Birthday wines

Tasted Friday, December 10, 2010 - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 by Alex H with 785 views

Introduction

A good run of birthday wines to mark my 29th.

Flight 1 - Birthday lunch at magma (3 Notes)

Flight 2 - Birthday BBQ at home (8 Notes)

  • 1996 Devaux Champagne D de Devaux Millésimé 85 Points

    France, Champagne

    (12/11/2010)

    Intense lemons lots of acidity to keep it going. A but rough now but will turn into a fine gem with more time. Still lots of lemony fruitiness hinted with some flinty minerality

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  • 2000 Didier Dagueneau Pur Sang 87 Points

    France, Loire Valley, Upper Loire, Pouilly-Fumé

    (12/12/2010)

    Linoleum lifted big structured nose with Birch wood and huge minerality. There is a deep undercurrent of rupe gooseberries and Chardonnay like white fruits. Not immediately enjoyable but also not a typical sb anyone wld ever have had. Unique and really burg Chablis meaursault like.

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  • 1995 Domaine Louis Remy Chambertin 88 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru

    (12/12/2010)

    Dark red fruited with earth and truffles. Regal and poised and reserved. Good depth of pretty red fruits and still youthful.

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  • 1979 Antonin Guyon Gevrey-Chambertin 89 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

    (12/12/2010)

    A bomb of a burg assy nose, full of that beautiful damp black earth interlaced with fruits and compost florals. Lovely palate. Silky voluptuous and whole with mouthfilling beautiful round red strawberry fruits. Kudos on being of suprising quality being just a village and it really tastes wonderfully mature now.

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  • 1999 Torbreck Descendant 88 Points

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa, Barossa Valley

    (12/12/2010)

    Spaish flower scents ,Black spices, black currant pastilles and Brambly red cherries. Balanced but generous wine with juicy gobs of bosomy fruit. Lifted finish and good transition and flow from start to finish.

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  • 1979 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 88 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    (12/12/2010)

    Round soft offering of plush velvety currant fruits. Juicy and sumptuous and more st julien or right bank i thought.

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  • 1980 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    (12/12/2010)

    Now this is a pauliiac with top cru classe nose of capsicum married nicely with high quality weathered leather. Dark earth and truffles with mocha smooth tannins. Classic pauliiac in an unexpected vintage

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  • 1979 Trimbach Gewurztraminer Sélection de Grains Nobles 88 Points

    France, Alsace

    (12/12/2010)

    Now this is a pauliiac with top cru classe nose of capsicum married nicely with high quality weathered leather. Dark earth and truffles with mocha smooth tannins. Classic pauliiac in an unexpected vintage

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Flight 3 (6 Notes)

Birthday dinner At cocotte

  • NV Pol Roger Champagne Brut Réserve 84 Points

    France, Champagne

    (12/13/2010)

    Sweet red Washington apples atop juicy lemon fruits. Fresh and inviting. A surprisingly lovable pol Roger.

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  • 1998 Louis Lequin Bâtard-Montrachet 89 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru

    (12/13/2010)

    Deep and brooding lemony yeasty notes. Complex and layered with loads of lemon minerality and bitter lemon pith. Some butter some creaminess but much overtaken by its aftertaste of rocky minerality. Deep. Already at it's peak but will last 5 years.

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  • 1985 Château Olivier 86 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    (12/13/2010)

    Lots of funk and dirt and floweriness at the start that eventually was overtaken by tea leaves and green peppers. Very classically austere bordeaux. This at first was more st julien margaux than graves but there was an underlying minerality lying beneath.

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  • 1997 Marchesi Mazzei Chianti Classico Fonterutoli 88 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG

    (12/13/2010)

    Fresh brambles and red roses sitting nicely on ripe and polished pure red fruits. With time the typical Italian cats pee and chicken feathers barnyardish powdery milo notes come thru. Cigarette ash came afterwards with still lots of bright red ripe fruits.

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  • 1993 Mount Mary Cabernets Quintet 92 Points

    Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley

    (12/13/2010)

    Beautifully enveloped nose of fresh red attractive fruits and some red flowers. Bordeaux seductiveness and sexiness reverberates from this wine. Delicious fresh wine with it's ultra attractive fruits yet carrying a bitter toned earthiness and truffles underneath. This teases with it's interplay of bitter sweet flavors but ultimately the strong charactered finish takes over and ensures it's terroir of menthol eucalyptus punctuates it's mark in your mind. Excellent pretty wine.

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  • 2000 Harlan Estate The Maiden 88 Points

    USA, California, Napa Valley

    (12/13/2010)

    Enfolding aromas of nutmeg spices and smoky black wood. Dark spicy flavours of black plums, earth, cigar and exotic Indian incense. Long finish with smooth viscous Godiva 90% cocoa dark chocolate smoothies. Refined and luxe

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