Tonight is a show me yours and I’ll show you mine tasting with twelve people. Theme is higher end CA wines that will be served single blinded. Right now I think these are on the table:
2004 Levy & McClellan
2001 Colgin
1997 SHSS
1995 SHSS
Friday= NV Veuve Fourny Rose & some nice Burgundy at 11 Madison Park
Saturday= NV Moutard Brut & 1989 Gonon St Joseph
Sunday= more bubbly at Sripraphai (GREAT Thai place in Queens)
My wife’s away for the weekend visiting some college friends and left me with the three hooligans . Tonight will probably be some big pours of Scotch after a day at Michigan Adventure (amusement park) [suicide.gif] . But tomorrow a buddy is coming over to offer some relief. We’ll cook up some 2&1/2 inch thick prime NY’s and have a little Phelps Insignia tasting of '94, '95, and '97 along with a starter and finisher yet to be determined.
Here’s a few from a dinner I was a part of from last year - I plan on posting some notes from tonight’s dinner as well.
We then finsished with a horizontal of '79 champagnes. I’m running out of time as I’m typing this, so I’ll just put them in categories and summarize.
All 1979’s
The following twelve champagnes are in order of my personal preference on this evening.
Salon was singing from the get go, a perfect example of a youthful champagne entering into its next level of maturity. Vibrant, effusive, but starting to show complexities of age. Killer minus
Krug the most powerful and made a home stretch run after an hour or so. Great +
Taittinger CdC - Buttered popcorn on the nose. Sweetest fruit of all the wines on the palate Great
Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill Mag - opened 7 hours earlier in the day and then recorked. Great
Cristal - The most elegant and mature of those champagnes in the top tier. Great minus
The next tier, while a notch below the top, was barely a notch below and showed how consistent this vintage was. All great values for their quality
Charles Heidsick Cuvee Charlie - Great minerals and chalk. Excellent +
Dom Ruinart BdB - very creamy Excellent
Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque - great dark horse showing. Excellent minus
Piper Heidsick Cuvee Rare - I first drank this particular champagne at Bern’s a year or two ago and have since been buying it whenever I see it. Stony. Excellent minus.
This next group was several levels of quality below the above and honestly I didn’t finish any of them. All were Fair + or Good minus.