WTN: Drinky-Drink

1983 Château Tayac Margaux
Not my usual kind of wine. Brought over as a gift from someone who found it in their strange cellar. So I was expecting vinegar but it did much better than that. Pretty dark plummy fruit and good gravelly tannins providing some semblance of structure. But for the most part it is resolved, mellow, mature, not very complex, but I wish there were more people around because then I might have actually finished the bottle. As it was, it was sitting heavy in my stomach and I was bored, so I moved on to:

2007 Domaine de Bellivière Jasnières Les Rosiers
Intense rich juicy tingly mineral fruit. Maybe a bit too intense and oversized (is all this tropical-ness from the oak?) for me right now, but it is certainly “attractive” and I guess I shouldn’t expect too much elegance from this bottling.

2006 Jacques Puffeney Arbois Poulsard M
Love this wine. And you probably do too. Diamond crystal pale trembling silky fragrant Jolly Rancher (strawberry, rhubarb, raspberry, all depends when you sip) goodness. A bit of earth in the middle but such a delicate yet vibrant flavor frame of a wine. Must buy more to investigate these pleasures further.

2007 Ca de Noci Bianco Querciole
We all know the deal. Yeasty and beery but delicious and different (at least to those of us who don't drink this stuff all the time). Fun. Seemed to need air to stretch out so I guess it is only beginning?

2007 Edmunds St. John That Old Black Magic
All that is right and good with California wine. I may not drink enough of the stuff to be up to date on all the latest developments, but I can't contain my happiness while drinking this warm rich gripping strapping savory easy mouthful of a bottle. Goes perfectly with chickpeas in a roasted tomato sauce and I keep opening it for casual wine drinkers trying to convert them to the ESJ Ways. Works so far.

2006 Jacques Puffeney Arbois Poulsard M
Love this wine. And you probably do too.

Yes, I do!

2006 Jacques Puffeney Arbois Poulsard M
Love this wine. And you probably do too.

Yes, I do!

I always knew you were a smart man!

[David M. Bueker]

The ESJ would be truly magic if it came in magnums!

thanks for notes. 83 is a great vintage in Margaux. but pushing it for a lesser CB. Even if you liked Bordeaux!
Old Black Magic works for me, even if usually I'm more a pure Syrah guy./

thanks for notes. 83 is a great vintage in Margaux. but pushing it for a lesser CB. Even if you liked Bordeaux!

I do like Bordeaux, I just don't have much time to explore it because there's so much other wine out there! And for any number of reasons it's not high on my list. But I don't turn them down..

But this wine was not too old. And it was in surprisingly good shape considering the questionable storage. The fruit was still firm and rich (relative terms I suppose, but I think you'd really have to be extreme to find this underfruited). It was just simple, which I suppose is evidence of those lesser CB origins and probably won't change with time.

Old Black Magic works for me, even if usually I'm more a pure Syrah guy./

Me too. Although perhaps you have noticed that the 07 OBM is 71% syrah and 29% grenache. I think that explains why I like it so much because I vaguely remember my experiences with the previous OBM that had more grenache and I was not as excited.

Of course the Los Robles Viejos wines shattered that need for pure syrah as well, so...