TN: Domain Drouhin Lauren

GREAT!!! I have a case of 1998....was not showing well upon last tasting...thought it might be shut down last winter. Was planning to try again this spring...

Any one else have experience with the 98 DDO-Laurene?

Tom, I passed on the Beaune Bressandes @ $26 (I went for the Boucherottes and Coucheraux)- $40 is approaching highway robbery! The Saintsbury Rserve was one of my favorite CA PNs back in vintages around '95, glad to hear they're back to form.

"And how I wish I was on similar flights as you. Perhaps it is the class that I fly, but at best I end up with a choice of 2 whites and 2 reds. And none of them are nearly as nice or even eclectic (and I daresay expensive) as the ones you name. "

I believe Tom was referring to flights of wines (wines served beside each other). :)

LOL! Until I read your post, Dale, I didn't "get" that he thought I tasted all those wines on an airplane. I wish!

Tom S

beside

Duh indeed! Egg on the face and all that...

And Tom, its "she" not he.

Cheers

Salut/Hi Tom AZ,

Good to see you posting again.

le/on 6 Feb 2005 19:24:28 -0800, tu disais/you said:-

A delightful wine, IMO. We tasted it at Domaine Drouhin themselves last fall, not long after meeting you both. As it happens, the day we were there, Jacquie & I had booked in at the Joel Palmer house, for a mushroom feast. Well, to cut a LONG story short, we were given the rest of the "Lauren" we'd tasted at the Domaine, so we took it straight down to the restaurant to be decanted and to await our arrival 4 hours later.

We thought we almost got a hint of eucalyptus.

spicey notes. As the evening

Yup, that's more or less what we found, except that by the time we came to drink it, our bottle was beatifully opened, with the tannins well softened, and full of lovely PN characteristics.

By the way, do you happen to remember what those oysters were that we tasted with you in that Oyster bar near the market, and which we raved over? I keep trying to remember, but the name just doesn't come.

Yup. So would I, especially if they're Burgundy lovers as the wine was far less "in your face" in style than some we tasted (and liked too, btw).