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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:45 pm 
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This is from a good/great winemaker/house. Priced at some time at £13 but bought in a bargain dozen at a third of that. I am coming to the conclusion that BS Chab is not for me. Certainly the best and most complicated of several recently tried. The downer (yet again) is the band-aid. Simply ruins an otherwise good combo.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:54 pm 
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Well Ba,

Full Marks for trying ! I'm wondering whether you would be better off with an old 1er version, the band-aide (that you find) I'm sure this goes with secondary development. Mind you, I'd have to test you out with one of mine - way past your bed time.

Maybe - Yep, I dont see why not ....you could try exchanging the remaining two botles of this chablis for the Saint Veran. That's of course, if you can find it in store.

Your past performance in effecting this sort of transaction hasn't been great though :roll:

Image Mixers fit more comfortably with your skill set

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:50 pm 
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Might try that as they were "substitutes".

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 4:10 pm 
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Could it be lees, or something mineral?

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:07 pm 
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Don't know what causes it but I really don't like it. It's that medicinal gluey wreak.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:28 pm 
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E-mailed the online folk who told me it was up to individual stores discretion. Rang my local. It's en route to the recycle site and I have another load of cardboard for some reason. The guy that answered the 'phone was (amazingly) the brach wine advisor. Told me to pop in and he'd see what he could do. Nice.

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Marks, I've always received fair treatment for the few returns I've had to do, actually, they are good like that. Good policy and polite with it.

My last return, the same time of year 24 months ago, was a '06 Saint Emilion, that Mel also thought was overly austere, I kept one back to see if the fruit would come forward, just in case. One can learn from this sort of experience. Bottle development eventually, wine asleep at this time, that sort of thing.

I did the bottle bank this morning, I kept away from the sales - they do destroy the whole meaning of Christmas gifts.

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I thought I would merge some info from other threads as this thread currently does not do this wine justice due to Bacchus' acetone sensitivity.

Duncan wrote:
The Dom Prehy Chablis is a more consistent and a more satisfying wine overall. Leesy, more body and depth, yet nicely bright with very correct fruit. The Chat Ligny suffered from bottle variance. I've drunk about 14 or 15 in the end (my house white). The first 3 were little princesses for sure, the next box of 6 were good, the last box of 6 bought 3 months later, and found at the top of a shelf stacking replenishment area, were losing it, due to very poor storage in the Summer I recon...... and now the little princess had some wrinkles, which were very apparent in a wine that relies heavily on it's juvenile freshness. Unfortunately, I mixed them up on the rack. But when Ligny was good it was great for a fiver, like Decanter said. The Dom Prehy is supposed to be £13, so, there you go. These two chablis are quite similar in style, so when Ba said that about the Ligny, I knew he was not up for the Dom Prehy at all.


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The Chablis I also loved - drank with sea bass (lightly dusted with seasoned flour and fried, served with fried chorizo and morcilla, wilted spinach and new potatoes, with a salsa verde) and the Chablis more than stood up to all that. Very leesy and tasty and well balanced with good, full body. A cracking wine.


I opened my first bottle of this a couple of days ago. We too drank this with sea bass, pan fried and lightly seasoned with a squeeze of lemon.

The wine is surprisingly golden in colour and there is a little pear on the nose at first. In the mouth it has that wonderful brightness and mouthfeel* which was barely evident in the Ligny, but for me was the reason it was so good. There is no hiding from it in the Dom Prehy. It resonates in the mouth and lingers on the finish. This is full of flavour and depth. Delicious.

I think it deserves a

:qofgold:

What do you think? and at the price we paid for our Lux Xmas cases its gonna get a

:qofgoodvalue:

* Does this come from the lees or the fruit? It was very noticeable in Cordier's "Terroir de Charnay" Macon which is also very good.

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2 of my St V got blended, 1 given away. 1 Chablis in the sink, 2 returned for exchange. The Cartegena was OK, and the 4th wine was so forgettable that I've forgotten it.

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tribs wrote:
I thought I would merge some info from other threads as this thread currently does not do this wine justice due to Bacchus' acetone sensitivity.

What do you think? and at the price we paid for our Lux Xmas cases its gonna get a STAR


What Do I Think ?

Domaine Pierre de Prehy Chablis '08 is bloody nice, classy stuff, actually. The '08 Saint Veran in that Xmas Luxury bargain was also a joy. Both excellent examples of affordable white burgundy. I have one Dom Pierre left.

The old vine St. V has all been enjoyably consumed because it was detected that it may not hold it's beauty, this detection was deduced because a small glass of the wine left on day 2 did not hold up at all in the fridge. I was very careful to maintain its freshness, The St V. brightness is pretty fragile.

BTW The free delivery code for Tesco at the mo = XX36DL

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