The 2005 Burgs....
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:37 pm
We uncorked all the bottles and drank up a large quantity of those 2005 Burgundies in my room with cheese and whoopie pies.
No surprise, the 2005 d'Angerville Volnay Premier Cru seemed to perform best. The wines were outclassed by the Bordeaux we drank over the weekend, but that's not to say that the Burgundies weren't interesting and delicious in their own right. They are extremely young and structured, and I'm not sure they opened up significantly by Day Two. I think the Volnays performed best.
Nic and I concluded that these wines just are not of a nature that they should be compared with anything else. These are wines that you uncork with a dinner and watch unfold over the course of several hours with the meal. Even the aged Burg that Werner brought to the Friday night dinner I thought was overwhelmed by all of the Rhones and Bordeaux and Spanish and CdPs that were there, but it would have been interesting to try it on its own.
It was fun to try the '05 Burgs with fellow BWEers, I'm going to let them sit now for upwards of a decade before revisiting them.
No surprise, the 2005 d'Angerville Volnay Premier Cru seemed to perform best. The wines were outclassed by the Bordeaux we drank over the weekend, but that's not to say that the Burgundies weren't interesting and delicious in their own right. They are extremely young and structured, and I'm not sure they opened up significantly by Day Two. I think the Volnays performed best.
Nic and I concluded that these wines just are not of a nature that they should be compared with anything else. These are wines that you uncork with a dinner and watch unfold over the course of several hours with the meal. Even the aged Burg that Werner brought to the Friday night dinner I thought was overwhelmed by all of the Rhones and Bordeaux and Spanish and CdPs that were there, but it would have been interesting to try it on its own.
It was fun to try the '05 Burgs with fellow BWEers, I'm going to let them sit now for upwards of a decade before revisiting them.