PH Wine Merchant Burg Night

Atlanta
Tasted Sunday, May 6, 2012 by Biskuit with 670 views

Introduction

Started off with champagne, went into four interesting paired flights, then a one off "surprise" and a bonus white to wrap us up.

Flight 1 - Champagne Intro (1 Note)

  • 2002 Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Brut Millésimé 93 Points

    France, Champagne

    Love this grower champagne, I'm a sucker for this kind of distinctive blend of yeast and acidity and enough sugar to make it interesting. There's a yeasty caramel brownie quality to the nose, rich and crisp at once, touches of aged gouda, lemon cake, nice balanced acidity. From Epernay / Oger.

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Flight 2 - Vosne-Romanee Flight (2 Notes)

08 vs 09. Same grower - Grivot - but the 09 is Pascal Marchand (negociant). Both villages wines. While at first I liked the purity of the 08, after some time in the glass, the 09 beat the 08 for me, and I think it has more stuffing to go the distance as a very good villages wine.

Flight 3 - Pommard Flight (2 Notes)

Again, 08 vs 09. Voillot's Les Pezerolles kicked Marchand's Les Epenots' butt. The Les Pezerolles is just my kind of Pommard - elegant stuff.

Flight 4 - Gevrey-Chambertin Flight (2 Notes)

Both 09s, both so young of course, the Serafin Vielles Vignes was bigger, meatier - I preferred the intrigue of the Combe Aux Moines from Marchand.

  • 2009 Marchand & Tawse / Pascal Marchand Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Combe aux Moines 93 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

    A few hours of air in open bottle. Someone at the table called this and they are exactly right - the nose is baby poop inasmuch as that can be a good thing. There's a certain stage of baby poop (still on breast milk, TMI?) that smells exactly like this. There's a nice floral quality to it, a touch of smoky tobacco. Dark fruit with a mineral edge. This has years to go but going in a great direction. (1 barrel made??? Grapes from Domaine Fourrier)

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  • 2009 Serafin Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes 92 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

    Big crazy nose. Mineral floral beef jerky, lush dark fruit, VERY young, but I expect really good things of this down the road. (60% 1er grapes, 6 barrels total made) A few hours air in open bottle.

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Flight 5 - Charmes-Chambertin Flight (2 Notes)

Two heavy hitters, both VERY impressive, both very young. The Dugat-Py edges out the Roty for me, but not by much.

Flight 6 - Bonus - Echezeaux (1 Note)

  • 2008 Lucien Le Moine Echezeaux 93 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru

    Baby killing. Intense nose, powerful, a touch of heat actually . Not sure how long this was open, but it needed more air. Floral and earthy with a touch of popcorn in the nose, dark cherry - mouth is like "heavy silk" velvety, but some hard tannins, bacon/lardo type notes as well. Give this a decade or so.

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Flight 7 - Bonus - White - Meursault (1 Note)

The oldest wine of the night, and the only one (well, also the Champagne) that's in a perfect drinking spot right now. Love this. Great value too - the best bang for the buck of the night.

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