Referat Svein Arne:
Champagne, De Sousa Cuvée de Caudalie NV
NV, with a healthy dose of 2008 as base. Sightly salty, pretty complex with characteristic yeasty undertones. Good, but not great.
Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs Gain 2004. Superb ,rich but still minerally with nutty undertones, honey and great length.
Flaccianello 2001. In a very fine place, great acids, balsamic and earthy notes on the nose and red fruits and fine length.
Ch. Kirwan 1996. Yopung, broadshouldered Bordeaux but with fine structure and excellent,floral notes, black fruits. Will easily go another 10 years before peak,
Domaine Huet Vouvray Moelleux Le Mont 1er Trie 1996. Almonds, oranges and mushrooms, ideally mature and with the acids perfectly matching the remaining sugars.
Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Spätlese 2004. Fresh and clear as water, apples and slatey sugar, perfect with cheese and seemingly able to go on forever.
Krohn Colheita 1960. One of the beste ports I’ve had, perfectly mature with red fruits, raisins and perfectly balanced sweet fruits. Very long.
Then the guys started hitting the wine cellar......I order up a Launois Special Club Brut Blanc de Blancs 2006 Champagne, precise, ultraclear and fresh, very fine, when one of my friends miraculously press a glass of Selosse Substance into my hand and order me to drink. Rich, nutty and spicy, the exact opposite of the Launois, but also wonderful. A Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet PCLes Combettes 2002 in magnum pass me by, but what the heck, it cannot possibly be finer than the 2001 of the same wine from regular size that I manage to grab, apples, spices, minerals and incredibly long.
Then I order a Liger Belair Vosne –Romanee La Colombiere 2004, difficult vintage, but this producers' prowess trumphs the vintage, fine spices, fruitpits in an elegant and light ballet of flavors. A friend counters with a Borgneuf 1998 Pomerol, amazingly young for an 18 year old Merlot based wine, plums,black fruits and great structure. I see some Elio Grasso 1999 Barolos on the next table, but a Clerico 2001 Barolo appears, to modern for me frankly, and I never manage to grab a tast of the Grasso Fast and furious seems to be the order of the day, or night perhaps.....
Time to go to bed – there are still bottles doing the rounds and still time to closing, but never mind. At the breakfast table I’m informed that I missed a Guigal La Turque 2000 Cote-Rotie, but what the heck. I’m told that we will have to repeat this next winter.