- Location
- Leicestershire
We will be having this later. Just pulled the cork 6 hours in advance of drinking and it smells of fruit. Any guesses on what it is? I will post a note later.
Weekend drinking 12 and 13 April
- Thread starter kevin heatherington
- Start date
- Location
- London
Rhône. Jaboule?
- Location
- Leicestershire
Yes, but what?
- Location
- London
Hermitage?
- Location
- Leicestershire
You can just make out the picture of a flat looking vineyard on the label.
- Location
- UK
Just at the point where mature starts to become funky. Decent enough.
- Location
- Southern England
1970s - Gigondas or Vacqueras?
- Location
- London and Boston
Jaboulet Parallele 45?
- Location
- Pianello Val Tidone
Maison bleue? I thought it was a recent addition to the range but there's a '76 vintage listed on cellar tracker
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
Confused with La Petite Chappelle when putting it on Cellar tracker? If you look, La Maison Bleue starts on 2015 for cellar tracker, and La Petite Chappelle finishes on 2014. Actually popped and decanted the Petite Chappelle 2013 tonight.
- Location
- W8
Chateau Gruaud Larose, 2006
Quite traditional classic claret, straight, medium bodied, no fireworks, but correct.
Less of the leather, tobacco character, more towards the plush fruit. Enjoyable
- Location
- Leicestershire
The wine at the top of the thread is Cotes de Ventoux 1981 from Jaboulet. I’ll post a note when we drink it.
- Location
- London
Charlie Herring Legion MV. Following gratefully @daniel collins example from last weekend, this singular, glorious ESW has gone all-in with the pure English acidity backed with character. With an impeccable Dover sole with hazelnut and wild garlic butter at Angela’s in Margate, quite the lunch
Domaine Henri Milan Le Grand Blanc 2016. VdF from Provence, combining grenache blanc, roussanne, chardonnay, muscat and rolle. Fully coloured, rich aromas, Tesseire sirop and lemonade, grilled apricot, verbena, hyssop and tarte aux pommes. Palate is somewhat more routine, the imprint of gentle oak treatment, some sunny muscat coming through. Good weight, not too heavy, some freshness. With a juicy pork chop with smoked eel cream
Domaine Henri Milan Le Grand Blanc 2016. VdF from Provence, combining grenache blanc, roussanne, chardonnay, muscat and rolle. Fully coloured, rich aromas, Tesseire sirop and lemonade, grilled apricot, verbena, hyssop and tarte aux pommes. Palate is somewhat more routine, the imprint of gentle oak treatment, some sunny muscat coming through. Good weight, not too heavy, some freshness. With a juicy pork chop with smoked eel cream
- Location
- Potton, Beds
2008 Michel Arnould & Fils Champagne Mémoire de Vignes
Last of a sixpack. These have, without exception, been flat-out delicious, enough so that I chose to open the last one today, on our 17th wedding anniversary. This probably had what is now a rather unfashionable level of dosage - it's labelled as Brut, but I think more recent vintages are Extra-Brut. Anyway, it's as lovely as ever. Full of life, it could be half its age. Very nicely balanced and easy to drink on its own. Some background strawberry notes but also a definite lemony tinge, despite being 100% Pinot Noir. I have some 2015s in storage which I will probably get delivered soon but I guess are unlikely to be quite as satisfying as the 2008s have been.2010 Michel & Stéphane Ogier Côte-Rôtie
Sadly I just can't completely love the Ogier Cote Roties. This latest bottle is similar to others from other vintages; a decent bouquet, tasty enough and easy to drink, but just a bit too glossy, polished and "international" for me. I appreciate others are more positive than I am about these, and don't doubt it's my deficiency rather than the wine's.2016 Arterberry Maresh Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard
I've bored people about this, the specific wine that really turned me on to Oregon Chardonnay, a few times so will simply refer to my previous note which still applies: "I'm tremendously fond of this wine. Enough so that after drinking the first bottle (of six) about three years ago I went back and got 12 more. They are getting slowly better with time. Very nice balance, elegant without being austere, and still weighty enough for genuine interest but not in the least bit ponderous. Everything in the right place (including the 12.8% alcohol!)"
- Location
- Potton, Beds
The Chevalier de Sterimberg has a flattish-looking vineyard on the label. I really hope it's not that!
- Location
- Leicestershire
See posts above.
Cotes du Ventoux (Jaboulet) 1981.
Someone, who has a few of these, gave me this bottle recently with a comment see what you think. In a remarkable condition. The cork was firm and came out whole. I slow oxygenated for 6 hours then decanted for 30 mins before drinking. Colour of blood with lots of amber but still red. Nose is a mix of redcurrant fruit and orange peel. Fragrant. Tastes faded but still with plenty of decent redcurrant fruit. No signs of decay or decline whatsoever. A wine that has aged perfectly into very old age for what it is (modern equivalent sells for around £10). Soft and simple but a delight. 89
Cotes du Ventoux (Jaboulet) 1981.
