2003 Jean Marc Morey Chassagne-Montrachet "La Bergerie"

[wondersofwine]

A half bottle of this wine to accompany dinner at Corduroy (second floor of Sheraton Four Points Hotel on K St. NW, DC) during restaurant week dinner. Am I lucky or not. Didn't even realize my visit to DC coincided with restaurant week where you have access to all kinds of specials at lunch and dinner around town.
I did the three-course dinner ($30 excluding beverage) choosing as first course the parsnip soup with tarragon cream in the center (yummy!), second course of sea bass with green beans, and third course of cocoa ice cream with two blackberries. (Chassagne-Montrachet tastes lousy with cocoa ice cream BTW). The wine went beatifully with the pureed parsnip and tarragon cream soup and quite well with the bass.

This was my third Chassagne Montrachet from Jean Marc Morey, each from a different vineyard. I like his style. I was concerned when I saw the vintage (2003) which was not listed on the wine list, but it came out okay in the terribly hot summer. Pale gold color. Nose of paraffin, vanilla and white fruits. Flavors of light vanillin, minerals and white peach. Slight smoky touch. Medium bodied with a rather lengthy finish. I prefer the Jean Marc Morey C-M "Chenevottes" which had a slight butterscotch flavor rather than the vanillin, but this was good. The wine perhaps was not quite as mineral-driven as other vintages, but not flabby either. Some silken softness caressed the palate.

[TheEngineer]

WOW, how do you do it.. Everytime I get to a city with that going on, the tickets are all sold out..... I never get to go.

Although one time I did get to go to a restaurant in toronto that I was familiar with during these types of times. The restaurant was overfilled and the food was not up to their usual standards....too many people....victim of their own success I guess.

[wondersofwine]

Engineer,
The first time I visited Cape Cod and Nantucket, I found out AFTER making reservations that the Nantucket Wine Festival was that week so I ferried back and forth from Cape Cod for the events. I also visited Mendocino (only once) and happened to hit that town's food and wine fest, and I had a professional conference in New Orleans (pre-Katrina) that coincided with a New Orleans food and wine festival and got into one of the dinners there. One might think that God appreciates good food and wine too since He sends it my way (and is instrumental in the growing of food and cultivation of vines, etc.)

[This message has been edited by wondersofwine (edited 01-18-2007).]