timewithwine

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• timewithwine says:

  12/26/2021 6:25:00 AM - Thank you for your note and your kind and courteous approach, fitzi. I appreciate it. I'm new here having finally migrated from using Cellar! software and didn't realize how much of my commentary was public. Yes, I am aware of the age-worthiness of Desvignes and other producers in Beaujolais. Generous friends have shared examples with me. But I have concluded that gamay is just one of those grapes that I just don't "get". Whether it is Steve Edmunds Bone-Jolly rosé or a gen from the Morgon, I'm unable to find pleasure in them. My loss, I guess. But thank you for reading my notes and for your response. Cheers.

• fitzi says:

  11/29/2021 5:38:00 AM - Hey, Timewihtwine: your more than twice as prolific in note-writing than I am, and, therefore, I imagine, have more than twice as much experience. On the subject of Desvignes Morgon, however, I think you'll find that your peers who are familiar with this cuvee rarely open a bottle before 10 years from vintage, except as a kind of experiment or early vintage sample. The 2005 vintage had more fruit and tannin than most years, and the bottle I opened in 2016 was only beginning to show signs of opening. Desvignes is a very highly respected vigneron in Morgon and aims for a 'traditional,' slow-developing, long-aging wine; comparable to, say, pre-millennium Faiveley Burgundies. Dismissing the 2005 as 'bad,' based on samples between 2007 and 2012 doesn't give it a chance to show properly on its own terms. That said, I enjoyed your bundled notes on this wine and the Baudry cuvees; a rate opportunity to see time-series observations of single or family wines from one - experienced - taster in one place. Cheers.