Demessey, Premier Cru, Santenay, 2004
This was our third bottle of French red on inauguration night. We were starting desert and I wanted a Pinot to accompany that. Oregon or French was the conundrum. With French wine all night, we opted to keep it totally French and opened up this wine.
I picked this up from a wine distributor that was going out of business. Wholesale, this was about $40. And it's a Premier Cru. So, the expectations were high. We were celebrating our new President and I wanted something good. Unfortunately, this was not that.
The nose was pomegranate and strawberry, and not much else. Then to taste, and it was super thin! Sure, Burgundy isn't that Jammy fruit bomb like Oregon can be. But then, this was even thin for Burgundy. This reminded me of one of those bad German Pinots -- like watery strawberry juice. And, just to make it a bit worse, it had a bit of a salt taste too (not good).
Now, I've also had Burgundy that was flabby and disappointing at first. But then, you wait about an hour, and it turns into something magical. This was not that either. I tasted it again and again. I even waited until the next day. This just didn't improve.
Now, it wasn't totally horrible. I drank it for dinner the next night. But this is just not worth anything close to the $50 or $60 you'd have to normally pay to get this.
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5.0