Primehouse
Tasted Monday, January 7, 2008 by winefool with 1,052 views
Absolutely one of the best wine dinners I've ever had the pleasure to attend. Food and service at Primehouse was great (though we did miss Rory) and the wines showed very well pretty much across the board. Tough to imagine topping this lineup anytime soon...
Details on the wine treatment are in Alan's post on eBob at http://dat.erobertparker.com/bboard/showthread.php?t=156177
Wonderful sampling of different caviar presentations (all from Brown Trading - the Greek version called Calviseres (sp??) was the best) including the spactacular quail egg toast.
Really great cut of veal and the sweet breads were perfect. A bit much thyme in the sauce for me.
Fantastic presentation with the seared rare venison warmed inside this big bread wellington with all the other goodies. A winner.
I believe there were a couple of cheese wines at the end, but I didn't get them down...
1996 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut 94 Points
France, Champagne
Tasted blind. Pale yellow color. Lovely rich toasty nose. Wonderufl rich lively acidity and good fruit. Lot of minerality, youth, vibrance, and depth. Easily the best of the three Comtes. 94-95 pts.
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1995 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut 92 Points
France, Champagne
Tasted blind. Pale yellow color. Pale subdued nose with mineral hints. Very tight, not giving up much at this point, though good potential here. 91-92 pts.
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1993 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut 90 Points
France, Champagne
Tasted blind. Perhaps not a perfect bottle? Medium copper color. Full nose of rich caramel toast. Creamy rich exidative yellow toasty fruit, but appears very advanced and (for this bottle at least) at the tail end of the window. Most people thought this was from the 80's with a couple guesses for the 70s. Drink up!
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