TN: 2 good wines, neither exactly what I expected (MSR, Gevrey)
On Feb 7, 12:32*pm, "Bi!!" > wrote:
> On Feb 7, 12:25 pm, DaleW > wrote:
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> > For the first time in several days I felt I could really smell
> > Saturday, and looked forward to dinner. While Betsy cooked I opened an
> > apertif, the 2008 Gunther Steinmetz Riesling. Without any further
> > descriptor, I expected a Mosel QbA to be off-dry, but this was pretty
> > dry. Lemon, ginger, a little green pea. Pleasant, light-bodied, not
> > especially long but pretty good value at $13/liter (CSW with
> > discount). B-/B
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> > Dinner was a braised chuck pot roast, with mashed potatoes and roasted
> > kale. Wine was the 2001 Dujac Pere and Fils Gevrey-Chambertin. This
> > negociant Gevrey had nice sweet sappy black fruit, accented with just
> > a hint of sandalwood. Really lovely Pinot Noir. The one thing that
> > seemed to be missing for me was any real soil tones. My mental image
> > of Gevrey seems to center on earth, and I just wasn't finding that
> > here. Still, good acidity, some easy tannins, fine fruit, quite a nice
> > wine. B+/B
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> > Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an
> > excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I
> > wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I
> > offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of
> > consistency.
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> Dujac is a personal favorite of mine. *Your discription is consistant
> with my experience with Dujac's style. *I typically find a lot of
> black fruits and a deep sappy note in most of their wines.
I can't drink Dujac as often as I wish, but the sappiness and slightly
exotic note are what I think of. This negociant wine was really nice,
but didn't seem to have quite the sense of place of the domaine wines.
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