This has really hit its stride - I drank a few bottles around 2015 without leaving notes, and think it found it decent but not very deep or expressive then. This bottle was open for business from early on. Good Chinon with nice concentration and old-world balance of fruit : savory stuff, and versatile with chow as expected. Lost little or nothing by day 3 simply stoppered at cellar temp, so it should have years left... the tertiary aged stuff might come a little more to the fore with a few more years, and I dig that, but it's already there for my palate.
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5/7/2015 9:14:00 AM - Not yet, Seth - been awaiting a written invitation!
Well, it's like this: I wasn't remotely a wine geek five years ago. Adult-onset gluten allergy meant no (decent) beer (these days maybe there's a few), prompting my discovery there was more to wine than cheap Shiraz and Malbec. By the time I was finding my inner geek in earnest and discovering my tribes places like CT & WB, our now 17 month old daughter was on the way and time & attention were in short supply for a while.
But ya know, I'm thinkin' it might not be terrible meeting, drinking with, and learning from (I'm still so new at this compared to some of y'all) some like-minded folks.
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I guess there's no email link on CT profiles. I'm happy to chat here but am also chuck + <Brooklyn area code> at google's email.
5/6/2015 2:42:00 PM - Ha! My wife and I moved from Harlem to Clinton Hill (we bought Chomsky's place) in 2013 - looks like the gods wanted to conserve the # of wine geeks per Boro.
5/6/2015 2:26:00 PM - I was in Boerum Hill at Atlantic & 3rd, but moved into my wife's Harlem place when we married a few years ago. Her three bedrooms won. But I miss Brooklyn!
And you?
2013 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Berserkers' Cuvée
11/29/2023 - Charlie Pendejo wrote:
Finished my last two this month. Clearly better at ten years than two, and no sign it'll fade any time soon.
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2011 Château de la Bonneliere Chinon Le Clos de la Bonnelière
3/1/2021 - Charlie Pendejo Likes this wine:
This has really hit its stride - I drank a few bottles around 2015 without leaving notes, and think it found it decent but not very deep or expressive then. This bottle was open for business from early on. Good Chinon with nice concentration and old-world balance of fruit : savory stuff, and versatile with chow as expected. Lost little or nothing by day 3 simply stoppered at cellar temp, so it should have years left... the tertiary aged stuff might come a little more to the fore with a few more years, and I dig that, but it's already there for my palate.
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2014 Jean-Louis Dutraive (Domaine de la Grand'Cour) Brouilly Cuvée Vieilles Vignes
2/2/2021 - Charlie Pendejo wrote:
Definitely relaxed but not faded. Agreeable, juicy and a s bit floral.
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