At a friends house for dinner with grilled things. Lots of conversation, no time wasted on note taking. All are impressions.
1995 Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau
Vary aromatic and precise in the very best way that 1995s can be. Maybe the last vintage that will produce Châteauneuf in this style. Not hard at all in the way that the 1995 Beaucastel can be.
1991 Viader
Maybe would have been better a few years before, it did seem a bit tired when first opened. It did sort of stretch out and reveal it self as the meal moved on so that by the end, it wasn’t tired seeming at all. Maybe the Howell Mountain structure is deep lying in cabernet franc. A bit confounding, but nonetheless interesting wine.
1995 Laurel Glen Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma Mountain
This showed great as well. Again, a lot of precision for a CA cabernet with plenty of mineral twinged earth to balance the fruit and herbs. Good structure with enough acid and tannin to clear the palate of the porterhouse. This and the above were decent advertisements for mountain cabernet from CA.
2004 Domaine la Soumade Côtes du Rhône Villages Rasteau Cuvée Prestige
I don’t have a strong impression of this wine other than I liked it more than I thought I would. Who said that monkeys don’t have open minds?
There were at least a couple more bottles, including some awful CA pinot noir.
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I think the Soumade Prestige is a bit of a misnomer in that, if I'm not mistaken, it's not the super spoof cuvée. They make a Fleur de Confiance that gets barriqued out the wazoo, but I don't think the Prestige gets that kind of treatment.
Oh, I know all about Confiance and Fleur de Confiance.
It isn't the wood that necessarily gets me down, but the soupy-ness.
I hate that.
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