Friday, August 01, 2008
Not much to update
I haven't been doing much tasting over the last month, and I unfortunately have not been able to find my tasting notebook since I moved, so I haven't had much to post lately. I do have a tasting scheduled in a couple weeks (Coche red wines) so I will post on that after it happens.
A few odds and ends: I was at a tasting of recently released, NV Champagnes in preparation for a review a writer friend of mine is planning. The highlight was a producer I'd never heard of, Bernard Bremont. We had a couple of different bottlings that were excellent. Not to our taste at all was something called Pol Roger Rich, which is a new bottling with a higher dosage (i.e., more sugar) than usual. Boring and unpalatably sweet.
My tasting group met about 3 weeks ago and the theme was a Clos Vougeot overview. Overall, the wines justified their reputation as one of the weakest grand crus, especially the bottle from Vincent Girardin (1999, I think, but I am not sure). Hudelot-Noellat's 1990 and 1999 were quite good, and Mongeard-Mugneret and Daniel Rion 1985 were respectable, but the evening did nothing to make me believe that this vineyard deserves to be a grand cru.
A few odds and ends: I was at a tasting of recently released, NV Champagnes in preparation for a review a writer friend of mine is planning. The highlight was a producer I'd never heard of, Bernard Bremont. We had a couple of different bottlings that were excellent. Not to our taste at all was something called Pol Roger Rich, which is a new bottling with a higher dosage (i.e., more sugar) than usual. Boring and unpalatably sweet.
My tasting group met about 3 weeks ago and the theme was a Clos Vougeot overview. Overall, the wines justified their reputation as one of the weakest grand crus, especially the bottle from Vincent Girardin (1999, I think, but I am not sure). Hudelot-Noellat's 1990 and 1999 were quite good, and Mongeard-Mugneret and Daniel Rion 1985 were respectable, but the evening did nothing to make me believe that this vineyard deserves to be a grand cru.
