Blair Curtis

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  • 2012 Domaine Bruno Clair Chambertin-Clos de Bèze

    This wine is still young (of course) and has decades left to age and develop, if you wish to go that route. But to my delight, this wine is quite drinkable now in a youthful way. It does show a smidge of oak now...the integration of which might be one reason to wait on opening bottles for at least another 5 years. But this wine is a big boy. A lot of very high quality material here. Deep and dark, as one might expect. Mouthfeel was exceptional. Opened on the heels of many other great bottles of Champagne and Burgundy, so probably got less of my attention than I should have devoted. I'll age my remaining bottles of this - could prove to be a showstopper down the road!

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  • 2011 Arnaud Ente Meursault Clos des Ambres

    Gorgeous wine. Shows Meursault typicity, but leans towards the Coche side of the Meursault archetype. Since January I have had the chance to taste the 2014 of this wine, and now the 2011. Both vintages were exceptional and both (served blind) evoked guesses of Coche. There is a starting whiff of that struck matchstick. Good racy structure, but combined with hints of maturity and an appropriate touch of Meursault fatness. Ente is one of the now-culty Meursault producers that I have little experience tasting. But based on these recent bottles, I can see why Ente is deservedly up there with Coche, Roulot, Lafon etc.

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  • 2010 Domaine Francois Lamarche Clos Vougeot

    This started out with a deep-pitched musky masculinity. Really Gevrey-like out of the gate with iron, game blood, and dark fruit - but not even a touch overripe. As the air got at the wine for a few hours, the wine changed quite a bit. It got lighter on its feet and opened up quite a bit and some wonderful red fruit joined the party (though at all times this remained a powerful Clos Vougeot). A wine made in a throwback style - and I really like it a lot. Was a very fine partner to a grilled striploin.

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  • dsimmons says:

    1/10/2018 4:48:00 PM - Hi Blair, Thanks for the note. Since my preferences run to Southern Rhones and domestic Pinot I would guess our tastes are a bit different. I have quite a bit of burgundy and usually drink it with Salmon but I have never had a bottle that really wowed me. I have lived in AK for about 45 years and have seen some amazing things even though today's 10 degrees with a brisk north wind isn't particularly endearing.

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