Had a splendid day in SF with the family yesterday…starting with The Phantom of the Opera at the Orpheum…as amazing as it was 20yrs ago when we last saw it…and also seeing it with my eldest daughter, who is herself, an aspiring young Thespian, and who I swear will be playing the part Christine Daaé in the near future! Culminating with dinner at Zuni Cafe…with the famous Zuni Chicken! First time I’ve been there not drunk or hung over! The Chicken is as remembered…AMAZING! Thanks to Fred C. on the recs for the hotel (The Palace) and the 07 PYCM on the list!
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2007 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Saint-Aubin 1er Cru (9/16/2018)
This was absolutely rocking right out of the gate…So fresh and vibrant, with a pretty lemon and green tinge color…yet with super richness and vanilla spiced oak barrel creaminess. Integrated nicely with the fresh lemon/lime acidity…peach, apricot, and apple fruits…aged polish, yet plenty of crushed rock and chalky limestone minerality. Well integrated match strike and pretty orange blossom florals. Had with a 15 Coche Dury BB…and the oak spice and reduction really came out later against the clean and precise, somewhat candied tropical Coche. The SA was the better wine on the table. (95 pts.) -
2015 Coche-Dury Bourgogne Blanc - France, Burgundy, Bourgogne Blanc (9/16/2018)
Come on…where has the Coche spice gone? Just like the 13MP, and even the 10 CC…this was clean, precise, no reduction or match strike…more candied tropical fruits, with that orange streak I got in the 13 MP. Of course, this is only a BB, and those other two wines still show their pedigree. Creamed up after an hour or so…and in fact I’m drinking the rest tonight and it’s even better…but against a killer 07 PYCM SA En Remilly, it seemed too tropical and candied…yet still precise and with nice cut of citrus. To be fair…tonight I’m getting more out of the half bottle we left…more crushed minerality…more smokey flint and chalk dust…more stone fruit and less tropical…still has a nice candied orange rind like the 13mp, which I dig. Pretty white flower, herb garden florals…definitely benefiting from the extra day air time. Just so hard to stomach the price, when you can get a wine like the PY Saint Aubin at fractions? But hell, can’t kid you…always a joy to drink ANY Coche Dury wines when you can! (91 pts.)__
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