1999 Coche Dury and 2002 Lafon. The Great, The Good, and the Corked.

WINE TALK
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So, fun dinner at Maialino. 2 friends in town from Nashville (Henry and Martika Fischman), my wife (Diane), and ex-wife (Bridgette).
a 5-some. Food was as always great and the wine service was just amazing. Maialino does such a fantastic job with the wines, not sure how it could be any better.

  • 1999 Coche-Dury Meursault Les Rougeots - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault (4/22/2014)
    This was good. No premox problems, just a delicious bottle of aged white Burg. Color more yellow than gold (good sign!), good balance, flavors more ‘sweet’ than I remember, like a little bit of creme brûlée had been liquefied and added to the wine (do they add flavoring? Maybe that’s how they do it at Coche Dury!). This bottle would have held nicely for another 5 years, but why wait as it’s great right now. (93 pts.)

  • 2002 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru (4/22/2014)
    Just a hair behind the bottle that preceded it (a '99 Coche Dury ‘Mersault Rougeots’). Color a little advanced, hard to say if this is a little bit of premox or just a 12 year old bottle of white Burg. Either way, time to be drinking these. Very tasty, everyone at the table enjoyed the wine, but not all that you expect from a great Lafon in a great vintage. Not quite as sweet as the previous, a little ‘nutty’ in flavor (the ‘ox’ in the wine?). Would have been better on it’s own. Drink these! (91 pts.)

  • 1999 Coche-Dury Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru (4/22/2014)
    Damn Corked Bottle!!!
    Been looking forward to this one for years and years. So obviously corked that even the person at the table with no wine knowledge at all said (after tasting) “What the hell is that? Cardboard??”. So sad… NR (flawed)

  • 1999 Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru (4/22/2014)
    Winner, Winner. Chicken Dinner.
    Ok, I didn’t have a chicken dinner with this, actually lamb chops, but that’s how the saying goes.
    Wow, this is just a great, great bottle of white Burg. I could have rated it anywhere from 96 to 100, really all the same numbers (I think I might be a 20 point scale guy).
    Color perfect, not a hint of premox, could have been a 5 year old bottle from appearance.
    So much stuff going on in the glass, fantastic. I got a little of the saline that some tasters talk about, table had a discussion about whether the ‘acid’ part was more lemon or more grapefruit, a little bit of sweetness (less than in the Mersault Rougeots, more subtle), fantastic length, just kept going.
    Makes my short list of great white Burgs, along with some great vintages of Leflaive and the very few DRC ‘Montrachets’ that I’ve had.
    Great wine. No need to hurry, this has years and years of life ahead of it. (97 pts.)

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Thanks for the TNs…

no red [wow.gif]

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Hey Peter. Nope, an odd night, all white!

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No red is OK…because white Burgundy is more exciting as they are so unpredictable.

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Oh, they’re ‘exciting’. You never know what’s in the bottle. Is it PremOx’d? Is it corked? Or is it perfect???

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1999 Coche-Dury Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru (4/22/2014)
Damn Corked Bottle!!!
Been looking forward to this one for years and years. So obviously corked that even the person at the table with no wine knowledge at all said (after tasting) “What the hell is that? Cardboard??”. So sad… NR (flawed)

Cardboard ??

If the cardboard smell is wet…then…it is corked.

SAQ ( in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ) will refund the bottle with officail receipt regardless how old the bottle is. If it is premoxed, no refund even with offical receipt.

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Thanks Peter, the CC sounds brilliant. Pity about the Perrieres. We had an '11 with lunch today, far too young but very, very good.

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Jeremy, love your stories, no one drinks better than you and your friends!

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Thanks for the notes Peter! Imo Les Rougeots is the most expressive lieu dit from Coche and Brilliant.

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Thanks for the notes Peter. Can’t wait to try the 99 Coche !

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Love the '99 C-D CC, it happens to be the only Coche Dury CC I’ve tried (and probably the only one I will get to try!). Thanks for the note!