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My favorite Champagne producer. Amazing juice Though I am also a big fan, obviously, at a slightly higher price point, I go for Ulysse Collin. Price point just depends on the cuvée, they are similarly priced on the market. Well, fair enough, but it is difficult to find the Collin NV's <$80 (and now...

Not sure why you put the Larmandier in the category of wines I don’t think will be that good . In my experience they always deliver. Harlan, on the other hand, which I don't drink that much, and when I do it's usually the Maiden, tends to be all over the place. Sometimes an experience as you descri...

Not sure why you put the Larmandier in the category of wines I don’t think will be that good . In my experience they always deliver. Harlan, on the other hand, which I don't drink that much, and when I do it's usually the Maiden, tends to be all over the place. Sometimes an experience as you descri...

Not sure why you put the Larmandier in the category of wines I don’t think will be that good . In my experience they always deliver. Harlan, on the other hand, which I don't drink that much, and when I do it's usually the Maiden, tends to be all over the place. Sometimes an experience as you describ...

Thanks for the notes, Paul,

Your description of the Giacosa makes me want to open one in the next few weeks. I don't have anything that hold and the one '98 riserva I am going to continue to hold. Maybe a 2004 Barbaresco Rabaja. I've necer yet gone wrong with '04 Barolo.

Somewhat similar to Don, have to go with the '07 Domaine Dujac Echezeaux for red; for white a 2014 H. Boillot Puligny Clos de la Mouchère, though an '09 Paul Pernot Batard, was a close second.

Thanks for the lovely note, per usuum, David,

I have a younger one of these, so it's good to know that it should be worth the wait.

Wes Barton wrote: ↑
November 24th, 2020, 1:00 am
With Ridge as my benchmark, I've never given a shit about brix

Do you call that "shitting Brix"?

I'd lean towards a white Burgundy. I prefer whites or champagne to a red. Maybe Amarone with its bit of sweetness. I don't get this last; isn't Amarone red? I, too, would prefer white, or perhaps even an orange wine, though nothing too over the top. Maybe something from Gravner, or, less pricey the...

I’ve had a fair amount of Felettig recently, and I think the style has evolved a bit; I’d say the 17s are very similar in a good way to Mugneret-Gibourg. I think the 14s still have a fair amount of reduction and are more dense and slightly blockier wines. The wines have only been getting better - I...

Just reloaded on the 2014 of this bottling, which I love. Relatively speaking, at least the '14 is still a great deal.

This wine was in the perfect place, by my lights. Mushroom and kirsch on the nose, in the mouth, plum with notes of black tea and soil, leading to a nice full, long finish. Extraordinarily balanced wine with every component in the right place. Les Marechaudes apparently means, or once meant, marshes...

Great note, Dale,

Thanks, I look forward to opening one of mine down the road, as I usually won't open a wine if it needs that much time in a decanter, with the exception of Barolo. My one qualm is that you subbed out the squab--love squab, so I will have to find that recipe and make it.

Yes, thanks for doing this, Jay,

Sorry to have missed you David.

Thanks, Dan,

Really special notes. I like Etna Rosso, but have never heard of that one.

Sure, celebratory sounds good (shhh)

Any bottles of the Ramonet still rampant after the rampage? Big fan of the Les Enseigneres; I like PYCM's version (different spelling, if I recall). I find it to be one of the more outstanding lieux-dit.

YLee - So did yours already ship? I contacted Woodland back at the beginning of October, and they said they were expecting these bottles to come in sometime early to mid-December. I'd also be pretty disappointed if they changed their free shipping on a case policy, as I had confirmed that this woul...

My understanding is that Eyrie releases some of these older bottlings themselves and at a quite high price point, despite the foregoing, if I recollect properly.

I actually disagree with last post. Bordeaux and Burgundy in red seem to me to represent two different poles of approaches to wine--one, as others have said, based on the profile of a chateau, which blends!, and which does not have to source from contiguous vineyards and the other, much more tied to...

Yes, Portugal, Austria, Australia (in that order), and maybe add New Zealand for the Pinot.

Thanks so much for this, François,

It's good to know that you are well and wonderful to have you back posting. Amazing narrative and notes, as always; just what many of us on the board need in these dreary times.

Santé

Had a white, Ampeau '93 Puligny Les Combettes, which was mindblowingly good; a few reds still to be drunk, especially Lafon, Comtes Volnay Santenot. We'll see.

I have idiosyncratic views on Chablis; I don't love the defining characteristics of the appelation as much as some do. Perhaps for that reason I like what I've had from C. Moreau, which reminds me of Raveneau, at least the Raveneau I've drunk (which ain't that much), which also just seems like great...

