2000 Haut Veyrac St Emilion Grand Cru

Jun 26, 2007 10 Replies

I bought this several years ago at the property have kept it lovingly and decided that the anniversary was a fittting time to try my first bottle.



The color was rosy violet purple, clear but deep. While I was struck with a pleasant nose I really couldn't discern anything particular.



Again strangly the taste was incredibly pleasnat but I lack words for it perhaps becasue it felt better than it actually tasted.



It was the finish that really hit me. Big mintiness the tannins are quite fresh in this bottle not bracing but definitely left one's teeth knowing that they had had a visit.



This probably sounds horrible, it was really quite good gaining more depth as dinner time arrived the fruit was coming out to play and it went from tasting like a rather tannic Burgundy to a more appropriate St Emilion with darker color and fruit than the bright cherries that we first encountered.



How good was this. This one was a "We must go back (it is after all only a full nights flight to Paris and 2 hours to Bordeaux) and get some more" rating.


It's drinking nicely now but I do think that it has plenty of life ahead of it still. It is still very much in the decant an hour ahead category as far as I am concerned. Frederic Claverie has a website

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and his e-mail address is snipped-for-privacy@tiscali.fr. Although no American distributor is shown on the site he might just be able to save you a journey if he knows of an importer.

Good luck

Tim Hartley

I for the first time clicked on your www. and watched Argentina. What pictures and music to create such a lovely montage! While viewing about 5 minutes of calm, I thought this is a good time to check my blood pressure.

I'll be looking forward to seeing the rest of them, but right now I have to go make butter.

Dee

Timothy Hartley wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@dd30.orpheusnet.co.uk:

I am really glad that I opened it two hours ahead of dinner. Yes I should have decanted, and thought of it as soon as I realized that the tannins were still very present and the wien was tight, but swirling works wonders. I will definitely wait before opening my other bottle.

And please, I NEED to go back, why did I ever leave? I ask that every time I go home.

Dee Dee wrote in news:1182867224.825015.99680 @u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

Thank you. sharing the fun is part of the fun.

That is the magic of the place - it draws us back - not just Haut-Veyrac but the whole of the Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.

Tim Hartley

What does it mean for a wine to be "tight" (or "loose"?)

Jose

Jose wrote in news:TPdgi.18038$y_7.8600 @newssvr27.news.prodigy.net:

A tight wine is one that does not give easily of its charms. The nose is restrained. Often with a little help from the air it relaxes and gives more readily. This is all too suggestive for a family friendly group, I know but you asked :-)

Other than waiting and tasting again, how would one distinguish a tight wine from an uninteresting one?

Jose

Jose wrote in news:q3fgi.8894$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net:

a tight one will relax after a while and be quite pleasant, and uninteresting one, well, a bore is a bore

, There is, too, almost a tension to a closed or tight wine which is very different from the flabbiness of one that is dead or past its best or will never have a best to which to aspire. The mouth feel will be entirely different, with more texture and presence than a dead or hopeless wine.

Tim Hartley

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