reid@glacier.ARPA (01/19/86)
From: Wilkins@SRI-AI (David Wilkins) Results of tasting: Red Burgundy 15 January 1986 Lowest score is best, last columns show division of votes. Each wine was ranked as being first through eighth by 13 tasters. This was a tasting organized by Ross Bott and included many experienced wine tasters. TP AvRank Cost Ident First Second Third Last 25 1.92 82 Chalone (Pinnacles) 20.00 E 6 6 0 0 29 2.23 82 Pommard Rugiens (LaJuene) 20.00 C 4 4 3 0 45 3.46 83 Chass. Mon C SJean Pillot 16.00 B 1 2 4 0 60 4.62 82 Morey St Denis (D. Dujac) 15.00 F 1 1 4 2 72 5.54 83 Pommard Boillot 19.00 G 0 0 0 0 77 5.92 83 Cote de Nuit Vill Boillot 14.00 A 0 0 1 3 78 6.00 83 Volnay 1er Angles Boillot 22.00 H 1 0 1 5 82 6.31 83 Gevrey Chambertin Boillot 27.50 D 0 0 0 3 Significance of Ratings WINE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A -+- B -+- C -+- D -+- E -+- F -+- G -+- H -+- Summary of results and my personal tasting notes: There was incredibly strong group agreement on which wines were best -- more than I've ever seen in a tasting of equally priced wines. I agree almost completely with the group, the same 1-2, I liked the Dujac third, and the four Boillots last with no preference amoung them as they were all pretty poor. The 82 Chalone got 6 firsts, 6 seconds and a 7th from 13 tasters. It had a long, complex nose with fruit and violets. In the mouth it had great structure and balance, nice fruit, long finish, moderate tannin, and lots of class. Excellent wine. The Rugiens had a rich, ripe, long nose. IN the mouth, rich, velvety fruit, medium tannin, good balance, long finish, black cherry character. Didn't have the backbone of great wine but its very good. The Dujac was also very nice and selling for a reasonable price, which is a surprise. Nose was smokey and long. In the mouth, dusty, nice fruit, good balance, long finish, very enjoyable. This and the Chalone are the best buys. The Montrachet was good but not great. Nose showed good fruit with a rich, ripe character. In the mouth, lush, velvety fruit, nice balance and a good finish. The Boillot wines were all disappoinments and made a clean sweep of the last four places. They all had a woody, astringent, bitter character in the mouth, and weren't very interesting. In the nose, the Cote de Nuit was pleasant if uninteresting, the Gevrey was ripe and closed, the Pommard was also very closed, and the Volnay was sipe, with a cherry/cough syrup character. This wines may show better after some age, but it is unlikely the bitter quality will go away. I'd steer clear of them myself. Another ripoff brought to you by the wine makers of Burgundy! (so what else is new?) ------- ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
elf@utcsri.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) (01/23/86)
> From: Wilkins@SRI-AI (David Wilkins) > > Results of tasting: Red Burgundy > > 15 January 1986 > > Lowest score is best, last columns show division of votes. Each wine was > ranked as being first through eighth by 13 tasters. This was a tasting > organized by Ross Bott and included many experienced wine tasters. > > TP AvRank Cost Ident First Second Third Last > 25 1.92 82 Chalone (Pinnacles) 20.00 E 6 6 0 0 Foul! I thought for a second that a new French appellation had suddenly come into existence. Although I understand that Chalone makes a wonderful wine based on Pinot Noir, it is hardly informative to call it a Red Burgundy, since, unless some envious French spies have been successful in uprooting it, it is nestled rather comfortably in the hills of sunny California. Can someone in the Know please send me some info about this legendary (in Canada, at any rate) vineyard? -- Eugene Fiume {decvax|allegra}!utcsri!elf
reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (01/24/86)
[Background: I have recently started gatewaying Dave Wilkins' tasting notes from our wine tasting group into net.wines. Please don't bother Wilkins with questions about it. Bother me.] We like to include one "ringer" in a tasting flight just for fun and for cross-calibration. So a "French Burgundy" tasting might have one California wine, or a "1983 California Chardonnay" tasting might have one 79 chardonnay or one Batard-montrachet in it, just to help keep people honest. Sometimes the ringer wins. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA