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2023 Apollo's Praise Scheurebe
5/13/2024 - Jay Hack Likes this wine: 90 Points
A Berserkerday wine and the inaugural vintage. Each year, I support a small new winery, preferably from New York, on Berserkerday. This year I picked Apollo's Praise - and I'm glad that I did. I do not have a lot of experience with Scheurebe, but Muller Catoir was excellent, so this seemed a natural choice as a grape that grows in a climate (the Finger Lakes) that is also hospitable to Riesling.
This wine has a bit of flower on the nose (honeysuckle?) and a mélange of fruit on the palate, including apricots, orange citrus and apple. It went from delivery to down the gullet in 48 hours, which might have been my mistake and the cause of the one negative characteristic - a tiny bitterness on the back of the palate. Generally, if I can identify a negative characteristic, I keep a rating below 90, but the rest of this wine was so good that I pushed it up. It lost some of the bitterness after time in the glass, and if it was my fault for not letting it rest after delivery, then the next bottle will get to 92 points. I still have some in the bottle (one of the advantages of a screw cap is that it is easier to deal with not drinking the whole bottle in one sitting) and will check in on it tomorrow.
It is bone dry (2 gms rs per liter) but the nose and palate are so light and fruity than my wife guessed that there was more sugar. The ABV was in the mid 12%s, so it was an easy drink. I will definitely buy this again. If you like lighter, airy wines but that ooze fruit, I strongly recommend this.
Nice pairing with Halibut in a Goan coconut-based sauce. The acidity was just right to but through the sauce without overpowering the fish.
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2016 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
5/6/2024 - Jay Hack wrote: 95 Points
I loved this wine. At the May renewal of the blind dinner series at Corkbuzz. And it was up against some tough competition including 95 Cheval Blanc, 2001 Scavino Bric del Fiasc and a Guigal Doriane, in addition to a few others. Flower nose and fruit palate. Excellent balance with ZERO rough edges and no problems. I did not get classic Chablis saltiness from the oyster shells in the ancient inland sea, but I suspect that is mind over matter in many cases. White fruit and sweet lemon curd. Village Chablis is passable and premier cru is good, but the grand cru wines always seem to punch above their weight class, especially Les Clos.
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2011 Outpost Petite Sirah The Other
5/3/2024 - Jay Hack Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bought direct from the winery when first offered and stored in my temperature-controlled cellar. Decanted for only about 30 minutes and then followed for a few hours, with a swallow left in the glass for the next morning. I do not have a lot of experience with Petite Sirah. I have been told that it is a 30 year wine and this bottle may confirm that, but I suspect that the source of the story was actually people who confused it with Syrah from the Northern Rhone. There appears to be very little of it being grown in France.
At 13 years, this wine is just starting to open up and display some dark fruit, spices and a meaty roasted component that is very nice. I am not talking roasted as in burnt or smoke taint at all. Roasted as in meaty, with black berries and other brooding fruits, with perhaps some plum. It got better in the glass and had only gone slightly down hill sitting in a glass on a table in the den by the following morning, It probably has 5 more years, at least, to reach its peak, assuming good storage. This is a very enjoyable wine and will stand up to a strong beef-based meal. Just don' drink it with Dover Sole.
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