Saumur & Chinon 2005 at the TGJP

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pab

pierre-alain benoit
Hello
Last friday with O.N.O. (Our New Oligarch) and truffles, we made a dinner with 6 red Loire 2005 (Clos Rougeard, Baudry, Alliet, Roche Blanche, Fosse-Sèche & Tour Grise) and a Chenin from Richard Leroy. See our new website available on every devices (desktop, tablet or smartphone) :
www.tgjp.com.
Ask any questions on the forum and I will try to answer.
Best regards
pierre-alain benoit
 
...six bouteilles de Saumur et de Chinon du millésime 2005...
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I'll give you 5 out of 6 on that one.

I am glad to read that the 2005 Poyeux is doing well.

A hypothetical question for you, pab: Leaving aside storage and shipping concerns, how different would the tasting have been if the wines were from 2002 instead of 2005 ? (My imagination is that the under-performing wines may have done better in the better vintage but at the 'cost' of being three years older.)
 
About storage and shipping, all TGJP bottles are buying at the estate and come with car or truck always in cold month.
Imho, I prefer 2005 than 2002.
 
You make a mistake.
Putin is the tsar like Cole is Le Bon Tyran.
Around Putin, you find oligarchs (Vladimir Yakunin for instance) like around Le Bon Tyran with Antoine A.
But oligarch can be a dangerous job. May be we will find Antoine A. deaded in a Formule 1 hotel next week.
 
Formule 1? Oh the ignominy. If one must suffer a fatal injury in a hotel, one should hope to follow Ambassador Harriman's path.
 
This is pure modernist spoof. An oligarchy is a government of the few (from Greek for few) or a government led by a small group of people. An oligarch is one of those people. When the word came into being, Russia didn't exist.

A tyrant is a single, authoritative sovereign.

Both types of leaders drank their wine from amphoras.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
This is pure modernist spoof. An oligarchy is a government of the few (from Greek for few) or a government led by a small group of people. An oligarch is one of those people. When the word came into being, Russia didn't exist.

A tyrant is a single, authoritative sovereign.

Both types of leaders drank their wine from amphoras.
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You're of course right.
But the TGJP mix the best of Russia (a leader maximo or great conducator fans of alcoolic beverages) and Greece (some courtiers and meditteranean recipes).
 
I'm just relieved that Cole hasn't been overturned in a coup and is being kept prisoner either in the TGJP caves or by the Politburo. I still have his copy of Soumission to return to him.
 
Speaking of Russians being deaded in hotels, I had a the surreal experience of staying at the hotel in London where Alexander Litvinenko was killed with polonium, and the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred.

Still can't get over the fact that they casually put the polonium in tea served in a public space, putting the waitstaff and others at risk.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Speaking of Russians being deaded in hotels, I had a the surreal experience of staying at the hotel in London where Alexander Litvinenko was killed with polonium, and the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred.
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Millennium Hotel? I'm not quite sure I understand the relationship of this incident and Fukushima.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Speaking of Russians being deaded in hotels, I had a the surreal experience of staying at the hotel in London where Alexander Litvinenko was killed with polonium, and the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred.

Still can't get over the fact that they casually put the polonium in tea served in a public space, putting the waitstaff and others at risk.
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The Fukushima accident happened in a London hotel? Who knew? And I doubt that public health issues were much in the minds of the Litvinenko assassins. Collateral damage and all that, you know.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Speaking of Russians being deaded in hotels, I had a the surreal experience of staying at the hotel in London where Alexander Litvinenko was killed with polonium, and the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred.
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Millennium Hotel? I'm not quite sure I understand the relationship of this incident and Fukushima.
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Yes, that was the hotel. I was just thinking of radiation, so it was horrific to have that occur then.
 
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