Maybe Mike Grammer can refer to this thread in 8 months or so when he’s compiling the WOTY thread.
I thought it’d be fun to see what people have liked that have been opened during the age of Covid.
For me:
2012 Ramonet Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Clos de la Boudriotte
2004 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne (for our anniversary, actually not in quarantine, but at McCrady’s in Charleston, just before everything shut down) Thanks to Jay Miller for insisting I try this and for Dennis Atick for the bottle.
2015 Y. Clerget Volnay 1er Clos du Versueil
2017 Domaine Fourrier Gevrey VV
Have started to open more wine, held off at first, but it helps pass the days now, so I’ve just ripped into random things I don’t usually get around to opening. Nothing mind-blowing, but some good, solid wines.
2005 La Pousse d’Or Volnay 1er Cru Clos de la Bousse d’Or
2012 Rattalino Barbaresco Quarantadue 42
2015 Pierpoan Classico Calvarino - yum-o outside on a warm night
2010 Guiseppe Quintarelli Primafiore- about right. Good with food
2015 Domaine de la Pépière (Marc Ollivier) Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie Gorges
Was just commenting the other day on how we’ve had some pretty good luck with our quarantine wines so far. the three of us talking decided its because we are lucky to just have cellars full of really delicious wine!
Best white:
2014 Valentini Trebbiano d’Abruzzo hands down
Best reds:
2004 Rioja Alta 904
2016 Big Table Farm
2008 Joseph Voillot Champans
2013 Richard Leroy Chenin Les Noëls de Montbenault
2002 Henri Boillot Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières
2010 Domaine Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Pruliers
2008 Vietti Barolo Rocche
2015 Azienda Agricola Valentini Trebbiano d’Abruzzo
1978 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Montefico
Interesting. The 2012 version of this wine is one of the most vile bottles of Pinot I’ve ever opened. I couldn’t make it through half a glass before it became an offering to the porcelain god.
Yours might have been the TN that made me think it was going to be garbage, so might as well open it. But of course I could just have terrible taste. If that’s it, then let me know next time you hate something!
Best so far would have to be an 1899 Latour. Because why not? Will our species survive this and if we do, do we deserve to? In any case, might as well drink some good wine. This was a pretty special bottle - I look forward to eating the dregs in the morning!