TN: In the cellar (Aug 6, 2016)

[Jeff Grossman]

A nice variety of wines this afternoon.

Haut-Bailly 2000 Pessac-Leognan - we had a lot of trouble determining that this was Bordeaux!, I’m very favorably taken with a wine that doesn’t shout cassis and tobacco at me

Dom. Labet 2011 Cotes du Jura "Cuvee du Hasard" - I guess I’m the only one who likes this, basically old vines chardonnay under voile for 4 years (so not quite all the way to Vin Jaune), this is fruity and nutty but a little less assertive in its oxidative organoleptics

Luis Pato 1995 Bairrada "Vinha Pan" - another one that nobody could place... guesses all over the place (Rhone, central Italy, etc.) because, well, we’re not very familiar with Baga; this is nice: dark fruits, wet earth, rough tannins that have settled-down a bit

Il Colle 1988 Brunello di Montalcino - dull

J. Haart 2015 Piesporter Schubertslay Riesling Kabinett - excellent, bright, hint of sweetness, love it

H. Bonneau 2000 Chateauneuf-du-Pape - the normale, spoiled

I wrote these up quite late so I may have forgotten a thing or two. Did the Brunello ever improve?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Fun that y'all taste them blind.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Luis Pato 1995 Bairrada "Vinha Pan"

Oh, god, that wine? Joe got it in OWC from the Royals for so cheap. He was really into it. I was less so. I guess getting paid for someone else to do the aging was part of the appeal.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

Haut-Bailly 2000 Pessac-Leognan ...I’m very favorably taken with a wine that doesn’t shout cassis and tobacco at me

Your bias is showing.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Fun that y'all taste them blind.

Only when there's some fun to be had, as with the Baga. Otherwise, we are open label.

originally posted by MarkS:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

Haut-Bailly 2000 Pessac-Leognan ...I’m very favorably taken with a wine that doesn’t shout cassis and tobacco at me

Your bias is showing.

Who, me?

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Fun that y'all taste them blind.

Only when there's some fun to be had, as with the Baga. Otherwise, we are open label.

originally posted by MarkS:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

Haut-Bailly 2000 Pessac-Leognan ...I’m very favorably taken with a wine that doesn’t shout cassis and tobacco at me

Your bias is showing.

Who, me?

I came late and guessed St. Julien blind. A fruity young Graves. Let's see in another ten years.