A few of us got together to attend Patina restaurant’s 10 year anniversary dinner. As usual, excellent wine service and food. The pacing on the dishes took forever though. one course every thirty minutes for our table of 6. Our friends sitting next to us finished their ten courses before we even received our 6th. Sat with a lot of empty space for awhile.
Anyways, on to the wines! Great vintages of Dujac are always winners. Even in their youthfulness they are still so exciting.
Also just getting into some older barolo. I’m really fascinated by all the flavors that pick up with age. Really trying hard to find some nice bottles as I get deeper into the wines of Piedmont
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2002 Domaine Dujac Clos St. Denis - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos St. Denis Grand Cru (10/11/2013)
What a nose! Just a wide spectrum of warm fruit, earth and flowers. I could just keep smelling the wine for days. The palate was still youthful and took about a hour in the bottle to really open up. An electrifying coolness of fruit with deep concentration of flavor and pin point acidity. The flavors aren’t expansive in a sense that it coats the palate, but I’m sure once it matures, it’ll be spot on. This wine is grand. Might be the best 2002 Dujac I’ve had thus far, I think it beats the CDLR by a good margin. -
1964 Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Barolo Riserva - Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo (10/11/2013)
(red capsule)
I poured the bottle into a decanter and left it on my kitchen counter. Came back out to the kitchen a hour later and the whole area just smelled of dried rose petals. Gorgeous! I let it sit in the decanter from 4pm-7pm and poured it back in the bottle for dinner.
Served around 9pm. The nose didn’t have the heavy floral smell but it picked up a meatiness to it with fading tar. The palate was far more expansive than when I first bottled it back up. The palate was broad with fullness of flavor with plenty of tannic backbone and acid. Still a touch youthful as the wine kept growing as more and more depth became apparent.
Very nice. If you open one, I highly recommend giving it plenty of air.
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1985 G. H. Mumm & Cie Champagne René Lalou - France, Champagne (10/11/2013)
I was a bit surprised it was a 1985 due to the sharp nature of the fruit. Bright candied fruit on the palate with almost a tart acidity. But what was interesting was the fact that this burnt toffee flavor lingered in the background and really added a twist to the palate. -
2004 Schrader Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon CCS Beckstoffer To-Kalon Vineyard - USA, California, Napa Valley, Oakville (10/11/2013)
Look at me ma I’m drinking cali cab! Another impressive Schrader. Needed about 2 hours in the decanter to integrate the alcohol on the finish, but once it did, it was a very nice drink. It had a weightlessness to it that I was not expecting as it wasn’t nearly as big and bold on the initial attack but at the same time had a deep dark core of sweet fruit that lingered on the finish. -
2006 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Meursault Les Narvaux - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault (10/11/2013)
Was not expecting this from a 2006. Fresh mint, lemon curd on the nose with such a soft textured palate with brightness of yellow citrus fruit with just enough acidity to uplift the ripeness of the stone fruit that weighed a touch heavy before the acidity came around. Really nice drink for the vintage. -
2009 Domaine Michel Gros Clos Vougeot - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Vougeot Grand Cru (10/11/2013)
Still a young wine so the fact that it was so heavy and broad on the palate wasn’t unexpected. The palate was burly and meaty with dark red fruit stirring in the background. Has the structure to go for years I think, but I wouldn’t open one now. -
2009 Louis Latour Corton-Charlemagne - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru (10/11/2013)
oak bomb! Oak on the nose, oak on the palate. You could probably get a sense of some of that lemon citrus on the palate if it wasn’t so obscured by all the oak.
yucks
