This is an outstanding wine that pleases the nose and palate in every way possible. First there are scents of rich berry fruit, Vosne spices, herbs and licorice, some earthiness, but it then goes back to the sweet dark fruit. You can just smell this and be happy! But then you take a taste and it is even more impressive. There is the aged complexity that comes with good Burgundy, underbrush and a touch of oak, but there is a ton of sweet fruit that just lingers on the palate. And there are still soft yet persistent tannins and some acid to balance out the finish. But the aged sweet fruit is still the highlight.
This is what makes buying and aging wine so special! You buy something like this and 10 years later, hopefully, you have something special. This is very special.
Looking forward to drinking mine (2 OCB cases purchased for $95 per bottle back in late 2004 from Premier Cru, delivered in late 2005!) starting in say 2022
Nope. No need to try now when it will be so much better later. Got lots of other things to drink now. I don’t open the oven an hour early to ‘try’ the turkey, either! Seriously though I think this is a very ‘long term’ wine and think the drinking range is more like 2022 - 2037. No point in starting before the ‘start’, though maybe I’ll start in 2017
Too bad you missed the point.
Maureen whom I know well, is a curator of fine wine. You on the other hand, with whom I had a seemless trade in our only encounter many years ago - 99 Ponsot Clos de Roche in return for your 02,- are merely a speculator, and received a short hand education in all things red and white burgundy on the old board to which I and many others contributed their knowledge and sources.
It’s no wonder that very few of that old core group of posters who’s names I will not mention no longer post notes regarding burgundy except amongst themselves.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Same to you Maureen and to all my Burg “friends” who post here and others I’ve yet to become acquainted with.
You know nothing about me, know nothing about the number of bottles I’ve opened, what I’ve consumed, where I’ve visited.
You know nothing about the books I’ve read, the tastings I’ve gone to, the time I’ve put into this ‘hobby’.
Nothing.
You call me a speculator because I don’t want to open a bottle ‘before it’s time’, because I have thousands of other bottles to drink that are ‘ready’?
So be it.
CT says I’ve opened around 6,000 bottles, pretty stupid behavior for a ‘speculator’, no?
Your bravado is grandiose. Has always been and always will be.
What I do know is I tolerated your barrel chested approach as you explained over all these years how many cases and for how much you paid for these “acquisitions”, like any other commodity.
As for “getting it” re burgundy and sharing it or like Daniel above did- ie " taking one for the team,"
Maureen explained it well.
I’m not interested in how many bottles you or anyone opened in a public forum like CT or elsewhere, I’m interested in how many bottles and with whom and where it is done and more particularly shared.
That is an enriching experiences. I have made every bottle available in my cellar which includes the finest and rarest burgundy with and to people who are true lovers and appreciators never asking for anything in return. Perhaps this is as many bottles as currently exist in my cellar.
Cheers to you And your prodigious cellar.
well…you might get sick from eating raw turkey - trust that wouldn’t happen with drinking a burg that’s “only” 12 years old. I was genuinely interested in your take on the wine, hence my suggestion. Glad you’ve got plenty of things to drink though
You edited both your original post in reply to Maureen in an attempt to demonstrate your knowledge of Cathiard and 02’s in general, and also your reply in response to my post which occurred before you edited each of your posts.
Please be assured that this hobby that I have participated in for more than 35 and that I continue to love with unfettered joy would not and would never prevent me from sharing a great old and ready bottle of burgundy with you should our paths cross.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving and Holiday season.
Wow, Chet. That’s the rudest post I’ve read on this board in my memory. I was on the old board and don’t recall you as being someone particulalry influential, but I can tell you that there are lots of burg lovers from there that remain here and seem to get along just fine. I’ve always enjoyed peter’s posts. He’s got lots of bottles and is completely upfront about what he paid and where he gets them. I’ve benefited from that in the past and I’d bet others have as well.
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Yes chet. As I said in post #11. In response to David’s thoughts, I edited out my rude remarks to you in response to your rude remarks to me. All in the Thanksgiving spirit which is lost on you I’m sure.
This point I do find amazing, and let’s just do the math. CT says I’ve consumed 5,500 bottles over the last 10.5 years. Not counting all the daily drinkers that I don’t bother recording there, but let’s not count that as we can’t ‘count’ that. 5500 bottles in 126 months would be close to 44 bottles a month or about 1.5 bottles a day, ever single day. Is your contention that I drank these alone? If so, wouldn’t I be dead?
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