Impressions August 2018

originally posted by Michael Lewis:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:
Very cool selection.

originally posted by VLM:
Impressions August 20181999 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Echezeaux
Unfortunately, this is still pretty tight. Has real depth to it, but still needs more time.
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the new york hebraic tippling association (copyright ccoad, all rights reserved) issued an executive decision a couple of years back to leave 99 GCs and higher end 1er alone for a while, almost uniformly. Likely to dive into village wines, as a group, sometime in 2019.
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As I said, far be it from me to argue with the NY hebrews, but I've had a decent number of 1999s that are more than pleasant, including a beautiful Mugnier Fuées that will be included in the September version of these impressions. I think it is a wine by wine thing at this point. Given the usual generosity of M-G, I was surprised at how hard this was.

Michael, did we ever wonder if it was mildly corked or am I conflating that with something else?
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We did wonder about that, several times, but we both eventually agreed that it was not corked.
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Yeah, that was my recollection. It'll be interesting to see how the next bottle shows.
 
originally posted by VLM:
There may be as many as three bottlings, a white capsule (this one) a gold capsule (Bessards-Le Méal) and a red capsule which is a blend for the French market.
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More like 4. Some years (rare ones), there will be a separate Le Meal, marked by an "M". The blended one I think is what Britain gets as well, and the white capsule is not really white, but a light cream color made of Greffieux-Bessards.

*looks like Ben beat me, but I'll post this anyway to clarify before we keep going on about Hebrews and Shebrews.
 
originally posted by MarkS:
originally posted by VLM:
There may be as many as three bottlings, a white capsule (this one) a gold capsule (Bessards-Le Méal) and a red capsule which is a blend for the French market.
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More like 4. Some years (rare ones), there will be a separate Le Meal, marked by an "M". The blended one I think is what Britain gets as well, and the white capsule is not really white, but a light cream color made of Greffieux-Bessards.

*looks like Ben beat me, but I'll post this anyway to clarify before we keep going on about Hebrews and Shebrews.
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I've never had the "M", only the other three. It would be fun to put together a dinner around the different cuvées to see if the differentiation holds.
 
Just looked at my CT notes on 1999s drunk from my cellar in the past year and admit I was surprised the few I opened showed well. Bruno Clair’ csj, chevillon cailles, and grivot’s Boudots were all quite attractive.
 
Thanks. I opened an '08 Dominoes from Pavelot two weeks ago and was worried - considering the vintage characteristics - that the tannins were outrunning the fruit. It was better imbibed cool from the fridge after a day or two, FWIW.

Also opened an 09 Grézeaux earlier this year but, shamefully, did not take a note. I'd imagined the Croix Boisée would be slower to evolve, so interesting report here. (Not really germane, but a 2005 Hureau Lisagathe opened last week is still several years from maturity, IMHO, FWIW).

Are you suggesting 'drink up' on the '05 Javernieres, or drink and hold?

Santé.
 
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