On Jun 11, 11:18*pm, DaleW > wrote:
> With pasta with a spinach/mushroom/lemon sauce, the 2009 Loosen "Dr L" Riesling.
> A bit sweeter and softer than I remembered, but still a pleasant food friendly
> wine. B-/B
>
> Dave and Mary Kate go back to Scotland next week, Wednesday we had her parents
> join us for dinner. Yakitori chicken, rice with furikake, broccoli with sesame,
> herb salad. A couple of cold roses (it was hot by that grill) and a red
>
> NV *Pascal Pibaleau "La Perlette"
> Interesting stuff - sparkling Grolleau. Dry, raspberry fruit, an earthy
> note. Betsy likes a lot and I'll get more. B
>
> 2010 JM Raffault Chinon rose
> Cranberry juice! Bold red fruit, sweet fruit but a dry wine, a little
> citrus peel. This isn't bad at all, in fact quite tasty, but it's not
> the Baudry. B
>
> 2007 Tabalí Reserva Especial (Limarí Valley, Chile)
> Syrah with some CS and Merlot. *Big, fairly prominent oak, popular at
> *table. This is extremely well made in a modern/internationalist style.
> I enjoyed more by itself than with the food. B/B-
>
> Fun night with nice people.
>
> With a crispy duck breast salad over haricots verts, the 2006
> Dominique Laurent "Beaumonts" Vosne-Romanee 1er VV. This was a recent gift
> *from an extraordinarily generous friend. This had big rich fruit, some
> spice notes, smoke and to me loads of oak (my friend felt it was less oaky
> than most DL wines, but my standards this is oaky). Rich and extracted,
> interesting, but to me B+ as "pinot noir", B- as Vosne 1er.
>
> With skate in marjoram brown butter (me) and pasta with green puttanesca
> *(Betsy, a NYT recipe that used green garlic, spinach, basil, and green
> *olives as well as anchovies and capers) a couple of wines:
>
> 2007 Deux Montille "Boucheres" Meursault 1er
> Little oak, but some Meursault fat, ripe pear and apple, a hint of
> herb and mineral. Really nice length, has that fatness but some balancing
> acidity, just a hint of oak, frsh, quite a nice white Burg. *A-/B+
>
> 2009 Ulacia* Txakolina
> a little spritz, bright green apple and citrus with a clean finish, good value. B
>
> Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

I have a couple bottles of Dominique Laurent wines left in my cellar.
I think like many he got caught up in "Parkerizing" his wines but may
have swung back a bit towards restraint. HIs early wines were very
oaky, very ripe, very concentrated.