New Year's Day Pork Shoulder and Grits Supper

San Francisco
Tasted Friday, January 1, 2016 by drwine2001 with 288 views

Introduction

A relaxed, wonderful, late afternoon start to the year, courtesy of our good friends.

Flight 1 - Whites (and Bubbles) (5 Notes)

  • 1999 Jacques Selosse Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra-Brut Millésimé

    France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru

    Magnum. Light golden. Gentle mousse. Baked apple and caramel. Medium to full bodied, more oxidative notes than recently disgorged Initial but similar flavor profile and creaminess. Outstanding, completely mature Champagne-a New Year's Day treat!

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  • 2012 Schloss Gobelsburg Riesling Tradition

    Austria, Niederösterreich, Kamptal

    Medium yellow. Dry stone fruit and herbs. Weight somewhere between Federspiel and Smaragd. More vegetal than fruity in the mouth with average acidity. If tasted blind, I would have been more likely to guess Grüner Veltliner than Riesling.

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  • 2012 Weingut Keller Hubacker Riesling Großes Gewächs

    Germany, Rheinhessen

    Light yellow. Interesting mix of yellow fruit, floral notes, and a light dusting of herbs. Medium weight-at the same time mouth coating and still retaining a sense of lightness. Dry, serious, and good soil base but only average acidity. The concentration is there for me but not the tension.

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  • 2006 Vincent Dauvissat (René & Vincent) Chablis 1er Cru La Forest

    France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru

    Medium yellow. Once again, more yellow pear than citrus with some rising salinity. Fairly full, enough acidity to avoid the blowsy, fat feel of some wines of this vintage, subtle but increasing brothiness as it sits in the glass. Like other wines from Dauvissat in big, ripe vintages, I think age has helped pare it down and make it more attractively sleek and Chablis-like. Still, this was well behind an '06 Raveneau Butteaux poured along with it.

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  • 2006 François Raveneau Chablis 1er Cru Butteaux

    France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru

    Medium yellow. Lovely nose of flowers and orchard fruit. Medium weight, chalky base, fine rendering of Chablis saline quality, and excellent acidity for the year. The additional aging from 2012 through the present has really helped bring this wine into focus. When last tasted in 2014, I never thought it would lose its more tropical character and show as more classic Chablis. I was wrong. This was my last bottle, but I can see it hanging in there for at least another 2 to 3 years.

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Flight 2 - Reds (2 Notes)

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