Excessible Balla Lunch: 2002 Colin-Deleger

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Yesterday my wife and I went for lunch Cafe Rouge in Berkeley and not only did we have the cracked dungeness crab BUT we also ordered oysters!!! Can’t get much more balla than that! Well, I do drive a 1994 Ford Escort. Really! Loved the seafood and Chaumees - what a great way to while away a beautiful afternoon in Berkeley.

  • 2002 Michel Colin-Deléger et Fils Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chaumées - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru (1/10/2015)
    Great nose - floral, stones, citrus and toasted almond, it draws you in. Light-to-medium-weight palate with racy lemon fruit, stones almonds and flowers. Probably the finest example of the 2002 that I’ve had. Absolutely brilliant with cracked dungeness crab and summerpoint oysters. Outstanding.
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BTW the title just riffing on a Brian Tuite post in another thread. Meant in good fun only!

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you lucked out w/a year for which Colin-Deleger was a premox poster child! I just searched the oxidized burg wiki and there is no entry for Colin-Deleger as a producer–maybe the oxidized wines would have taken up too much space. Great lunch.

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Sounds great, I love Chaumees.

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I’d have given that bottle a one in a hundred chance to be okay. Good to hear that it was great, Paul.

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You spelled excessibe wrong.

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Ballas don’t explain their jokes. Just sayin’.

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Sounds like you’re a balla wannabe. That’s the strategy behind ordering oysters with your wife :slight_smile:

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Alan,
I have not had a single oxidised 2002 Colin-Deleger. I have drunk pretty much the gamut of the Chassagne and St. Aubin 1er Crus and only suffered one corked bottle. Now as for 2001, every single Chaumees I opened was premoxed. Go figure. [pwn.gif]

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Yeah, that and I should have ordered the prawns as well!

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[cheers.gif] Sodden thought here: I love doing a big tasting with 4 or more reds of a certain style or appellation/vintner. With white wines I find it much more interesting to limit to one or two bottles. So it was balla, see?

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Adrian, Adrian, Adrian. http://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1643184#p1643184

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Hoisted with my own petard!

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Thanks Brian and Martin for the kind words. As I mentioned above, I haven’t run across a single premoxed 2002 C-D. The story of the vintner and this bottle encapsulates why I got into white Burgundy, and why haven’t purchased a single bottle of it in years.