Maison Louis Latour Chassagne-Montrachet Blanc 2005
Chassagne-Montrachet, Beaune, Burgundy, France. Chardonnay. 13.5%. Cork.
Both book and wine were opened and enjoyed today. Tasted blind, my feeble mind, might have confused this for a Vouvray. It smells of candied fruit and in the mouth there is sweetness and roundness as well as lovely playful acidity. It's impressive and now mostly gone. . . Peach skin, flint and a trace of ginger. Can a wine smell succulent? Fleshy, fatty and spiced in the mouth this is opulent and rich. It lingers without meandering, the mineral like acidity giving line and direction.
Excellent.
95.
Now - 2013+
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5 comments:
Good to see you enjoying some Margaret Atwood Ed :)
Love the Canadiana. But I thought that was a Massey lecture, not a big honkin' hardback.
You can't get the wine, but at least you can read our literature. But Margaret Atwood paired with bourgeois wine like Chassagne-Montrachet?
Haha, ya well she's probably more bourgeois than she'd like to admit.
Jermey,
Thanks for the comment. I'm half way through my borrowed copy. It's very well written but her leanings are perhaps too overt.
Shea, I could see how it would make an excellent series of lectures. It's only a little book - smaller than an A5 piece of paper.
Joe and Shea, I was thinking of the debt I could incur if I drank more white Burgundy. . . Plus one of the common insults for the 'chattering classes' is to be called a Chardonnay socialist. . .
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