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Asides
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 😉
so
Just SO…
The functional elegance of this rarefied speak is uniquely captured in one of its most inconspicuous words: “so.” This isn’t “so” the intensifier (“so expensive”); it’s not the “so” that joins two clauses. This is the “so” that introduces a sentence, as in “So as we can see, modified Newtonian dynamics cannot account for the rotation of any of the three observed galaxies.”
an evening aside
more travel – this time paid
Days of meetings and customer visits whilst avoiding tidal waves of reorganisations back at home – all will come to roost eventually. I spent yesterday evening with a glass (or 2) of chardonnay in a pub while watching football – I don’t drink beer, but white wine by the glass in a pub is usually fit for purpose, red not so often!
I’ll take a few interesting bottles to our friend’s place for the Easter weekend and maybe even write a note about them sometime early next week – I might even ski…
Have a nice Easter…
already writing a list to santa?
You know you wants it! [Gollum]
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rounding up…
Seems a while – well I suppose it is – but here’s a round-up of the last days in London and thereabouts.
Wednesday evening started with 13 burgundies – unlucky for us as it should have been 14 but we had a corked 1993 Dujac Gevrey Combottes – though 13 interesting wines from 14 is a very good start. Notes will come during this week as time allows
Thursday was Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2005 tasting; always looked forward to and very well run by Corney & Barrow the UK agents. Dr Jamie Goode hung around long enough to swirl, spit and take some photos then triumphantly post his notes first from the assembled throng. Neal Martin and Linden Wilkie (my erstwhile lunch companions) took a more lingering approach. For those with a penchant for a case, the R-C was priced at a rather academic £1,332.26 per bottle to take away.
Something about the wines? Why not indeed (full write-up in the Spring Burgundy-Report); whatever anyone tells you, these wines were tight. The Ech̩zeaux was the only open wine but currently showing a facile sweet oaky complexion Рyou need to wait 2 years for seriousness Рthe rest, versus what 2005 did show and will one day show again showed only glimpses, but glimpses of greatness for sure, but today drink 2004, 2003 and 2000 in preference if you want to stay with the 21st century!
There was also a weekend too…
…and while I’ve been away:
odds and ends
Been away a few days, mixing skiing and a bad back (hexenschuss) – it was actually easier to ski than walk – but no moguls! There will be little new material here in the next days, but quite a lot of research: dinner with likeminded souls tomorrow, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2005’s on Thursday, a few more bottles over the weekend and a stunning collection of 2005 grand crus on Friday 22nd in Vienna.
Well I call it research 😉
DRC ‘presearch‘
2005 des croix bourgogne pinot noir
I couldn’t resist it, yesterday I opened up one of my wines of the year from last year and was very happy with the result. Equally priced is another of my wines of the year last year and I just had to pull the cork! David Croix suggests aeration as the wines are bottled with plenty of carbon dioxide, but in this case the bottle was open for about 30 minutes then poured, no more.
2005 des Croix, Bourgogne Pinot Noir
Medium, medium-plus cherry-red colour. The nose is pungent with creamy, mineral, ripe and soft red fruit – it’s like a grand cru – an okay start then! The palate is not quite so silky smooth as the Morgon, but the concentration is undoubted, neither is the quality of the creamy fruit that pushes, long, long into the finish. The creaminess seems to have an oaky base, so I’d personally let this slumber a while despite its ‘come hither’ demeanour – just like you would any 1er cru. Its modern-styled and with a decent dose of oak, but ignoring the Leroy 2004 Bourgogne (appellation chimera) this could be the best bourgogne I’m ever likely to buy!
Rebuy – Yes – 12 is unfortunately not enough!