Picked a good day to stop by the store!
- N.V. Nicolas Maillart Champagne 1er Cru Brut Platine - France, Champagne
Another really nice bottle of Champagne (from 375ml) from Maillart. Thought this was a bit rockier than I remembered in the past. Great job! - 2008 Domaine Servin Chablis Grand Cru Les Blanchots - France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis Grand Cru
A pretty dense chablis for a 2008 - this was full of briny tones, white peaches, smokey minerals, and oak. Palate was lush, but precise with nice citrus flavors and seashells. This is a notch below Servin's Les Clos. - 2007 F.X. Pichler Riesling Smaragd Dürnsteiner Hollerin - Austria, Niederösterreich, Wachau
Nose of lanolin, chalky minerals, white flowers and petrichor. Palate seemed a bit more reserved than bottles in the past...have to wonder if this wine is shutting down. - 2006 Domaine Chevillon-Chezeaux Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Bousselots - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru
This wine was pure sappy red fruit, with a bit of tree bark and spice. I thought the palate was very accessible at this stage and would have loved to drink this with a roasted chicken or pork tenderloin. Very nice wine! - 2006 Bernard Dugat-Py Gevrey-Chambertin Très Vieilles Vignes - Coeur de Roy - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin
Really hard to get a read on this wine. It had been triple decanted and slow ox'd for 6 hours prior to serving. Still very tightly wound with only dark fruit and brambles emerging. Won't be opening anymore of these for another couple of years.
(Haven't had the Hollerin, but the other 07 FX Smaragds - Kellerberg in particular - are really closed right now. Was surprised though by how well an 07 Prager Bodenstein was showing last night - even though those wines are usually really taut/unyielding when young.)