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1959 Moët & Chandon Champagne Cuvée Dom Pérignon
10/4/2019 - mjmal Likes this wine:
(September 1999 disgorgement). This opens with a surprisingly forceful pop of the cork and proceeds to pour with fine clarity and a decidedly lighter overall color than the 1971 DP drunk alongside it. It presents an airy, elegant bouquet showing more finesse than exoticism, featuring lovely aromas of light honey, lemon peel, apple skins, chalk and crushed shells layered atop a light vanilla beam. In the mouth, it again surprises with its elegance and sense of easy balance, delivering fascinating and giving layers of brioche, peanut brittle, yellow raisin, pale nut and orange fruit flavors supporting pretty top-notes of crushed wafer cookies, chalk and struck schist. It all hangs together wonderfully, with no sense of being stretched thin or having overly oxidized. With just five of us at the tasting, a return to this bottle about an hour later reveals the length and strength of this vintage... disgorgement date not withstanding. What a treat!
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1995 Hubert Lignier Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes
6/9/2009 - mjmal wrote:
This wine shows darker-colored than those that have come before it. Again, we are the happy recipients of beautiful Burgundian aromatics here, as swirling notes of pure cherry compote, dried currants, spiced leather, volcanic rock, tomato leaf, cinnamon red hots and fudge brownie batter compete for one’s attention. It is dark-fruited and dark-toned in the mouth, with earthy savory flavors in a luscious, glycerin-laden package. It is juicy and round with glossy tannins and a hint of sweetness to the black fruit. It feels young and tight, though, and sadly the finish is too clipped and abrupt at this stage for it to really feel complete. It would be best to wait on this one a few more years.
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2006 Costaripa Mazane Benaco Bresciano IGT
6/6/2009 - mjmal wrote:
If you just pop and pour this, you might think it isn’t anything very special. But if you wait on it about an hour or so, it just blossoms into something quite nice. The bouquet in particular takes some time to find its stride, but when it does, it delivers a very pretty, fresh and lifted Italian cornucopia of cherry, raspberry, ashy earth, citrus, chocolate, fresh mint and fine honey aromatics. It is medium-bodied in the mouth, with a really fresh yet pleasantly rounded and sappy-textured character. Strawberry and cherry fruit combine with fine citrus notes to make for a very inviting wine to keep coming back to sip after sip. It finishes quite bright and elevated, but very balanced, going down the throat with ease either on its own or with a simple dish of lemon chicken and simple pasta. This is a very fine QPR.
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