A while back Veronique Drouhin visited our city to show off her hard-to get Oregon wines (because they sell out so fast) as well as the new Burgundy line and she graciously granted me time for a good visit with her.
We started off talking about her Oregon wines, some of the stars named after her children. The 2005 Domaine Drouhin Arthur was a young wine, with good apple fruit. Fruity on the nose, it was spritzy, medium body, balanced with a nice finish. This young wine drinks well. The 2003 Vero Chardonnay went quite nicely with one of Wolfgang Puck’s Chicken Pizza. Made with Veronique’s selection of chardonnay gathered from Chablis, Rully, Mersault and Puligny-Montrachet, this bottle retails for about $22, and is a crisp, refreshing drink.
I asked Veronique to pick her red and white favorites from 29 wines being presented to us. The Cote de Nuit Village 2005 ($23 plus) was a lovely , big wine, opening up nicely, balanced with medium body, dark fruits, smooth, and very soft tannins. The Drouhin 2005 Mersault ($40+) is a good food wine, very beautiful and a typical Mersault, balanced, with roundness, with length to it and a great finish.
The 2005 Chambolle Musigny ($60+is a wine she loves, showing a smoky nose, smooth, elegant and
in beautiful harmony, balanced with a long finish. This is Veronique’s benchmark for creating Oregon pinots, reflecting “where they come from! A wine true to its terroire and origins”
The 2005 Laforet Pinot Noir ($15+) is their entry level wine. You can rely on a winery when their first red offering is “very good.” The 2005 Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru ($77+) opened carefully, and after an hour was elegant. The 2005 Chambolle Chambertin Grand Cru(app. $170) is elegant, and drank well. And,
the 2005 Glos de Vougeot, Grand Cru (($200+/-) opened gradually, was a deep dark sample, with graceful tannins, a gorgeous wine.
These wines are available, but the Oregon stock runs out extremely quickly.
Domaine Drouhin
-Cheers Joel
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