美味しいワインと出会う旅

07より明らかに密度が高く、濃いワインです。果実味もタンニンも濃密です。

ただまだ曇っていると言うか、視界が晴れて来ません。香りも味も団子状態、糸こんにゃく状態でほつれて来ていません。もっと早く飲むか5年待つかの様な気がします。今なら村名の方が良いでしょう。

でも良いワインです。

色は濃いめの深いルビー色、香りはラズベリー、ブラックベリー、鉄分、赤身肉、甘草、ハーブ、スパイス、革、土、味わいは濃密な果実味、甘く全体を覆い尽くすタンニン、とても強いミネラル、余韻の綺麗な酸、スケールの大きな潜在力のあるワインです。

芯の強さ、苦くない透明なミネラルの様なエグミのラルロ節を感じるワインです。

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次いで黒赤果実ときれいな土が来るとてもい香り。
旨みも多く、とても美しい。"

2006 Arlaud Pere & Fils Morey St Denis les Blanchards

Wine Advocate # 186
Dec 2009 David Schildknecht 88+ Drink: N/A 
The Arlaud 2006 Morey-St.-Denis Les Blanchards smells like a cross between Gevrey and Morey (though its location does not explain this), combining licorice, wormwood and other bitter-sweet herbal concentrates with black cherry and game. The concentration here is admirable, but its bitter aspect gets in the way a bit on the palate and in the wine's sappy, persistent finish. This needs to open up more on the palate and tame its tannin a bit, though I am not sure whether it is only temporarily a bit reduced or instead unlikely to experience the aforementioned sort of transformation.

Cyprien Arlaud - for more about whose very much family domaine and its recent progress and expansion, consult my report in issue 170 - harvested from September 23 through October 3, ending up with around a quarter less production than in 2005, and wines on which he reports having held back comparatively on fermentative extraction. The relatively low pH levels enhanced stability, says Arlaud, and they certainly help account for the tart edges and vivacity of the fruit character in so many of his wines. Save for the large volume of Bourgogne (bottled in January, 2008), all of the Arlaud 2006s were bottled in December, 2007, and Cyprien Arlaud is hypothesizing in retrospect that perhaps this has temporarily stunted certain wines whose bottlings might better have been postponed. (Note, though, that the wines are neither pumped nor filtered here now.) This explains the number of plus signs and question marks I employed in an attempt to offer shorthand accounts of my reactions, in many cases to hints of reduction, tightness, or tannic perturbation.