Lovely natural wines

We've opened those wines below.

The left picture was Sauvignon Blanc. It's rich, but not thick. It's different from usual sauvignon blanc, I think. The middle wasa also the same grape. It smelt like citrus and fresh. I like to drink it in a summer day. The right was Chenin Blanc. It's extraordinary smell. I wanna drink it again.












Recently, I have a chance to taste Bordeaux. I've got a feeling of that Bordeaux wine(might be aged ones) has a style. and It's exellent. But I also liked the wine like these wines tonight. There are lots of charm that I wouldn't have expected. I can't say which is better. Anyway, I'm lucky to have opportunities to taste those wines.

Didier Daguneau

It's been long time after tasting. I have a time to upload the photos.

We've tasted some wines produced by Didier Daguneau. I've told that his son accede the wine making now, after he were gone by an accident. I wanna drink the wines he makes too.

First of All, We've relieved ourselves thirst with champagne, Gaston Dericbourg. That made a nice start.




I liked both, but Buisson Renard's excellent smell has gone down faster. I wanted to enjoy this smell for more while. it couldn't help it.

We've tasted a red wine before the last of his sweet wine, Pascal Simonutti. It's nice light wine. I like his wine.



The last wine of Daguneau tonight was this, les Jardins de Babylone. What a lovely sweet wine. I also like this label.




While tasting, There were some foods.




And after that, We wanted drink more, so We opened some mroe wines. 2004 Nuitage, Marc Pesnot. Nice natural white wine. 2003 Bourgueil, Yannick Amirault. Nice silky wine. and Beaujolais Nouveau 2004, Jean Foillard. This Nouveau can drinkable after years. What a surprise!

Philippe Alliet

We've had dinner with Philippe Alliet and his wines. We've tasted 3 red wines, Shinon 1998, L'Huisserie 2005, and Coteau de Noire 2005. Personally, I especially liked L'Huisserie. I wanna try it again. He and his wife were kind persons. he wasn't talkative and his wife talked lots instead of him. Of course, He answered our question kindly. I had a wonderful dinner. By the way, The person who played the fool was my favorite wine shop owner. He got the left broken kneecap in the end of 2008 by an accident. but He seemed fine. He told me many nice wines. He has passion to introduce nice wines.

boire tue

a unique label. but This wine wasn't that dangerous. It's easy to drink and taste nice. In a way, It could be dangerous, Because, perhaps, people would tend to drink much more than usual. Before open the wine, I drunk a can of Japanese beer, Edelpils. This beer was limited beer, and taste nice. By the way, Tonight pasta was alio olio peperoncini with shirasu(Japanese boiled tiny fish).

Marc Pesnot

We've sipped Marc Pesnot's wines and one unique Italian wine tonight.

The wine on the left was Muscadet(melon de Bourgogne). On the middle, Gros plant and the tree is over 60 years. Usually, It tend to be aigre, this wasn't. On the right was Abouriou which has thin skin and hard to grow them. Personally speaking, I liked gros plant.
Those wine were Melon de Brougogne. They all included some gas. I've heard of that gas protect wine instead of adding SO2. The right one were like Petillant.
This wine was brewed in Amphora(a brown ware). The variety is Carignan. Everybody haven't expected this wine was Carignan. It smelt very flowery, kinda liqueur. It's like a perfume. I don't wanna drink it with some foods. I'd rather sip it after meal. The vignoron is Giotto Bini who is an architect in Italy.

fie gris

I've got the same impression of Sauvignon blanc at the first. It smelt like pine and honey. It has nice acidity, mineral, and little bitterness. and I also got a little feeling something burn like caramel or coffee. Is this grilled oak scent? I don't know. I liked this wine anyway. This wine made by Jacky Preys. I remember I liked his pino-noir. The pasta was tuna sauce with onion, carrot, celery, garlic, pine nuts, green chili, and lemon grass.

tonight dinner

I've cooked a simmered dish with chicken, potato, and boiled bamboo shoot. I simmered them with Cidre. The wine was gamay in Loire. It smells like nuts(nut liqueur?). and the cheese was made from goat in Rhone, Mont Ventoux. It's very tasty and soft. I've enjoyed the dinner. I've felt like I don't wanna go work tomorrow and take a day off.

it tastes nice a few days after

I've tasted the rest of P'tites vignes. I think it's also nice, as if it's nicer than Yesterday. and the cheese, Garrotxa, was also nice. It smelt like mushroom at this time. As a dinner, I ate simmered lentil beans with soup stock(with bacon bone), sausages, and some risoni pasta(shaped like rice). the big green olive was include jalapeno inside it.

la lunotte blanc 2006

I've opened a white of Christopher Foucher's, P'tites vignes. I've recognized it's sauvigon as I'd sipped. I think this wine was nice balanced as a sauvignon blanc. little honey, grapefruit, little herbal, nice acidity and mineral. I wanna tasted the others more than before. The cheese was nice with it too, a spanish cheese "Garrotxa". I've puffed a cigar too, por larrañaga, little spicy. It went together with a scotch whiskey, laphroaig 15ans.

Simonutti yellow label 2004

The cépage was Chenin blanc. It has much but soft acidity, nice mineral and little bitterness. It smells little flowery, it reminds me tiny white flowers. and it reminds me the scent of goat cheese or just wanna eat goat cheese as I'd sipped the wine. perhaps my description wasn't good, But I've got the feeling like that. When I've tasted a chenin blanc, it smelt like tropical fruits, but this wine wasn't. It's different. There is the same feeling(analogy?) when I taste the wine which made by the people like Pascal Simonutti. Since I drunk many wines like this, people calls "Biodynamic" or something Organic, Somehow, I hardly care much what the varieties are. I just enjoy wines. Tonight, I ate simmered vegetables(potato, carrot, and onion) with the bone of Bacon, Because It was cheep and easy to enjoy the dinner with wine. I put much mustards on them. There is much soup left, I will drink the soup or make a soup pasta with it tomorrow.

la lunotte

A loire wine, Christopher Foucher. light red color, natural taste, smells berries. I like the wine like this. I don't know what the varieties are in this wine. gamay? I've googled, but almost of people were talking about the white of his wine. hmm, I wanna try a white wine too. The cheese was made in Loire too, Selles sure cher, It's aged and smells nice and the texture was moist.

les graviers

I've opened a Loire red wine yesterday, Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil, Les Graviers 1998. The vigneron is Yannick Amirault. the variety was Cabernet Franc. I've tasted some of his wines earlier, and I felt it's a strong wine, but after 9,10 years, It seems come to soften and smoothly. It seems that I prefer aged wine in Yannick's wines. I drunk it with a nimono(simmered chicken, taro potato, and sweet potato with soy-sauce based), olive, and cheese. I sometimes feel aged or light red wine can go together with soy-sauce based dishes.