Everything old is new again. Last year the 96 Salon and 06 Comtes de Champagne shared the winning position with 01 D’Yquem just behind. This year, after a two year vacation, 2001 D’Yquem is the board’s WOTY with five votes. I had 500 entries to examine.
96 Salon slides into 2nd place with 4 votes and at 3 votes we see 96 Krug, 06 Comtes and, somewhat to my mild surprise, 2003 D’Yquem.
With that, it doesn’t take much guesswork to figure out that D’Yquem also scored top rating for most-mentioned house with 20 votes overall
SQN with 12 votes (lots of fun with that as there was not a SINGLE double-up among those 12) and Krug with 10 were the only other two producers to break double figures. The other top-ranking wineries were:
Haut Brion - 8 (a nice comeback for them)
Montrose - 7
Huet - 7 (nice to see that!)
Taittinger - 7
Dom Perignon - 6 (I think of them as their own house. )
Pichon-Comtesse - 6
Cheval Blanc - 6
Maybach - 6
Ridge - 6
Clos Roche - 6 (Jay Miller rocks on!)
Surprises? How about DRC with only 4 total votes? Bedrock with one. Ramonet with 3. Mouton and Lafite? One lonely vote each. And, in the ultimate condemnation perhaps of their recent pox troubles, no votes for Leflaive and no votes for Lafon. OTOH Jacky Truchot had a very nice showing with 5 votes. Coche did OK with 4 and Roulot had 5. On this side of the ocean it was nice to see Dirty & Rowdy rustle up 3 votes. Aubert managed 5 votes overall.
As always, thanks for playing everyone. Let’s get started on our lists for 2018!
I will keep my OP below.
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What? I waited…all the way to the beginning of November!
As in past years, if anyone knows of any “halfway through the year” threads that I have missed, please post the links and I will be happy to incorporate those threads/wines into the final tabulations.
It was even harder this year to cut down to 21 choices. I have been so lucky to share so many great bottles with so many great people.
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR: A tie between the Fernando de Castilla Antica PX which showed me the wondrous side of PX (thanks Count!) and 2007 Muller Proven Ries Spatlese which completed my conversion to enjoying German Riesling.
WOTY LIST (scores beside the wines where the description moved me to score)
1988 Chateau D’Yquem (99+)
1998 Boxler Sommerberg Ries (92)
2014 Chateau Pape Clement Blanc (94)
1995 Leonetti Cab Sauv
2012 Littorai Savoy PN
1995 Huet Cuvee Constance (95+)
1979 Chateau Pichon-Comtesse
2001 Zind-Humbrecht Herrenweg de Turckheim Gewurtz (94)
1998 Arcadian Bien Nacido PN
1989 Chateau D’Yquem
2012 Jadot Duc de Magenta Chassagne Morgeots Clos de la Chappelle (94)
2012 Coche Dury Meursault
1982 Chateau Canon (94)
2015 Marchand-Tawse Chambertin Clos de Beze (96++)
2010 Prager Wachstum Bodenstein Ries
2010 Domaine Weinbach Altenbourg Gewurtz (93)
Fernando De Castilla Antique PX (93-94)
1990 Eyrie Pinot
2015 Zind-Humbrecht Clos Windsbuhl Gewurtz
2002 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne
2002 Robert Chevillon NSG Les Chaignots
Discuss!
Mike