Community Tasting Note

• BradKNYC wrote:

  April 24, 2009 - In which Sharon Bowman cooks dinner for me: Huet, Palmer, Montevertine & more. (My place.): When Dougherty e-mails me that he's bringing this, my initial reaction is ha ha, he's being a jokester again. Having once said to him that I hadn't had a Huet older than '47, knowing full well I don't really like Secs, he bought a '46 sec to a dinner. Well, the word demi makes a big difference and while from a poor vintage, this wine is beautiful. Aromatically it starts with an orange creamsicle character that I know Coad and I usually get in the Mark Angeli- La Lune. There are some earl grey notes, tuffeaux and quince, with the quince getting more pronounced with air. Really vivid and fresh and shows none of the peaty/malty character the '46 sec shows. It just kept getting brighter with air. In fact, despite being 43 years older than the '89 that followed, the fruit was yellower. Mostly dry at this stage, and maybe showing its age a little on the back end, where it's not as complete as upfront. Just beautiful. A-.

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