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Some great wines yesterday... First, the 2004 Joseph Drouhin Chablis "Les Clos" Grand Cru is awesome... they stopped using new oak on any of their Chablis starting with the 2004 vintage and the result is a full, round, fabulous chardonnay with piercing acidity and laser-like minerality. A stunning example of this, the greatest of all Chablis Grand Crus. This will start to open and round in a few years and will eventually be a mature, beautiful Chablis (give it maybe 10 years or so). Far superior to the 2003 Les Clos... The 2003 Joseph Drouhin Clos des Mouches Blanc is fat and round with loads of hazelnut, popcorn and oaky richness. The 2003 Joseph Drouhin Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru is good, but I've never been blown away by this wine. I don't love Clos de Vougeot... never have, probably never will. The 2004 Joseph Drouhin Musigny Grand Cru however, is divine... if I could old have one wine in my cellar for the rest of my life, it would be without question Musigny. The most seductive, silkiest, and sexiest of all Grand Crus (even more so than La Tache and Romanee-Conti), the texture never fails to amaze. It's like drinking satin. Clove, cinnamon, strawberries, smoke and rhubarb are the dominant flavors, but this is a texture wine. I can't do it justice...

The 1996 Quintessa was good and certainly much better than I remember it to be... Just a hint of green steminess that I associate with older vintages of this wine. Will last a good while longer... The 1985 Domaine Leroy Volnay 1er Cru is so pretty... a very, very light wine that is still a decade away from maturity. Very soft earth notes with sweet cherry and strawberry fruit. Volnay tends to be powerful in its youth, then shed the power quickly... Pommard tends to keep its power.