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Moillard, La Lagune, Dominus, Lafaurie
Notes from a brown bag blind tasting dinner
2006 Vieux Telegraphe blanc – really hard to pin this one down as it wasn’t showing any specific varietal characteristics (unless you are tuned in to clairette I suppose). Most were thinking chard, but with a bit of pear and tropical fruit. A little simple but very pleasant drinking. 1999 Colombo Cornas Les Mejeans – not the nest showing for this wine, which has always been amazingly forward. This time out it had a clean Rhone nose, medium weight, and was pretty simple if pleasant. 2002 Moillard Pommard-Epenots 1er Cru – this one threw us – it didn’t have a typical nose and was darker than a Burg often is. It finally developed some cherry notes in the ripe fruit nose with time and it also showed more oak than I usually look for in a Burg. Once we knew what it was it was nice enough and certainly needs some time. 1983 Ch. La Lagune - I was a bit worried about how this would be holding up, but it showed beautifully with a mature obviously Bordeaux nose of vanilla and fruit, with a hint of tar, fully mature, smooth on palate and with good length. 1996 Dominus – this didn’t fool us into thinking it a Bordeaux, perhaps because it followed the real thing. I got black fruit and spice in the nose, with a hint of nutmeg, very good flavour concentration and a nice long finish. 1994 Plaisir de merle Cabernet – this Cape wine was showing better than the last couple of bottles I tasted – quite dark, with a warm slightly burnt nose, the fruit seemingly a tad light at first but with good follow-through and concentration 2003 Hazyblur Baroota Shiraz – and now for something completely different! Dark with minty nose with anise, not ovr the top in the mouth, but with good sweet fruit. Needs a long decant. 2005 Groth Cabernet – big dark wine with a big sweet nose and not much doubt about origin. Not huge on palate but still fairly weighty, and not yet developing much in the way of secondary interest, but not bad now. 2003 L’Archange St. Emilion – dark with an iron/blood nose, full bodied but still pretty tannic, and hard to tell where it will go. 2000 Ch. Dereszla Tokaji 5 Putt. – it only took one guess to nail the grape here. A well made example, not cloying and light on its feet with a clean lemony nose, medium sweet and very good length. 2003 Ch. Lafaurie Peyraguey – straw colour, sweet nose with lots of fruit, fairly sweet in the mouth, but decent balance. I prefer them a tad leaner but there were lots of admirers around the table. |
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