I’ve not had many from this domaine which is sited just towards the top of the village on the (vineyard) road into Clos St.Denis, finally I picked up a couple of bottles.
2006 Alain Jeanniard, Morey St.Denis Vieilles Vignes
Medium, medium-plus colour. Lovely depth and Morey character to the nose – nice red fruit with a real density to back it up – very nice indeed. On the tongue it seems not the ultimate in concentration, but there’s excellent darker fruit with that creamy old-vine impression. The acidity and tannin are slightly forward, but they only serve to cement the long mineral-infused finish – again with an impression of cream – excellent stuff, I’m looking forward to trying one of the domaine’s 1er crus.
Rebuy – Yes
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As a gross rule of thumb, how many bottles would you say it takes you to get a village character to be identifiable?
Josh – would depend on how strong the character is – but half a dozen or so should do it – assuming they all have it (the character) of course 😉
It’s one thing to open bottles side by side, it’s another to have something different in between and then recognise something in a later bottle.
The truth is we can very often open a bottle and think ‘ah.. Vosne’ or ‘ah.. Puligny’ – I certainly have that feeling now with decent villages Morey – but the reality is that blind, I may only be correct 10% of the time… Perhaps then, I’m only kidding myself…
Cheers
Cool. As a budding burgundy buff, who started out with Cal cab, Napa is easy to identify. Burgundy I can’t really get any farther than, not Russian River, not Oregon, not Santa Rita, must be burg!