By: AJ McClellan
Yesterday was a great Graileys day. We had a great group of members in and everyone opened some wonderful bottles of wine.
While there were a plethora of bottles on the table a few stood out…
2006 Dujac Gevrey Chambertin 1er Aux Combottes – I opened this wine and triple decanted it. After giving the wine a good beating it finally started to show signs of life, like a young tortoise peaking his nose our into the world for the first time. The wine improved rapidly over the next two hours until it finally blew up with notes of sour cherry, wet tar, lavender, clove, and sandal wood.
2009 Opus One – This bottle was surprisingly delicious. We decanted the bottle and after just a few minutes the juice was soft and supple on the palate with big plush fruit and excellent balance for a wine so young.
2001 Penfolds Bin 707 – A true Aussie wine with eucalyptus, mint, black berries, briar patch, and a intriguing finish of  pinewood and black currants.
It was hard to pick a wine of the night because everything on the table was showing so well. I fell that I should mention the 1982 Rubicon that was put on the table, a very nice earthy bottle was drank very well for the first hour but fell off after that.