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Uncorked DK BYO
Restaurant Nouveau - Copenhagen
Tasted May 22, 2008 by gorm with 1,439 views
Introduction
Last thursday 7 members of Uncorked DK got together for a bring your own at Restaurant Nouveau. The setting and food were excellent, the company great fun og the wines fantastic as many participants showed themselves from their most generous side.
Enough said, on with the wines...
Flight 1 - Flight 1 (1 note)
White - Sparkling
1998 Jacques Selosse Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut Millésimé
94 points
Light slightly golden yellow. Smooth mousse. Deliciously acidic nose with quince, french nougat, roasted rye bread and dried apricot. Fat and creamy, yet sharp and intense with cleansing acid. Hedonistic, yet very complex. Easily the best 98 vintage champagne.
Flight 2 - Flight 2 (1 note)
White
2006 Morlet Family Vineyards La Proportion Dorée
93 points
Light, slightly green, yellow. Loads of butter, licorice, flowers, dried flowers, anise, toasted oak and honey. Great fat and intense mouthfeel with more licorice. Low on acid and perhaps showing a bit too much alcohol. Also got minerals and herbal notes. The flowers and licorice made me guess for a top Austrian Riesling, but wasn't consistent with the low level of acid. My second wine from Morlet in a couple of weeks and once again I am impressed.
Flight 3 - Flight 3 (2 notes)
On paper an odd couple, but they went nicely together.
Red
1989 Château Clinet
94 points
Dark red. Seducing and sweet nose with blackcurrant, mocca, cedre and some tobacco. Nice sour mature fruit with some green spicyness, good intensity and length. Very fine tannins that contributes to a silky mouthfeel. Very classic and hedonistic, but lacks some concentration to be extraordinay.
Red
1996 Romano Dal Forno Valpolicella Superiore Vigneto di Monte Lodoletta
93 points
Dark red. Sour and sweet dark red berry nose. In the mouth sweet dark berries and juicy acidity combined with licorice and olive notes. With some air the fruit appears more mature and takes on a more plummy/raisiny profile.
Flight 4 - Flight 4 (2 notes)
Two amazing wines. One completely unapproachable and one just singing.
Red
2005 Château Pavie Macquin
92 points
Very dark inkish red. Extremely sweet, sour and dense nose of primary red fruit, nail polish remover and smoke. Huge mouthfeel with shy cherries and loads of almost lemony acid. The potential is probably great, but it is difficult to appreciate today. One glass was put away for 4 more hours, but came back virtually unchanged.
Red
2001 Bodegas Roda Rioja Cirsion
96 points
Very dark red. Sweet and spicy nose with cristmas spices and loads of amazingly delicious toasted oak. Huge, soft and fat fruitdriven mouthfeel. A hedonistic bomb! Yet it maintains poise and balance and never becomes heavy. One of the very best Spanish wines!
Flight 5 - Flight 5 (2 notes)
Syrah, syrah, syrah...
Red
1999 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Château d'Ampuis
95 points
Dark red. Nose of buttermilk, sweet dark fruit, herbs, christmas spices, white pepper and smoked bacon. In the mouth it has mouthwatering acidity and good intensity combined with an elegant feel. The smoked and meaty flavors danses elegantly over the tongue. Guigal rules!
Red
2005 Kongsgaard Syrah Hudson Vineyard
97 points
Very dark red. Extremely intense and sweet nose of blackcurrant, underneath that layers of flowers, herbs and dried craneberries, smoke licorice and cough juice. In the mouth it virtually explodes and becomes weightless, the flavors going everywhere. The sweetness of the fruit outs this as Californian, but in complexity and mouthfeel close to a perfect Cote Rotie.
Flight 6 - Flight 6 (1 note)
Red
2001 Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Riserva Granbussia
92 points
Red, slightly transparent, watery rim. Nose is a bit shy, but displays orange peel, raspberries, lemon and marzipan. In the mouth it has soft tannins that seems nicely integrated, but the fruit seems absent and it displays a bit too much lemony acidity. Most probably somewhat closed.
Flight 7 - Flight 7 (2 notes)
I brought these and they performed about as expected. I had hoped for a little more from the 96.
Red
1997 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Chambertin
92 points
Light red, slightly brown. Light sour cherry nose, strawberries, sweet vanilla, brown sugar, some vegetables. Nice round sweetness in mouth with a healthy acidity and some meaty flavors. Good intensity and length. Almost chambolle like finesse.
Red
1996 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Chambertin
94 points
Medium red. Sweet nose of dark sour cherries, loads of farm vegetables, some lemon peel. Impressive intensity with very pure fruit flavors. Has a lot of bite from the acid, but seems to pull together with air. Pretty complex with sweet oak, hung meat, cough juice and white pepper. Could use just a bit more fruit to be more balanced.
Flight 8 - Flight 8 (2 notes)
Oh, well, we got to taste a true legend!
Red
2000 Château La Mission Haut-Brion
99 points
Deep dark red. Sweet and intense blackcurrant and herbal nose. Big round and seducing body with sweet blackcurrants, sweet oak and loads of herbs and Cuban tobacco. Integrated with that special "seamless" mouthfeel where the wine presents itself holistically from entry to finish - and what a finish. Extremely complex and with loads of finesse. In hindsight I should probably have given a three digit score, but I was a bit tired and did not have the necessary resources to appriciate the last details of this amazing wine. Reminds me of the 89 Haut Brion.
Red
2000 Tertre Rôteboeuf
96 points
Deep dark red. Very sweet and intense nose of blackcurrant, blueberries, blackberries, buttermilk, sweet pibe tobacco and licorice. Huge mouthfeel with plenty of fruit and many layers pointing in different directions. Has to come a bit more together, but what potential.
Flight 9 - Flight 9 (2 notes)
These were amazing, but both close to being "over the top".
Red
2000 La Mondotte
97 points
Deep dark red. Intense and sweet nose of black fruit, cedre, gravel and sweet oak. Extremely intense and young, but already seamless, almost monolithic. Enters the mouth like a smooth interstellar U.F.O. Maintains balance. If anything negative can be said this is too polished for my taste.
Red
2003 BOND Pluribus
95 points
Dark, almost black, red. Extremely sweet and intense nose of blackcurrant and hints of a salty ocean. Like starring into a black hole. Mindwhacking concentration. A bit drying on the otherwise long finish. This is clearly exceptional and with great potential for development, but I find it a bit too concentrated, the black fruit almost eliminating the feel of terroir.
Flight 10 - Flight 10 (1 note)
A newly released version of an old favorite.
White - Off-dry
2007 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese
95 points
Light yellow. Very delicious nose of tons of fresh yellow fruit - lemon, melon, peach, yellow apples, honey and just hints of chalk. In the mouth this is incredibly fresh and refreshing. Appears a bit primary today, but clearly a great vintage.
Closing
I always find these BYOs to be great fun and very educational and this was one of the best examples. Thank you all!