Blowout Weekend

VLM, a friend of Cépage and purveyor of Robert Denogent's wines, was in town this past weekend. There were many wines to be had and we couldn't help but rank the top fifteen because everything is best in groups of fifteen. 

1. Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet 2005 (2 bottles)

2. Bernard Baudry Chinon La Croix Boissée 2004    

3. Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto 1996

4. Domain de la Pepiere Granite de Clisson 2005  

5. Domain Fourrier Les Gruenchers 2001

6. Clos Rougeard Les Poyeux 1999

7. Wiengut Prager Riesling Bodenstein 2004 (purchased at Sezmu) 

8. Valentini Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2000 

9. Harmand Geoffroy Lavaux Saint Jacques 2002

10. Bernard Baudry Chinon Domaine 2004

11. Albert Boxler Brand Riesling 2001

12. Clos Roche Blanche "Pif" 2004

13. Oddero Vigna Rionda 1996

14. Ghislaine Barthod Les Fuées 2002

15. Clos de Goisses 1996 

Some brief interconnected comments:

Pepiere is for sale, from this company, for eight dollars. Buy it. Baudry makes the everything of cab franc. The great poet ee cummings said "i don't know what it is about you that opens and closes" he should have been talking about nebbiolo, Giacosa opened, Oddero closed. Marc Olivier is a God! Fourrier's wines have different colors. Rougeard is a great enigma, sublime yet blocky. We should drink more Austrian wines. We'll probably never see another bottle of Valentini MdA. This one was interesting but very much a moving target, like a cherry bomb floating in the ocean. Geoffroy is a serious producer for old men with harry nostrils, wearing vests. It's not for hipsters. No one drinks Alsatian riesling, including us. Clos Roche Blanche, buy it. Barthod is a piece of iron, iron on a building not in a garden. Clos de Goisses is the Fois Gois of champagne: pure fat with the texture of a slug. Not listed were countless bottles of Hudelot-Noellat, and though we had our best bottle (Beaumont 2004), we still don't see the it of the it in these wines. In closing: Buy Pepiere. And vote for Kusinch.