Weekend trip to NYC with my fiancé and splurged at Astor Wines and a couple other choice spots. Being from Philly and subject to the chaotic whims of the PLBC it was a blast to just browse and see the variety available.
Here are our pick-ups:
2x Huré Frères - Mémoire Extra Brut - NV
2x Huré Frères - Invitation Brut, NV
1x Bollinger - R.D. Extra Brut - 2007
1x Kumpf et Meyer - Utopiste - 2020
1x Bertram-Baltes - Handwerk Spätburgunder - 2018
A little random, for sure. Grabbed the Bertram-Baltes in feeling nostalgic for a trip to the Ahr Valley a few years ago (never seen anything from Ahr in Philly). The Kumpf et Meyer is another nostalgic buy from a spargel season dinner on the same trip. If memory serves it went really well with spargel.
Well, perhaps I screwed up, was reading some praise on it and assumed it was more like the 1998 Pavie. Regardless, it’s for a 98 flight I’m doing for some friends. So not my wheelhouse? Oopsy.
I agree with Mark: this really doesn’t sound like your kind of wine. Here’s Parker’s initial in-bottle review:
“Nearly exaggerated levels of intensity, extract, and richness are apparent in this opaque blue/purple-colored wine. Sumptuous aromas of blueberries, blackberries, and cherries combine with smoke, licorice, vanillin, and truffles to create a compelling aromatic explosion. The wine is fabulously dense, full-bodied, and layered, with multiple dimensions, gorgeous purity, and superbly integrated acidity as well as tannin.”
I’m sure it’s calmed down in the intervening 2+ decades (more recent critical reviews are quite positive and don’t indicate such extremities), but still.
I remember that most of the domaine grapes went into Survivants (ch), Miracules (ch) and Resistants (sav) in 2017, very good wines, but not a normal year.
I opened a Resistants I think, but the 2018s are here now.
2017 was indeed a bit of a disaster year in Jura. Ganevat put most of the Savagnin he had into the following: Resistants for negociant and for the domaine Les Rescapes.
I own both but have not tasted them yet. That said, then one of my good friends who i trust 100% told me that they are pretty damn good.
Allente & Boulanger did the same in 2017 where they made a one off cuvee called Mix. That wine is pretty damn great. So there are good stuff to find in the vintage.
