In the heat of July while the front room is slow, this is the time we brokers stagger our vacations. Today is the first day all brokers, including our fearless leader Simon Roberts, are back at it in the Graileys office! This is what happens when our beloved members, the Graileys’ Team collide and the dog days of summer collide…
BOOM!! We are “back in the grind” with this insane wine- 2009 Ramonet Montrachet- and it is so !@#(*%^@!#@! GOOD! Intense, ripe and gorgeously dense yet with superlative balance and purity of fruit. The flavors just stick on the palate with plump, sweet herbs and juicy ripe fruit balanced with notes of chunky chalk that creates a sensation on the palate that is mindboggling in itself.
Simon opened up a bottle of the 2000 Pichon Baron and it is a beautiful state right now! Rich, dried black and red berries seamlessly intertwined with aged leather, dense forest floor and dried tobacco. The ’00 Pichon Baron has woken up nicely. This is one of the best showings of ’00 Pichon Baron we have had yet!
1994 Meo Camuzet Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Aux Brulees- was a nice surprise. I have been intrigued on how this wine would show given its incredibly challenging vintage (to say with the kindest regards), but if anyone can do it, Meo can! It showed a strong fruit attack straight from the bottle but the mid-palate didn’t quite match up. After about thirty minutes, the fruit mellowed out and the mineral and earth notes took the stage with notes of dehydrated dirty mushrooms, clay pots and dried herbs. The finish was a little more meaty, earth driven and lengthier than I expected.
2012 Futo OV|SL- Always a happy time when Futo is opened! The OV|SL is a mouthcoating Cabernet loaded with gorgeous fruit and toasty spice. You really can’t go wrong with this bottle.
And then Dr. Richebourg just walks in… I see a ’66 Pichon Lalande and a ’95 Pichon Lalande in my near future…