Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

The Winona Chief's (Chris and Marjorie) are coming to town this Saturday, and the blanquito's will be joining us for dinner Saturday evening.

Any other BWE'ers in the area? Please let us know!

Tom (no longer) in DC

We’ll be there!

Art, will you be around?

Not until sometime in March. Have a good one.

Should be a belter of an evening

If posted a little bit earlier, I could have look for it. I have to go to British Columbia next week so could have done a detour by Denver on Saturday.

Don't worry, I'll make it to Denver one day or another.

Have a good one.

Nic

Nic, any time you’re gonna be in Denver, we will be ready to greet you in style.

Same applies for all of BWE.

Looking forward to this. We will be bringing a bottle of 1986 Climens.

Chris Bublitz

What Blanquito said. And apologies for the short notice, Nic.

Thanks Tom and Gail for a lovely evening last night and the delicious meal. Great to see Chris and Marjorie again too. We have a nice satellite BWE office developing here in the Front Range.

We enjoyed the following:
-a NV BdB (I forget the producer)
-the 2015 Guigal Doriane Condrieu
-the 1985 La Mission Haut Brion
-the 1982 Canon
-the 2006 Latour a Pomerol
-the 1986 Climens

Let’s get together again soon.

Looking forward to the notes on these beauties...

There was also an outstanding 2015 Condrieu, I think from Guigal (not sure which one). A lot of great wine last night.

Chris Bublitz

Good catch, Chris. We had the 2015 Guigal Doriane Condrieu as well, I’ll add it above.

Sounds like a great evening. We’ll have to make it out there sometime in the next year.

How come i missed that ? 85 mission, 1982 canon, hum.

Nic

How oaky was that La Doriane?

I didn't find the Doraine oaky at all really. Beautiful, very floral nose, like fresh lilacs. The palate didn't show an obvious oak influence either.

I thought both the 85 La Mission and the 82 Canon were in excellent form. The 82 Canon took a while to blow off some funk and open up, but after about an hour and half way through the bottle, it really arrived. The La Mission had a sensational, complex nose (I believe "classic tobacco" was bandied about as an apt descriptor) that was better than the Canon's, but once the Canon opened up, I found it a touch deeper on the palate.

Exactly, the Condrieu was nicely aromatic and like Patrick, I didn't notice any intrusive oak. The Canon was a bit grumpy at first but opened up nicely. Always been a fan of 1985 Bordeaux, it's not a classic "great" vintage but they just taste good and the wines have had an exceptionally long drinking window. La Mission is probably my favorite 1985 - every time there is a bottle open, I just want another glass.

Chris Bublitz

Well, bummer. We had been out of the country for about 10 days, and got back last Friday...and were zombies for a couple days after. Just seeing this.

Looks like a great evening, let me know if there others in the future, I'd like to try to make it. We're in Parker, so a bit away but not too far...

That does look like an awesome spectrum of wines.

Danzur, send me a PM with your email address and I can loop you in directly for future events.

Finally getting a breather after a few busy days and BWE appearing to go offline (Comcast loses DNS servers pretty regularly here, rarely happened in MD...)

The Champagne was a recommendation from a wine salesperson at Applejack's - Claude Genet NV Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, very tasty for its price tag.

I thought the Guigal La Doriane was really fragrant, classic viognier, and not showing oak that I could really notice. Both of the 80's red Bordeaux took a few minutes to really get going but both were just textbook examples. In the end I think I preferred the complexity of the '85 La Mish. Finally, the '86 Climens showed why it's a BWE classic - creamy, long, complex, still retaining plenty of sweetness.

Thanks to all for the wine contributions and sharing a great evening with us.

Tom and Gail