No coincidence
I originally had a different burg in mind but saw your post in this thread and thought, why not?
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No, No, No. The best vintage ever in the universe was the 2007 Southern Rhone. Everyone knows that.
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But only if paired with sushi and only from magnum.
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I truly wish there is an inside joke here…
That is, indeed the very bestest way to experience these bestest of all wines from anywhere ever. But the question was about best vintages, not the best way to experience those wines.
Funnily enough, I just opened one of my remaining 2007 CdPs last night, though not en magnum and not with sushi. A reasonable quaff with BBQ on a Friday night.
From an old Parker ‘Hedonist’s Journal’ or whatever he called his accounts of his gastronomic adventures. He had one where he and his pals were dumping back some 07 CdP from mag at a sushi dinner and raving about what an incredible pairing it was.
Thanks. Sounds horrific. CdP and sushi sounds like an absurdly poor pairing.
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2007 Beaucastel was the best early drinking vintage prior to 2015, but fell apart in the bottle. The 2015 Beaucastel is at least holding up very well.
For my personal taste, the 1959 vintage has been the greatest in a broad sense.
Respectful but serious question - “best” is a pretty lofty term. Is it really possible to declare it of a vintage where the wines have not yet largely reached their plateaus?
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Have a Vieux Télégraphe '07 on deck for January. CT notes seem reasonably promising.
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IMO, 1971 German Riesling set the bar! Bountiful vintage with incredible fruit. I believe even the Germans rated it the “ Vintage of the Century “. Even though some very good vintages have followed it, none have came close to its exceptionalism.
It’s a long shot but EVERY single bottle of vintage 1949 I have had has been wonderful and stunning - be it red Burgundy (Charmes-Chambertin, Clos de la Roche, Echezeaux , Pommard Epenots, Volnay Champans, Chassagne C.St.Jean and a few others, white (Chevalier- and Batard-M, Corton-Ch, Meursault Charmes …), Bordeaux (from Latour and Margaux to Pavie, Lafleur, Latour a Pomerol, La Mission and HB to Coutet …), Rhone (several Chateauneuf and Hermitage) to Germany (Mosel, Rheingau).
Sure my samples are limited to maybe 2 dozen plus wines, but in all other heralded vintages I had a lot disapointing bottles - (and for instance 1982 is not that good in Burgundy etc), but 1949 seems to be a bank … (if you don’t open heavily ullaged bottles)
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1985 is one of the very best across-the-board mature vintages - Bordeaux, Burgundy (red and white), Northern Rhone, Champagne, Piedmont, Tuscany, California
Best modern vintages of these:
Red Bordeaux - 2016
Sauternes - 2009
Red burgundy - 2015
White burgundy - 2014
Northern Rhone - 2015
Champagne - 2008
Piedmont - 2016
Not sure about the other two I listed
Hate 05 in German Riesling
It’s kinda fun to think across the board, globally, for serious reds…
I love 1955 for reds across the board. Well Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Barolo… well stored examples are almost guaranteed to be great( for 70 year olds at least)!
I think 1985 is similar. It’s so good across the board, and the Bordeaux examples seem to be picking up steam in the last couple of years. There are so many great wines.
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That’s cool Ryan, my first experience with Rousseau was the1995 Chambertin/Clos de Beze and it just blew me away. I was lucky enough to have the 19993 version of the same wine about eight months later and it was superlative as well.