It started innocently, gained momentum and then descended into wretched excess. Add crispy confit duck, farro and mushrooms, and Swiss Hornbacher Gourmino cheese (Like um, baked potato skins w/ roasted nuts…thank you @bradkaplan) and it added up to a good night for us hayseeds down here in darkest Georgia.
I had a precious bottle of Clos St. Denis, “Anyone up to taste?” says I.
“I have Malconsorts” said one, “Me too also” chimed another and “Clos de la Roche” said two more. “You can’t not have Champagne”, “Or white Burgundy, dammit” opined the peanut gallery. (Thank you @Mike_Evans, Roy D, Randy “Paella man” K, @rob_klafter and Eric P. )
Clearly a quorum of like-minded esthetes here. Or a pirate crew. It got a little blurry there after a while… Here was the lineup:
Openers:
2009 Agrapart Avisoise - Delicious, taut balanced fizz, acid and toast. This was right excellent
2002 Lenoble Gentil Homme - Interesting. A touch on the oxidized end of the spectrum (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
2008 Celebris - Ok, wow. WOTF for Champagne, which is saying something next to the Agrapart. I lack notes but run, do not walk to get you some.
Bonus round: 2010 Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet, generously shared by Roy D.
This was unfortunately advanced for its’ age, light copper colored. Had a lovely nutty flavor and tasted very good, but it did not reach the heights you might hope for from an exalted site. That said, I didn’t spit this one.
We single blinded the Dujacs. That is, we knew what was in the mix, but not what was served, or when. To keep it interesting, there was a wild card in there, somewhere…The short version is that there were no bad wines here. All were delicious.
Fellow traveler and gifted palate in flip flops @Dennis_Atick could not attend, so it was deemed necessary to save 2 oz pours so that someone, anyone, might report back on what we tasted.
Flight 1: 1 and 3 were briary, stemmy and…just great.
The new guy, young Eric (a Somm) thought Malconsorts for 1 and 3, and he nailed it.
12’ Dujac Vosne 1er Aux Malconsorts - My Dujac WOTN - the ideal of acid meets juicy-spicy stemmy meets tartish fruit
05’ Dujac Clos St. Denis - Whoa. Hedonistic deep dark fruit. “It gets you in the gonads” said someone, possibly me. Just stellar. My other Dujac WOTN, if I could pick two.
07’ Dujac Vosne 1er Aux Malconsorts - Balanced acid, stems and dry Pinot goodness.
Flight 2: Ok, by now, we knew we were down to Clos de la Roche and a wild card…drumroll please…
08’ Dujac Clos de la Roche - Juicy, tasty, easy to like.
02’ Dujac Clos de La Roche Older, the hand of the father here.
18’ Tremblay Morey Tres Girard - Spice, oak, young, very nice.
Bonus round:
Young paduan and quietly badass somm Eric unleashed a blinded Pinot on us poor unsuspecting and somewhat smashed folks. I got fresh, spicy Pinot, and guessed German spatburgunder. It was a 17’ Sonoma Pinot from Matt Taylor. Great stuff, and well worth a try.
In that way where outliers get your attention, this one grabbed me in a good way.
You’d think we were done by now, but no…someone needed to roll out the stickies and the the sweets.
In a nutshell, the Yquem was superlative, kicking all to the curb, even Dujac. Just amazing.
. Oh, how I can picture the Bemused Declarations of 
!