013 Domaine de L'Anglore Chemin de la Brune is still strawberried heaven.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Of course, perhaps one could always define the Clos Roche Blanche as an outlier.
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Outlier sure. But not in a way that should need more age.

So that should make your point even more forceful.
 
in 2004 staying at a gite just on the outskirts of lancie (village in beaujolais) i had the opportunity to drink a 25 year old beaujolais villages that the propriater (marcel durand) had made on the side for himself while working as a cellar rat for another vigneron before starting his own operation.

the wine was magical with lovely brisk light wild strawberry fruit and a sweet cinnamon-ness, i.e., it tasted more like pinot noir than it did like gamay. in beaujolais they call this extended-aging tranformation pinotase (sp?)--and consider it undesirable(?!). it was opened for a least 4 hours before it was finished and it never flagged.
 
I had a 2005 Desvignes Javernieres on Saturday night and while it showed some promising aromatics, it never really opened up to be the wine I was hoping for. These 2005s are so tightly coiled. I wonder how long we'll have to wait? I have a Roilette Tardive on deck.

2009 Lapiere was clunky and one dimensional. I sort of wish I had drank them all in their youth for the exuberance. I have a couple more bottles, so we'll see what happens.
 
2009 Lapiere was clunky and one dimensional. I sort of wish I had drank them all in their youth for the exuberance. I have a couple more bottles, so we'll see what happens.
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I think it's in an awkward stage right now and not out of it yet. The last bottle I had about a year ago showed this way, but earlier bottles consumed were lovely creatures.Let it get past it's midlife crisis...
 
I opened an 05 Tete Prestige last week in magnum: pretty tremendous based on acid and gloss alone, but real fruit, if there's any in there, is still in check.
 
originally posted by VLM:
I had a 2005 Desvignes Javernieres on Saturday night and while it showed some promising aromatics, it never really opened up to be the wine I was hoping for. These 2005s are so tightly coiled. I wonder how long we'll have to wait? I have a Roilette Tardive on deck.

2009 Lapiere was clunky and one dimensional. I sort of wish I had drank them all in their youth for the exuberance. I have a couple more bottles, so we'll see what happens.
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My 2005 Tardives are in a good place. I've had a couple recently.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
originally posted by VLM:
I had a 2005 Desvignes Javernieres on Saturday night and while it showed some promising aromatics, it never really opened up to be the wine I was hoping for. These 2005s are so tightly coiled. I wonder how long we'll have to wait? I have a Roilette Tardive on deck.

2009 Lapiere was clunky and one dimensional. I sort of wish I had drank them all in their youth for the exuberance. I have a couple more bottles, so we'll see what happens.
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My 2005 Tardives are in a good place. I've had a couple recently.
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Great news! Thanks.
 
originally posted by VLM:
I had a 2005 Desvignes Javernieres on Saturday night and while it showed some promising aromatics, it never really opened up to be the wine I was hoping for. These 2005s are so tightly coiled. I wonder how long we'll have to wait? I have a Roilette Tardive on deck.

2009 Lapiere was clunky and one dimensional. I sort of wish I had drank them all in their youth for the exuberance. I have a couple more bottles, so we'll see what happens.
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There's Desvignes, and then there's everything else.
 
I don't go as far back as some of you, but has anyone had '11 Griffe du Marquis recently? I was hoping to work through my bottles this spring/summer but then a recent '11 Foillard Fleurie was so closed I thought perhaps I should wait on the vintage.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I don't go as far back as some of you, but has anyone had '11 Griffe du Marquis recently? I was hoping to work through my bottles this spring/summer but then a recent '11 Foillard Fleurie was so closed I thought perhaps I should wait on the vintage.
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I'm waiting.

A recent 2011 Roilette regular was on the young side of delicious, even for me. Although, it was baby delicious as a really young wine.
 
I've got an 04 Tardive on deck for the Seattleites if we can pull something together for a taste test.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I don't go as far back as some of you, but has anyone had '11 Griffe du Marquis recently? I was hoping to work through my bottles this spring/summer but then a recent '11 Foillard Fleurie was so closed I thought perhaps I should wait on the vintage.
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Not '11, but the '10 I had about a month of two ago was a righteous wine. I'm holding my others, for now, but it still sang.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I don't go as far back as some of you, but has anyone had '11 Griffe du Marquis recently? I was hoping to work through my bottles this spring/summer but then a recent '11 Foillard Fleurie was so closed I thought perhaps I should wait on the vintage.
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I'd bury that one for a while unless you have more than one bottle.
 
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