..I rather like this. It's a tasting note written live as it were, as the writer was sipping the wine. Whether you think it's all bollocks or not, some of the words remind us how beautiful the English language can be. The writer, by the way, is a serious wine buff who knows his onions (as it were). And if you want a bottle, you can get some here. Cheapest price is £2,000 a bottle.
1985 La Tache; Grand Cru Monopole; Domaine de la Romanee-Conti: wild strawberry, plum, herbs, wood, charcoal, wood, cinnamon, raspberry, fresh, meaty, hugely complex. gamey, forest floor, wild blueberry, wonderful stuff, bonfire, chocolate, Asian spices, burnt matches, peat, cherry, minerals, iron, earth, hints of sous bois, blood orange, rosemary, thyme, oregano, eucalyptus, minty, but this kept developing in the glass, tannins have dropped away but it has a great backbone of acid, this will hold beautifully! Coffee, expresso. salt beef, salt, shitty, this just keeps changing. Sea air, asparagus, saline, vegetal, sea shore, sea shell, oyster sauce, milky, creamy, wet soil, lemon, grapefruit, sorbet, core of wild red fruit, wild raspberry and strawberry; molasses, superb depth, salt and pepper, fish and chip shop, beer batter, fresh plum, lemon, roses, rosebush, rose water, ethereal and deep, transcendental, pepperoni and chilli sauce, fish sauce, almonds, nettles, underbrush, grass, pollen, honey, dust, lifted but deep! WOW just wow! Blackberries, smoke, bonfire, wild raspberry, earth, cooked cranberry, this is the single greatest wine I have tried in my life! Fresher, lighter and more ethereal! Gunpowder, oxtail, cooked beef, cooked lemons, perfume, nail varnish but not in a bad way! Pork Crackling, so deep, so complex! Burnt fat; cooking oil, rubber, wax, maldon sea salt, squid, octopus, sea water, burnt raspberry, leather sofa, cigar, cigar box, almost like a Diplomaticos No. 2; fresh strawberry, bulls blood, absolutely brilliant, the best and most complex wine I have ever tasted! Wonderful texture! ******** [easily the longest tasting note I think I have ever written and the only guaranteed 8* wine!!!!!!!!!!].
A really brilliant wine that we thought would never show in the way it did with its poor levels and ashy, disintegrating cork! It was a revelation, and we even saw a beguiling peachy light in the Decanter. You just have to be sorry for any wine that had the pleasure of sharing the table with such a wine! Oh how I feel for that wine!
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Pretentious? Moi?
As you say Ron, lovely words. But yes, bollocks.
I really need to try harder with my reviews. Forest floor indeed.
I've ordered a case for us to share on my next visit. Yours, slightly pissed, TIO.
what a bloody sorry way to make a living .........
sounds like a truly unpleasant experience to me - perhaps the result of over-enthusiastic plate-filling at the gala buffet on a sad git's cruise ship - I note he missed the luke warm pasta with raisins.
actually - upon reflection, it reads more like the olifactory analysis of a drunk lurching about on all fours with his tongue dragging along the pavement - he missd the cigarette butts and spent condoms..........
I do believe that there are 'super-sniffers' (hyperosmia) out there, but this is just a massive regurgitation of anything in this wine writers olfactory memory.
Complete bollocks.
However, I was thinking of you on Sunday (in a nice and wholesome way, obviously). Being Easter Day and having at least 3 hours' driving to do by way of Marlow Bottom, I felt a bit of 'St Matthew Passion' was the order of the day. I fondly remember sitting in your Hammersmith flat with the score, singing along to the CD. Happy times indeed.
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