A few short notes on some wines in Dallas

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Jay Miller

Jay Miller
Some kind folk in Dallas were gracious enough to meet for 2 dinners this past week. A few wines that stand out in my memory are:

First dinner:
1996 Taittinger Comte de Champagne - I loved this wine last year and I love it now. Thrilling nose. IMO will continue improving for many years.

2014 Gonon St. Joseph - I'm really not convinced about aging these. They are so delicious young and the 1989s and 1990s which CSW had way back when were a bit of a mixed bag.

2006 Clos Rougeard Poyeaux - Very good, very young.

1996 Huet Le Mont Moeulleux 1er Trie - just as good as the bottle I opened at the 1995-1997 retrospective where it was one of my favorites. Beautiful.

1995 Egon Muller Schwarz Spatlese - Delicious with prominent Saar acidity

2004 Isole e Olena Cepparello - perhaps my favorite red of the night. When sangiovese is this good I start wondering why I drink anything else.

Second dinner:

2002 Tempier Bandol Tourtine - gorgeous, balanced, medium bodied.

2001 d'Angervilled 'Clos des Ducs' - beautiful nose on first pour which quickly faded and then eventually turned to faint TCA. Damn.

2011 Gaja Pieve Santa Restituta Brunello de Montalcino - Warning! Danger Will Robinson! Oak! Oak! Oak! Just horrible.

1998 Bize SLB 'Vergelesses' - lovely wine, drinking well now

I should start taking notes again as I know I've forgotten many bottles.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
2014 Gonon St. Joseph - I'm really not convinced about aging these. They are so delicious young and the 1989s and 1990s which CSW had way back when were a bit of a mixed bag.
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It's funny to me that you put it this way, as I was pounding these wines for a few years until I had a bottle from the 80s purchased through Chambers that was just singing. It was solely on the experience of that bottle that I started holding some of them back. Perhaps I'm overdue to check in on a few.

Not that it's much of an issue anymore for me in Detroit: New York gobbles up half the product for the whole country, and the other half is allocated through Lynch. So I can only get it through Chambers Street during the occasional 30 seconds it's ostensibly available on the website.
 
...So I can only get it through Chambers Street during the occasional 30 seconds it's ostensibly available on the website.
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...you must mean through their private server.
 
Thanks for the company & for taking notes, Jay. A few other wines ...
2011 FX Pichler Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Dürnsteiner Kellerberg was way over-the-top for me, and showed its 14.5% especially when not fully chilled.

1985 Lynch-Bages was flawed, perhaps in multiple ways.

1995 Felsina Rancia was pretty meh. I thought maybe it was struggling to show its best against the great lineup on the first night, but it was still pretty insipid the next 2 nights. Sad.
 
Interesting on the Rancia. 1995 Fontodi Sorbo was a real standout--undeniably stupendous wine--at a vertical last year. Sure we're talking different dirt, microclimate, and regimes in vineyard and cellar. But I still somehow put the two wines in the same category in my head.
 
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