Yesterday evening we got around to the first of the bottles bought at Hedonism (see 2nd March). A half bottle of 2011 Gevrey-Chambertin from the Domaine de la Vougeraie.
Label entirely in French with not even a 'Product of France' to be seen, with the rather impressive small print telling me that this was one of the just 300 half bottles of this tirage. But, inspecting Google, I find that tirage means a drawing off of some wine from the barrel to taste it before bottling, which might explain why the shop assistant warned me that it was a little young. For the rest, the label appears to be saying a lot about the geology of the wine but nothing about how whoopee the stuff was with crustacea, cheese, lemon sorbet and toffee apples, with notes of peaches and cream, in the way of a wine label from one of our supermarkets. From which we deduce that they have different fashions in these matters over the water.
We did not like it as much as other bottles of this name which we have had, for example from Lancelot of Hampton. Slightly earthy taste about it which we were not that keen on; perhaps it really was too young. But mus'n't complain as it did come in a convenient half bottle size, at about the same price (pro-rata) as elsewhere.
Will I ever get around to tasting a version without the pseudo? Hedonism did have them, but they seemed to be coming in at £1,000 or more a bottle, so just a little out of our league. I remember about the stuff having read in Rambaud on Aspern that it was all that Napoléon Ier would drink, but then I suppose that he got it compliments of the house.
Read all about it at http://www.domainedelavougeraie.com/.
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