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No, but I have some in storage. If it is the usual step up from the Chaillot you're in for a real treat!
No, but I have some in storage. If it is the usual step up from the Chaillot you're in for a real treat!
It was double debated about three and a half to four hours before it was drunk Will. I think that helped. It was certainly not shrill and acidic although I know that is sometimes how Allemand wines turn out. He uses very little added sulphur and I think that this can lead to these problems. I've had miserable bottles of the 2000 Reynard and all his 1997s are just like that. Other bottles of 2000s have been top notch. Recently, I've had a very good run with Allemand wines across a lot of vintages (1994, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2006).
From my one experience at the Shoreditch restaurant, they are Don
Interesting you say that - I have really struggled with the wines of the Northern rhone which do have this characteristic for me, even when they frequently are made from the same grapes as their cousins from down south. I have really tried to like them but so far unsuccessfully.
Funny you said, I just had a glass (recommended by a wine bar near my school) of domaine de l'olivier cotes du rhone, said to be 13.5% but the legs in the glass are so high that I don't think it's less than 14%. That very herby nose, almost medicinal.... was quite something. The palate was sweet enough to be drinkable, but if I would like to buy it even for the retail price (£30)... probably not.
Luckily the 2006 Reynard cost £44 per bottle back when I bought it.
Richard, I’m positive you know far more about N. Rhône vintages than I do; but I remember JLL assessing 2006s highly in retrospect here:
Interesting Ben - he gives the vintage 9/10 for the north which is very high praise indeed. Early on I found the wines good rather than great, but I've only just started to drink my 2006s properly. I had 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010 ahead of 2006 which I thought was more like 2000 in quality initially. 2004 is for early drinking, 2003 a hot vintage and not to my liking, 2007 a notch below 2006 and 2002 generally weak (with the occasional, but rare surprise). I look forward to trying some more 2006s next year.
Ha, my view is slightly different….
Seen through the lens of Cornas (what else?
) 2006 definitely does not come across as warm nor hollow in the middle. I've had Allemand's Chaillot twice in the last year as well as Dumien-Serrette and Michel's La Geynale. They just seem really well balanced to me and more black/blue fruited than usual. I haven't had any 2006 Hermitage that I can recall, and only Ogier's C-R, which was good.this is encouraging, I bought six in the most recent Bacchus auction. Can't wait for them to land at L&W.
You may have to!
