TN: dead Gloria, live Talbot, and St Bart's Massacre pink
DaleW
took the dog to walk to vote. While waiting I opened a bottle of
Provencal rose that some generous guests had brought over from France
Sunday. The (I think NV) Vignerons de la Cadierenne "Charles IX " (VdP
Mont Caume) is a rather peculiar wine. Big, fairly low acid,, a bit
herby but with a kind of quinine meets grass aftertaste that I really
can't wrap my head around. Generous for them to bring their local
wine, but this isn't my preferred style of rose. C+
(I think I got name right. Isn't Charles the 9th the one who massacred
the Huguenots? Strange marketing choice, guess not much export!)
So dinner was a hodgepodge of leftovers- steak salad, some cassoulet,
a piece of chicken, along with some broccoli/shiitake stirfry. I
decided to open a Bordeaux, and went with a recent acquisition, the
1971 Ch. Gloria. I have sentimental reasons for liking Gloria, it was
cheap, fill was good, I've found some surprising nice drinking
midlevel '71s, and there was a good recent CT review. Well, too bad.
This wasn't dead from a fruitless point of view, there was some cassis
and black raspberry with just an edge of pruniness, but there was an
overwhelming taste of cigarette ashes. I've had wines that seemed
fruitless show some life after a few hours, but my experience is the
ashtray thing usually means "doornail." What the hell, I took a sip
later. Yep, even worse. Still, nothing ventured nothing gained. D
Backup was a half bottle of 1996 Talbot (least I stayed in
appellation). I'm getting to the end of 12 halves (split a case with a
friend, cost us $12/bottle). I've noticed a bit of variation in the
375s, previous one was quite young, this one was for me fully mature.
Fruit seems to have lost just a little of its freshness, but it's
still a nice midweight claret, with blackcurrant, blackberry, and
cedar. I'm sure 750s have more life, but I'll probably drink my last
half with next 2 years. B
Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an
excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I
wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I
offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of
consistency.
Lawrence Leichtman
<6c744396-e2af-4100...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
DaleW <Dwm...@aol.com> wrote:
> consistency.��
Hope the Gloria wasn't too expensive.
Godzilla Lizard
> Last night I waited for Betsy to get home from rehearsal before we took
> the dog to walk to vote.
In Texas, we don't allow dogs to vote. But, New York is a totally
different world. ;-)
Godzilla
graham
"Godzilla Lizard" <godz...@monsters.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:04:46 -0800, DaleW wrote:
>
>> Last night I waited for Betsy to get home from rehearsal before we took
>> the dog to walk to vote.
>
> In Texas, we don't allow dogs to vote.
But you vote them in! {;-)
Graham
Ed Rasimus
Smile when you say that...and you'd better be wearing boots and a hat
along with Wranglers. We take our politics seriously in TX.
Ed Rasimus
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