Nice recipe, Martin,

Thanks--partner loves chestnuts, so may give this one a go!

Jean Menwa wrote: ↑
October 27th, 2020, 10:08 am
Has anyone tried his Beaux Monts? CT scores look good. Anyone know where vines are located? It's VV.

He's a negoce only, does not own any vines, as I understand it, so presumably his sources can change from year to year.

Great note, Mark,

Really captures Calon, which I also like a lot and drink a fair bit of. Sometimes they delight in weaker vintages--the '98 gave me a fair amount of satisfaction; but I have not had many from '80's.

Nice bottles! It is not the way that I would have gone, but maybe that they were on the young side helped. It seems like it worked wonderfully, so when then do I know?

This note gets a 91+ for the dramatic flair alone. + 1 But Tomás situation remains unfortunate. It can indeed be funny in Burgundy how wide the swing is between hits and misses. Sometimes they just don't show so well--and I myself would not be opening any 2010's now. And they are always subtle wine...

I have some 2015 Keller. In another thread Martin Zwick said to drink up, fwiw.

Yup, Peay, especially the Scallop Shelf, is the real deal. I have a vertical back to 2010.

Thanks, Tom,
I have some younger ones ('05), so I am curious to see how they age. (I know there was another recent thread on Clerc but good to have more contributions.)

Mark Golodetz wrote: ↑
October 11th, 2020, 11:15 am
Are you including Clos de Beze as well?.

Is this a tease, Mark?

Let's say he was, what would be your favorites?

Though I like Jancis a lot and subscribe to both the New York and Financial Times (FT is a great paper, btw), she is simply wrong

White burgundy with all its viscissitudes is tops for me.

Maybe this link will work better?

https://on.ft.com/3iti16f

PM sent.

The Collin, along with Billecart-Salmon Rosé, is sort of the house champagne over here, both Les Perrières and Les Maillons (BdN). Closest I can get to Selosse at a price point I can consistently afford. That said, I have been drinking the 12 base, which is really fun, so maybe the '15 needs more ti...

Mills, right near the docks, used to be the go-to spot, especially for old world wines, but I have not been in a while. Even back in the day, oddly enough, they seemed to have two different pricing systems, one for customers who walked in off the street and for others they knew. This may have been t...

I also got this and also did not sign up. I noticed among their events list, one which I had participated in the past and I thought they might have gotten it from there. But who knows?

Wow, as others have said really terrible news--I just hope Roy, Ben, their families and everyone else remains safe.

Yes, nice wine, nice note! '96 is turning out to be a fun year.

Here's a post of Claude's from 2014 : Thanks, John, very helpful; "round" seems to me like a good descriptor. Nothing recent but back in the day I hugely preferred the village Chambolle which retailed for around $40 to the Bussiere which ran to the princely sum of $55 or so. But I see from John's p...

Martin Zwick wrote: ↑
September 25th, 2020, 9:48 am
2019 Keller Scheurebe trocken

It’s a MORSTEIN. 40-50 years old Scheurebe vines in the Morstein vineyard. And not available outside the estate. I

So is this different, then, from the Scheurebe trocken available more widely, some of the 2015 of which I own (labels look the same)?

Here's a post of Claude's from 2014 : 2013 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru – Clos de la Bussière This is a monopole vineyard. For a long time, it gave a wine that was quite rustic in its youth and took a long time to come around. Beginning in 2002, due to changes that Christophe made in the vineyard and ...

You'd never guess that Ferreirinha is owned by Sogrape, the same company that produces a certain wine named Mateus Rosé.

No, I would not have--pretty cool piece of info, Tomás,

Plus now you have me thinking of looking for the 2011.

Cheers!

Sarah Kirschbaum wrote: ↑
September 25th, 2020, 7:38 am
And I definitely wish more women would participate here, if for no other reason than to balance out the number of comments about wives not "getting" the wine habit.

Yes, this irks me, too; maybe we can have a moratorium on it?

I shared an '01 Roumier Clos de la Bussiere with friends last night, and it was quite backward, with little fruit showing. Quite tannic and, overall, a bit rustic. No pleasure given. That's my usual reaction to their Bussiere... Well, this could be vintage dependent. I had an '07 Bussiere recently ...

. . . Why isn't the store's placement of the product on the shelf (presumably with a label identifying the product, as well as the price) construed as an Offer to sell that is deemed accepted when the buyer presents said item to the store in an attempt to purchase? . . . The simple answer to "why?"...

Really annoying! I hate when that happens. I will not us this retailer.

Thanks for the note, Jeremy,
I think Dominique's wines can give value, even these older ones, eventually "eating their oak," but I know that view is controversial and his is a style not everyone will like in any case.

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