Poussin
Member #351,156 signed up 9/14/2014 and last accessed 4/29/2024
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Member since September 2014
Locale: UK
Favorite region: Primarily Loire, Bordeaux and Champagne, with dilletantish dabblings in Austria, Germany, Burgundy and vintage Port
Dream wine: 1890s Yquem
Welcome to my profile page. I’d like to use this space to thank the creators of Cellartracker and my fellow members for this fantastic resource. It's like having an army of Jancises and Parkers at one's fingertips. I especially love the sense of community here, seeing the same reviewer names crop up in different places and enjoying the different tasting and note-writing styles we all have, from the succinct and scientific to the more verbose and effulgent.
I am a big drinker of sweet wines, and I am especially drawn to grape varieties that have both sweet and dry expressions, such as chenin blanc, riesling and the semillon-sauvignon blends of Bordeaux. I also love old-fashioned claret, and I’m gradually gaining experience in the world of vintage Port. Ultimately, any wine that’s true to its origin and a pleasure to drink will get a good score from me.
Apropos the vague and necessarily subjective art of scoring, I try hard to score wines in a consistent and unbiased way. To that end, I avoid ‘peeking’ at the latest tasting notes from other CellarTracker members until I have a firm score in mind. I abstain from scoring when I feel a wine is too old, and when I feel I am out of my depth or lacking the knowledge to properly assess the wine in question.
2022 Kumeu River Chardonnay Hunting Hill
4/21/2024 - Poussin Likes this wine: 93 Points
I love it when good chard tastes like buttery sourdough toast with peach or apricot jam spread on top, and that is exactly what I get here. The toast is warm and the butter is melting into its little voids (in Danish, the word smørhul, literally ‘butter-hole’, means a nice, peaceful place where you would love to spend time). There is enough acidity and stone fruit character to balance things out, and just a scintilla of smoky reduction. Will improve with a few further years in bottle, but approachable now. A burgundy of equal quality would be north of 100 gbp/eur per bottle. I believe this is why people love this producer.
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2020 Château de Saint Cosme Gigondas
4/21/2024 - Poussin wrote: 88 Points
By the glass in London. Was attracted to this by the Château-Grillet label! The wine was not on C-G’s level, but still quite good. Nose is a bit coarse. Plummy-violet character. Quite light in structure. Slightly hot. Struck me as a young-drinking wine although the consensus below seems to be that it’s an ager.
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2018 Heidsieck & Co. Monopole Champagne Gold Top Brut
4/5/2024 - Poussin wrote: 89 Points
Didn’t make a detailed note. Good brioche nose. Plenty of fruit. Nice, pithy, extracted palate. Apart from that, it’s all just a bit nebulous, flabby and lacking in structure. Very rarely does a champagne leave me wanting more acidity…this is one of those rare examples.
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