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2011 Graham Beck Brut Zéro
12/30/2020 - sunnylea57 Likes this wine: 91 Points
So... I poured this blind for friends (via Zoom, with a driveway meet up a few hours before hand to exchange 6 oz bottles... one does what one has to in pandemic times), and they were suitably impressed. The 64 months on lees came across as a reductive quality... which is not a bad thing. A lot of interesting stuff going on here. I mean, it's not Champagne, but when a decent bottle of Champagne from a grower/producer starts at $70 in our market, and the Graham Beck Brut Zero is $24.95, it's a no brainer to stock up on this as your daily drinker.
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2017 Le Clos Jordanne Pinot Noir Le Grand Clos
12/6/2020 - sunnylea57 wrote: 88 Points
Thomas Bachelder’s return to - and the relaunch of - Clos Jordanne. I picked up one bottle each of the Pinot and Chard mostly out of curiosity. Sadly, not much to get excited about here. On the thin side with candied cherry, some floral notes, and a whack of vanilla. Bachelder’s wines under his own label are considerably better.
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1990 Faiveley Corton-Clos des Cortons Faiveley
12/5/2020 - sunnylea57 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Damn this was great. I was saving it for an offline, but those won’t be happening for quite some time, and with 2020 being what it is, I decided I deserved this. No bricking. Vibrant dark cherry and strawberry with some sous bois and a bit of mushroom. If I’d had this blind I might have guessed it was a 1999. Yay me!
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