WTN: Ducru, Clerc Milon, Chadwick, Sassontondo
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:21 pm
Lunch notes for September:
Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino di Sardegna – damn! forgot to note the vintage. Probably 2010. Recent, anyway. Gold with green hints, lots of stuffing and good balance, and a nice hit of acidity at the end. Added some tropical fruit in the nose as it warmed.
2005 Guyon Volnay Clos des Chenes – good colour, decent raspberry nose, a touch lean in the middle, restrained, with decent balance. OK but no more than that.
1988 Ch. Clerc Milon – I brought this as I am doing a vertical at a dinner in a week and wanted a reference point. Good colour, nice claret nose that highlighted gravel, earth, capsicum and dark fruit. A tad austere and lots of acidity, as befits this vintage.
2001 Ch. Moulin Rouge – this Medoc cru bourgeois had a ripe smoky nose with soy sauce and meat elements and was slightly warm. Has tannin, but ready to drink up.
1994 Ch. Ducru Beaucaillou – this vintage is always a chore to guess! Good colour, strong edges, sweet fruit nose, well balanced wine with medium length. Good show!
1999 San Lorenzo Sassotondo – made from the Ciliegiolo grape (which for some reason I always have trouble saying). Ripe leather and plum nose, ripe fruit on palate and decent length.
2004 Perticaia Montefalco Sagrantino – sadly, this wine was corked. It showed decent fruit levels but also an astringency and we’ll never know how good it could have been.
2001 Errazuriz Chadwick – this expensive Maipo Valley cabernet had a nice mellow cab nose, no poop or nuts like the last one I tasted. Medium bodied and smooth in the mouth, elegant and with good length. Much better than a previous bottle.
We still had cheese to go, so I offered up my back up bottle to replace the corked one from someone else (after a democratic vote, of course – wouldn’t want to overload them with too much wine).
1994 Ch. Bouscasse Madiran (Alain Brumont) – damn it if Jenise didn’t go straight to Tannat after I taunted her that she wouldn’t be able to guess this one! And then a short step from there to Madiran. Still a good dark colour, and showing a ripish nose. A brooding hard wine that is only now starting to loosen up and it went well with the cheese, which took the edge off the tannin. a savage wine barely domesticated at this point.
Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino di Sardegna – damn! forgot to note the vintage. Probably 2010. Recent, anyway. Gold with green hints, lots of stuffing and good balance, and a nice hit of acidity at the end. Added some tropical fruit in the nose as it warmed.
2005 Guyon Volnay Clos des Chenes – good colour, decent raspberry nose, a touch lean in the middle, restrained, with decent balance. OK but no more than that.
1988 Ch. Clerc Milon – I brought this as I am doing a vertical at a dinner in a week and wanted a reference point. Good colour, nice claret nose that highlighted gravel, earth, capsicum and dark fruit. A tad austere and lots of acidity, as befits this vintage.
2001 Ch. Moulin Rouge – this Medoc cru bourgeois had a ripe smoky nose with soy sauce and meat elements and was slightly warm. Has tannin, but ready to drink up.
1994 Ch. Ducru Beaucaillou – this vintage is always a chore to guess! Good colour, strong edges, sweet fruit nose, well balanced wine with medium length. Good show!
1999 San Lorenzo Sassotondo – made from the Ciliegiolo grape (which for some reason I always have trouble saying). Ripe leather and plum nose, ripe fruit on palate and decent length.
2004 Perticaia Montefalco Sagrantino – sadly, this wine was corked. It showed decent fruit levels but also an astringency and we’ll never know how good it could have been.
2001 Errazuriz Chadwick – this expensive Maipo Valley cabernet had a nice mellow cab nose, no poop or nuts like the last one I tasted. Medium bodied and smooth in the mouth, elegant and with good length. Much better than a previous bottle.
We still had cheese to go, so I offered up my back up bottle to replace the corked one from someone else (after a democratic vote, of course – wouldn’t want to overload them with too much wine).
1994 Ch. Bouscasse Madiran (Alain Brumont) – damn it if Jenise didn’t go straight to Tannat after I taunted her that she wouldn’t be able to guess this one! And then a short step from there to Madiran. Still a good dark colour, and showing a ripish nose. A brooding hard wine that is only now starting to loosen up and it went well with the cheese, which took the edge off the tannin. a savage wine barely domesticated at this point.