By: AJ McClellan
Working on a Tuesday is such thirsty business… It is always a pleasure to have a few members drop in so we can crack a couple of bottles and tell a few stories.
2005 Domaine Lionnet Terre Brulee Cornas – Tight as a g-string on a whale. This wine needs a lot of time in the bottle before you should even think about popping the cork. The next morning the wine finally opened up to show mocha, deep black and blue fruits, tobacco, rich floral notes, melted chocolate, and crushed rock minerality. The palate smoothed out and showed a budding complexity that makes me think that in 10-15 years this wine will be absolutely brilliant.
1978 Montrose – Old and dusty. The wine grew in the glass a little but it is a wine that is past its prime. The wine had a nose of blueberries and blackberries that have been left out in the sun to long, left to dry on an old moist wooden plank. There were notes of spice on the back end as well. The palate was much of the same, showing old dusty fruit and a thin mid palate. Moderately complex but past its prime…
1982 Cos d’Estournel – We have been tasting a lot of this wine recently and with good reason. This bottle has consistently been fantastic, showing ripe fruits and old world funk. The nose was complex and elegant but with a brutish power lurking in the background. The palate was an iron fist covered in a velvet glove, soft and supple but with a weight on the mid palate that was very pleasing. As much as I hate to admit it, this is a perfect example of how Bordeaux out matches Burgundy – Old reliable!