2010 Beaujolais?

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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
Opened a bottle of Desvignes 2010 Morgon "Javernieres" tonight. Like trying to cozy up to a brass-bristle brush. Put that aside.

Next try: Grange Aux Belles 2014 VdF "Brise d'Aunis" is bright and juicy, as much from the grape as from the style, making me and my roast chicken and my orzo salad very happy.

Have you opened any 2010 Beaujolais lately?
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
How can you possibly know that your roast chicken and orzo salad were very happy too?
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Leaving aside your entertaining parse of a compound noun, I know what my roast chicken is thinking and feeling. I have rapport with its condition through my previous and future lives. It is as if my very juices disassemble this chicken and rebuild it as myself.

Of course, one cannot say the same things about couscous as one can for orzo.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
How can you possibly know that your roast chicken and orzo salad were very happy too?
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Leaving aside your entertaining parse of a compound noun, I know what my roast chicken is thinking and feeling. I have rapport with its condition through my previous and future lives. It is as if my very juices disassemble this chicken and rebuild it as myself.
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Being too self-involved to be capable of significant empathy, I am always in awe when encountering it to this degree.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
2010 Beaujolais?Opened a bottle of Desvignes 2010 Morgon "Javernieres" tonight. Like trying to cozy up to a brass-bristle brush. Put that aside.

Next try: Grange Aux Belles 2014 VdF "Brise d'Aunis" is bright and juicy, as much from the grape as from the style, making me and my roast chicken and my orzo salad very happy.

Have you opened any 2010 Beaujolais lately?
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Most of my remaining 2010 stash is Coudert Tardive, so the simple answer is "no." I've still got a number of 2009s, waiting for them to (with luck) shed some of their baby fat and turn into something that I recognize as Gamay.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
2010 Beaujolais?Opened a bottle of Desvignes 2010 Morgon "Javernieres" tonight. Like trying to cozy up to a brass-bristle brush. Put that aside.

Next try: Grange Aux Belles 2014 VdF "Brise d'Aunis" is bright and juicy, as much from the grape as from the style, making me and my roast chicken and my orzo salad very happy.

Have you opened any 2010 Beaujolais lately?
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My Desvignes clock seems to be running 8-12 years behind yours. Might I recommend you rewind.
 
originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
My Desvignes clock seems to be running 8-12 years behind yours. Might I recommend you rewind.
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I'll see what I can do.

Anyway: Day 2, this is better now. It's actually rather like a middle-quality Ghemme or young Rhone syrah. Blue fruit, fuzzy tannins, but pleasure is peeking through.
 
I guess 2010 Javernières is a lot sterner than the 2011 at the moment. At The Big Glou, I was told 2010 Chamonard Morgon needed time.
 
So, a 2012 Dupeuble Beaujolais last night was so damn floral that I felt like I'd buried my face in a bouquet of jasmine flowers. Wines like this will help me keep my hands off the more stern expressions of Gamay.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MarkS:
Coudert Griffe was excellent circa 6 months ago.
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Yep, sure was. I have another bottle of this as well as Tardive and Descombes VV on deck. Drinking less now, so it may take a while to get to it.

Missed 2010 Desvignes somehow, but I also have a 2011 Py in the queue.
 
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