On Jul 1, 2:05*pm, "Bill S." > wrote:
> 2006 Moreau Chablis Valmur – a nice lemon and pineapple nose and with
> time some butter and smoke, clean and smooth.
>
> 2006 Moreau Chablis Le Clos – at first much more reticent in the nose,
> but fuller and sweeter in the mouth, with good length. *Some switched
> allegiance to this one when the nose finally started opening up, while
> I still preferred the Valmur.
>
> 1999 Produttori del Barbaresco Ovello – typical burnt rubber and anise
> nose, with some dark cherry, slightly astringent in the mouth, and
> some cocoa coming in late. Smooth enjoyable wine.
>
> 1990 Les Ormes de Pez – nice sweet claret nose with hints of road tar,
> mellow in the mouth with sweet fruit and good acidity, and a long
> finish. This has developed quite a bit since I last tasted it and is
> in prime drinking time right now. *This one goes into my mental
> drinking list soon.
>
> 1998 Mission Hill Oculus – a great vintage for almost all BC wines and
> this is the flagship wine of a large local winery. Slightly funky ripe
> nose, a smooth sweet core to the wine, and a long sweet finish. No
> rush, good showing.
>
> 1998 Leconfield Cebernets (Coonawara) – the ‘S’ is on the cabernet
> because the wine includes cab sauv, cab franc, merlot and petit
> verdot. edges starting to go a little pale, but dark core colour and a
> nose that showcased plum. Notes of coffee and herbs (the latter
> possibly from American oak?) and lots of acidity. My small stash goes
> into my drinking pile!
>
> 1998 Dom. de Marcoux CNduP – my sniffer was off this day as while I
> noted too little midpalate fruit on the wine, I wasn’t picking up the
> TCA that I usually would and that a couple of other people did. Good –
> that this isn’t the way the wine normally shows. Bad – that I was the
> one that brought this bottle!
>
> 2004 Chapoutier Cote Rotie Les Becasses – clearly a asyrah nose,
> though without the floral element that many Cote Roties exhibit. More
> like a southern Rhone nose with black olive and garrigue in fact.
> Pleasant on palate, with excellent midpalate fruit and a long smooth
> finish. Well balanced and enjoyable now.
>
> 2008 Perseus Invictus – this won’t be familiar to anyone – a small
> recently opened BC winery, and this wine was a Bordeaux bland that the
> perpetrator had one taster believing was a decent Bordeaux. Lovely up
> front fruit in nose and palate, elegant and long with chocolate hints,
> this drinks well now and should age well enough that I intend to
> search out a few bottles for the cellar.
>
> 1986 Ficklin Port – always made from Portuguese varietals, this wine
> wasn’t as sweet as you expect a Port to be, and we were guessing about
> a decade later when we thought it was a real Port. Ficklin doesn’t do
> many vintage dated wines but they are worth looking for – very nice
> wine with lots of tannin and some black pepper in the finish, and no
> rush to drink.

Nice notes thanks. Generally I tend to prefer Valmur to Le Clos.
More interesting stuff going on in the wine and perhaps a tad less
richness.