I will be a guest of Drouhin in October and will ask them where they source
their St. Veran


"Mark Lipton" > wrote in message
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> DaleW wrote:
>
>>>1999 Saintsbury Reserve Pinot Noir (Carneros)
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>>
>> Don't remember having the 1999, but long a favorite producer.
>
> Yeah, they're one of my favorite Carneros producers (of still wine). I
> find that their normal cuvée and their reserve bottling are more to my
> liking than either their Garnet (too simple) and their Brown Ranch too
> extracted.
>
>
>> Glad to hear it was good -buying 3+ year SB makes you braver than me!
>> I think I liked the couple bottles of the Crossings I tried, but it
>> was never quite at the level of the better vintages of Babich or
>> Cairnbrae "Stones"
>
> I've had the advantage of visiting Wairau River Winery in Marlborough
> with Ian Hoare and Lord St. H. back in '01. There we were educated
> about the aging potential of (certain) Marlborough SBs. And then, of
> course, we have white Bdx as the classic exemplar (though the semillon
> might have something to do with that, too).
>
>
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>>
>>>1989 Ch. Montrose St. Estephe
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>> No brett?
>
> Not a trace. If anything, this wine was squeaky clean. Now, I am
> notoriously Brett-tolerant, but Jean is not and she agreed with my
> assessment, so I think that we can safely conclude that this one bottle,
> at least, was fairly free of taint.
>
>
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>>
>>>2005 Joseph Drouhin St. Veran
>>>good year like '05 in a region like St. Veran. This is Chardonnay from
>>>the Beaujolais region,
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>>
>> Sounds great. I always thought this was Maconnais, thanks for new
>> info.
>>
>
> My apologies to you, sibeer and all readers for a sloppily worded
> description. As usual, Joseph has it right: St. Véran is a weird AOC
> that has two distinct and unconnected subunits (north and south) that
> straddle Pouilly-Fuissé AOC. Additionally, while it is entirely within
> the Mconnais department (but not the canton), the southern subunit is
> also located within the boundaries of Beaujolais AOC. This includes the
> communities of St. Vérand, Leynes, Chnes and Chaintre. Lest you think
> that I am channeling Claude Kolm or Alan Urschinko, I will note that
> this information is gleaned from my excellent wine atlases by Hachette
> and H. Johnson.
>
> More to the point, I have no idea where Drouhin's sources lie within St.
> Véran, so let's call it a Mconnais wine and have done with it. Sorry!
>
> Mark Lipton
>
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