First wine I've opened to drink at home in months (maybe a year): 2000 Dauvissat Clos

WINE TALK
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Yes. I rarely rarely drink at home. In the past 5 months I can remember the two times I had leftovers from dinners that I brought home (2017 Mugneret Gibourg Vosne Romanee and 2017 Comte Liger Belair Reignot). It’s been a long time since I’ve opened a bottle at home with the express intent of drinking it at home. So long I can’t even remember.

I figured since we are all quarantined in and I have no wine dinner plans for the foreseeable future I’d pop a bottle open. To commemorate the special occasion, I picked a 375ml of 2000 Dauvissat Les Clos.

SURPRISE IT WAS PREMOX’d - out of 375ml. Dark golden color. Still some acidity. But nutty and sherry.

Since I couldn’t let this night go to waste - I popped open a 2018 Lapierre Morgon “N”- just what the doctor ordered. Spicy, feral undertones, plumy ripe energetic bold dark red fruit. Plenty of acid to keep it going. Tasty tasty tasty.

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half bottles of Dauvissat are treacherous. I still have 95 and 96 that need opening. Stay safe.

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No wonder you’re never at home.

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I’ve had this wine out of .750 and it was amazing, truly a ‘believer’ bottle, sorry
Yours was…
Pox’d

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Consider me surprised by two things. Most significantly, that Fu Playa would drink a Beaujolais. That SS version is generally excellent. I have not tried the 2018 yet. And oddly, that you never drink at home. I actually prefer to enjoy fine bottles at home in a better atmosphere that I control. Don’t get me wrong, I love going out and do so often, until this last week of course, but if I’m popping a MacDaddy wine, I would really rather it be at home. With friends and family, but at home. Yes, I do not have a real baby at home like Fu, just now a college age baby. He prefers Truly, the scourge.

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And you call yourself a Berserker?..

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I saw a pic of the Clos on insta… that sucker was dark! Oi!

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Well… when u go out for dinner on Tuesdays and drink La Tache out of magnum…

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+1. Had to check if I’m seeing the right IG account

Lapierre morg what???

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^^^this for sure!

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Same happened to me with a 375 of Boillot Puligny Montrachet Clos de la Mouchere 2000 (except I didn’t feel like opening anything else).

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lol. well played

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I’m more embarrassed that I was at the table and allowed clayfu to take home the Reignots I helped pay for! [swoon.gif]

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we should have fought to the death. It was delicious by the end of the night btw

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Sorry hear about that Dauvissat, such a bummer. Had the 2018 Lapierre Julienas recently and found it was lacking acidity to a fault, glad to hear the Morgon is not suffering the same fate

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is a 19+ year old chablis (even one with this pedigree) from half bottle (that has, I am assuming, come from the secondary market) that is oxidized “pre-mox”?

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This is me being pedantic, but the way I look at, individual bottles are oxidized. The phenomenon where too many bottles are oxidized too soon is premox.

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Right, and a half bottle at 19 years is probably not ‘pre’ mox, but just oxidized, I think that’s her point, and I agree

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yep.

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disagree. It is premature. Maybe it’s right for waxy white rhones tho