kirk wallace
kirk wallace
At a gathering of a few close friends who are not wine geeks, but have proven over the years to pay keen attention to quality, nuance and variation in food and wine, we drank:
'13 Prévost BdN -- its typical, jolly, delicious self; hard to think of a champagne that marries delicacy, lightness and pure pleasure with nifty complexity and spine in the background.
Sélosse Rosé 10/14 Disgorgement -- best Selosse Rosé showing i've ever experienced. Beautiful light red fruit with freshness and great length. touch of savoriness midway through make you sit up and say OH! Maybe i like them younger.
1989 L d'OR - what a lucky night. perfect bottle; interesting mix of fresh minerality and secondary development. great with the squid ink tonnarelli dressed with coloratura, toasted bread crumbs and grey mullet bottarga.
2011 Roilette Griffe de Marquis -- if you have this in your cache, count yourself lucky. Drinking beautifully now. maybe it will get better, but i don't know how. Acidity and fruit and maturity seem in perfect harmony right now. (that said, we drank it with a fairly spicy (hungarian paprika) pork shoulder stew; so perhaps with an omelet or a roast chicken, it might show differently.)
2011 Overnoy Chard --not a perfect bottle; slight hints of apple juice, but still pleasant enough, especially with a near perfect 1/2 of a Colombier. Pleased my friends, but it didn't stop conversation the way the L' d'OR and the Griffe de Marquis did. I felt bad that they did not get the electric experience of this wine from good bottles. (including just a few weeks ago.)
1994 Christoffle Jr Urziger Wurzgarten Auslese*** -- moving toward spatlese dryness; acidity still OK; very pleasant golden glass of wine, especially with pear frangipane tarte. 4 drinkers had no problem draining it at the end of the evening.
'13 Prévost BdN -- its typical, jolly, delicious self; hard to think of a champagne that marries delicacy, lightness and pure pleasure with nifty complexity and spine in the background.
Sélosse Rosé 10/14 Disgorgement -- best Selosse Rosé showing i've ever experienced. Beautiful light red fruit with freshness and great length. touch of savoriness midway through make you sit up and say OH! Maybe i like them younger.
1989 L d'OR - what a lucky night. perfect bottle; interesting mix of fresh minerality and secondary development. great with the squid ink tonnarelli dressed with coloratura, toasted bread crumbs and grey mullet bottarga.
2011 Roilette Griffe de Marquis -- if you have this in your cache, count yourself lucky. Drinking beautifully now. maybe it will get better, but i don't know how. Acidity and fruit and maturity seem in perfect harmony right now. (that said, we drank it with a fairly spicy (hungarian paprika) pork shoulder stew; so perhaps with an omelet or a roast chicken, it might show differently.)
2011 Overnoy Chard --not a perfect bottle; slight hints of apple juice, but still pleasant enough, especially with a near perfect 1/2 of a Colombier. Pleased my friends, but it didn't stop conversation the way the L' d'OR and the Griffe de Marquis did. I felt bad that they did not get the electric experience of this wine from good bottles. (including just a few weeks ago.)
1994 Christoffle Jr Urziger Wurzgarten Auslese*** -- moving toward spatlese dryness; acidity still OK; very pleasant golden glass of wine, especially with pear frangipane tarte. 4 drinkers had no problem draining it at the end of the evening.