Jim Clary's
Tasted Friday, November 3, 2006 by winefool with 1,426 views
This was the bi-Annual meeting of the Chris Freemott tasting group. Scott Manlin generously hosted the evening at Jim and Shiela Clary's absolutely stunning home in Lincoln Park. Scott started out with a very specific vision for flights and we all did our best to fill them in. Of course in true Hedonist fashion, the food was carefully chosen and overseen by Scott in his 'Executive Chef' role overseeing the efforts of Matt, our more or less adopted 'house chef' from Knightsbridge. Rare and delicous Salumi from Mario Batali's fathers place, Dover Sole flown in fresh from England, and custom dry aged prime beef from Gepparths, and a point cheeses sourced directly from Tekla were the highlights.
I did my best to capture notes on as many wines as I could, but as you can see, it went down hill pretty fast about two thirds of the way through. I have included points for my own reference in CT, but they will not really be relevant to anyone else except to highlight which wines I enjoyed relative to the others. I'm sure most would have scored some of these wines (especially the bordeaux) higher than I do . Caveat Emptor!
In this flight, my ability to take detail notes really fell off and all I have is general impressions from here on out!
The three La Meals showed pretty well as I recall, but I don't have detailed notes on any of them. Perhaps someone else can fill in?
1998 Chapoutier La Meal
1999 Chapoutier La Meal
2000 Chapoutier La Meal
In this flight we had:
1967 Caillou
1997 d'Yquem
At the end of the day, we all managed to soldier through the jungle of great wines and food, with only one minor casualty at the end... As always, a good time was had by all. A special thanks to Shiela for putting up with all of us hooligans in her home with aplomb!
1988 Krug Champagne Vintage Brut 95 Points
France, Champagne
From Mag. Typical delicious 88 Krug, showing even a bit better from Mag. Somehow seemed a bit more open than the last time I had it.
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