Someone, who has a few of these, gave me this bottle recently with a comment see what you think. In a remarkable condition. The cork was firm and came out whole. I slow oxygenated for 6 hours then decanted for 30 mins before drinking. Colour of blood with lots of amber but still red. Nose is a mix of redcurrant fruit and orange peel. Fragrant. Tastes faded but still with plenty of decent redcurrant fruit. No signs of decay or decline whatsoever. A wine that has aged perfectly into very old age for what it is (modern equivalent sells for around £10). Soft and simple but a delight. 89
- Location
- UK
This is good. Really good. Nose is closer to Chenin with that lovely, funky barrel fermentation nose the Saffas do so well. It’s a big, big wine. A lot of flavour, very full and rich but still refreshing with a fair whack of grip on the finish. It’s not rose in the classic sense and, if served blindfolded I would guess SA Chenin.
It’s not a novelty wine and I hope it’s 100% grape juice. I’m going to stick my neck out and say this is the best rose I’ve ever had.
- Location
- London
Having been advised by Tom B that 2008 Burgs needed to be drunk before too long, I opened this wonderful Grivot Vosne les Reignots 2008...
The wine was light, balanced, red fruit, mature with fine tannins, the acidity was present but not invading, not the deepest but a very pleasant companion under the sun.
- Location
- London, Europe
A rather wonderful Droin Chablis 2019 I found misplaced under the stairs, This was snaflled down quickly befoire it was then back-to-beige (to misquote Amy Winehouse) after that with the neighbours popping round, For such occasions we do gun through a lot of the "Found/Expressions" range from M&S and find them good enough given the circumstances - currently hoovering up the last of the Xinomavro. My head will hate me tomorrow......
Do robots dream of terroir driven Burg?
Do robots dream of terroir driven Burg?
- Location
- Staffordshire
2013 Lafon, Charmes. Blimey, this is nice. Very pale and youthful to the eye, a slight tinge of green. Initially slightly reductive on the nose, but becomes more expansive, white peaches, lime leaves, a touch of wet flint. Quite mineral on the palate, some lemon curd, but it is the energy and tension that is so impressive. Possibly my favourite white burgundy producer, and probably my white wine of the year so far.
- Location
- Southern England
A major life milestone today in so much as we have just had the floor laid in our main living room, having been without since this time in 2022. We trotted off to pull some furniture out of storage and enjoyed drinks in the lounge on some of that recovered- specially a 19th century dining chair and a Boer War campaign chair. The booze was less illustrious, a bottle of A Charpentier fizz, an entirely unnecessary gift from a mate for watering their garden last year, thus Champagne cocktails were in order. A couple of the classic (cognac and bitters) followed by some French 47s. The remainder of a bottle of Des Moirots 21 Givry with dinner was totally unremarkable (I suspect due to the assault on the senses caused by the above) which is understandable and a shame as the rest yesterday was a delight.
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- Location
- Southport
I could kick myself regarding Legion. Knowing how hard it is to source, I had the opportunity to buy it a while ago but for the usual reason, short of cash, I passed it by.
No chance of buying currently, and there has been lots of good comments on here recently.
- Location
- London
Ha. Was thinking just the other day of opening the first of my six pack of the Memoire! Could share one on the train down to Bath if you were so desirous….
- Location
- Potton, Beds
That’s not a bad plan …. I need to pull my finger out and work out once and for all if I’m going. When I tentatively signed up it was a quiet week, but now we’re off to the Harwood the next day…
- Location
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
Some friends down for the weekend so a good excuse for some nice food and wines. They very generously brought a bottle of Cos 2009 which they wanted to share with me but I persuaded them that perhaps another couple of years would benefit it. So the Batailley came off the subs bench.
The Chablis was initially served too cold but warmed up quickly. An absolute delight with home made trout rillettes made with a Rainbow I caught earlier in the week. My only regret with the Droin 2019 PC Chablis is that I didn't buy more. The Batailley 2005 is and has been drinking superbly for a couple of years now. No point hanging around for longer with this. A very capable sub. Perfect with roast lamb. I wanted more red, not sure about our lightweight friends, and as the drunken conversation had veered towards discussing the charms of Naples I decided to open the Taurasi as the nearest link to Naples I could come up with. Know next to nothing about Taurasi but this was a fine wine. Still some tannin showing and it was crying out for food but sadly we'd eaten all the lamb and not bought a cheeseboard. A decent buy from the WS,
The Chablis was initially served too cold but warmed up quickly. An absolute delight with home made trout rillettes made with a Rainbow I caught earlier in the week. My only regret with the Droin 2019 PC Chablis is that I didn't buy more. The Batailley 2005 is and has been drinking superbly for a couple of years now. No point hanging around for longer with this. A very capable sub. Perfect with roast lamb. I wanted more red, not sure about our lightweight friends, and as the drunken conversation had veered towards discussing the charms of Naples I decided to open the Taurasi as the nearest link to Naples I could come up with. Know next to nothing about Taurasi but this was a fine wine. Still some tannin showing and it was crying out for food but sadly we'd eaten all the lamb and not bought a cheeseboard. A decent buy from the WS,