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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
Foreau 1989 Vouvray Moelleux Réserve 1ère Trie - The color of iced tea, mid-weight texture, honey and orange marmalade flavor but not overpoweringly sweet; in fact, rather ethereal altogether (I have to set it aside from the meal to drink it by itself later); that crazy chenin 'off' note is in the background humming its one discordant little tune; acidity is steady and solid but not puckery; with an hour of air the honey recedes a little and the citrus comes forward. Excellent bottle to stay at home with.

I would like to know which joker pressurized the bottle, though. I had carefully trimmed the lead, wiped the fugly fungus from the top of the bottle, gently pulltapped the cork up ...and up ...and up ...and blammo! Sweet old Vouvray shot a foot in the air, dousing the tablecloth and me. Very funny Francois, ha ha. Grr.
 
Interesting. I'm quite used to all the Foreau '90s being that iced-tea color, but the few Foreau '89s I've had have been more typically straw-colored. Always tasty, though, no matter the color.
 
Jeff, the wine should be very sweet. I'm forgetting the number off the top of my head, but I think the sugar is in the 130 - 180 g/l range. The explosion of the cork out of the bottle has me thinking it partially refermented.
 
Jim said it was very sweet and "heading towards sherry." It certainly was sweet but not killer-diller sweet and, trust me, it only nodded from a distance at sherry.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Jim said it was very sweet and "heading towards sherry." It certainly was sweet but not killer-diller sweet and, trust me, it only nodded from a distance at sherry.
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Sounds like it was off, unfortunately. A bottle I had last month showed extremely well. If you scroll down the feed to 7/20, you'll see my post on it.
 
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