WTN: Better than a sharp stick in the Sockeye('03 Bourgogne)

[David M. Bueker]

2003 Mugneret-Gibourg Bourgogne - France, Burgundy, Bourgogne (7/26/2008)
2003 is controversial, but this Bourgogne is delicious. Deep black cherry fruit dominates the wine, but it's neither candied nor boring, as it eventually open up to be framed by proper balancing acidity, making it a lovely food partner (grilled sockeye salmon in this case) & with its effusive fruitiness an enjoyable drop on its own.

Nice! I keep remembering Michel Lafarge's comment, quoted in a thread elsewhere, that he didn't think 03s would ever shut down. Perhaps this kind of forwardness is a positive from the heat, and creates a certain early blooming liveliness that may not be long lived but is working well now.

[David M. Bueker]

It is working well now. I didn't buy many 2003s, but those I did buy will likely meet their maker sooner rather than later while I leave the more classical vintages to sleep. In some cases (e.g. Mugneret-Gibourg, Bocquenet) I just bought what I usually bought in the past. So far, while the wines were different they were not bad. The only real reject I had was a Chevillon Les Saint Georges that was served blind at a dinner & rejected by the table for being an over the top Cali Pinot.