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A Trip Down Memory Lane
One of the very few red wines that first grabbed me by my nose and dragged me, not exactly kicking and screaming, into the bottle was a 2002 Cuvee Gravel bourgogne rouge from Catherine and Claude Maréchal. A short while later, the same store which fed my Gravel habit had 2004 Chorey-les-Beaune and Pommard from the same producer, and I really fell in love.
I tucked away a far amount of the 2004s, more than I’d remembered, actually, and tonight I went digging.
A few years later, the Chorey is quite nice. The fruit on the nose is more potent than I remembered, ripe with sweet cherries and a bit of stony minerality, but the fruit on the palate is dying a bit. The finish is dry, a bit musty, and still quite tannic. This is still a pretty, enjoyable wine, but I’m drinking the other bottle I found quite soon.
2010.01.27 Evan Hansen at 12:05 am
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2 Responses to A Trip Down Memory Lane
"The fruit on the nose is more potent… but the fruit on the palate is dying a bit." That can be a problem with some older wines, yes? While the opposite is rarely the case. Either way, nice find.
Oh, absolutely, I think. Suz and I had an 89 Chateau Olivier Bordeaux about a year ago, and while the nose was BEAUTIFUL, the fruit had started to dry up a bit. Which is fine, because I love dirty, rustic, tannic, and acidic wines. I think they can all still be quite pretty if it tickles your nose the right way.