Felt like Champagne, opened the 2014 Hervieux-Dumez Special Club. Round and friendly style, very apparent dosage, apple and lemon meringue pie. Decent Champagne, but not one to make joining the club a must. B/B-
Dinner was steak with truffle butter, roast potatoes, broccoli, and salad. Wine was the 1978 Domaine de Chevalier. Excellent showing- resolved tannins but still a sense of structure, cassis and black cherry fruit, tobacco, some light notes of humus/leaves/forest floor. Good length, nice wine. A-/B+
Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.