by Ian A » Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:37 pm
Simon Grant who is Britain's answer to Dale Williams has posted notes on cellartracker, which are an excellent review of these wines.
They are exceptionally good wines, but I think I went into the dinner with extremely high expectations.
If I had a quibble it would be that they lacked the excitement and complexity than one sometimes encounters with great burgundy. Maybe that will come with time.
There were plenty of TG moments but no FMTG movements or FMSW moments. The tectonic plates did not shift beneath my feet.
Some of the wines were - annoyingly - a little too warm, which made the analysis more difficult, and the plum sauce clashed aggressively with the pinots. This may have made them a little more diffuse than otherwise, but the second pinot flight was served at the correct temperature.
Regarding the pinots I preferred the high altitude examples, which had a little bit more pizzazz.
The syrahs were not in a good place.
My stand out wine was Skyline. It had more interest, complexity and wow factor than the others. I would have loved to spend more time analysing it, but it has some interesting rocky, mineral and saline notes.
I thought the Chardonnays were excellent, and would be happy to own a stash of the entry level one. The Horseshoe and the Alpine opened nicely through the evening, but were a little too warm by the time they had evolved.
