Schoolday Gear 3rd to 7th August

[monghead]

Hello all,

With the weekend behind us, what's keeping us satieted before the next one?

Cheers,

Monghead.

[DaveB]

Hmmmm....tonight a Domaine La Roche Bussiere VdT 2008...a super little 100% Grenackers from Faucon in the Northern Cotes du Rhone.

Tomorrow a flash Burgundy tasting with a few cheeky Languedoc wines thrown in for good measure...

05 Prieure Roch 2005 Chambertin Clos de Beze $736

’04 Prieure Roch 2004 Chambertin Clos de Beze

’01 Prieure Roch 2001 Chambertin Clos de Beze

’05 Prieure Roch 2005 Clos Vougeot

’05 Prieure Roch 2005 Vosne Romanee Les Clous

’05 Prieure Roch 2005 Vosne Romanee Les Suchots

’04 Chateau Maris 2004 La Touge Syrah La Liviniere

’04 Chateau Maris 2004 Old Vine Grenache La Liv

’04 Chateau Maris 2004 OV Syrah Mineroius La Liv

’04 Domaine Cornu 2004 Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Nuits Blanc

’05 Domaine Cornu 2005 Ladiox Rouge

’05 Domaine Cornu 2005 Pernard-Vergelesses Rouge

’05 Domaine Cornu 2005 Savigny Les Beune Rouge

’03 Louis Lequin 2003 Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot

’02 Louis Lequin 2002 Corton Grand Cru Les Languettes

’05 Earl Cacheux 2005 Vosne Romanee 1 cru La Croix Rameau

’05 Earl Cacheux 2005 Vosne Romanee 1 cru Les Suchots

Thursday....lunch with 2007 Egon Muller Scharzhoffberger Spatlese, Chave Hermitage 2006 and Chateau Rayas Reserve 2004.

And Friday up to Moolooooolaaaabaaaaa for 3 days

[dlo]

05 Prieure Roch 2005 Chambertin Clos de Beze $736

..... ya nicked it, bro!

[DaveB]

05 Prieure Roch 2005 Chambertin Clos de Beze $736

..... ya nicked it, bro!

Ooppps...forgot to delete one of the RRP's

[jeremy]

To bring things crashing down to earth

2008 De Bortoli Sem/Sav- crisp, lively, tangy, $6, why pay more on a Monday night for a food friendly SSB? Unless you love them & know them better than me that is My fav Sacred Hill ever.

[dlo]

Tonight I opened a bottle of a relatively minor Pauillac player, Ch. Pibran from 1996. This very good to excellent bottle of Cru Bourgeois displays an advancing brick red colour with substantial rust and pink in the outer edges. The wine has reached its peak drinking phase and although will not fall over tomorrow should be consumed over the next few years. There's some savoury tertiary characters building in this wine including cigar tobacco, leather, cardamon and Asian mushrooms (tending towards something approaching a miso-like character) to complement the leafy blackcurrant, plum, licorice and sweet earth fragrance and flavours. With the tannins three parts resolved the wine's structure survives on some lively residual acidity that maintains freshness and appealing equilibrium. The wine finishes long and savoury with a lovely twist of grip, intermingling with leathery, plummy and earthy fruit. A thoroughly convincing, affordable claret. 88 points. 13%A/V

[monghead]

2004 Teusner Albert- Yummo.

[Loztralia]

I've been finishing off a bottle of the Flametree rose to toast another fantastic Tigers victory. Very serviceable as they go, nice fruit on the nose and a decent dry finish.

[griff]

2005 Podere Ruggeri Corsini Lamghe Nebbiolo
A nose of tar, leather and cherry. After an hour it became rustic with 'brett-like' barnyard emerging. It had a nice light to middle-weight palate with tannin on the finish. Good/Very good wine initially and went perfectly with a modified amatriciana pasta (cured pork cheeks not the easiest to find in Perth - pancetta did well).

cheers

Carl

[Daryl Douglas]

To bring things crashing down to earth

2008 De Bortoli Sem/Sav- crisp, lively, tangy, $6, why pay more on a Monday night for a food friendly SSB? Unless you love them & know them better than me that is My fav Sacred Hill ever.

I hear ya, Jeremy! Di Bortoli's Sacred Hill Chardonnay 08 caught my eye with it's few medals as I sauntered along the shelves at the barn. Went pretty well with the curried sausages I cooked for dinner.

Cheers

daz

[PaulV]

2005 Podere Ruggeri Corsini Lamghe Nebbiolo
A nose of tar, leather and cherry. After an hour it became rustic with 'brett-like' barnyard emerging. It had a nice light to middle-weight palate with tannin on the finish. Good/Very good wine initially and went perfectly with a modified amatriciana pasta (cured pork cheeks not the easiest to find in Perth - pancetta did well).

cheers

Carl

The 2006 barbera d'alba from this maker is excellent - no brett , very fresh with pure dark cherry fruit lovely mid weight palate , fresh acidity and minimal tannin - and no oak yippee!

