4/9/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

On a Tokyo winelist (with 600 red Burgundy) this was quintessentially ’20 and quintessentially Mugnier, a lithe, feminine, graceful, predominantly mineral wine with accents of rose and yuzu, but it’s the weightless mineral complexity that’s so seductive. And on the winelist for roughly 1/3 of my local retail price…

4/4/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Meurnier.
70% 2021, 30% 2020.
A straightforward but precise, predominantly mineral champagne that ticks all the boxes. Very nice.

4/4/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

100% Pinot Meurnier. 80% 2021, 20% 2022.
Pale salmon.
Actually a very detailed and nuanced nose and palate of pale red fruits, cherry, cranberry, rosehip, tea, framed by mineralite. Quite lovely.

4/1/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Mature garnet.
Mature Burgundy, in a more rustic, savoury, wild sauvage, animale frame, hints of cola, chinotto, complex spice, and a flinty, pungent, limestone mineralite.

3/31/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Pale lemon tinged.
On nose and palate this is subtle and nuanced but youthfully complex: orange blossom, Kaffir, hint of peach, spice, steely mineralite. Quite lovely.

3/30/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

100% old vine Pinot blanc.
Colourlessly pale.
Florals are cactus blossom like framed by subtle mineralite.
Citrus framed complex mineral palate with a gentle thread of spice.

3/21/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark cerise.
From the get go the nose is an ultra-complex cavalcade of feminine floral scents framing limestone mineralite with subtle hints of spice, citrus, bay leaf.
Weightless mineral palate of great pinosity, subtle red fruits, sous bois, a real filigree, lacy texture, gosh, can’t wait to taste o few of the 1ers.

3/17/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Popped and poured, this was a nice mature Cabernet, everything where it should be, but no wow factor.

3/16/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

TCA

3/16/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Pale golden.
Utterly unique nose of white orchard fruits, pears, apples, nectarine, fennel bulb, aniseed, liquorice.
Palate emulates the nose, but the clove of roast garlic I just ate interferes with further analysis. Delicious.

3/14/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Medium cerise.
Beautifully feminine, lively, vibrant nose, flinty, limestone mineralite framed by a cavalcade of exotic floral scents, citrus.
Weightless, mineral, saline palate, citrus and cranberry light red fruited.
In some ways straightforward as one might expect, but for lithe purity, feminine mineralite (and instant gratification) this is hard to beat.

3/5/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Medium purple.
The nose starts out quite dark purple fruited with quite intense spice and wafts of florals but as the hours roll by retains the florals and spice but becomes more earthy with coniferous forest floor and pipe tobacco.
A very filigree mineral palate from the first sip, moderate fine tannins recede with air to weightlessness leaving a relatively medium bodied, ripe red fruited palate with subtle spice and savoury nuances, very youthful but open, acidity relatively modest. Delicious and moreish.

3/3/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Bright, medium cerise.
Gave this 4 hours slow ox then enjoyed over 4 hours.
Instant hedonistic gratification and mindful academic pleasure combined!
Forthright nose of bright red berries and ripe cherries, Turkish delight confection, baking spice, Damask rose frame a very limestone, mineral nose.
Weightless palate which is slightly more sombre, predominantly mineral, but with youthfully mature savoury nuances, darker Asian spices, black cardamom, cola, star anise, smoke.
Will be fascinating to follow but difficult to keep hands off…

2/15/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark cerise.
Slow oxed and enjoyed this over 8 hours. The nose quite muted on opening, builds with air to reveal a dank, dark earthy forest floor with savoury soy nuances, complex spice, sopressa-like charcuterie and subtle florals, but tracking the evolution with air I think there’d be more in store for those able to hold out longer than 8 hours.
On opening the palate surprised me: straightforward light red fruited mineralite which was quite weightless, however the complexity really builds with air this is youthfully complex in a dark red fruited way, spice, Christmas cake, with a few background savoury hints of soy and olive tapenade and a hint of umami truffle.
Having enjoyed mature bottles of ‘01 and ‘05 recently this is very much in their mould and should develop beautifully.

2/15/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

NV 70% 2019 & 30% reserve.
14% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot noir, 56% Pinot meurnier.
Zero dosage.
Great from the get go, but best from 24 hours open.
Subtle beeswax and toast on the nose.
Mineral-acid chalky palate framed with lime rind which is quite piercing and persistent.
Youthful and pristine.

2/14/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark garnet.
Brooding, savoury nose, spice laden cassoulet with hints of citrus and rose.
Palate quite tannic over the first few hours, very concentrated salinity, an inky, savoury character, still very youthfully austere at the 5 hour mark.

