A superb evening. I have had some good fortune with 98s in the past and so was quietly confident ahead of the dinner but was still pleasantly surprised.
Apart from the Lafon, I would happily have taken any of the wines from table one out on a date. They were all pretty special in their own ways. Highlights for me were the Clos des Forets, the Dujac and the Vogue Bonnes Mares, with the latter two being so very different but offering true grand cru glory in their own particular fashions. The others were all in the frame of the photo finish. In fact, the wines were so good that Mr Cornas didn’t feel the need to reach into the depths of his bag at the end of the evening and proffer a supplementary bottle of the Northern Rhône’s finest; a first, I think.
Thank you Dan for organising, for squeezing me in at short notice and for my table mates for being such good company and bringing such thrilling treasures.