Thanks everyone. Fab evening. Sorry for the tardiness of my thoughts.
I thought the flights on table 1 for the reds progressed really well. Of the Gevrey wines the Jadot CSJ showed wonderfully. I didn't find it too warm just lovely red fruited, gentle spice and a wonderful lingering presence on the palate. Clearly the WOTF. The Maume was a bid muddy for my tastes and the Drouhin-Laroze needed more time but there is a good wine waiting to fully unfurl there.
The second flight really shook things up. These were all really elegant classy wines, only the Tardy showed a fraction rustic, but was still deeply pleasurable. This was not so much a NSG flight as a Vosne influenced NSG flight. The reason I try and buy Boudots so often is that it bordered Malconsort and can, in the right hands, offer nearly as much pleasure, power and finesse whilst avoiding the extra £££ the name Vosne seems to bring! The Grivot was perfect. Everything I want from that Domaine. Still a little muscular but such finesse and fine tannins, it really, really blossomed after an hour and was fighting the Mugneret-Gibourg from WOTF. The Chevillon was superb from the off. Really pretty sexy on the nose. Just full of super duper aromatics and a great balanced palate that flourished and endured. However for me the Mugneret-Gibourg took things to another level. To be specific. It took things to am extremely red fruited, floral and grandmas talcum powder heavenly place. This really was like lace. Elegant. Refined. Majestic even. Just scrummy. Wow. I wish I owned some
The final flights I took no its promise rather than what was exactly in the glass at this time. The Clos Vougeot was charming, finely boned, and still slightly burly. Plenty of cranberry and spice and perfume. Pretty decadent after an hour. So much here already and so much to come. A really good Vougeot. However, the RSV was just hugely impressive. It has a big frame, yet such subtlety and class. Really quite rich on the nose but also cool (don't ask me how). I could sniff this all night. Really pretty incredible. Come back in 5-7 years and I imagine this will be absolutely realising its promise. Wow. Though the £9k recent vintages go for put this in DRC territory price wise!
The whites were lovely and a good start. I found the Fevre initially more pleasurable but air and heat did it no favours and it faded a little. The Raveneau to be honest I found disappointing. I was expecting much more. As others have noticed it was a little alcoholic and just didn't seem to exhibit any classical aged Raveneau notes. Maybe it was just me. Still a very good wine but not the wow I was expecting. Special thanks to Dan for opening these and the Mugneret-Gibourg.
We managed to get through the evening with no duffers which I imagine was more good luck. Re wine temps I always stand red burg up in the wine fridge (at 14C) and then take out between 1 hour (when its 18-19C) or 20 mins (when its 25C+) to come up to temp. Seems to always work with things starting off very slightly cool but then coming around within 10-15 mins. I often in summer put it back in the fridge for 20-30 mins between the first and second pour to keep things right.
Re table 2 temps I didn't see any difference between the two tables in that regard.
Re points and quality on table 1 looking at CT I see: -
92.6 2002 Domaine des Lambrays Clos des Lambrays
91.9 2002 Domaine Darviot-Perrin Meursault 1er Cru Les Genevrières
91.4 2002 Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru Taillepieds
91.3 2002 Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru Les Brouillards
91 2002 Domaine de Courcel Pommard 1er Cru Grand Clos des Épenots
90.6 2002 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos des Porrets St. Georges
90.5 2002 Nicolas Potel Clos de la Roche - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
90.5 2002 Jean-Jacques Vincent Pouilly-Fuissé Château de Fuissé Collection Privée
90 2002 Simon Bize Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Aux Vergelesses
(no CT) 2002 Domaine Aleth Girardin Pommard Les Vigno
(no CT) 2002 Domaine Darviot-Perrin Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Blanchots Dessus
These pretty much resemble the scoring of Simon (excepting the flawed wines) so I'm not sure the wines were much off perhaps people just had higher expectations, though obviously the faulty wines were more than average. The Lambray when on form is comfortably ahead of everything else. The Pouilly-Fuissé has another poor note which wasn't scored so that would have brought it down closer to where Simon put it and the Potel just isn't a good wine for its level.
If you compare this to Table 1
94.7 2002 Domaine Robert Arnoux / Arnoux-Lachaux Romanée St. Vivant
94.2 2002 François Raveneau Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
93 2002 Domaine Robert Arnoux / Arnoux-Lachaux Clos Vougeot
93 2002 William Fèvre Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
93.4 2002 Domaine Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains
92.7 2002 Louis Jadot Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos St. Jacques
92.6 2002 Domaine Jean Grivot Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots
91.6 2002 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Chaignots
91.5 2002 Domaine Drouhin-Laroze Chambertin-Clos de Bèze
91.5 2002 Domaine Jean Tardy et Fils Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots
90 2002 Domaine Maume Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Champeaux
I think the wines performed pretty much as expected. I tend to always rate Mugneret-Gibourg highly because I love the style but otherwise things are pretty on the money for what people said.
Anyhow, thanks Nick for your organising skills! Roll on the next Burgfest!