Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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2010 Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru; Louis Jadot smoke, perfume and leather, with elegance, poise and a herbal lift, lots of earth and meaty aromas underly the soft raspberry and red plum fruit that dominates. Fresh, balanced and with soft small rounded tannins, chewy but never imposing with lots of ga...

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2002 Cuvée Josephine; Champagne Joseph Perrier lemon, lime and peach, a pear drops, chalk and minerals. Lots of intense flavours, concentration and depth. Some bitter notes, a hint of sand and shale. Poised and precise... This really has je ne sais quoi, and class. Lean, restrained and in need of s...

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Merry Christmas to one and all at BWE.
Was an honour to taste that Baron... Need to do at 2002 OL to crown the greatest estate of the noughties!!

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NV Crémant de Loire, Langlois: Chateau Langlois Chenin, Chardonnay & Cabernet Franc lots of rich, round, nutty and autolysis aromas, a hint of vomit and almond syrup, lemon, lime and chalk. Vinious and Champagne like but with a more furry, animal and shale minerality. Clearly not from Champagne...

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2011 Grecanico; Fiorile, IGT Sicilia Bianco: Duca di Castelmonte
lemon, lime and some chalky, salty minerality, clean and fresh, some depth, but this is simply a nice quaffing wine, some herbs and zip and it isn't boring, it's just very much a bistro wine. 49-52/100

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2001 Vina Tondonia Reserva; Lopez de Heredia smoke, bonfire and dark fruited perfume, forest floor and some fiery spice; there is plenty of red plum and ripe raspberry underneath and an ethereal perfume waiting to break out. The palate shows plenty of herbs, hay and angostura bitters, with good aci...

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Both are excellent wines for the money.

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2010 Langhe Nebbiolo; Produttori del Barbaresco saline, meaty and with rounded fruit and a bitter acidic zip keeping everything in check. Cherry, chocolate and tar; some inner perfume that is starting to be enveloped by the structure but it is soft and silky, bramble, forest floor and some minty, c...

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2006 Tinto da Ânfora, Grande Escolha; VR Alentejano, Quinta da Bacalhôa Opened exactly a week ago and saved with a Vacuvin. As such, this is representative of this wine in perhaps 5-10 years if well stored?? smoke, cassis and dark plum, with earth, minerals and an oyster sauce and slate note. Not a...

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AlohaArtakaHoundsong wrote:"[Q]uite leafy with hints of leaf". I nominate that for BWE TN of the year.

That's meant to have been mushroom.
Must have been enjoying the wine too much!!

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I glad I have some 08s. I tasted some just after bottling and they were mixed but they seem to be pulling together.

I really want some Poujeaux and Gruaud-Larose.

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2008 Château Lamothe-Bouscaut; Pessac-Léognan Opened a week earlier by a friend. smoke, cedar, tobacco, a bit of wood spice and cassis, quite classic on the nose, dried firewood, a bit of dried meat (beef jerky); forest fruit and underbrush, quite leafy with hints of leaf. Sea breeze, salinity and ...

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2008 Bourgogne Rouge; Domaine Heresztyn some flint and burnt match on the nose, bright red fruits and lots of freshness, cranberry juice, wild strawberry and lime zest, some earth, some bitters and plum, poised and a touch hollow, it needs time to develop more complexity but there are hints of unde...

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1985 Chateau de Fieuzal; Pessac-Léognan earth, soil, raw and decaying tobacco leaf, funk, cranberry, cassis and blueberry, earthy and very soft, lots of bonfire, burnt matches; some hints of dry cedar, a wonderful nose that shows lots of lift and autumnal fragrance, lots of leaves, some stewed cass...

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2011 Semplicemente, Vino Bianco, Cortese, Bellotti; Piemonte Biodynamic, Natural Wine stewed apple, rotten lemon and lime, but with fresh grapefruit, some minerality and rocky notes. Whilst the nose is funky and earthy, the palate is still very fresh, almost a bready, yeasty note, almost like flat ...

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I don't know exactly. I've actually used that technique on a friend's barrel before barreling occurred, but I'm not sure whether it would be considered "natural" unless the residue from a used bought in barrel. At the end of the day it is the winemaker's prerogative as there are no clear d...

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No, there is no definition. It does allow sulphur; how much depends on the producer but generally far less than others. Generally the only sulphur used is at bottling. There is usually enough to stabilise the wines but not for long ageing. Having said that, there are some highly regarded wines that ...

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I'd give it 3-5 years.

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Biodynamic have strict regulations, such as filling a bulls-horn with stuff and burying it until spring and harvests by the moon, etc, but it allows for liberal use of sulphur and copper sulphates as these have been used for millenia in winemaking (apparantly :roll:). So Natural would be this but wi...

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2009 Anjou-Pur Breton; Olivier Cousin earth, smoke and funk, decaying leaves, very shitty! Herbs, cowshed, burnt cherries, burnt match and tang. Sour plum, deep, earthy and very offensive. Wild raspberry, soft, crisp and very very long. Lots of freshness but with more dark contemplative notes after...

