Following on from the post of ‘nine decades of domaine de la romanée-conti‘ there is this follow-up from Stuart George MW referring to the ‘too good to be true‘. It’s missing lots of info, like ‘when was the case bought from the domaine?’, ‘how many owners since then?’ etcetera, etcetera. But interesting nonetheless – I’d have liked to see a pic or two, also…

Actually, I expect this 1937 was genuine from the perspective that it’s (probably) easy to make something young-looking, but to make something that experienced tasters think worthy of 101 points – well, that’s something else again, and rare enough from genuine bottles…!

EDIT: A nice pic from Stuart:

https://twitter.com/sdgeorge1974/status/329636037154439168

Quite a big plug (not by me!) for Pierre Bourée…

Ah, it’s a while since we had a video! Faiveley are producing a series of 4, and here is their first…

A nice piece on winesearcher…

Jurors were rigorously vetted by both teams of lawyers. One juror, Decanter.com understands, was dismissed because she said she was a librarian who had read books on wine, particularly a book about corks.

Here.

I laughed, and note, this Nicolas Rossignol is not actually anything to do with Rossignol-Trapet 😉

Pic stolen from soyouwanttobeasommelier.blogspot.de/

A guide to serving your young bottles, from Jean-Marc Fourrier. Thanks Levi!

How many times have I told you that you needed to give them a big ‘Fourrier Shake?’ It’s also Christophe Roumier’s preferred approach 😉

There’s plenty of hoopla now about ‘His Parkerness’ suing his former #1 son – it seems the disintegration of an old and relatively trusted brand; yet with new Asian ownership and a business plan (I assume they have a business plan!) that must have a strong focus towards the largely untapped Asian consumer, it probably matters not a jot to the management team. Of-course for armchair commentators it is the thing of dreams 😉

Over the last years, however, I think that CellarTracker has become a much more valuable tool when it comes to ‘what to drink?’ – as opposed to ‘what to buy?’. For example I considered I might like to open a bottle of Rousseau Chambertin this week, and given that I have a little more of the ’98, I thought that might be the one. I quickly checked CellarTracker and found 28 notes on that wine, the most recent:

All black fruit with modest spice, mostly new oak, and a meaty character.

Let’s forget that the taster giver it 94 points, more important to me was the oak reference. I get bored with commenting on oak in wines, so this note sealed it – the wine can wait in the cellar for a few more years. Thanks CellarTracker.

It doesn’t help me wading through the cases to choose a replacement though!