96 Taylors St Andrews Riesling This was singing. Some lovely honey notes and great texture and complexity. 93
Awesome. I need to get more Riesling into my cellar, it gets expensive buying aged riesling from Restaruants! Hope that cold dissappears quick. Beer is no substitute for wine (although I like drinking both)
I friend generously shared some Grand Cru & 1er Burgundy with me over lunch this week to celebrate some recent good news I was lucky enough to receive- impressions, not TNs (I let him do that, i just revelled)
2006 Domaine Dublère Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Sous le Puits- Wow, this is what good Montrachet is like? Oh my god. Long, structured, complex, savoury, worked and amazing.
2006 Domaine Pierre Amiot et Fils Grand Cru Clos de la Roche- As above re the experience. Such finesse, together and enjoyable even now. The beetroot notes made this for me as much as any one component can be singled out. I felt very privileged, and so I was.
2006 Wynn's Alex 88 Cabernet Sauvignon- I really, really like this. Rest of the bottle today.
2008 Sacred Hill Chardonnay- lively and in no way dumb, but this bottle was a bit pongy and rubbery. Maybe reduction or sulpher. I have another bottle to compare it to soon.
2008 Battle of Bosworth Shiraz- it needed a full day to come round, but it did. Generous and sweet fruited. Very pretty and floral. Vanilla and chocolate along with raspberries and plums. Some cinammon and also a bit of lemon acid. Quite fascinating and juicy in it's own quirky way.
) it but if so I didn't notice any reductiveness/rubberiness. I find it a varietal, sort of racy little number with perhaps a touch of residual sugar on the mid-palate, bright citrus acid on the shortish but acceptable-length finish. CM gave the DBSH shiraz cab 08 85pts though his TN reads a bit better I reckon. At virtually the bottom of the bargain basement, it's also a useful quaff.
