We had a lot of people, but not too many real winos, so we went for good wines without high pedigrees. Started with a very nice and easy to drink Bérêche et Fils Champagne Brut Réserve. Probably not as good as some of their other wines, still provided a very nice start to the dinner.
Then, for people who wanted white (mostly people who like a bit of sweetness in their wines), we had a 2012 Château du Hureau Saumur Blanc. I thought the wine was pleasant with very nice flavors but without flavor intensity, but it was a bit hit with the intended audience. I got very nice comments from the people who mostly drank that.
For me at dinner the main two wines were a 2010 Dublere Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Planchots du Nord and a 2010 Cecile Tremblay Bourgogne Rouge. The Tremblay was the richer wine and it was the wine my wife favored. While it was excellent, I very much preferred Blair’s wine. Not as rich or full of flavor, it really had a wonderful elegance and complexity to it. It was quite a seductive wine, albett in a lighter style. It is just why I enjoy Blair’s wines so much.