[Drinking] Pre Christmas Dat Drinkies

[monty uk]

I’m waiting for [MENTION=28490]Machiavelli[/MENTION] to go first...

That's mean-spirited. Offer him one for the road. It is Christmas after all.

 

[WhingForPresident]

In Sweden we celebrate Christmas on the 24th so normally this would be the night of a whole lot of eating and drinking. Not this year.

Had myself a bottle of Baileys though to get some kind of Christmas feeling... and cant complain too much and will miss this day for the next week or so as Im getting sick now.

You got through a bottle of Baileys? **** me, my stomach is churning from the thought of that, absolute madman.

Merry Christmas Swansman et al. I am working my way through the Brewdog 'Hoppy Christmas' IPA which I've been waiting to open for weeks, it's ultimately a decent IPA in a festive can, but decent stuff.

 

[Machiavelli]

I’m waiting for [MENTION=28490]Machiavelli[/MENTION] to go first...

Late again!
Yesterday:
-- some leftovers
-- Ch Brown 2010 -- decent
--- Barolo 2014 Chiara Boschis Mosconi -- too light, decent, but nothing more

Today:
-- Bollinger 2007 -- rich, a tad tired (I'm one of those)
-- Petit Chablis Vincent Dauvissat 2016 -- stunning: minerality, depth, complexity, acidity -- do you know this producer? I'm going in for more (but note it's now sold out at Butlers)
-- Beaune Clos des Mouches Chason 2012 -- voluptuous, drinking so well now. Like v much

Might crack into some Eiswein from Austria if needs be.

You?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Late again!
Yesterday:
-- some leftovers
-- Ch Brown 2010 -- decent
--- Barolo 2014 Chiara Boschis Mosconi -- too light, decent, but nothing more

Today:
-- Bollinger 2007 -- rich, a tad tired (I'm one of those)
-- Petit Chablis Vincent Dauvissat 2016 -- stunning: minerality, depth, complexity, acidity -- do you know this producer? I'm going in for more (but note it's now sold out at Butlers)
-- Beaune Clos des Mouches Chason 2012 -- voluptuous, drinking so well now. Like v much

Might crack into some Eiswein from Austria if needs be.

You?

No, I don’t know that grower. It sounds excellent - I’ll see if I can get some. Thanks for the tip.

Us?

Salon Le Mesnil ‘85
DRC Montrachet ‘90
La Chapelle ‘88, ‘89, ‘90
Yquem ‘59
Taylors ‘63

Slightly different to the original plan, but the GLDHI wanted a bit of a blow out for my mother - who has absolutely no idea about wine. The things we do for love, eh?

 

[Machiavelli]

No, I don’t know that grower. It sounds excellent - I’ll see if I can get some. Thanks for the tip.

Us?

Salon Le Mesnil ‘85
DRC Montrachet ‘90
La Chapelle ‘88, ‘89, ‘90
Yquem ‘59
Taylors ‘63

Slightly different to the original plan, but the GLDHI wanted a bit of a blow out for my mother - who has absolutely no idea about wine. The things we do for love, eh?

A pretty trad line-up, but sounds sumptuous.
I'm more intereseted in the first three (five), so a brief description/comparison would be welcome

 

[Goldstone1976]

A pretty trad line-up, but sounds sumptuous.
I'm more intereseted in the first three (five), so a brief description/comparison would be welcome

Very trad!

Salon: toasty (reminiscent of Krug ‘90), a touch of yeast, very fine mousse, full.
Montrachet: full - much fuller than I was expecting, oily, butterfat, very well balanced, extremely long
La Chapelle: 88: slightly thin, decent enough, but probably over. 89: good fat, liquorice, tannins fully resolved, medium length. ‘90: superb. Best I’ve had since a perfect ‘78. Everything you’d want. Mum said that she liked them all equally...