so my collegues voted for the theme for hte next tasting and we are going to contrast the last "new world" tasting with burgundies, focusing on wines I read to be more on the leathery and earthy side than fruity.

It is an interesting tasting for me as well , as I do not know these wines, except the one I bought to test recently (Cornu Ladoix), which was the best I ever had.

It is hard to pick a few wines to get a nice teaser of Cote Beaune vs Nuits ( and then also the other regions south of them), producers interpretations of same fields etc. Had to sacrifice some "versusses". But I tried to limit the producers to see if we can split the crowd as to which producer is favourite, and to get some "line vertical" comparisons to see what differences we get when we have the same producer getting grapes from certain fields and buying more nad more as we step up, limit to a few vintage differences, some cru comparisons.

Combination of availability and research I came up with this list:

Drouhin Moulin a vent, beaujolais 2013

Drouhin Laforet 2013
Cornu and fils bourgogne 2012

Drouhin Chorey les beaune 2012
Cornu and fils Ladoix vielles vignes 2010

Cornu and fils Ladoix Les Carriers 2012
Cornu and fils Ladoix 1er cru La Corvee 2012

Jérôme Chezeaux Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Rue de Chaux 2010


Any insights, funny stories, comments on the running order?

The store guy had a funny story that the Cornu and fils Ladoix vielles vignes will be recognizably closer in style to the Nuit st. Georges than the Les Carriers, as the field it is from is crossing the border to cote nuits.
So I wonder if I should break the vertical order and have the vielles vignes second last?

I went for Jerome 1er cru instead of a Drouhin 1er cru simply because the price for Drouhin went up drastically for 1er cru, and those in the same price range did not sound as appealing as the Jerome.

Im also contemplating what snack food to use for a tasting like this.

And typically for my luck with wines, a lot of them was the last available bottle in town, so if I turn out to love some of them, I will not be able to get more. that's my luck.

I also bought the last bottles of m. st jemms les murettes cornas 2006 that I loved so much and they are never getting that wine or their crozes hermitage again...

On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 5:52:43 PM UTC+2, Michael Nielsen wrote:

Found another Moulin a Vent to compare to the other one:

Moulin-à-Vent, Domaine des Rosiers 2012

On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:35:49 AM UTC-4, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 5:52:43 PM UTC+2, Michael Nielsen wrote:
>
> Found another Moulin a Vent to compare to the other one:
>
> Moulin-à-Vent, Domaine des Rosiers 2012

Just curious why you would include two Moulin a Vents in a Burgundy tasting?

> > Found another Moulin a Vent to compare to the other one:
> >
> > Moulin-à-Vent, Domaine des Rosiers 2012
>
> Just curious why you would include two Moulin a Vents in a Burgundy tasting?

first and foremost because the tasting theme morphed from being "light earthy leathery wines opposing new world fruity wines" (included also barolo/barberesco/bardolino/burgundy and beajolais) to being burgundy.

Secondly, some consider beajolais a part of burgundy and moulin a vents as the most burgundian wines from there. And I put them in as white-replacement (gamay is called the red white wine) as noone at the tasting likes white wine (except when I tricked them with Kistler chardonnay - they actually loved that one).

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