An impromptu wine dinner

An amazing dinner with lovely people. I can't quite believe my good fortune to be the recipient of such generosity.

• 1996 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

  France, Champagne

  Ripe, tangy, gorgeous toasty edge, deep and mineral. Brilliant!

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• 2008 Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Meix Chavaux

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault

  Mouthwatering nose, bitingly sharp on the palate, grapefruity without being fruity, a nice lick of oak. Fantastic, mouthfilling, thrilling.

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• 2004 Domaine Roulot Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru

  Muted after the more youthful Meix Chevaux, this was complex, spicy, very fine, very lovely, but much more sedate and middle-aged than the bottle we had in January.

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• 2005 François Lumpp Givry 1er Cru Crausot

  France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Givry 1er Cru

  Served blind, this had us groping around in the realm of 10 year old Vosne grand crus. Smooth, sappy, red fruited, utterly beautiful and beguiling.

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• 2000 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands-Echezeaux

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru

  This too was served blind. Beautiful, understated elegance, spice, persistence. Pegged as an aristocrat before we knew its identity.

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• 1998 Bruno Giacosa Barbera d'Alba Falletto di Serralunga

  Italy, Piedmont, Alba, Barbera d'Alba

  Hard to pin down the loveliness of this, lifted, hot and herbal, but utterly enchanting.

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• 2001 Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Grésy Barbaresco Martinenga

  Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barbaresco

  Not that different from the Giacosa, resolved, luminous, penetrating, lovely

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• 2006 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel

  Germany, Nahe

  Mouthwatering, laser-like focus, unreasonably delicious

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