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In the Thread: Wine, women, song.. and audio

Post Subject: Paragons of wine and womenPosted by de charlus on: 8/4/2013

Yes, I have a few acquaintances who have damned the vinous pearls that I've cast before them with the very faintest of praise. One said that a 1990 Montrachet Ramonet was "as good as Cloudy Bay". Actually, although the Mouton was pretty special, along with certain vintages of Cheval-Blanc, Petrus, Lafite etc etc, I personally feel that the paragons of wine emanate almost exclusively from Burgundy; DRC, Dujac (I was at Oxford with Seysses Jr, giving me access to some spectacular Dujacs) Dugat, Dugat-Py, Meo-Camuzet, de Vogue for reds, along with Ramonet, Sauzet, Coche-Dury, Comte Lafon, Marquis de Laguiche, Dom. Leflaive, Dauvissat in whites to my mind easily exceed all but the most exceptional vintages of the most exceptional estates in Bordeaux. Also, humbly-priced Mosel and Alsace Rieslings routinely kick the ass of almost all other whites; Trimbach Clos St. Hune Hors Choix is just stellar, as well as pretty much anything from Egon Muller, although the Scharzhofberger vineyard is my favorite - the Auslese Lange Goldcap No. 29, Beerenauslese and TBAs amongst others are pretty much unimpeachable, and to my mind the Eiswein is the world's greatest dessert wine. Muller's Scharzhofberger Spatlese is to my mind the greatest wine that can be had for $20-30 in most vintages.
As for Bruckner/wine matching, I had one of those transcendent experiences recently with Bruckner No.7 and the '95 Charmes-Chambertin from Dugat - just sublime, although in this instance I can add no knowledge to the refined sphere of music/wine/women matching, since none were available at the time, on the whole a positive thing since there was more of that unctuous, lovely Burgundy for me, and I ran no risk of being told that it was "even better than Casa Lapostolle Merlot" - whew.

de Charlus

PS Adrian, I sampled a bottle of '89 Mouton-Rothschild recently from the cellar, and found it to be entering into one of those "closed" periods that fine claret tends to do at certain intervals in its lifetime. I don't know if yours was the same, but it would be interesting to find out.

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