significant low fill and cork in terrible condition. The worst of the four bottles purchased. Decanted and allowed to warm up to room temperature. Despite signs of seepage, there was still enough left in this bottle to show good Chateau Chalon character. I look forward to opening the remaining bottles in good condition.
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Eight decades of Château-Chalon (back to 1934) with Jean-Francois Bourdy: Jean-Francois said this was a very difficult, dry year. The alcohol potential was 15%. His father was not a fan of this vintage and worked with it hard. Three years after bottling he re-opened and recorked all tie bottles because he wanted to introduce a bit of oxygen. He had many toubts about the vintage over the years, but Jean-Francois tasted it recently and said it was finally booming, so he wanted to share it with us this day. This wine offered very rich and buttery aromas. It smells like meat. Lovely, fantastic, and different. More buttered notes on the palate, but there's some oxidative notes as well. Bitter puckering notes with pine, but delicious. Rich and decadent finish with soft, integrated acid. Lovely tartness. Quite delicious and rich. This was around 91 points on day one but this really blossomed beautifully on day two, offering more lusciousness and no funk at all. A much purer expression and so lovely. Score for day two.
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Saturday night at The Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Requires its comte as much as it needs patience to age. Dark in colour, rich yellow. Oxitative but not not harsh or sharp, well aged and mature with rich notes. Interesting but one needs to like the style and definitely accompany it with some well aged comte cheese.
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12/25/2019 - vagrantone wrote: 88 Points
significant low fill and cork in terrible condition. The worst of the four bottles purchased.
Decanted and allowed to warm up to room temperature.
Despite signs of seepage, there was still enough left in this bottle to show good Chateau Chalon character.
I look forward to opening the remaining bottles in good condition.
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11/12/2017 - Motz wrote: 91 Points
Bourdy Tasting - Wine 10:
Oxidative bouquet, with steely notes. The palate features marzipan and dried honeycomb. Expansive acid, quite piercing. Interesting.
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11/7/2014 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 93 Points
Eight decades of Château-Chalon (back to 1934) with Jean-Francois Bourdy: Jean-Francois said this was a very difficult, dry year. The alcohol potential was 15%. His father was not a fan of this vintage and worked with it hard. Three years after bottling he re-opened and recorked all tie bottles because he wanted to introduce a bit of oxygen. He had many toubts about the vintage over the years, but Jean-Francois tasted it recently and said it was finally booming, so he wanted to share it with us this day. This wine offered very rich and buttery aromas. It smells like meat. Lovely, fantastic, and different. More buttered notes on the palate, but there's some oxidative notes as well. Bitter puckering notes with pine, but delicious. Rich and decadent finish with soft, integrated acid. Lovely tartness. Quite delicious and rich. This was around 91 points on day one but this really blossomed beautifully on day two, offering more lusciousness and no funk at all. A much purer expression and so lovely. Score for day two.
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3/9/2013 - Papies wrote:
Saturday night at The Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Requires its comte as much as it needs patience to age. Dark in colour, rich yellow. Oxitative but not not harsh or sharp, well aged and mature with rich notes. Interesting but one needs to like the style and definitely accompany it with some well aged comte cheese.
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