Some notes from a dinner with friends.
2002 Pol Roger Brut – nice yeasty nose, clean fresh finish, and some good concentration in the middle. Nice bubble.
2004 Latour Giraud Meursault Genevrieres – some mild oxidative notes in the nose put me off a tad. Fair bit of colour – yellowing. Sweet finish. Was better with food if only because it masked the oxidation.
2004 Bouchard Pere et Fils Meursault Genevrieres – green tint to this one, and a clean excellent nose of fruit and citrus. Clean, long, enjoyable.
2004 Frederic Esmonin Ruchottes Chambertin – a great nose with iron, spice, and dark cherry, rich and sweet in the mouth and with excellent acidity levels. Very tasty!
1995 Confuron Contedidot Vosne Romanee Les Suchots – corked!
1999 Lynch Bages – Medium dark colour, good black currant nose, fair bit of acidity, ready to go!
2003 Beaulieu Vineyards Georges de Latour - this should have been a very decent wine. It wasn’t. It had an estery nose, and was overly acidic. Spoiled. Damn!
1998 Ch. De Beaucastel Chateauneuf du Pape – mid colour, good nose, ripe in the mouth (no doubt the vintage) good frit levels and medium length. All wines were tasted blind. We thought this was a New World wine and we were all big Rhone fans!
1985 Balthazar Ress Von Unserm Riesling Eiswein – this Rheingau wine was amber and had a waxy nose that had me thinking of the Loire. Tad of VA, and lots of residual sugar but nicely offset by acidity. Interesting.