Tonight was a night where the mood didn’t call for the best bottles but rather really good bottles, from the kind of producers that don’t disappoint. None of these disappointed. All were very good but not great, but I’d rank them 1) 99 Giacosa Barbaresco, 2) 98 Rouget Vosne, 3) 05 Boillot PM. The Boillot was up first with sole meuniere and over roasted potatoes and was a perfect match.
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1999 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco - Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barbaresco (11/14/2009)
Rich and energetic and fresh. Dusty nose with menthol, tar and violets. Youthful in the mouth with a lot of tannin and fairly bright acidity. Harmonious despite the structure. Pretty damned tasty but needs either a longer decant or, more realistically, 5 more years. -
1998 Emmanuel Rouget Vosne-Romanée - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée (11/14/2009)
Dusty with sappy ripe red fruits, copious five spice, cool piney notes on the nose. Ever so slightly shy of fully harmonious on the palate, with a touch of acidity and a touch of structure poking out and the fruit not quite filling in the frame. But only minorly so, this is nonetheless a bottle that is effortless to drain and shows the vintage and the appellation both with great transparency. Very good, particularly relative to vintage. -
2005 Henri Boillot Puligny-Montrachet - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet (11/14/2009)
Very nice, pungent and powerful with touches of barrel, smoked nuts, flowers and lemon rind, stones and waxy fat / rich Chard fruit. Good typicity and good wine. Could use more time to integrate, acidity pokes out a touch and overall not 100% harmonious, but very good.
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