Well, Labor Day has passed by and, though some of the sunnier, warmer days are possibly still ahead of us in northern California, summer's come and gone. Here is a quick run-through of a few wines I've drunk over the past week, and then more in-depth stuff tomorrow and later in the week.
2007 Grange Tiphaine Bel Air Sec Touraine Amboise
60-70 year old Chenin Blanc vines produce the grapes that make this delicious, dry white. Great intensity and minerality.
2006 Goisset St. Bris
A solid sauvignon de st bris, this wine slowly opens up to show broad citrus flavors - think kafir lime - with a touch of herbaceous green notes and intense minerality. Rich, complex, and very Pouilly Fume-like. One to cellar for a few years.
2007 Nathalie & Christian Chossard 'You are so Nice' Cot - Gamay
Here is a most naturally made 'natural wine.' Organic farming, working towards biodynamic, natural fermentation, malolactic which begins and ends naturally, and a minimal amount of sulphur added only immediately prior to bottling. Lots of enticing cot aromas on the nose: violets, barnyard and dusty purple fruits. Not showing a whole lot on the palate, this wine really disappointed, my first Dressner imported Loire wine disappointment. Could just be travel sick, will try another one in a month.
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You must have found an off bottle of the Chaussard. I write the tasting notes for Terroir and called it a "dark, chewy, berry-licious elixir that shouts its Loire Valley origins." That's been true for each bottle I've sampled.
Not off, just not as good as I was hoping. I re-visited the same bottle tonight and while the mid-palate shows a bit more length and interest, I guess that I am finding the wine a bit lacking compared to the likes of Puzelat and CRB. High standards, I know. Plus I am still not convinced that this didn't recently make its way west recently - I need to confirm though.
Not a Chossard guy either.
Interesting...you would be the third discriminating palate (myself included) I have heard of in the past day who did not really dig this wine.
I gotta say, Joe, that yeah, You Are So Nice ain't so nice. I ordered a bottle at Orson a couple weeks ago and the waiter came over to encourage me to order something else, that diners kept sending it back. Even the staff was having a hard time getting behind it. Naturally this made me just want to try it all the more, so eventually they brought some over--and I have to say that whill it smelled interesting (good? Definitely funky), it tasted metallic and fishy. Interesting to hear multiple reactions to that. Pity.
- wolfgang
Interesting to hear about the negative vibes on the Chaussard. I recently had a fantastic bottle of the 2004 CRB Cot and have been desperately looking around for something in the same vein.
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