Jenise
FLDG Dishwasher
42664
Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
The Pacific Northest Westest
Dale Williams
Compassionate Connoisseur
11162
Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:32 pm
Dobbs Ferry, NY (NYC metro)
Jenise wrote:I love Joguet's cab francs. Unfortunately, I sent my last Dioterie to it's death last year at a tasting that was geographically right but totally wrong in concept: Loire chenins and cab francs. Such are the illustrious chenins that no cab franc has a chance of looking good or being welcome after seven or eight of the others. Do not try this at home, kids!
Tim York wrote:I am puzzled by 11-14% alc. on the Dioterie 99; 14% would be very unusual for Chinon especially in an often dilute year like 99; I hope that this does not imply natural 11% lifted to 14% by chaptalisation. It sounds excellent though. The magnums probably help.
Some claim that Joguet went through a bad patch in the mid-90s though I am more than satisfied with my 95s and 96s. At a recent tasting I asked Jacques Genet, the new commercial manager, about this and he replied that the problem mainly concerned their 1997 vintage, a warm year, where they underperformed compared with a lot of other estates.
At a vertical a couple of years ago, Dioterie and Chêne Vert were showing brilliantly in an understated elegant style from some 80s vintages.
Dale Williams wrote:Tim,
I think it sounds like a pre-printed label, just gave the range of possible ABV.
I was debating what to have with my skirt steak tonight, a '02 Les Petites Roches it is!
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