tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402117742947814196.post5406765032536978944..comments2024-01-29T19:33:21.185-05:00Comments on New Hampshire Wine-man: Château Meyney St. Estèphe 2009 BordeauxNew Hampshire Winemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07111304557830665931noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402117742947814196.post-6733864346339660992012-12-02T16:10:45.089-05:002012-12-02T16:10:45.089-05:00Thanks David, your encouragement has been a mainst...Thanks David, your encouragement has been a mainstay of my continued blogging effort, but has been enormously rewarding, and keeping in mind your recommendations will be rewarding as well.<br />I'm glad to hear from you and wish you and yours the best as well.<br />Sincerely,<br />Dennis<br />New Hampshire Winemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07111304557830665931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402117742947814196.post-40690990171760050442012-12-02T15:48:24.563-05:002012-12-02T15:48:24.563-05:00Hi Dennis,
Thanks for the links. Your review of C...Hi Dennis,<br /><br />Thanks for the links. Your review of Château Meyney is very compelling, as are all of your reviews. You have lots of talent for writing wine reviews and reading through your vast tasting notes makes it obvious that your olfactory senses and palate are refined as well.<br /><br />Also it's really nice to see you express yourself with something other than California wines, which are fine, but limiting. The wine wall is huge and there are so many great discoveries to be made out there that, considering your skills, it would be a sad if you missed other possibilities. Your nearly encyclopedic experience with affordable California wines is great but please let me encourage you to continue exploring the classics: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Rhone, Loire, Alsace, Piemonte, Brunello, Mosel, Rioja, and such. Although it’s likely that you will find wine from these regions to be more expensive than their west coast counterparts, these are considered ground zero for wine knowledge. If you later go back to California, it is then a matter of personal taste and should be respected by all, but at least you will have rounded out your base of knowledge. Please keep going with this trajectory.<br /><br />As for Vinogirl’s comment about Château Meyney’s aging potential, maybe it will add to the expressiveness of the wine with bottle age but the biggest challenge I see for the ’09 and ’10 Bordeaux vintages will be to not drink them young. They are so approachable and delicious now that I’m sure many of them will be enjoyed well before they are able to develop the classic Bordeaux secondary and tertiary flavor and aroma profiles. Even doing hundreds of barrel tastings from these vintages in Bordeaux was a sheer pleasure and normally that’s not the case with such young unfinished wine. As you said, there’s certainly ‘no shame’.<br /><br />I hope your holiday season is wonderful!<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />David Boyer<br />classof1855.com<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087096249496019093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402117742947814196.post-32786671763913775762012-12-02T13:16:50.353-05:002012-12-02T13:16:50.353-05:00v-girl, no shame, someone had to taste this wine, ...v-girl, no shame, someone had to taste this wine, but I got two, one for the cellar!New Hampshire Winemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07111304557830665931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402117742947814196.post-32562287715204780332012-12-02T12:07:42.699-05:002012-12-02T12:07:42.699-05:00I bet this wine will age great...seems a shame to ...I bet this wine will age great...seems a shame to drink it so young.Vinogirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10145696108646897751noreply@blogger.com