Lyon Den
Tasted Sunday, November 6, 2016 by Grinner with 573 views
We have to love the first Sunday of November! Once again we delved into our cellars for 10 year old wines and found no consistent theme like last year's 2005 Bordeaux tasting. Ok fine. We'll do 2 flights of 4 CdP's each with a ringer. Then 4 flights of Bordeaux varietals from all over with some add'l ringers. Everything got a 4 hour plus double decant, then brown bagged for the shell game. Any ringers in the wrong bottle shape for the flight got moved into a slope shouldered bottle for the CdP flights and a high shouldered bottle for the Bordeaux based flights. Otherwise I'd get a clue as I poured them. There was a mix of glasses out there including Riedel, Schott Zwiesel, and Spiegelau. A couple of Riedel Syrah glasses made it fun to compare later.
We're in a habit of having a sparkler or two while gathering. Any excuse to make duck fat fries!
Unblind taste for perspective.
To swing our palates back to Bordeaux varietals.
Way more approachable than the '05 Bordeaux at ten years old, these wines were fun and challenging in a double blind tasting. We finally killed of most of the bottles on day 3 with a gang of golfers after playing Emerald Valley in ridiculously good November weather in Eugene! Ahhh! Thanks to all, especially Denise. See you next year for the '07 CdP's!
2006 Champagne Copinet Champagne Cuvée Marie Etienne 90 Points
France, Champagne
First of 35 ten year old wines this day and it's nice to have something like this to calm you down! Same as 7/16 bottle: it's a dry wine with tart green apple and white stone fruit notes. Lots of white citrus on the backside with some minerality.
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2006 Moët & Chandon Champagne Grand Vintage 91 Points
France, Champagne
A little more color than the previous bubbly, more pear and bread notes too. The apple, citrus, and chalky notes overlap. Nice long finish, winner by a nose...
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