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2008 Peter Michael L Esprit Des Pavots This Bottle of 2008 Peter Michael L Esprit Des Pavots was softer thank a baby's butt. Softer than chinchilla fur. Softer than clouds, the Carpenters or Nickleback. softer than aerogel (with its lowest bulk density of any known porous solid.) It is softer than air. This wine danced like Fred Astaire.
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1964 Château TalbotRed Bordeaux Blend from the medoc region of France, St. Julien
Price: $220.00 Drank January 4, 2013. 49-year-old bottle Previous bottles (Scenic Café 2008, Dan’s birthday 2007) have been complex and interesting. This time Dan picked the bottle with the worst cork. Nevertheless, Dan and Rebecca were plucky, "There is a little bit of fruit there." Christine, "What? Like after it has been through a digestive tract? I taste bile." Further tasting notes were: “The smell and taste a basement, iron, Ice Tea and must.” The wine did made an attempt to open and there was some smell of cranberry. In the end, it all collapsed and eight of us could not bring ourselves to finish the bottle.
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1995 Chateau Chalon - Jean Macle1995 Chateau Chalon - Jean Macle - Chalon Jura Region France.
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Drank on Amanda's Birthday. May 8, 2013. Lemon and grass. Enough acid and flavor that I think this could stand up to Salsa.
1998 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild Pauillac
Drank with Dan, Amanda and Christine - May 10, 2013. It snowed the next day. Probably unrelated. This day was warm 65 degrees. Another number: Parker gave it 98 points. I do not know French wine well enough to rate it that finely. I can say this is very good and gradually complex. The complexity rolls for minutes around the teeth, surround the tongue and continues whispering from deep past the uvula. As it lingers, I can clearly see the color as dark red - almost violet. I can smell old barnyard manure. I love the smell of old manure. But when can get your manure with hints of plum, violet and roses? That is a special place. Excuse me a moment as I daydream... sun, wind in trees, fluffy clouds. All here..
Straightening my back, the Lafite tasts of blueberries and cedar. We could also discuss pencil lead. But lets stop all that. Lean back and stare at the barnyard. The barnyard right over there. My dress drifts up and down, mildly, in gently moving air. A cow lows. A young collie, usually frantic, stretches in the setting sun peaking past the rain gutter onto the porch floor. Three cats snuggle into her coat. The sun warms our feet and the wine our humor. The potion makes us all smile together.
Straightening my back, the Lafite tasts of blueberries and cedar. We could also discuss pencil lead. But lets stop all that. Lean back and stare at the barnyard. The barnyard right over there. My dress drifts up and down, mildly, in gently moving air. A cow lows. A young collie, usually frantic, stretches in the setting sun peaking past the rain gutter onto the porch floor. Three cats snuggle into her coat. The sun warms our feet and the wine our humor. The potion makes us all smile together.
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The Hayne vineyard, cream of the Turley crop.
Vineyard 29, 2010 Savignon Blanc. Drank May 10 2013 - We started out with it too cold. As it warmed to room temperature, lemons filled our mouths. Tart Lisbon lemons, Sweet Sanbokan lemons and rough lemons (providing a hint of mandarin and piles of citron.)
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Marcassin 2006 Blue-Slide Ridge. The best Pinot Noir I have had since I was lucky enough to taste Romanee-Conti in 2009. Drank this bottle on May 10, 2013
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Kongsgaard Chardonnay, in the snow.