All of us Northern Rhone old hands will think of Jaboulet or Graillot when it comes to Crozes-Hermitage (Chapoutier are crap, obviously): these days we should also think of Domaine du Colombier. His wines are very expressive and merit serious consideration. Crozes-Hermitage ‘Cuvee Gaby’ 2007, Domaine du Colombier The nose is quite unfeasibly peppery, both [...]
Dan, Non-Stinky Jeff, the partner and I dined at earlier. It is a brilliant place to eat and on Mondays they charge a fiver corkage if you want to take your own wines along. We did. Some bloody good wines if I say so myself. Chambolle-Musigny 2006, Dujac Fils et Pere The nose is very [...]
Earlier tonight we ate reasonably well and had some truly mind-bendingly good wines. This is what life is all about. One wine, however, disappointed. Shame, Olivier Humbrecht, shame! Brut Chardonnay 1996, Pol Roger A wonderful, dense nose of bread and digestive biscuits. Very complex, and just beginning to show a reasonable degree of maturity. That [...]
Cabernet Sauvignon 1999, Moss Wood A dirty blackcurrant nose. This is odd, if it wasn’t for the super-ripeness I’d think this was a really earthy Claret. But, let us be honest, it is more fun than that. I think the oak treatment is pretty classy. And, yeah, it is boozy. The palate is quite silky [...]
I just thought it would be fun to record me raving about a couple of wines and see if I said anything amusing. I suppose I did in the last one. Cote-Rotie Classique 2005, Clusel-Roch [audio title="Audio tasting note on Clusel-Roch Cote-Rotie Classque 2005" src="/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/CluselRoch.mp3" align="aligncenter"] It was an amazing wine, one of my very [...]
I really enjoyed Domaine de Thalabert Crozes 2006 from Jaboulet at the wine trade fair on Thursday and, of course, every bottle of Graillot is a delight, but this is also a serious example of the appellation. Colombier Hermitage is what the clever lover of Hermitage buys these days. Crozes-Hermitage ‘Cuvee Gaby’ 2004, Domaine du [...]
I’m just engaged in a little exchange of text messages with a chum. He asks if he should buy 2005 Jamet Cote-Rotie for £20 a bottle. Brilliant wine at an extremely keen price; I told him to snap them up. He then asked about 2004 and I said that was a bit less interesting but [...]
Sometimes when you try a wine it really hits your sweet spot. Sometimes these wines are really great bargains, and you feel really good about drinking them. I remember buying Clusel-Roch when I was at Oxford and I was deeply moved by their total elegance and refinement. Cote-Rotie 2005, Clusel-Roch This has astonishingly lovely blackberry [...]
This was the second bottle we took to wonderful yesterday. They charge a fiver corkage on Mondays, which is pretty good. When I opened my bottle of this four years ago it seemed to be lacking some of the pleasure that this displays. Cornas “Vieilles Fontaines” 1995, Alain Voge Good earthy complexity on the nose, [...]
2003 in Europe was a bonkers vintage, so hot. All the wines I had in the flat that summer got ruined. Many wines are just hideously over ripe, often too alcoholic, and occasionally sweet. But sometimes, one of them has style. Cornas Domaine de Rochepertuis 2003, Jean Lionnet This is really crazy man, really ripe [...]
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