Before going to natural wine tasting Friday, I grilled some turkey
burgers Betsy had put in freezer. Wine was the 2007 Leitz Rudesheimer
Klosterlay Kab, about which I have written several positive notes.
Nothing to add except it tastes even better at recent $12 sale price
than it did at $15.

Saturday I was home alone, except for the dog and some flounder filet.
I did the fish in a quasi-meuniere style, along with braised escarole
and some storebought cheese tortellini. In a recent cellar shuffle I
had discovered a forgotten bottle of 1989 Bernard Boisson-Vadot
Meursault. This was part of a $60 "probably OTH" case, which had been
about half drinkable (the 3 bottles of '94 Boillot Puligny alone were
easily worth $20 each, so I ended up ok). Even without opening the
color looked bad, nice cork, but the contents looked like tea and
smelled like cheap sherry. Down the drain. Totally undrinkable.

Due to the color and age, I had brought up a backup, so the 2002 JM
Brocard "Montmains" Chablis 1er was ready to go. And ready to go it
was, a very tasty medium-bodied Chablis. Clean pure pear fruit with a
little green apple, quite ripe but there is a nice backbone of
acidity. Good length, nice finish, some notes of wet stones and new
blossoms. But fruit still dominates (nicely). I quite enjoy, wish I
had more. B+/A-

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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