A hint of oak on the nose. Alcohol seems a little hot at 13%. Can't love it.
11/10/07

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mel

Hi Mel, thanks for the email loggin today

You said

""Can't love it" was because the alcohol was too hot for the overall
intensity of the wine and so it was unbalanced. Am going to Majestic on
Friday and if it's there again I'll report back to you.

A good drinking friend bought 6 of these at Majestic 2 months ago on offer. I did not follow suit, Well I had just shelled out for a dozen Beaune 1 er's from 4 different domaines, and..... because I'm always vaguely suspicious of a retailer who knocks off a quater of the price to £7.99. It must have been hyped before, or the grower/shipper could be in trouble in this wretched recession ?

Montagny 1er should be good for 2005 in the Cote de Challonais - but Montagny is continually hyped, OK OK, easy drinking white burgundy from a lesser southern region.

I have consumed loads in the past, and when it is a good year, the wine has a few extra dimensions of fresh hay, hard comice pear, wild flowers and some mellon, never any nutty taste at all. But as soon as the hay goes to compost / sileage - about 24 months on, the fruit drops away like a stone.

I'd be interested in you opinion, 2005 was supposed to be a text book vintage in next door Mercurey. BTW, Majestic claim in their Summer catalog that the stainless steel tanks used to ferment the wine, preserve the pure peach, pear and acacia aromas ? Hmmnn.
Cheers for now

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Duncan