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Entries from 2008
the future of fine wine(?) – assuming it’s not counterfeit!
Interested in the future of fine wine according to Berry Bros and Rudd?
Of-course, what’s in the bottle will come under ever-more scrutiny…
nicolas potel 2000 savigny 1er peuillets
Another long-weekend – shame it’s almost the last of the year (with public holidays) despite us being only in May. Not much wine drinking, more chauffering but I’m looking forward to this week and 10 scheduled visits in the Côtes Thursday to Saturday…
2000 Nicolas Potel, Savigny 1er Les Peuillets
The colour is becoming quite mature. On the nose it’s instantly about warm confiture with a powdery core of red fruit. Soft, relatively concentrated and shows a good burst of interest in the mid-palate and decent density – it needs just a hint more acidity for me but the length is good. Overall an interesting and tasty if not covetable wine.
Rebuy – Maybe
a vineyard buggy…
roger belland santenay-commes 2005
2005 Roger Belland, Santenay 1er Commes
A cork amalgum seal. Richly coloured. A super nose – immediately dark and wide with a faint twist of dark oak, then in an instant has lovely red-edged fruit and a dried cranberry note – yum. The palate is actually much more acid-forward than when tasted in November – it’s a harder drink now. I chose to leave it stoppered for 2 days (actually I didn’t plan 2 days, but I was ‘out’ the following night!); on the third day the aromatics still deliver with just a hint of lactic but very nice – more importantly the balance on the tongue has improved a lot. This was a good buy, but will really need at least 8-10 years of slumber.
Rebuy – Yes
beaujolais: oh dear…
I recently made a few Beaujolais suggestions here. It appears from the ‘complaint’ below, that rather than recover their position and take a forward-looking view, they would rather wither and die…
Jean-Paul Brun’s Beautiful 2007 Beaujolais l’Ancienne Denied the AOC Beaujolais! Can you imagine the stupidity!
“Jean-Paul Brun just learned that 5,222 cases of Beaujolais l’ Ancienne 2007 have been deemed as being atypical by the French wine police. I’ve enjoyed a bunch of these bottles. They are fruity and elegant and a true pleasure to drink. So what’s wrong?
They were not made with the miserable thermo vinification technique that Georges Duboeuf and the Beaujolais Establishment has decided is typical. The wine was not made with enzymes and cultured years but comes only from what the earth and the vine brought into the bottle. It was not made at high yields or high chaptalization, but is a real and natural wine.”
Note for balance that I’ve never tasted the wine concerned, it’s not confirmed exactly WHY the wine was denied AOC, the ‘targets’ are easy ones, and the story is from an importer who has a financial interest, but that said, this still sounds rather bad. Full story here.
offer of the day…
a bela sintra
With advertising like these, I assumed ‘A bela Sintra‘ was a Brazilian winery – actually seems an upmarket restaurant. I still like the pics 😉
a long weekend that hinted to summer
Summer tried to dip its toe in the water this weekend – it looked a little like summer and it was pretty much the right time of the year – but the shorts stayed in their cupboard! Today it also looks like summer, but my jacket remains on – so far.
Chickening out of firing-up the barbecue doesn’t mean it was a completely abstemious weekend though, an eclectic mix of wines were consumed by self and and various house-guests. In the main, I make no formal tasting note, but one looks like it may need drinking up…
2004 Rolly Gasssmann, Sylvaner
2000 Méo-Camuzet, Hautes Côtes de Nuits Clos Saint Philibert
Although still a young colour and with aromatics to match, there are two things in the glass – acidity and sweetness – but they are totally separate entities and seem to be heading of in separate directions – I would drink these up.
2005 Bouchard Père et Fils, Chablis Bougros
2005 David Duband, Hautes Côtes de Nuits Cuvée Louis Auguste
Medium-plus colour. A generally glossy and understated wine – very well made, but not the ultimate in concentration – at least not versus the vintage standard. Nothing to really criticise though – was good.
1998 Penfolds St.Henri Shiraz
1997 Château Lynch Moussas
2000 Pirramimma Petit Verdot
Looks like the sun will anyway hold for the next days – methinks I will have to dust off a few ‘blancs’…