Re: TN: St Paddy's Day with Loire and Oltrepo Pavese reds

Mar 18, 2010 1 Replies


Last night our power was still MIA , went to friends' home for a St


> Patrick's day feast- salad, cormed beef and cabbage with the usual
> veggies, etc. My only contribution was the horseradish sauce (made
> with fromage blanc, using stuff from our cooler) and a bottle of Loire
> red (they had black and tans, but the host has uric acid issues and
> Betsy doesn't like beer)
>
> 2007 Guion "Cuvee Domaine" Bourgueil
> This is the basic bottling from Guion, and I've thought it a great
> value in prior vintage. This starts out with acids and little fruit,
> some bell pepper. coming across as less than charming. Improves with
> air, red fruit rounds out, ends up as satisfactorty, but I preferred > 2006. B-/C+

Bummer, Dale. Do you think that age will help this? I've got a bottle or two in the cellar.


Mark Lipton

Maybe some age will smooth it out. Maybe this was an off bottle. Maybe I am an off taster. Maybe it was bad food match. :)

In any case, for $10 it wasn't a crushing disappointment, I just preferred the 06

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