TN: Second of La Mish, Laurent Numero 1

Dale, Is this becuse the higher end wines are a bit overblown with fruit and oak or because the QPR just isn't there? Bi!!

A bit of both. In Verget's case, the heavy hand with the oak isn't very evident in most of the cheaper offerings. In Laurent's , all the wines show oak, but I can take an oaky $12 Bourgogne better than an oaky $120 Bonne Mares.

I think my expectations, especially my desire for a sense of place/terroir/whatever, are obviously higher for the more expensive offerings. Dominique Laurent's wines taste more of winemaker than of place (his Chambolle tastes closer to his NSG than it does to other producers' Chambolles). Typicity is important to me; not to some other people (including some critics). Dale

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Well, if the second isn't ready, methinks 15 more years might be nice start to drinking window for a mag of the grand vin!

I find the few T-L wines I've tried mostly overbearing. Overextracted, overwooded. I don't think I've ever seen their Crozes- bu I liked the CdR better than the Cornas or Hermitage. The only one I actually own is the '99 Costieres de Nimes -drinking a glass is actually quite reminiscent of eating blackberry jam with a spoon. Not a "food wine".

What year? I wonder if Verget has moderated the oak use recently (not that the Dauvissat is a stainless steel wine!), as Fevre seems to have done.

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