I tasted over 40 wines last night, including 9 ports. Then went on for a few pints and a curry at the ever-reliable Eastern Eye.

The headache is just tolerable with the aid of modern science. My fave white of the night was a Chablis. I dont like oaked Chardonnay, I dont

Ah, there IS life. Though probably not too much at the moment in your case. Sounds like a great night GK, except for the Evil Eye bit.
Yet another filthy day here.

Ahhhhh, poor head, "I must nurse my head somehow, whilst the kids run all over the place"..... those were the days - Enjoy GK, while your constitution can take it

So your Chablis was a beautifully balanced one with very very light sweet oak - then ? I do love an good-un. Un oaked premier cru is quite rare. Please say more......If ya can remember anything ....

Very quiet here GK, been quiet ever since professor what's it pressed the button on the Hydron Calyda. For a while only Ba and I were alive.

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Filthy day here as well Ba.

That front over Bristol was very slow moving and very heavily laiden with rain clouds. It came down Cats and Dogs here at 5:00pm gutters flooding all over the place, we may have had up to 80 mil in the last 8 hours. Still raining, but slight now at 6:30

I think we had better leave Tasting Notes and Offers Quaffed alone, so Mel can see quickly what she wants to delete. Simon is your man if you need to put an IP blocker up.

In view of the weather and GK's indulgence, I'm lining up a good-un tonight

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Jealous I am , yes. TT last night and a couple of 500 ml Bishop's Fingers tonight.
Am doing an event for Wiltshire tomorrow.

However, I am already thinking about getting home knackered, in the dark (and probably wet) and rewarding myself.

Fief Guerin Muscadet and Pazo Albariño I reckon...and a HUGE bag of crisps.

There's a tale behind this.....

When I first tasted this wine I was blown away by the shear brilliance of the style, whistle clean and pin sharp acidity, depth of flavour, like sucking chilled, freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit juice through a stainless steel straw. I immediately loved it. Clean Chablis? Obviously unoaked right? But there was something there, a slight yeastiness and a lingering hint of lemon thyme (im guessing, I couldnt put my finger on it).

So I asked the chap pouring (who just happened to be the guy who owns the place), Has this wine been oaked? Yes, says he. Wow thinks I, what integration, beautifully handled, I would have put money on this not coming within a hundred miles of an oak barrel.

I have just done a search and found several tasting notes on supplier’s sites listing this as an unoaked wine. So much for knowing your own wines!

Anyway it’s delish, here’s a pic-


The case I bought was of the '08, rumour has it, its a decent year for the region. Domaine Jean-Claude Martin.

Head is much better now, not drinking tonight though. We've just finished watching the new Star Trek movie, very good indeed, ya can’t beat a decent TV and a home cinema system. You can keep your over-priced, sticky cinema seats surrounded by chavs.

Yeah, see....Just beautifully balanced and good quality oak in the right amount.

From your note, it sounds fresh and utterly beautiful.

2008, yep, that's the one I'd take just now.


Of the 2007 - Difficult year, with a damp summer causing a lot of rot. Small quantities of very early-maturing wines, earlier than 2006. As always, it depends on the grower.

You already over it, I'd still have a melon head

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Except, its an unoaked wine. Pay attention man!

Sorry GK, I thought the person pouring the Chablis, was the director of that Wine merchant who actually talked to the growers and producers. There are invoices and proper product descriptions for EU wines. I made my assumptions this way, because I buy some red burgundies from a director of a merchant business, who goes to the Cote d'Or for several weeks in January, meeting his suppliers and tasting the wine in barrel or tank before he decides to import, with his own vehicles.

Do we always assume that the people writing the tasting notes know more about the wine, that the director of your wine merchant who bought the wine wholesale and keeps it in stock as one of his unique lines.

I am paying attention

I have been fooled by a tiny amount of oak in a Chablis, but, thinking carefully, it was probablty a very mature one - That was a dumb response of mine last night, after nearly finishing a whole Chablis myself.
For me, a good director of a proper independant wine merchant should know more about the production of a wine, than can be deciphered by tasters.
Sorry mate. I've made this post hard work, rather than fun

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