I think I know what watermelon smells like and kiwi as well, though I find those smells hard to imagine in a nebbiolo. I. don’t have a clue about kiwi peel. I’ll take a sniff of one the next time I run into one, but I doubt it will help me much.
I agree that second year barriques would usually leave their mark, and If they didn’t, that would be worth noting. I don’t get new oak on Sociando Mallet, as I have said before, though I know it’s there. But I consider that the exception, not the rule.
All over America, Berserkers are running to their produce markets to sniff kiwi peels.
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Zespri’s hairy green kiwi or smooth golden kiwi?
I guess we’ll have to see if their external scents can be distinguished.
Uranium 235?
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But let’s not forget red kiwis, with a fine strawberry note. I have to think on those when I drink l’Anglore.
Yes, in many Greek rosees
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2022 Francois Mikulski Bourgogne Blanc Cote d’Or
Extremely bright robe with great depth and beautiful green highlights. The nose also reveals depth, providing beautiful complexity and an easily perceptible density. Pear, apple and peach coulis; citrus juices – zest, too – mixed with white fruits; grapefruit; yuzu; lemon; a touch of quince. Lawn grass with a blanket of little spring flowers – clover and daisies, dandelions and buttercups; a honeyed note floating in the air, evoking barley sugar and caramel sweets; to this, a subtle note of lavender reigns in the middle of a bouquet of white freesias; a haze of lemongrass, then sage, and tarragon.
A caressing mouthfeel, silky and moreish; beautiful body; a lot of fruit. Difficult to list individual flavours, but the general impression is that they are more or less all present: a lot of citrus fruits – yuzu, lemon and lime, elements of grapefruit, notes of Outspan oranges; elements of Reinette and Boskoop apple; Conference pear; flavours somewhere between yellow and white peaches, with a sweetness, above all, and a fragrant note; the mandarin note is quickly overtaken by the kumquat; coriander, a little verbena, some cooked mint; the complexity has been validated.
Intense finish, precise and focused; maturation process is barely perceptible; a remarkable length and, in particular, great persistence; quite spicy as it lingers; peppers, especially white pepper; and a hint of ginger.
A high-calibre Burgundy; its maturity and subtle empyreumatic note call for a pairing with hot food; the finesse of the herbs induce you to progress beyond the aperitif; after two or three years, pair with tarragon coquelet chicken and peas, or quail with grapes, or even currants; or don’t hesitate to try breaded veal escalope with Dauphinois gratin.
This is the most insane professional tasting note I’ve seen for a regional-level wine. “Difficult to list individual flavors”, then proceeds to list every single fruit, flower, and herb known to horticulture.
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Difficult to list individual flavours, but the general impression is that they are more or less all present
All flavors are present. Do these people proof read this shit at all?
Thats got to be one of the worst name-dropping TNs ive ever read. Not just apples, but specific type of apples, and orange, and pear. GMAFB.
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I like to think I have a good vocabulary, but I will admit I had to look up “empyreumatic.”
This has already been discussed here at some length … Meanwhile it has become rare for a French tasting note to NOT include this descriptor.
But don‘t let the logorrhea discourage you from trying the wine. And the 2023 version is fine as well.
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That’s hilarious! Who is responsible for this gem? They have earned a place in the Bingo Hall of Fame.
Look at all those wonderful em dashes and semicolons. I think the author’s initials are C. G. P. T.
Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY, according to Mikulski’s notes. I guess he is a distributor in Paris.
That must be the new pan grille.
This is a new image for me: JancisRobinson.com on the 2023 Patrick Javillier Corton-Charlemagne, “A bit like squinting through the bright sunlight at the Pentelic marble of the Horologion of Andronicos.”
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Something I’m sure we’ve all experienced. A triumph of pedantic snobbery!
I’m waiting for someone to compare a Riesling to “Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.”
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Add “time to die” to that and that would be my tasting note for 2010 Caldo Infernale.
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(Wine) tears lost in rain.