Other Holiday wines and the such: Brief notes
Had a pre-moxed bottle of 2002 Picq Chablis 1er Cru "Vaucopin" which was the first early to grave Picq I have had. Fuck White Burgundy. Really.Had a boring and sucky bottle of 2001 Santa Duc Gigondas. Dark, animal, messy, hot as most Grenache usually is. What is the appeal?Had a wonderful bottle though of the 2002 Joel Talulau St.-Nicolas de Bourgueil VV which was my last bottle but also was drinking absolutely perfectly. Lovely dusty nose of white pepper, cherries, herbaciousness, and earth. Palate was elegant with sweet, ripe tannin and an almost sphere like quality. So fine, so juicy, lovely acid, and all the Cabernet Franc g

50 year Burgs
Been drinking a lot of great wine but one stood out . . .By far the highlight of the last week was the 2003 d'Angerville Volnay 1er Cru "Clos des Ducs" which has to be one of the most age-worthy Burgundies I have ever tasted. 2003 is a vineyard by vineyard vintage as far as I am concerned

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Tasting reflections from a charity event
I did a charity tasting for the organization called Girls Write Now which is a top notch organization that mentors aspiring high school female writers with sometimes very famous counterparts. I was thrilled to be a part of this and organized a tasting based on wines from "Sacred Terroir." Or at least what I thought was sacred terroir.We started off with a 2008 Peter Lauer Ayler Kupp Riesling Fass Unterstenbersch which was many people's wine of the night. From the lower part of the Ayler Kupp on grey weathered slate. From tasting I would say this is done in a halbtrocken style. Very expresssive nose of slate, mineral.

Wines I di not taste at the Dressner Tasting (I didn't even see the list from day 2)
The Vins Contes wines were there but I just tasted a slew of Puzelat and just did not feel like doing the same style and grapes over again. So I passed. I like Puzelat way more than Vin Contes. I missed tasting the Herve Villemande wines but I need to get over my Puzelitis and realize there are other good winemakers in the Loir et Cher.I did not taste Texier's whites. Meant to but was too hungover the next day to move much less taste wine.My biggest regret is missing the Chidaine 2007's. I've heard good things about Huet so I imagine Chidaine is not too far behind. Dying to taste Clos Habert and Clos du Breuil. Missed Closel '07's. Darn.Missed