'02 Musar at the Morris
The Morris, SF
Tasted Wednesday, August 1, 2018 by RajivAyyangar with 168 views
Introduction
PY, OL, DC
Butter!!! and Tartine bread.
Smoky roast duck.
The Morris, SF
Tasted Wednesday, August 1, 2018 by RajivAyyangar with 168 views
PY, OL, DC
Butter!!! and Tartine bread.
Smoky roast duck.
2008 Stéphane Cossais Montlouis-sur-Loire Le Volagré 91 Points
France, Loire Valley, Touraine, Montlouis-sur-Loire
A bit of age and hints of light oak. Like Ch. Breze. Very nice. High minus acid. Well integrated and slightly savory. Slight honey (botrytis?).
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2007 Stéphane Cossais Montlouis-sur-Loire Le Volagré 91 Points
France, Loire Valley, Touraine, Montlouis-sur-Loire
Beautiful. Fresher than the 08. Long finish. Slight noble reduction. Light underripe peach with wax.
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NV Vouette et Sorbée Champagne Blanc d'Argile Brut Nature 87 Points
France, Champagne
Green and yellow apple. High plus acid. Dry (brut nature). Crisp and fresh. Moderate autolysis. A bit dilute and short.
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2000 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clavoillon 92 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru
Light dried peach and wax, savory milky wood. Peach in amber. Beautiful and lithe. Fresh mushroom. White truffle. Elevated acid. Medium body. Lighter Coche-like style. Dried tangerine embedded in clotted cream.
Like Coche seen through a translucent peach. Less precise flavors. Brighter reduction. White truffle. Super integrated and no oxidation.
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2002 Chateau Musar 92 Points
Lebanon, Bekaa Valley
Out of the bottle - sweet dried berry tamari. Mid-inflection and delicious and ripe but still reticent. Though the aromatics arent complex, the body, ripeness, and overall sweetness are more intense than Musar’s of this age usually are just out of the bottle. Consistent with my “Bold” classification of this.
Gave it a vigorous decant - let’s see if it comes out of its shell or if it’s in that post-primary-pre-tertiary phase (where ‘99 seemed to be a couple years ago).
At dinner:
Liquorice (intense salty liquorice) and dried roses. Intense black currant. Slightly tertiary. Bold and wonderful. Distracting.
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2002 Capafons-Ossó Priorat Mas de Masos 91 Points
Spain, Catalunya, Priorat
Deep ruby with some garnet at the rim. Beautiful ripe nose with deep blackberry and well integrated cinnamon. Dry, medium plus body. Slightly elevated alcohol, elevated acid, medium tannins. Beautiful fruit and leaves on the finish. The fruit has a slight under and overripe character.
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1970 C.V.N.E. (Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España) Rioja Viña Real Gran Reserva 88 Points
Spain, La Rioja, La Rioja Alta, Rioja
Dilly! Medium body, dried cherry, dried orange. Elevated acid. Soft melted tannins - still a bit drying. Slight Brett. Very nice.
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1966 Domaine de la Jacquinotte Châteauneuf-du-Pape Selection Reflets Flawed
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Green wet cardboard / TCA. Bretty and weedy. Some dried berry. Still has impressions of fruit but it's faded and quite corked.
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