2015 Peter Michael Les Pavots. High toned, bright, earthy, and balanced after a 2hr decant.
Yesterday: Schafer Frohlich Felsneck Riesling Spatlese GK 2021.
Pale and trasparent colour. So mineral in nose, mainly limestone. Some apricots, yellow fruit like peach.
Good concentration in nose. A little scratchy. Powdery and mineral like texture. Spicy finish. So mineralā¦ The sweetness is unperceivable since itās under the shadow of the heavy and dense body. Mid-high acidity.
Two friends said their bottles were reduced. I am lucky.
Karthauserhof Karthauserhofberg Riesling Spatlese 2018 (suffered some leakage) today for comparison. It is tropical fruit in nose (guava, and some unpleasant mango product), some watery in mouth. Sweetness is dominant in mouth since it has neither crisp acidity nor solid body to balance. It did not meet my expectation though 2018 is a hot and hard year. The serving temprature must be low enough to make it less diffused in mouth.
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Iām really glad you followed over 4 days; I have a fear of white wines going south after that long. How did you store them?
Also, that label is beautiful!
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Jerry, Iāve never heard that as a tasting note. It was very descriptive! Well done, sir.
Cheers,
Patrick
Day 3: A rare revisit from me but this greatly improved. Black and blue fruits with a silky mouthfeel and an appreciable length.
2018 Walter Scott Freedom Hill Chardonnay - Not much of a nose at first but opened up to show a stone fruit bouquet. On the palate, a lot more oak than I was expecting but went well with the nectarine and peach notes. Pretty acidic too. I didnāt get the struck match notes other mentioned in their reviews. I think this might improve for 5 more years.
I just store them recorked upright in my fridge door. In my limited experience doing this (almost entirely with rieslings): good, young wines with a strong core fare really well and sometimes continue to develop for the better for several days. At worst they just get a little muted or lose their luster in the short timelines Iām comfortable with. (Which definitely counts as a loss, but itās not like they go bad bad.)
First night awkwardness aside, it would be hard to do this again with either of these bottlesā¦7.5% alcohol on both of them according to the label, delicious and super crushable.
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I just finished her 2022 olive oil!
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Two bottles left. Will be ordering on Berserker Day.
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2011 Ridge Pagani Ranch Zinfandel
I last opened a bottle of this 2 years ago and it was my WOTY for 2021. Two years later, this is still drinking wonderfully, but has lost its primary fruit and youthful vigor. Now mostly tertiary, with dried cherries, rhubarb, cedar, spice with hints of cinnamon, and Sonoma dust. The tannins have fully integrated and there is still a wonderful acidity that gives it lift and energy. I would say this is beginning to age gracefully with lots of life left.
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Friday night started as a pinot night and ended with a Barolo Chinato - I havenāt had one for ages and it is such a good wind down end of the evening drop. An acquired taste and of the four present, two loved it, one said it āwasnāt greatā and the other was inscrutable 
The La Platiere and Burn Cottage were a great pairing, with the BC comparing surprisingly well. Still lots of forward fruit in both, so a few more years to goā¦lingering aftertaste mmm
Iām not a native speaker of English so my words might be used not properly. I just wanna describe the wine is so tight that it gave a punch to my tongue. 
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This was so crazy good when I had it on Sunday. Iām really just obsessed with it and kind of mad as hell it wouldnāt make sense to bring into the store I work for. Most people donāt feel like paying high prices for chianti classico even a GS, and thatās a damn shame.
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2002 Domaine Robert Chevillon Nuits-Saint-Georges āLes PerriĆØresā 1er cru.
2021 Bernard Baudry Chinon Le Domaine Rouge
Notable bottles during Sunday lunch at home.
The Chevillon, bought at release, was in excellent drinking shape and showed why the property remains as one of the best even without a Grand Cru among its products.
The Baudry is a classic Loire cab franc, ready to drink, but showed more of the cool-weather fruit that I prefer.
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Nice line up. Would love to read how these were.
11 Jamet and 01 Ogier Lancement were the top 2. Followed by 07 Chave.
Ex voto we all easily guessed Guigal as it was the most new world on the palate.
Allemand needs time. Shocked by how good the base 04 Rostaing was
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Here is one for the pursuers of German oddities.
Dark red, good acidity, āitalianā nose (if there is such a thing), not much fruit left, a bit hollow in the middle, but finishing nicely. Could be mistaken for a Pinot. Good stuff.
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That 02 Perrieres is one of the best Chevillons that I have seenā¦so composed.
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