We had a really good blind burgundy tasting last night. Red, white, some classics, some ringers, and some great aligote and cru beaujolais. I don’t have time to write up the entire tasting so I’ll selfishly report on my bottles only.
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1959 Domaine Herville Pommard - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Pommard (9/26/2022)
The cork, fill and color were remarkably good. Two of us, experienced tasters, thought this was a beautiful dusty old burg. More fruit than expected. I kept coming back to it and found it improved in the glass. Four or five others thought it was corked. I have a very low threshold for TCA and typically call a corked wine before most, so unless that sensitivity changes with age, I think the minority here was right and the majority was mistaking tertiary aromas for TCA. -
2013 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly Blanc - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Saint-Aubin 1er Cru (9/26/2022)
This showed well in the company of many nice wines. Despite a three hour decant, a reductive flinty minerality was still prominent but added to the complexity and beauty of this wine. Like my bottle in June, it had terrific density and balance. Ripe lemon cream and light tangerine. Everything is generous, classy and in perfect harmony; the texture, dense fruit, reduction, acidic cut and long finish.
I revisited the glass hours later at the end of the tasting, and was surprised that rather than improving, it had deteriorated. The struck matchstick and acid were nearly all that remained, while the fruit had withdrawn.