2/13/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark garnet.
Nose evolves over several hours but is quite dark and heady, secondary soy elements, sweat and leather predominate with a subtle background feminine breeze of David Austin roses and complex spice.
Robust, concentrated palate, quite tannic and saline, giving a very masculine impression to begin with, but following 4 hours open begins to reveal some feminine elements of dark cherries, chinotto, cardamom spice, citrus, but at this stage still very sturdily framed. Gives the impression that good things are is store with 10+ more years of patience…

2/12/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Green tinged palate lemon.
This was subtle and understated, almost subdued, youthful citrusy mineral wine, a hint of fennel bulb, lime blossom and yuzu, but a glacial, crystalline mineralite, and almost no evolution over several hours.

2/10/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark cerise.
Best at the 3 hour mark: quite beguiling nose of myrtille, plum and dark cherries laced with subtle spice threads, pipe tobacco and some rather dark, sombre earthy, mineral tones and a hint of rubber.
Weightless palate, no discernible tannin, velvety, lacy mineral textured, but an incipient savoury, masculine robustness giving a gentle secondary impression yet simultaneously freshly poised and lithe. Contemplative wine for grown ups.

2/8/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Following 3 weeks of wines not worth posting I began to fear “it’s not them it’s me” ie. something wrong with my palate… but this bott proved me wrong.
Dark ruby.
A truely alive, biologically complex nose of dank sous bois, smoke, mineralite.
Palate is weightless but intense, savoury, intensely saline, letting in some secondary soy elements, just a hint of floral.
Certainly rustic, but hedonistic and an affirmation of why I love Burgundy. Has that intangible vin de emotion element.

2/1/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Green tinged pale lemon.
Intensely mineral, saline, lime blossom nose, emulated on the palate with a very pristine, complex mineralite, hitting its stride and to die for really.

2/1/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Garnet cerise.
Almost a honeyed-lebkuchen like, sweet, spiced, mineral nose, quite unique.
Mineral-acid palate with a very fine tannin and a youthful maturity and complexity to it, almost some tertiary elements superimposed on the primary, red cherry fruit character, Morello and spice, almost Jura-like, whilst very mineral. Will save half for tomorrow. An almost first fruits-type ripeness. Quite exquisite.

1/28/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dusky medium cerise.
Earthy mineral nose with subtle background feminine complexity of smoke, Amarene kirschen, florals, spice and confection, but also with simultaneous elements of primary, secondary and tertiary in a very complex, savoury way.
The palate youthfully concentrated but weightless, tannin fine verging on imperceptible, prominent acidity at this stage, raspberries and violets frame a very mineral-acid wine. Far from its apogee, but very approachable with great promise.

1/27/2024 - Pancreatitis Likes this wine:

Enjoyed this over 48 hours, kept unsealed in the fridge door. Quite remarkably unchanged over that time period, the bubbles persisted, but a wine of such elegance, saline-seaside mineral character with nuances of pink grapefruit, rose hip, strawberry and cranberry.

1/25/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark garnet.
Complex and beguiling, multi-layered and multifaceted mineral nose, with an equally complex earthy and herbal component: robust but not overwhelming.
Weightless and filigree mineral palate with a complimentary CO2 faint spritz that gives a very freshening lift, robust, masculine charcuterie elements vie with garrigue and an almost wormwood herbaceousness with maybe a background hint of Amarene kirschen giving a feminine lilt to the wine. There is a pleasant bitterness to the hind palate reminiscent of chinotto. Overall this is quite stunning and refreshingly individual for a humble wine from a humble vintage.
Bottle number 3 of a case which is very gratifying…

1/17/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

100% Chardonnay from d’Oger, Le Grand Jardin lieu-Dit planted 1967, indigenous yeast, 12 months sur lies en fut de chien, tirage 09/19, disgorged 10/22. Zero dosage.
Pure, harmonious, mineral, citrus, leesy wine with smoke and brioche. Delicious. 1269 bouteilles produced.

1/12/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

2020 Thomas Morey Saint-Aubin 1er Les Castets.
Pale, green tinged.
Saline-mineral, sea breeze with just a tinge of lime blossom and Kaffir.
Palate youthful and tightly coiled, very concentrated and persistent, cream, lime, complex spice, a scintillating wine that feels quite harmonious and complete.

1/7/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Bright, medium cerise.
Heavenly, flinty, limestone-mineral nose of great complexity.
Weightlessly concentrated, balanced feminine palate of great elegance: red fruits, mineral, subtle spice dance across the palate. Perfectly delightful right now. Supple wine of great pinosity.
Harmonised and went down a treat with my first attempt at knaidlach.

