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Bruce Hayes
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:20 am
Prescott, Ontario, Canada
Mark Lipton wrote:Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:
Bumping up your St Veran mark as I have just opened the `06. Need to let it breathe a bit.
Well...??? Inquiring minds, and all that
Mark Lipton
Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:Mark Lipton wrote:Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:
Bumping up your St Veran mark as I have just opened the `06. Need to let it breathe a bit.
Well...??? Inquiring minds, and all that
Mark Lipton
Mark, how much oak is this wine seeing? I am wondering if the `06 has seen any. I am also interested to know if you bought your `05 up towards room temp cos my `06 was better when not too chilled. To be honest, I am not too keen on my rendition. I did find the chalk on the nose as well as the palate but could have used a tad more ripe fruit. Will post tomorrow.
Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
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Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:Thats a pity Brian as you must have been looking forward to opening. Bad bottle seems right to me but straight from the winery? Thread still going strong, thats nice. Drouhin St. Veran this weekend for me.
James Dietz
Wine guru
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:45 pm
Orange County, California
Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
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Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:Tim, I learn something new everyday. Your report on Chard from Belgium most surprising, any hope of the PN?
Tim York wrote:Re beer, etc.
Well, Bill, I'm going to rise to the bait. I accept that Luxemburg is BIGGEST, if not best, wine producer in Benelux, but, as for quality and variety in beer and chocolate, Belgium can take on the world. Any contestants?
Bruce Hayes
Wine guru
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:20 am
Prescott, Ontario, Canada
Tim York wrote:DOMAINE DE MOUSCAILLO 2005 – Limoux AOC (100% Chardonnay according to the Belgian importer) – EUR 17.
C : Medium yellow. N : Complex white fruit with tangy citrus notes and minerals. P: Beautifully crisp, nervy and focused showing the same aromas as on the nose allied to quite generous flesh and a good firm finish.
This is quite the finest Chardonnay which I can recall from outside Burgundy and Champagne and is fully equal, IMHO, to the best offerings from the Chalonnais and Mâconnais in perhaps an even more mineral yet generous style. It has nothing in common with the rather bland and dull Chardonnay produced in other parts of the South of France.
Limoux is situated to the south of the walled mediaeval city of Carcassonne and, like Cabardès to its North, is therefore at a sort of watershed between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean with climatic influences from both; most of its vines are planted at between 200 and 400 metres. The region is best known for Blanquette de Limoux, which is claimed to be world’s first sparkling wine. I have only had it once, I think, but not bad at all.
The Mouscaillo estate is run by Pierre Fort, who learned his trade and his love of minerality at Château de Tracy in Pouilly-Fumé. As well as Chardonnay, the local white variety Mauzac makes up 15% of the white grapes (but is not claimed as an ingredient of this wine); they also have 0,8 hectares of Pinot Noir. Indeed there is no mention of Chardonnay on the main label, only on the back label which is worth quoting in loose translation as it helps to explain why the results are so superior to other Chardonnay from the south. “Here rock cuts up the landscape. The climate is one of contrasts, undergoing and profiting from the influences of Mediterranean, Pyrenees and Atlantic. Chardonnay is king. It draws its minerality from the depths of a calcareous soil which is inhabited by small marine fossils deposited there some 50 million years ago.”
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