Move over Montrachet...Aubert is here!

Daniel_Posner · September 22, 2009, 4:41am

“This is a wine more Montrachet-like than most Montrachets. 99 points”-Robert Parker, Hedonist Gazette

And there you have it…

ToddFrench · September 22, 2009, 4:45am

Is that going to be his new way of writing tasting notes, with only a comparison to some legendary French wine, normally with the tasted wine surpassing the legendary French wine?

Mel_Hill · September 22, 2009, 4:50am

Michel Chapoutier is going to be ticked…
his white Hermitage has been one of the Montrachet comparisons in years past…

Daniel_Posner · September 22, 2009, 4:54am

Todd

Love the new avatar…

Mel_Hill · September 22, 2009, 4:57am

down by the river…

Richard_Jennings · September 22, 2009, 6:05am

Anybody else guess this is RPs passive-agressive way of nursing his ongoing grudge against the Burgundians? (I know they didn’t actually drive him out of town, but they sure couldn’t have had much use for someone who is consistently tone deaf when it comes to great Pinot.)

Daniel_Posner · September 22, 2009, 12:06pm

Richard,

Are you suggesting bias?

Michael_Bowden · September 22, 2009, 1:37pm

Dan…which wine is he referencing?

Bill_Tex_Landreth · September 22, 2009, 1:45pm

'05 Reuling from maggie.

k_s_h_i_n · September 22, 2009, 2:16pm

I haven’t yet to have any non Burgundy that taste like Le Montrachet. As I recall Robert Callahan incident however. For those old timers.

Paul_Jaouen · September 22, 2009, 2:25pm

I think I had that. I found it more Aubertish than most Auberts with the exception of the ones that taste like Montrachet.

mike_pobega · September 22, 2009, 2:25pm

Brad was right after all…

Keith_Levenberg · September 22, 2009, 2:47pm

So tasting like French wine is apparently OK for Aubert and Brewer-Clifton, but not for Edmunds St. John.

“What Steve is doing appears to be a deliberate attempt to make French-styled wines. Of course California is not France and therein may suggest the problem. If you want to make French wine, do it in France.” --RMP on ESJ

Bill_Tex_Landreth · September 22, 2009, 2:48pm

Daniel_Posner · September 22, 2009, 2:49pm

Keith,

You have to kiss the right ass cheek, not the left one…

Didn’t ESJ figure that one out yet. Seriously, thank you for sharing, I forgot about that.

Michael_Bowden · September 22, 2009, 2:50pm

ToddFrench · September 22, 2009, 2:50pm

Wow. Has any discussion ensued on his forum concerning this rather evident irony?

Max_Marinucci · September 22, 2009, 3:09pm

First of all why take ANYTHING seriously from Parker about Burgundy or comparisons to it.? It’s a non-issue. He’s had bones to pick for a long time and it’s the same old crap. Truly a laughable statement up there.

ToddFrench · September 22, 2009, 3:10pm

This begs the question:

Should he not then say ‘This Aubert is more Aubert than Aubert’, since he wants to compare it to Montrachet, and Aubert is more Montrachet than Montrachet, ergo, Aubert should be the baseline?

Owen_Edwards · September 22, 2009, 3:11pm

More reasons why Parker can’t be taken seriously when it comes to most European wines are pretty much redundant. The man’s half-barbarian. Let alone Miller and Squires…