Cheers

paul

[jeremy]

monghead wrote

2004 Teusner Albert- Yummo

Ah, the wine that convinced me the whole thing was worth pursuing in greater detail. I think my TN would have read the same when I drank my first bottle on release and I'm not sure much else needs to be said now

I'm hanging onto my last bottle till my 40th in just over 3 years time. Ah, what memories it will bring back if I don't lose out in the cork lottery...

[DaveB]

monghead wrote

2004 Teusner Albert- Yummo

Ah, the wine that convinced me the whole thing was worth pursuing in greater detail. I think my TN would have read the same when I drank my first bottle on release and I'm not sure much else needs to be said now

I'm hanging onto my last bottle till my 40th in just over 3 years time. Ah, what memories it will bring back if I don't lose out in the cork lottery...

Should be going to screwcap from the 2009 vintage

[Aaron Lovett]

I think I've got my seasons mixed up.

2007 Rosily Chardonnay- Certainly my value pick out of the Margaret River chardonnays. Packed with lovely grapefuity, citrusy goodness and finishing with some spicey oak. I'd pick this over the Woodlands, which only has minimal oak influence.

[griff]

2005 Podere Ruggeri Corsini Lamghe Nebbiolo
A nose of tar, leather and cherry. After an hour it became rustic with 'brett-like' barnyard emerging. It had a nice light to middle-weight palate with tannin on the finish. Good/Very good wine initially and went perfectly with a modified amatriciana pasta (cured pork cheeks not the easiest to find in Perth - pancetta did well).

cheers

Carl

The 2006 barbera d'alba from this maker is excellent - no brett , very fresh with pure dark cherry fruit lovely mid weight palate , fresh acidity and minimal tannin - and no oak yippee!

Cheers

paul

Thanks for the tip! Will look out for it.

cheers

Carl

[ross67]

2004 Teusner Albert- Yummo.

have had the 05 monghead and that was very good as well ross

[jeremy]

Daz wrote

jeremy wrote:
To bring things crashing down to earth

2008 De Bortoli Sem/Sav- crisp, lively, tangy, $6, why pay more on a Monday night for a food friendly SSB? Unless you love them & know them better than me that is My fav Sacred Hill ever.


I hear ya, Jeremy! Di Bortoli's Sacred Hill Chardonnay 08 caught my eye with it's few medals as I sauntered along the shelves at the barn. Went pretty well with the curried sausages I cooked for dinner.

Cheers

daz

I'll grab one of them too. Curried sausages are hauté cuisine in my books

[jeremy]

Ross wrote

monghead wrote:
2004 Teusner Albert- Yummo.
have had the 05 monghead and that was very good as well ross

And the 06 is superb as well.

[jeremy]

Dave B wrote

jeremy wrote:
monghead wrote

Quote:
2004 Teusner Albert- Yummo


Ah, the wine that convinced me the whole thing was worth pursuing in greater detail. I think my TN would have read the same when I drank my first bottle on release and I'm not sure much else needs to be said now

I'm hanging onto my last bottle till my 40th in just over 3 years time. Ah, what memories it will bring back if I don't lose out in the cork lottery...


Should be going to screwcap from the 2009 vintage

Awesome, I'll TN one come the 2009 release rather than just sitting back and thinking, Hmmmm, this is FG!

[monghead]

Peking roast duck tonight.....

I can hear a pinot saying "pick me, pick me" in the cellar...

[griff]

Peking roast duck tonight.....

I can hear a pinot saying "pick me, pick me" in the cellar...

In that case I shall plump for a sparkling red with the crab cakes and frisee lardon salad that is being prepared

cheers

Carl

[Craig(NZ)]

Tonight I opened a bottle of a relatively minor Pauillac player, Ch. Pibran from 1996. This very good to excellent bottle of Cru Bourgeois displays an advancing brick red colour with substantial rust and pink in the outer edges. The wine has reached its peak drinking phase and although will not fall over tomorrow should be consumed over the next few years. There's some savoury tertiary characters building in this wine including cigar tobacco, leather, cardamon and Asian mushrooms (tending towards something approaching a miso-like character) to complement the leafy blackcurrant, plum, licorice and sweet earth fragrance and flavours. With the tannins three parts resolved the wine's structure survives on some lively residual acidity that maintains freshness and appealing equilibrium. The wine finishes long and savoury with a lovely twist of grip, intermingling with leathery, plummy and earthy fruit. A thoroughly convincing, affordable claret. 88 points. 13%A/V

i opened one of these a couple of months ago. Was ok but just a bit boring for my tastes. hared to describe, seemed a bit of a "blob" of a wine lacking direction and definition. tidy enough but certainly an easy match against a good hawkes bay or Aussie cab blend

