WTN: 4 for 4: ESJ, Canon, Baudry, Pepiere

Trying to drink some good wines before going to France

Lamb chops, mustard potato salad, squash with zaa’tar, broccolini
1999 Edmunds St John Wylie-Fenaughty Syrah
Now this is what I want in Cali syrah. Smoke, black fruits, black olives. Resolved tannins, integrated acids, nice length.A-/B+

Last park concert of season (rock-ish instead of usual jazz), gazpacho, prosciutto, pesto/pea pasta, spicy salad
2021 Baudry Chinon Rose
Pale, full-bodied, fleshy red fruits with good acid. B/B+

2017 Pepiere Briords Muscadet
Brisk, saline, classic. B+/A-

Cleaning out fridge, Th was chicken with honey on wilted collards, assorted leftovers
1983 Canon (375ml)
Elegant, fully mature, delicious. Savory mushroom/cocoa aromas over nice black cherry fruit, some leather/cigarbox, refined. A-

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

Trying to drink some good wines before going to France...

Nice! I hope you also plan to drink some good wines in France!

Love the 83 Canon. Drank through nearly a case acquired at various times on the auction market. I’m all out now and can’t find anymore at a reasonable tariff. Glad to hear it is still going strong even from a split!

Patrick, (fighting losing battle) a split is a 187 ml, 375 is a half!!
I think this was my last 83 Canon, Hard to find reasonable these days as you say.

Rahsaan, first night at La Cagouille (seafood), '14 Dauvissat AC at 70 euros. LAst night (duck breast at "home") less sucessful, I forgot most shops close Sunday afternoon, a NSG from producer I don't know was passable, but what there was at a Carrefours Express,

Rahsaan, first night at La Cagouille (seafood), '14 Dauvissat AC at 70 euros. LAst night (duck breast at "home") less sucessful, I forgot most shops close Sunday afternoon, a NSG from producer I don't know was passable, but what there was at a Carrefours Express,

Sounds like you're off to a good start! It's probably too late, but La Derniere Goutte (of the famed Anglophone circuit) is one of the few (only?) real wine shops open on Sunday: https://ldgparis.com/

Yeah, I used to fight the split/half battle too, but I gave up and joined the masses. Plus, “split” rolls off the tongue much better than “half-bottle”.

[David M. Bueker]

Never surrender!