Which wine are you drinking? Tell us about it

[Pete_the_painter]

I’ve enjoyed this thread and love seeing the different stuff we drink.

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. Also special mention for @Rod_Smith I know you’ve had to endure way too much wine usually under horrific circumstances I just hope your luck improves in 2022.

[IDAK]

Another wonderful mouth watering description. You should write for Decanter! Have a wonderful day tomorrow.

[Eoink]

Thanks mate. Enjoy the rest of your Christmas Day.

[Rafael]

Auguri!

[anon17458420]

I agree the colour is astonishing.
We are close to Alsace and recently picked up some pinot gris vendange tardive, Gewürz and some Reisling from Rolly Gassmann.

[Quickben]

Your config reminds me of what we thought 2021 might have looked like. Nearly moved a few hundred yards to a bungalow opposite our stable. Offer accepted which augured well with a north-facing courtyard just ripe for extending to create a wine room. Sadly they decided to stay put and are now possibly too frail to move voluntarily. Just means more use of available space here plus storage at EHD and TWS but at least we can always enjoy good wine. Just popped a Collard-Picard BdB for brunch of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. A magnum of Meerlust Rubicon 2005 also ready for later plus a bottle of Kracher from a collection I acquired recently. What could possibly go wrong?

[Eoink]

Enjoy

[Quickben]

All set for liftoff (though we did start the BdB at lunch). Very pleased with the new addition in front. If Naim did corkscrews it would be a Durand!

[Deeg]

A little light for my taste but full of fruit, nice with our venison wellington.

[crispyduck]

Looks fab! How is the Collard- Picard? I am v familiar with the Cuvee Prestige but haven’t tried that one

[Eoink]

1999 Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts Domaine Hudelot-Noellat
Opened and decanted at half 12, started drinking with dinner at half 2, a small glass left as I write at half 6. It’s a mature colour, a bricky orange. Powerful nose, cherry, bluecurrant, earthy scents, cardamom(?) aromatic spices. At the beginning the nose was powerful, but slightly unfocused, by about 4 o’clock it had settled to a beautiful blue fruit and cherry with spice and earth, totally pure. The palate followed a similar trajectory, after 2 hours of air it was acidic with powerful plump fruits and good grip, cherry and blue fruits, maybe some blackberry, earthy tannins and lovely white pepper and aromatic spices. Fine perfume of the fruits lingered in the mouth, and the length was exceptional. At this point the flavours were wonderful, but slightly unfocused. After another of couple of hours it all came together, the fruit had that Vosne purity, it’s still ripe, but now not plump, the complexity of layers of fruits, pepper, earth flavours was incredible yet somehow simple, the perfume still lingered, and the length is immense. The fruit is sweet, but that feels right, like naturally sweet cherries and blue currants, not over-sweet. It’s stayed like that as I pour the final glass, a wonderful wonderful wine.
This might be a late contender for my wine of the year,

[crispyduck]

Wonderful description of the wine Eoin. It’s a shame you had to spend the day on your own but as you are one of the nicest and kindest members of the forum I am sure that your many friends and admirers here would like to wish you all the best. Who knows, when wine tastings open up in London we may bump into each other! ATB

[Eoink]

Thanks so much for the kind words cd, I’d really enjoy sharing a glass or two (or maybe more ) with you, let’s hope we can meet safely later in the year.

[Quickben]

The BdB is easily the best fizz opened so far this week. Good acidity as you would expect but matched with a lovely fullness that leads to a nice finish. Paired with smoked salmon at lunchtime then salted almonds before dinner and both times it was cooking on gas. So glad we have another bottle!

[Eoink]

Dr Loosen Erdener Prälat Auslese Goldkapsel
The deep orange colour made me think it was oxidised, but it isn’t. Nose of brown sugar and fresh sweet and sour fruit, pineapple and grapefruit. Lovely unctuous mouth-feel, sweet sugar, pineapple, mango, grapefruit, some acidity, but not quite enough to balance out the flavours. It’s a gorgeous wine, not perfectly balanced, but lively fruit, great sweetness, really drinkable.

[colormind]

Wonderful choice! Enjoy, @Eoink! Merry Christmas.

[Richard.Dane]

Of today’s wines that we had here over lunch the two standouts were the Chapel Down Brut to which I had added about 3 or 4 years of bottle age - it was the best CDB I’ve had and shows that English fizz can take a little bit of ageing with excellent results.

The other was the Domaine du Colombier Cuvee Gaby Crozes Hermitage from 2010 (a late change from the wine i’d earlier proposed from xmas day above).

[swinnerton]

A few bottles with our simple Christmas supper

[Antz]

Christmas day highlights
Bollinger La Grande Annee 2008 - one of the vintages of the early 2000’s along with 2002 - stunning starting to show secondary aroams - depth of flavour

Chateau Cos d’Estournel 1995 - what can I say, don’t drink 20 year old claret too often - bloody sublime in early way depth of nose, almost mulberry like, intense the palate was a joy red fruit powerfull but refined and the finsh !

Boxing day slightly lighter Hambelon Classic Cuvee a really good Morgon with the buffet

[swinnerton]

A glass of nectar with late lunch.