Paul organized a great dinner at Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck - a very fun evening with plenty of good company, food and wine. Nice to meet some of the local Singapore wine geeks, and enjoy some really great Peking Duck with a broad mix of wines.
2007 Maison Lou Dumont Meursault
Makes a pleasant first impression with bright white fruited flavours over toasted hazelnut and creamy flavours, but it gets boring and monotonic very quickly, becoming softer and flabbier without much definition or precision. There isn't much acidity here, and it's not particularly interesting to drink after the first few sips.
2005 Henri Boillot Puligny-Montrachet
Very impressive. Scents of minerals and green apples lead into a palate that's very complex and layered with all sorts of citrus and white fruited flavours, toasty and chalky accents and bitter almond notes providing a nice counterpoint to the rich sweetness of the fruit. Really nicely balanced and structured with bright acids keeping it very precise and refreshing, though with some air it starts to shut down and become more reticent as the fruit retreats and the sulfur becomes increasingly dominant.
2007 Weingut Keller Westhofener Morstein Riesling Großes Gewächs
Starts out a little tight and reticent aromatically at first, but quickly expands and opens with some air, developing a beautiful perfume of flowers, nectarines and minerals with some exotic lychee notes emerging with even more time. There's a sense of incredible finesse and lightness in the mouth; this is packed with layers of citrus and tropical fruits, florality and saline minerality, but feels amazingly light with tremendous length and presence.
1999 Domaine Maume Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Etelois
Second knockout bottle I've had from Maume in the recent past, and I'm really tempted to get a bunch for the cellar. The aromatics are hard to move away from, an incredible perfume combining all sorts of exotic spicy notes with fresh red fruited flavours, floral elements and touches of leathery funk. Very polished and bright in the mouth, packed with spice-tinged cherries and red berried fruit over gentle tannins and bright acids that keep it very refreshing and give a sense of real freshness and precision to the flavours. Beautifully balanced with barely any sense of weight, tremendous depth and persistence - fantastic wine.
2007 Inman Family RRV Pinot Noir
Comes across a little more confected and ripe aromatically than other bottles I've had, but in the mouth it's just as I recollect - full of fresh, sappy Pinot fruit tinged with spice and rose petals with a spine of bright acidity underneath and a sense of polish and precision to the flavours. Lovely.
2007 Lucien Le Moine Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts
Very tight aromatically at first, but with some air it becomes much more accessible as scents of cardamom, cumin and other spices emerge around a core of rich red fruited flavours. Very polished and elegant, surprisingly drinkable now with a lot of the structure coming from the acidity and rather gentle tannins on the back end.
1996 Château Langoa Barton
Lovely stuff - elegant cassis and red fruited flavours framed by graphite, cedar and developing leathery and earthy notes in an elegant, medium weight package. There's bright acidity underneath and the whole package is very enjoyable now (after being decanter a few hours), though with the stuffing and balance to age a while.
N.V. Jacques Selosse Champagne Brut Initiale
Lovely stuff - elegant cassis and red fruited flavours framed by graphite, cedar and developing leathery and earthy notes in an elegant, medium weight package. There's bright acidity underneath and the whole package is very enjoyable now (after being decanter a few hours), though with the stuffing and balance to age a while.