1/2/2024 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Pale lemon.
Saline mineral nose, lemon rind, lime blossom, gooseberry and green pepper.
Palate initially has quite searing acidity which does settle down, initially citrus becomes a bit more savoury with time.

12/30/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Pale, green tinged.
Such a subtle, gentle, yet complex nose: saline, seaside, mineral, white fruits, citrus, white blossom, spice, emulated on the palate, all in perfect balance and very harmonious, delicious.

12/28/2023 - Pancreatitis Likes this wine:

Dark purple red.
Detailed earthy, mineral nose intermingles dark purple fruits and pomegranates, heathland and a saline infused coastal sous bois.
Youthful dark fruited palate, said, again predominantly pomegranate fruit, mineral infused, sapped, weightless and just delightful.
My last bottle 3 years ago was very closed, this is just opening up but there is really no rush.

12/26/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Lemon, saline, steely mineralite, subtle and understated.

12/25/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Completely different cepage yet qualitatively similar to the Augustin Saphyr: very much melon and Jamon. Delicious.

12/25/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Exhuberant yet restrained, a weightless, mineral, cassis, myrtille, confection, just delicious!

12/24/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Really exceptional bubbles of subtlety and finesse, strawberry and cranberry.

12/23/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Very gentle and approachable this is a wine of subtlety and finesse: predominantly mineral but framed by lime and florals, this is delightful and my favourite of the last 4 vintages.

12/22/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Very pale.
Day one verging on austere, but 24 hours later fully firing: taut, lean, racy, lime rind frames a very saline, mineral, sea shell wine, quite persistent.

12/17/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

This was a beautiful wine with a unique character, light red fruited but with a unique floral, mineral character which made it a very pretty wine in a lighter end of medium bodied kind of way.

12/17/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

On opening poured out relatively brown with a brown sugar character, but paired in a blind tasting with an ‘07 of the same wine so returned to the cellar for 6 hours slow ox.
Freshened considerably with air, poured dark mature red, but an earthy rustic character that came across as clunky and dull, yet again freshened considerably in the glass but overall came across as a clunky, ungainly wine.

12/17/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

On opening relatively mute and inexpressive.
Given 3 hours slow ox then offered blind to a group against Dom Perignon rose 2003. Interesting that with the slow ox it became much more expressive in a delicately complex red fruited mineral way, the preferred wine for 4/6 of the group.

12/16/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

TCA!

12/16/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark hue, a touch of botrytis, actually quite advanced tasted alongside the ‘12 which was pale and youthful.

12/16/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Enjoyed over many hours as part of a vertical.
Mineral, flinty, firey, struck match, savoury, caraway, pumpernickel, though perhaps a touch sweet compared to the Prevost Fac-Similie tasted alongside.

12/16/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

2 bottles opened side by side gave off an odd volatile element that became more prominent with air. Otherwise lean and tannic.

12/13/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Dark, saturated purple, from the get go this was a concentrated, feminine, complex, dark red fruited delight, seductive florals, subtle spice, just so delicious.

12/9/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

On nose and palate, prototypical Gevrey, dark, humus sous bois, intense limestone mineralite, chinotto, complex spice, hints of meaty elements, very saline. Delicious, bordering on hedonism.

12/8/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

New label…
Dark cerise.
Understated yet expressive nose of perfectly balanced masculine and feminine elements: myriad complex floral scents but simultaneously a robust, meaty, mineral element.
Pinosity to the fore on the impeccably balanced, weightless palate, a lithe, feminine, mineral wine, gentle red berried core framed by subtle spice, a youthful but harmonious marriage of all the elements in perfect balance.

12/8/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Used for cooking but tasted beforehand. A greasy, meaty, rustic, but youthful, citrusy, mineral wine.

12/6/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Given 3 hours slow ox when approached.
Colourlessly pale.
Relatively subdued in intensity but a nuanced, complex nose, florals and spice, lillies and dandelion, fennel and aniseed, cloaked in a saline/mineral sea breeze.
The palate is also fairly subtle, hinting at all the elements in the nose but more prominently lime and yuzu citrus, a steely mineralite, a hint of cream. Overall a very harmonious wine of subtlety and finesse.

12/1/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

Medium terracotta.
Heavenly mature Burgundian sous bois nose, charcuterie, citrus, spice more in the white pepper realm but hints of gingerbread.
Freshens with air, bright acidity, initially somewhat tertiary but after an hour a mature citrusy palate with hints of spice, Janin-type sweet charcuterie and a limestone mineralite. Fully structurally resolved, not overly complex but very nice in a straightforward way.