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Weingolb Dom des Deux Anes Prémier Pas Corbières 07 at Les Cavistes on St-Denis this wknd: Fantastic nat. wine, $9/glass. If you want the bottle to share with friends at dinner you can't do it there - must buy cuvée at boutique when you order your meal to-go. It's not that annoying; you don't pay resto markup, $23. But by law y...ou've got to pair it with a food order. A bizarre but worthwhile addition to Quebec wine market!
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Chianti Classico lineup photo by Chris Overing
1. Ruffino Riserva Ducale 06 - typical fruit pits and spice
2. Cecchi Riserva di Famiglia 06 - hard drying tannins with bretty stink
3. Poggerino 06 - leather, grenadine, black cherry; scores high for bright wood integration
4. Mazzei Fonterutoli 07 - very round, w...ith strangely oily finish
5. Antinori Pèppoli 06 - interesting stone and slate aromas, vanilla on palate
6. Fontodi 05 - burning tire, intense unsettled stuff
Weingolb The blind Chianti Classico tasting voted in the bottle I brought (Antinori Pèppoli 06) as best in show. But damn, if Chiantis aren't a tough lot outside the dinner setting! I saw the alluringly colourful Poggerino 06 getting the prize once the 05 Fontodi flinched... Is a cement-like cork fused on top a 4-yr-old wine a...ble to create reduction? Props 2 taster by trade, u deserve small monuments near the SAQ return desk
Weingolb Nothing like Chinons on Monday after too much wknd wine: Baudry's Les Grézeaux 05 & La Sablette 07, which fibs on the back label saying that it's rich. It's not. It's bistro wine. Besides, who wants rich to start the week, so you forgive it and with dinner it repays the favour. Then Baudry, bringing out smoke & spice w...here before there was just Cab Franc fruit
Weingolb Was going to tweet about last night's 6 Chianti Classicos, but that's too tiring now, especially when there's Sandhill Winery (recent winner of the 2009 Canadian Wine Awards' Best Winery - a field of 157) & the lovely comment I got from the married couple who opened their BC Vineyards Small Lots gift - of 3 Italian-sty...led bottles, they saved the best for last, this one, a Barbera from the Okanagan
Weingolb Final wine in the Rézin flight @ raspipav last week: Clos du Tué-Boeuf La Guerrerie Touraine 08 is raspy & plump. Full of fruit and more straightforward than the other two, less refreshing, less challenging, but lovely, with vibration on the finish. Major blood orange notes, yet it's mostly Malbec, only 1/3 Gamay. More raspipav reviews later.
Weingolb After the Gamay, my Rézin flight got exotic: Thierry Puzelat (of Clos du Tué-Boeuf) Tesnière Touraine 08 Pinot d'Aunis varietal has intense, unique personality. Very floral, like a dried flower arrangement, & v tannic, creating a sensational bitter dryness that recalls Campari. Call it the wine-version of a combustible edison cocktail. Stupefying! $26/bottle.
Weingolb Why not try something nouveau today? Order Gamay from the Loire with me - Clos du Tué-Boeuf La Butte Cheverny 08: Only 11.8% alcohol, refreshing, mineral, near meaty, fascinating wine. Stone fruit, no bitterness. Natural wine (no sulfur) from 100% Gamay grapes off south-facing clay/flint slopes in Les Montils.
Weingolb Looking for a compromise btw tomorrow's Vin Nouveau Day & yesterday's Glen Carlou Grand Classique Paarl 05 - extremely stinky burnt wood thrown at Cab-Merlot, an absolute barrier for me to this popular wine & as disappointing as vin nouveau, of which Quebec's state wine police, the SAQ, will only be importing 3 (brands..., not bottles, but one can dream). Sad news. Hope lives in tonight's Crozes-Hermitage
Weingolb 3 Bordeaux sauvignons: Ch Bonnet Entre-Deux-Mers in 07 is less nippy than Dourthe No. 1 & almost soothes in comparison. Tho typically tart, has a steely stone-fruit aspect. No wonder Bonnet’s got Sémillon & Muscadelle in the mix. New 08 Ch des Matards 1ères Côtes de Blaye also tacks on Muscadelle but skips the Sémillon... for a grapefruit attack & sweet pineapple finish. OK, not actually sweet - relatively speaking
Weingolb Laurent Martray Vieilles Vignes Brouilly 07 persists on finish, a winner in spite of bonbon nose & pale colour. No bojo mediocrity! From mid-palate on, & with food, it kicks into high gear, rendering plum-tomato fruit into something more steely, zingy and purposeful as it cuts thru yr meal.
Weingolb St-Armand's Domain du Ridge can expect wknd sales to reach new heights - 10% off terroir ici bottles at SAQ coincides with Phaneuf's 1st-ever guide de vin section on Quebec wine & it's Ridge who is rated well & stocked widely... even gets honour of being 1st Canadian in rosés - Champs de Florence (Vignoble St-Armand) 0...8 ain't bad, neutral & refreshing w/ some cranapple notes for $14
Weingolb Laguna de la Nava Gran Reserva Valdepeñas 01 - I hope everyone knows not to take advice on Spanish reds from me... This cuvée's no longer stocked in Quebec, not for sale in Ontario and gets the mediocre 2-star from Phaneuf 3 editions ago when he could last be bothered with it. I think it's fantastic, like someone remem...bered acid and realized even in Spain you drink wine with regular food. Great bottle for the table!
Weingolb Michel Phaneuf Guide de Vin 2010 now stocked in Mtl bookstores (Archambault's got the early discount on it) but rushing a copy to the SAQ before top picks get plucked is not the only game in town anymore. Rézin & other agencies offering notable private-import wine new in this edition... suddenly notes from Tuesday nigh...t raspipav I'm posting seem less important!
