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 ==== News & Vintage Tastings ====
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+=== 2010 VINTAGE ASSESSMENT DINNERS – A SOMETIMES SENSATIONAL BUT UNEVEN VINTAGE ===
+\\  (September 14, 2018)  The thirteenth annual white burgundy vintage assessment dinners were held in Los Angeles on February 7, February 20 and March 7, 2018.  We tasted 80 wines from the 2010 vintage in three nights.  All of the wines were served single blind (except for the ringers which are double blind) and all of the voting takes place completely blind (with individual written ballots) with the attendees ranking their top five wines by bottle number.\\ \\
+The 2010 vintage illustrates, perhaps better than most, the difficulty in making sweeping judgments about a vintage.  The flight of 2010 Chablis (on night one) and the flight of Criots/Bienvenues Batard Montrachets (on night two) probably ranked as the best we’ve ever had from those appellations.  The wines from Montrachet (night three) were at a similar very high overall level of quality -- along with the 2007 vintage, this was one of the top two "Mostly Montrachet" dinners of all time.  The wines from Chevalier Montrachet (night two), which include a phenomenal ringer from Colin-Morey Chassagne En Remilly that was the overall No. 1 rated wine on night two, were a little bit more variable, but mostly performed at a similarly high level. But the wines from Meursault and Corton Charlemagne (night one), and Batard Montrachet (night two), when viewed as a group were not nearly so impressive.  Even among the latter wines there were exceptions, like the Coche-Dury Corton Charlemagne (night three) and the Dancer and Roulot Meursault Perrieres.\\ \\
+One of the problems that affects a number of 2010s is botrytis.  There was virtually nothing written about it when the reviews came out, but most of the producers I’ve spoken with over the past few years acknowledge it was an issue – and for some, it was a significant issue.\\ \\
+On Night One [[https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2567677#p2567677]] we tasted 32 of the top wines from Chablis, Meursault and Corton Charlemagne at Valentino restaurant.   On night two
+[[https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2568656#p2568656]] we tasted 32 of the top wines from the hyphenated Montrachet vineyards again at Valentino.  On Night three we tasted 16 wines in the dinner known as “Mostly Montrachet”   [[https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2574707#p2574707]]\\ \\
+I hope you enjoy the notes and the photos.\\ \\
 === A POSTSCRIPT ON THE 2007 CHABLIS ===
 \\  (November 2017; updated September 14, 2018) We tasted the 2007 Chablis on night one of 2007 vintage tasting in 2015. In my summary of the tasting below, I wrote: "We all agreed that the 2007 Chablis notably under-performed versus the early very laudatory reviews which suggested that 2007 is a classic vintage. The wines did not improve over the course of the evening either." I had purchased quite a stock of 2007 Dauvissat, Raveneau and Fevre in the expectation that they would be wonderful classic chablis. But after our tasting I was so underwhelmed that I resolved to send most of my stock off to auction.\\ \\  Luckily for me, I never got around to collecting those wines from their various storage locations in order to sell them. What I've discovered over the last six months is that the 2007 grand crus from Dauvissat and Raveneau (along with Dauvissat Forest and Raveneau MDT) have made the unexpected transition from ugly ducklings into graceful swans. Dauvissat Preuses and Forest and Raveneau Valmur and Blanchots are my favorites today, but all of the 2007s I've opened lately have been very enjoyable. I also brought home my 2007 Fevre Chablis.  Much to my surpise, the Fevre Clos is the clear Chablis of the vintage -- every bottle has been in fabulous condition and this wine is truly in classic Chablis style - oyster shell minerality in abundance and light, bright, refreshing fruit with great acidity.  The 2007 Fevre Preuses and Valmur also rock.  Out of about 15 bottles of 2007 Fevre consumed so far, I haven't had a single oxidized or advanced bottle.\\ \\
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 === Notes from the annual White Burgundy Vintage Assessment/Oxidation Check Dinners held in Los Angeles ===
 \\  Each February or March for the past six years, the editor (Don Cornwell) has held a comprehensive tasting/oxidation check of a particular white burgundy vintage. The purpose of the tasting is to assess the top wines of the vintage all at the same time from ideal cellar conditions and to check for premature oxidation. The wines are usually tasted at 7.5 years after the vintage date. The wines are tasted and evaluated by a panel of serious burgundy drinkers. You will find a comprehensive tasting notes, premox statistics and comments about the wines tasted by clicking on the links below:\\ \\
-== 1996 vintage assessment ==
+== **1996 vintage assessment** ==
  January 25, 2006: 28 wines in a single sitting. You'll find the the notes here: [[1996_vintage_assessment_dinner|1996 Vintage Tasting and Oxidation Check]].\\ \\
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 [[2007_vintage_assessment_night_three|2007-Night 3]]\\
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-====== List of producers and wines ======
+====== LIST OF PRODUCERS AND WINES ======
 \\  Here is a list of producers that might or not be affected by this problem. Each producer has its own page with information about winemaking techniques and a list of wines that have shown to be affected (or not).\\ \\  The list of producers is also available sorted by [[producers_by_appellation|appellations]].\\
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