Opinions wanted: Mille e una Notte + Drouhin Mouches '05s

I just noticed some recent arrivals that are available in very limited quantities (30-40 bottles of each) and wanted to ask the forumites' opinions on them. I need to buy them soon as they will not last long on the shelves.

Donnafugata Mille e una Notte 2004 interests me as ex-arabist, simply because of the name... Oh, and I do like Nero d'Avola when they don't spoofulate it. Any chance this won't lodge a splinter into my tounge if I try it?

Drouhin's Clos de Mouche 2005 red and white? I tried the red once at a wine fair and liked some parts of it very much: not as voluptiously fruity as many other '05s, quite bright and transparently Beauny actually - except I noticed more new oak than I thought Drouhin usually uses in the reds. Since I am bordering on paranoid when it comes to oak, how do others here view the wine?

I've never tasted the white '05, but have enjoyed some earlier white Bees. I often find Drouhin's whites on the oaky side, but the earlier Mouches seemed to carry it well. Is that the case with the '05 also?

-Otto

Donnafugata Mille e una Notte 2004 ... Any chance this won't lodge a splinter into my tounge if I try it?
-Otto

No Otto, honestly I don't think so.
i'm speaking from the experience of only having tasted Mille e una Notte once, but was pretty chocked and disappointed to find it completely oaked into pieces. I don't remember the vintage. Don't think it was 2004, more probably 2003, so it could be different, but somehow I doubt it.
Cheers,
Anders
PS. Speaking of Nero d'Avola, what do you think of Planeta's Santa Cecilia, in case you have tasted it? Some oak there too, but a much fresher, more fruit-driven wine.

Thanks Anders - possibly a pass, possibly a good bottle to share with my Arabic teacher as he likes a rather more spoofy style of wine than I do...

We haven't had Planetas S. Cecilia here, sorry. But do you know what style Morgante's Don Antonio goes for?

-O

Otto, I did not find the new oak of which you speak...but maybe you are super sensitive.. here's my CT note (I gave it a 91).

Lovely nose, with dust and fruit. Started a bit tight, but over a couple of hours opened up nicely. Cherry, tartness, some tannins, this became very good. Obviously needs time or a long decant.