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• 2018 Enclos de Viaud

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  9/4/2023 - Ideasthatstick Likes this wine:

  A lovely bottle of wine. On open a bit tight, a bit shy. The nose, the same expression. By 20 minutes things are starting to happen. First the Merlot is saying “Hi!” I can say this bottle can use a few more years to really mature, really express. Right now, if you want to, the core of the bottle reveals. I taste the green spring like Cabernet franc complementing not obscuring the Merlot. So far just working so well. The nose begins to reveal the complexities to come. In the glass there is a pure deep burgundy hinting at what might come, actually that does come. Through this tasting I sense a lot to come hidden by the bottle’s youth. So far, very solid, very sure of itself. Like that kid showing talent in a little league game. I think it’s too young to establish an absolute identity. I love what this bottle is trying to say. Not quite sure but like a great Garcia solo, hinting at something, provoking thought leading to “what might this be?” The deep burgundy in the glass up to the edges points, to me, a few years left in this bottle. I don’t think , for an oenophile, this bottle is full of challenge certainly not dissatisfaction. I’ll wait a few years for the next one but right now damn good.

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• 2019 Domaine Lapandéry Côte Roannaise Vieilles Vignes Réserve

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  7/23/2023 - Ideasthatstick Likes this wine:

  This wine impresses me. While is is not subtle nor sensitive it is a lovely gamey gamay from one of my favorite parts of France. Bottles like this are more journeyman than high brow. I wonder if I were having it in a bistro in Tours or Angier with roasted chicken or hanger steak what my reaction would be. Well I think the balanced between fruit/tannin/acidity as well as the raspy, edgy palate (granular tannins) with slight chill would not only compliment the dinner but present the terroir of the Loire Valley in a positive light. Just right. It ties together place and food. It’s hard to describe the taste, but the character, the experience of the wine supersedes specific tasting notes . I couldn’t immediately identify gamay but after time that became evident. Wines like these illustrate how varied wine can be. This wine, to me, illustrates a Saturday night in October as the weather is changing with something thrown together on the stove. I had this pomedoro, polpettini, pappardelle parmigiano, parsley. It worked. Well. If you’re looking for numbers, not on this bottle, if your looking experience, you won’t be disappointed. I think 5 years max but drinking quite well now.

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• 2018 Château du Bergey "Cuvée Tradition"

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  4/23/2023 - Ideasthatstick Likes this wine:

  I was a little reticent about opening this bottle because it is a 2018 Bordeaux. Upon closer inspection I saw that it was a 100% Merlot. That prompted me to open it and I did. Everything upon open was very positive. The nose is youthful vital alive. it wasn’t at all closed or shut down which is what I expected. I expected a 2018 in the bottle to be a tight restrictive reveal. But Merlot being a great grape from Bordeaux, one that tends to reveal younger did exactly that. The nose to me is vibrant informed by black cherry cranberry and some green I don’t know if there’s any cab Franc even hidden in there. After all this is 100% Merlot. But I sense a teasing of Cabernet Franc. Is there any in there? Probably not but there’s a tease of the green thing. I tasted it. The specifics weren’t revealing yet. Probably over time. But right now a very round, opulent, kind of voluptuous feeling on the tongue. Initially on the front palate there was some sour, off oddities but that seemed to burn out over 5 minutes and I can’t really describe those oddities but they were odd. The more I drink the more it’s settled into itself. Proving to be a classic Bordeaux merlot. I have to say I’m totally impressed - it’s a relatively young wine that is drinking really beautiful right now. There maybe 4 to 5 to 6 years floating around here, but you wouldn’t be doing yourself a disservice by opening it now. Simply lovely. Oh with broccoli rapini sausage on orecchiette, olive oil and pecorino Romano. Just right.

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