Booze Monstrous 6 O'Clock tasting

Equinox @ Swissotel
Tasted Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by Alex H with 912 views

Introduction

A tutored tasting organised in conjuction with the Monstrous 6'O Clock Club Tasting by Booze. This took place at Equinox @ The Fairmount. For more , pl visit www.wadadvocate.blogspot.com

Flight 1 - Bouchard Pere et Fils Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Vertical (4 Notes)

  • 2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Clos Vougeot 78 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Vougeot Grand Cru

    Bright light red. This has fishy metallic cum Chinese ointment odors which eventually does develop opulent sweet cherry characteristics later. Salty and sour, there is some awkwardness in style albeit some flaws with reductive notes.

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  • 2002 Bouchard Père et Fils Clos Vougeot 86 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Vougeot Grand Cru

    Light red that is slightly bronzed. Layered aromas with cold minerals and metals taking the 1st layer followed by milk chocolate. Finally at the end, it reluctantly gives up its brambly cherries with earthy tones and even some orange peel. The nose is just magnificent when you are able to coax it out from its shell. Savory plums finishing on a medicinal high. Still confused as to where this might go in a few years but as of now the 2004 makes for better drinking. But this wine has ? potential.

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  • 2003 Bouchard Père et Fils Clos Vougeot 81 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Vougeot Grand Cru

    Light red. Very closed up and letting up only a sliver of vegetal notes. Digging deeper , I get some wet mushrooms. However, it did progressively reveal some sweet bread and raspberry fruits. Full structured wine with bitter herbs lining the finish. Some heat showing. This is not so much a thinking wine as to a wine that tries to think. More dark oaky plum cherries surface nearer the end.

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  • 2004 Bouchard Père et Fils Clos Vougeot 88 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Vougeot Grand Cru

    Aged brownish tinge. Beautifully aged with a classic burgundy nose of vegetal rot, beautiful cherries and mushrooms. Lightly sweet cherries enveloping hawthorn berries, mandarin peel and bits of bitter leather. Very good mouthfeel. I especially adore the aromatics which is surprising expressive for a 04.

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Flight 2 - Castello di Fonterutoli Chianti Classico (5 Notes)

  • 2000 Marchesi Mazzei Chianti Classico Castello di Fonterutoli 84 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG

    Much more opaque crimson than the others. Smelly vegetal unripe cherries….very vegetal! Also very sharp on the aromatics…almost nose piercing. Cooked cherries and raspberries that are very quaffable and carry nicely through to the mid palate. Some nice almost chocolatey finish.

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  • 2001 Marchesi Mazzei Chianti Classico Castello di Fonterutoli 81 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG

    Same colour characteristics as the 2003. Less stinky with gentler notes of smelly river water. Also caught whiffs of coffee, old cab smells and coke. Quite rustic and dusty earth and cherries, finishing with bitter herbs. Some heat and sharp fruits.

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  • 2003 Marchesi Mazzei Chianti Classico Castello di Fonterutoli 74 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG

    Blood red showing sign of brownish taint. Also exhibits stinky nose but much sharper with alcohol heat. Oxidised with reduction accompanying weak nuances of salty savory dark cherry stew. Quite flat from the mid palate onwards.

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  • 2004 Marchesi Mazzei Chianti Classico Castello di Fonterutoli 86 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG

    As blood red as the 2005 but more opaque. Pinot-noir-isque nose of compost and dense intense perfumed “ass”. Over time, this developed “dao you” (dark soy sauce) smells….with Latte mixed in. Dense, big and much fuller and firmer than the 05. Feels like salty, savory dark cherry stew. Quite quaffable and delish finish with chalky but gilded tannins.

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  • 2005 Marchesi Mazzei Chianti Classico Castello di Fonterutoli 86 Points

    Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG

    Blood red. Beautiful nose of nice round full berries plus cherries. Nicely sweet without being overpowering. Lightly perfumed with candy floss with faint hints of tangerines. With time, the freshly roasted coffee beans became more pronounced. Thick soup of salty savory cooked dark cherry stew overwhelms the palate.

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Flight 3 - Graham’s Port Review (6 Notes)

  • NV Graham Porto Six Grapes Reserve 82 Points

    Portugal, Douro, Porto

    Opaque purple. Nail varnish and stemmy. Spice cake at first then became much sweeter with ripe black berry and cherry pie baked with honey glaze.

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  • NV Graham Porto The Tawny 81 Points

    Portugal, Douro, Porto

    Cognac coloured. Extremely brandy like. This feels like being in the head partner’s office that has been decorated with polished mahogany and teakwood furnishings. Sweet dried raisins that has been liquidied and honeyfied. Yet…it is still simple.

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  • 1998 Graham Porto Vintage Malvedos 82 Points

    Portugal, Douro, Porto

    Dark purple. A regal concoction of dark polished sweet black fruits and sultanas accentuated by tobacco smoke. Honeyed, dark and raisiny.

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  • 2003 Graham Porto Vintage 84 Points

    Portugal, Douro, Porto

    Dark purple. Dark forest, black peppers and sultanas punctuate a relatively opulent but more feminine nose than the 98. Ripe and sweet black fruits swashed about by thick chocolate mocca.

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  • 1983 Graham Porto Vintage 86 Points

    Portugal, Douro, Porto

    Bronzed red. Stately prunes resonate with hints of nail varnish. Three Bs summarize this port – Big, Brilliant and Black. The oldest of the lot tasted yet preserving much of its freshness.

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  • NV Graham Porto Fine Ruby 78 Points

    Portugal, Douro, Porto

    See-thru crimson red. Spiced cake…make that very spiced cake. Some graphite. Mildly sweet and spiced.

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Flight 4 - Other Wines at Public Tasting Gallery (15 Notes)

These are the rest of the wines tasted at the public tasting area.

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