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2019 Henri Delagrange Volnay 1er Cru Champans
Previous bottle was cursed with TCA, but this really delivers! Fresh red berries and a spicy aroma. Good length and a cool finish. Seems like a relatively unknown producer that can do Volnay at a decent pricepoint.
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2006 Leo Barton in the decanter ATM. Smells good.
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Many bad bottles? Not surprising, with the fishy corks.
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2020 Cathiard Bourgogne.
Why can’t I find more $40 Burg that tastes like this? Probably the same reason I can’t buy cases of this one…
Mencia, mostly. If you feel bored, serve it blindly to your Beaujolais (or Burgundy) drinking buddies and have fun.
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The 96 Ducru is wonderful! Had it least year, immediately tried to backfill.
How was it?
That '06 Leo Barton is a baby. Delicious, but not ready for prime time.
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Its been stupidly hot here in the UK, with the highest temperatures of the year happening in September. So summer red time.
Friday was Saumur, young purple with a crunchy cabernet franc flavour.
Tonight a Bourgueil which I bought in the town in 2018.
This is a pure light red, it is fresh cherries in the mouth, not complex, but its just slipping down.
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I was thinking where did you get Clos Rougeard Bourg for £20? I guess it turns out other people make a Saumur Bourg, I’ve just never heard of them.
I bought it in Bentley’s of Ludlow, in the UK. I preferred the more mature Bourgueil.
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2001 Ch. Messile Cassat
A pleasant surprise. Cork came out well enough with the durand. Smells like my cigar humidor and there is some fruit left. Good match with beef and funnel chanterelles!
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Looks like a lovely altocumullus lenticularis cloud in the background.
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2010 Leflaive Batard Montrachet.
Thankfully not Poxed. Classy, almost racy, but balanced by a ton of scents and flavors from citrus to apple, pith and steel and gravel. Am I happy I bought it at auction in 2015? Hell yeah. Am I dying to replace it at current insane prices? Hell no. Excellent, classic, delicious, not 4-digit revelatory.
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Love it. Almost bought some today.
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I love Chevalarie. I just wish I had ‘14s in my cellar.
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Nathalie Falmet Tentation Rosée. Just delightful. My last bottle and WS shows none in the US at the moment. I’ll have my eyes open
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I have 1 Breteche left 
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Easy drinking. Dark-fruited and floral. Tanins are fine grained and manageable. Decent for the price.
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