Wine and cribbage notes
Duval Leroy Brut Champagne – light colour, some yeastiness in the nose, soft and clean on palate.
2004 Dopff & Irion Riesling Schoenenbourg Grand Cru – a real fuel oil nose on this one!Fairly rich in the mouth, and a fair bit of RS, but pretty well balanced. Nice surprise.
1998 Ricasoli Casalferro – this all sangiovese IGT offered red fruit, earth, and a hint of mushroom in the nose, a pleasant slightly astringent mouth feel, soft tannins and a nice smooth finish. No rush.
1998 Le Macchiole Rosso – another IGT, with a bit of added merlot presented a more dark fruit element in the nose, with a hint of anise, some soft tannin and a good clean finish with lingering acidity. The performance of these two in the glass indicated that the second wine was nearing the end of its plateau while the first one was still cruising on top.
2005 Ch. Partarrieu Sauternes - light colour, sweet somewhat candied nose, decent balance, if a bit soft and a pleasant afternoon wine. I took a look at Parker in the hope of gaining some knowledge of this house, and instead got a laugh when I noticed the note on the 2009, which was characterised as being “is nascent and in fieri” in the nose (for those who may not be familiar with that terminology, it simply means not yet fully developed). Is RP writing the notes on Bordeaux these days? Did someone send him a new dictionary that lists pretentious and redundant synonyms for words in normal usage? Or maybe his vocabulary (or whoever is writing this stuff) is simply nascent and in fieri…… I really hope Bob didn’t write that as I generally like his notes, being probably one of the vanishingly small few that look further than the numerical score and actually read what he thought of a wine.
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