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2008 Saint-Bris Sauvignon; Chateau du Val de Mercy nuts, caramel, butter, and a slightly honeyed note. Quite fresh, with hints of pickled lime, lemons and grass. Lifted, perfumed and quite loveable. Simply, with good length and a tangy feel to the finish. 57-59/100 2011 La Flor y La Abeja (The Fl...

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2007 Barbera d'Alba Superiore "Bricco Airoli"; Giovanni Viberti crisp plum, ripe cherry, earth, leaves and strawberry with a touch of milk chocolate, very fresh with a lot of scorched soil and minerality. Traditional and poised with good freshness and a herby lift. Really lovely and start...

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2011 Sottorondero; Mentrida, Bodegas Jimenez Lendi meat, soil, braised pork and bacon fat, smoky and autumnal, barbecue beef, lots of rich, peppery, meaty plum, and stewed cranberry, good acidity levels that hide the 14.5% alcohol, fresh and lifted, rich and powerful but with a good Burgundian-st...

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2010 Chablis 1er Cru "Montée de Tonnerre; Domaine Moreau-Naudet earth, oyster shell and mineral nose but it isn't showing any Montée de Tonnerre qualities yet. Lemon, sap and lemons, quite tight, the acidity cuts through oil and chilli nicely and there is a classic feel to the poise, with air ...

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Ducru wasn't in attendence but in April 2011 I really liked it... Although it is a far cry from the rigid, backward wines of old... more lush and appealing. Silky FWOABW.

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Mature, perhaps 85 Mouton??

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2010 Gruaud-Larose (simply glorius and classic)... or 2009 Durfort-Vivens (reminds me of a young 1990).

To be fair, I haven't had a huge amount of Bordeaux lately.

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Thanks Chris,

I really did enjoy them a lot.
The Sancerre is spectacularly good and I'm a little bit pleased that it is a wine that offends, as otherwise there would be too much demand and non for me!

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Tentaka-Kokoro; Junmaidaiginjo : Tentaka Sake Brewery, Tochigi {Milled to 50%, 15% alc} slightly green colour, stewed banana, earth, mushroom, dried biscuit and slightly amonic, sea breeze, hints of rotten rice, grass and some cherry, a hint of clay and minerals, quite rich, fairly complex, slight...

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2008 Sancerre Blanc "Akméniné"; Domaine Sébastien Riffault minerals, soil, rocks, oyster shell and oyster sauce, stewed apple, pear, strawberry and white peach, lots of earthy notes, almost some grass and hay, leaves, oxidative but fresh and lifted, smoke, bonfire, citrus and cooked lem...

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Diogene (Dolcetto), Vino Rosso; Valli Unite; Costa Vescovato-Piemonte {Bio-Dynamic/Natural Wine} dark plum, chocolate, earth, mushrooms and spritzy minerals; soft, rounded and balanced with hints of bitter herbs, peach seed; vibrant but somewhat formulaic! Typically Dolcetto but without unnecessary...

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Bacchus wrote:Jim, has the 2010 boycott been rescinded?

I had a wedding anniversary exemption but I still haven't purchased anything.
Poujeaux is still looking at me with beady eyes!

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They are far more tannic, but they have similarly styled fruit and rasping (verging on astringent acidity) that gives them fantastic balance across the board. However, it is a vintage to buy the top wines and GCC. The Cru Bourgeois are ropey at a push. Some are pleasant but it really is about terroi...

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And Mouton, and Latour, and Pontet-Canet, yada yada yada... ;) I've always been a huge fan of the 2010s, but I'm not a fan of the prices. I think because HWSRN will give higher scores in the end to the 2009s than the 2010s, we may see some re-evaluation in pricing when the negoc actually receive the...

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2011 Falanghina, IGT Campania; Rocca del Dragone rich, lemon, lime and hints of butter; a sweet chili spice lingers, almost a lava-like feel, viscous but zippy and with a zip that belies the richness. Dried mango, herbs and grass on the finish. Simple, intriguing and loveable. 59/100 2011 Gisbourne...

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2010 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru "La Chatenière"; Marc Colin et Fils lemon, lime, butter, earth and minerals, quite round, persistent and long. Lots of herbs, grass and spring flowers; a hint of sunflower oil, some soil and an almost un-ripe strawberry note. Green gauge. Really nice length and pi...

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2010 Marani "Mstvani"; Khakheti rich, creamy, vanilla and milk, earth, sherbet, some stewed lemons and lime, with persistence, grass, herbs, spices and cloves, ash and earth, subtle, restrained and improving with air, very pleasant, with hints of butter. 59-62/100 2008 Marani "Mukuza...

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Yes the Iranians just shot at us. Actually, it apparently happened on November 1st. Odd that we're just hearing about it now. Its called censorship and it happens the world over. Not censorship in the China (crack the whip and block it) way, but in a subtle way... ...persuading the media to not rep...

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As usual per every year, Day 1 of my annual trip to Piemonte can be found here. This year we only went for three days rather than four, so it will be a bit shorter, but it was probably better for the fact that it was a not a huge group and we were thus able to visit producers who accept no more than...

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I've liked the Aldo Conterno's that I have tried.

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