TN: Coq au Vin (Feb 24, 2018)

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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
attendees: Lisa, Don, Brad, Jeff

At Brad's house. A sale on Bell & Evans chickens lead to a spontaneous coq au vin dinner. Cause and effect? Cluck to cocotte? In any case, it was delcious and a good foil for conversation and wine.

I arrived much after the offical starting time but, apparently, so had everybody else. Brad found me a plate and a chair and a water glass and a wine glass...

Huet 2002 Vouvray Demi-Sec "Le Mont" - an excellent bottle, not quite all the way to honeycomb, not quite wooly, but a really optimal combination of Vouvray flavors; Brad is over the moon

Dom. Filliatreau 1997 Saumur-Champigny "Cuvee Buster" - just what you want Loire Cab Franc to be: good acid, solid cab flavors dressed lightly with green peppers, yum; one of the original Buster bottlings

Dom. Lapierre 2009 Morgon - fruity, simple, nice, in no danger of falling apart or becoming shrill or becoming great

Latium di Morini 2012 Amarone della Valpolicella "Campo Leòn" - an assault on the senses: oaky, viscous and manipulated, DNPIM

Ch. Miraval 2016 Cotes de Provence Rose - mis en bouteille par Jolie-Pitt; how can anyone resist such a cuvee? it's not quite "Hello Kitty" wine but we gotta have some fun here; yeah, that's a pretty normal dry Provencal rose

Bottle photo, courtesy of BradKanealina:
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If you search hereabouts you'll see quite a bunch. L/D brings one in, for example. With a decade of age, or so, they have their charms. (Statement does not include this one, at this time.)

I'm looking around for a poached pear or pineapple recipe now.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
If you search hereabouts you'll see quite a bunch. L/D brings one in, for example. With a decade of age, or so, they have their charms. (Statement does not include this one, at this time.)

I'm looking around for a poached pear or pineapple recipe now.
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Yeah, I recall using a few of those back in the days of "late harvest" Zinfandels.

Mark Lipton
 
That Filliatreau was my first Buster. At the old slanted door, recommended to me by Mark Ellenbogen. Great memories.
 
A fun night. I'm pretty much in-synch with your notes, though I did enjoy the '09 Lapierre Morgon more than you did. Is it a crunchy Morgon? No, but there's enough acidity to keep the wine balanced and I do like fruit in my Gamay and there's certainly plenty of it there.

Nice link to the story of the Buster label. Kudos to those of us that remembered the three original '97 bottlings!
 
originally posted by Mike Evans:
I just noticed that the list of Busters is incomplete, omitting the 2000 Peillot Altesse.
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Per CellarTracker there are also 2001 and 2008. Possibly Peillot did what Labaille does?
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Mike Evans:
I just noticed that the list of Busters is incomplete, omitting the 2000 Peillot Altesse.
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Per CellarTracker there are also 2001 and 2008. Possibly Peillot did what Labaille does?
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All of the notes on the 2001 seem to be from Disorderlies, so I’m persuaded that it exists. I suspect the 2008 entry was user error. I’ve found a lot of inflated entries in CT, such as entries for reserve bottlings in vintages where no such bottlings were made.
 
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