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- VouvrayHead - 12-05-2006
These are the 3.
Michel Parraud 2000 Cornas cuvee "Sarah"
Jean Garaudet 2002 Monthelie
Napa Wine Company 2001 Napa Valley Zinfandel
3 people brought a wine each to go with mushrooms, roasted taters, and a salad.
2 people ranked the Cornas (my wine) highest, one person ranked the Burgundy highest. Everyone ranked the Zin last.
My notes:
Cornas: Really gamey at first, but blew off after 20 minutes of decanting. Still, lots of earthy meatiness, some dark very ripe fruit, too. Dry, mature, and very good. 92 ($28)
Monthelie: Beautiful nose, almost textured. Dark raspberries and forest floor. The mouthfeel is silky with raspberry, strawberry, and wet tree-forest earth. Rich in flavor saturation, but not heavy. 90 ($20)
Zin: Very nice mouthfeel, lots of blueberry and blackberry fruit, some vanilla and other oak notes. Maybe a bit past its prime judging by lack of spice. Still, very nice. 88 ($17)
Average subjective scores of the 3 of us:
Cornas 92
Burg 91.66
Zin 89.34
The person that ranked the Burg very high (94) is knowledgable about wine but had never had a burgundy the really shows terroir. This was his first and maybe he was a bit overenthusiastic (if such a thing can be said towards Burgundy)... Glad he liked it so well, though. It was nice wine.
- TheEngineer - 12-05-2006
THanks for your notes! Sounded like a good night with veyr little wine if any left over!
I've had a few Monthelie's now from Lafon's 2002 that now appear to be closing down, kinda just like you said, the nose is still good but less on the palate.
- VouvrayHead - 12-05-2006
No wine leftover at all [img]http://wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
I didn't think this particular Monthelie was closing down, but the last one I had a couple of months ago definitely was.
Any good ideas about knowing when a wine might be in that unfortunate phase?
- wondersofwine - 12-05-2006
With red Burgundy--they tend to close down about three or four years after harvest and reopen maybe eight or ten years after harvest (but there are always exceptions--the 1999 vintage seems not to have closed down at all). White Burgundies also go through a closed down phase but someone with more experience than I have told me the pattern is even less predictable than with red Burgundies. German Rieslings at the higher pradikat levels go through an awkward "adolescent" phase and then show secondary traits as they emerge and may be marvelous at 20 or 25 years. If in doubt I look at charts such as Wine Spectator or Robert Parker publish that make generalizations by region and vintage saying for example 1983 past prime, 1989 drink, 1999 drink or hold, 2004 not ready, etc.
- VouvrayHead - 12-06-2006
Thanks!