NEED I REMIND YOU, 007, THAT YOU HAVE A LICENSE TO KILL - Home (1/4/2015)
Tasted over two days. Two substantially different wines. I served the Ramonet with scallops and the Jobard with rouget and black rice. The pairings went well. Ramonet’s wine is more mineral, more tense. Jobard’s is structured, built like a brick house and voluptuous. Both are young, virile and thrilling to drink now. The acidity on these 2007’s is starting to meld in, the body starting to build and develop and a few signs of age are poking through. My only complaint, as noted below, is that Ramonet’s wood doesn’t seem to be integrating. The wine is remarkable, complex, balanced and poised…apart from a little bit of oak that lingers longer than welcomed. Jobard’s wine doesn’t show any signs of oak but it is a very savoury wine which, over some years of tasting this terroir, I find is an attribute of Poruzots.
2007 Domaine Francois et Antoine Jobard Meursault 1er Cru Les Poruzots - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru
Lemon, citronelle. A mild fresh walnut tone and chalk. There is a spicy floral note, saffron and cumin, that make this wine very masculine, full. Minor lactic notes; butter.
On the palate the wine delivers the same; full bodied, gourmand, savoury, at times salty and tremendously tense with a warm agrume acidity. Big but aristocratic.
2007 Domaine Ramonet Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Champs Canet - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru
Sulfur at the outset, distracting. Cardamom leads, it is cool, fresh and slightly spicy. The fruit is discrete and supporting rather than overwhelming. Fresh lemons. After a day there is verbena herb with the reflections of ginger and coriander.
My only criticism is that there is a bit of oak sticking out in the nose. Star anise and vanilla are lingering and very mildly disjointed.
The palate is middle weight, lithe, never rude. More mineral than fresh with moderately ripe fruit. Well judged.
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