[griff]

Padthaway Estate Eliza Sparkling Shiraz 2005
Pours with a heady purple froth. Earthy nose with sour cherries. Brandy snaps as well as some green apple emerges on warming. Quite a savoury palate with liqueur like character in the mouth but somewhat aggressive carbonation. Dry finish. Better served at cellar temp? Very Good wine.

cheers

Carl

[cuttlefish]

Willespie Cabernet Sauvignon 2001
Clean cork with staining on the end only. 14% alc. I opened this wine at about 11am gave it a double-decant, and it was tight and green leafy with blackcurrant fruit there, but the whole wine not meshed together. By dinnertime at 8pm, this wine has begun to show its true self, and the quality of the vintage. I've tasted a number of older vintages of the Willespie cabernet wines, and they always seem to contain a certain degree of funky brett' characters (which don't always detract), but this wine doesn't seem to show so much of this at all; it's there, but the aroma of this wine is dominated by deep and alluring cassis and beef-stock aromas, through to the more stern aroma of bitumen. It is definitely herbal. More to the dried herb end of the spectrum as opposed to the greener and leafier end of the spectrum. At 8 years of age, the wine is loaded with complex secondary character, but by no means anywhere near the end of its life. Musky, and dusty, and that cassis has a definite blueberry edge to it. The palate is quite dry, but 8 years has built some cushioning into the tannins, which are chewy and tasty. I think there is still a gap in the mid-palate, but you can't take away the fact that this is a rich, juicy, and flavoursome wine. Definite wow-factor here.

[monghead]

2005 Tower Estate Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

Not too bad. Vibrant cherries and strawberries. Flavours that dance on the palate. If it weren't for the hint of varnish, I believe the late Len Evans would have been proud of this wine...

Cheers,

monghead.

[Waiters Friend]

Is anyone drinking the occasional port? I'm supping a small glass of Penfolds Bluestone at the moment.

[ross67]

Qantas economy offering:
St Hallett 'Gamekeepers' Shiraz Grenache 2008

Not a bad quaffer with food. Barossa spice.


ross

[ross67]

Is anyone drinking the occasional port? I'm supping a small glass of Penfolds Bluestone at the moment.

I tried the Bluestone at cellar door in June and was very impressed for the price....then of course we moved up to the Grandfather. Different price point/quality etc


ross

[Loztralia]

2005 Tower Estate Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

Not too bad. Vibrant cherries and strawberries. Flavours that dance on the palate. If it weren't for the hint of varnish, I believe the late Len Evans would have been proud of this wine...

Cheers,

monghead.

Do you know anything about the Tower Barossa Shiraz? I discovered a bottle of the 2003 while doing a mini audit at the weekend and don't know if I should be pleased or not.

[DaveB]

2008 Domaine La Roche Bussiere Premice Vdt - very good...super gluggable
2003 Louis Lequin Chassange Montrachet Morgeot - pretty good...lacks a bit of finesse though
2002 Louis Lequin Corton Les Languettes - quite advanced colour but pretty good drinking
2005 Cornu Le clos Magny Cote de Nuits Village - enjoyed this...super value at around three lobsters
2004 Cornu Les Bois Rousett Ladoix - pretty good...tarry and a bit reductive with that '04 celery character....not bad though
2001 Cornu Le Clos Magny Cote de Nuit Village - pretty good, nice line of fruit but the finish a bit trucated
2005 Earl Cacheux Les chaladins Vosne Romanee - new worldy style...pretty good
2005 Earl Cacheux Les Suchots Vosne Romanee - pretty good...in a bit of a weird place at the moment
2005 Earl Cacheux La Croix Rameau Vosne Romanee - again new worldy...quite powerful line...very good
2005 Prieure-Roch Les Suchots 1er Vosne Romanee - sick....I love these wines
2001 Prieure-Roch Les Suchots 1er Vosne Romanee - awesome....super heady gear
2005 Prieure-Roch Chambertin Clos de Beze - awesome...super extracted though....pretty polarising wine
2004 Prieure-Roch Chambertin clos de Beze - excellent....smells like a crazy chinese restaurant
2001 Prieure-Roch Chambertin Clos de Beze - browning right off...bugger all sulphur used so this is to be expected....very good

All the prieure-rochs are pretty crazy wines....hyper-natural stylee with brown colours with a bit of age and some pretty challenging aromatic elements....lots of poop, tea, soy sauce, spice and uber-gamey stuff....very complex gear