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I’ll slip one into the GB&U lineup and see if you can pick it out.
That could work well.
Thank god the event isn’t tomorrow as it was 104f in my backyard late yesterday afternoon. I can’t imagine all of us in the house, with a lot of shitty wine, fighting with the ACs working to keep us all cool.
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Yeah, We’ve done it here with good wine and it’s still tough
Drink one again and see what you think. If you like, heck, coordinate with me and we can do a virtual tasting of the wine together. We haven’t done any virtual tastings in a while around here in a long time.
2 left for me. Last taste was last year, though, in Atlanta.
2014 Kutch Santa Cruz Chard
Gets my attention. Crisp with mineral and some nut essence in the aromatics. It’s reaching its sweet spot of maturity, settled but strong with still carrying acid and lots of sweetish lemon. I have two left, so glad I’ve been able to track this over its life.
Very sad news about McDougall. Frank and I have had some back-and-forth fun about our personal faves—mine is definitely this vineyard. In terms of ageability, I tasted a 16 less than a month ago:
2016 Kutch McDougall PN
Certainly time to get one of these open, as I have 3 more in the cellar. It’s showing lots of what I want–crisp from start to finish, cranberry, lingonberry, sour cherry and the citrus glints—grapefruit and orange–that I myself get from this vineyard. It all comes in a still-energetic profile. In this style–which I prefer—this is a really fine exemplar. 91.
Follow up, the ageability on the Kutch Pinots is really quite something. No special treatment, next day the wine has unfurled even more with more vibrancy and joy to the red fruit and rounded off a little in texture. Terrific.
I’m pretty sure I still have at least one 2014 and one 2015 of the Dougie.
MEOW 2026 will feature the last of the full verticals, Bohan from its start in 2013. Looking forward to that. I bought a couple McDougalls, a Bohan Graveyard and a Salt Point Chard.
A while back, Jamie told me that the 2018 TG was, he felt, almost the equal of the 2014.
Salud
Mike
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I agree…knocked me over it was so great…I think I have one left, I will have to drink that baby soon
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- 2019 Kutch Pinot Noir Graveyard Block Bohan Vineyard - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast (9/9/2024)
Bookclub (Foretti's): Blind: Copain Pinot Noir
This has lots of red apple on the attack and was screaming Anderson Valley, deep end. Just a beautiful, tasty and delightful wine.
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Opening a 2016 McDougall with dinner tonight……
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THere was something very special about the 2014 santa cruz chard. I sometimes think Kutch chard > Kutch pinot
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It was magical. Jamie’s first chardonnay IIRC. That 2014 is a blind tasting giant slayer. It punishes the best Burgundy producers.
Lots of great “Pinot guys” make awesome chardonnay. Kutch, Ladd, Goodfellow, Cabot sparkler, etc.
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I grabbed a mixed 10, lol—my way of being “reasonable” while still grabbing a mix of Jamie’s wines.
Opened another 22 TG after submitting my order. As expected, nice electric entry that persists throughout. This bottle is tasting slightly creamier than others but everything is in balance. Fruit profile is all citrus, lemons, maybe a hint of tangerine. Finish medium, slate inflected with a deft touch of oaky vanilla and butterscotch. Banger.
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Jamie’s first Santa Cruz Chardonnay and yes, it was magical. He had made a couple Sonoma Coast Chards prior.
Also, I prefer Jamie’s Chard over the Pinots…but I prefer Jamie’s Pinots over almost any other domestic Pinot.
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All i know is the TG is magical. I always need more!
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4+ bins for the providence of Kutch, some overhead, and some msgs to the left.
I just kinda maintain this state
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Just speaking for myself, it’s not so much that the chards are better than the pinots, as they are more consistent and less challenging. Every chard he makes is really good to great; so far, there have been no exceptions. You can enjoy them young or let them age. I don’t think I’ve ever been around anyone who tried one and didn’t like it, including civilians.
He challenges the edge with the pinots. Fairly extreme sites, left highly transparent to the vintage and terroir, usually much to all whole cluster. As such, they have great character, and the best ones are excellent, but the results are much more variable.
Not variable in that some of them are bad, but rather than try to make a consistent type of product, he really lets you have the naked site and vintage, and so the vineyard sites are different from each other, the vintages at each one are different from each other, different ones reward different amounts of age. It’s a challenging and ultimately rewarding adventure, but it’s an adventure.
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Why does it say REAM on the top?
You nailed it Chris.
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I aspire to have this much kutch!