{"id":1778,"date":"2010-11-25T23:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2010-11-25T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:31:53","slug":"neal-martins-exceptional-pomerol-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/bordeaux\/neal-martins-exceptional-pomerol-tasting","title":{"rendered":"Neal Martin’s exceptional Pomerol tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pleasant Thursday night outing: Neal Martin was compere for tonight’s tasting at Roberson<\/a>, with the focus on Pomerol. Neal is writing a book on the topic, and with the research he has done, there is no one more qualified to present this tasting.<\/p>\n

Pomerol is newly famous. An appellation of 780 hectares, it’s only really since the 1950s that the wines from this part of Bordeaux have been taken seriously.<\/p>\n

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We tried 10 different wines, spanning 1952-1999. One of the features of the evening was bottle variation: when you have a two bottle tasting, this becomes apparent. One way round this is to pour alternately, so that neighbours can compare if one of the bottles seem dodgy.<\/p>\n

Highlights? 1998 Conseillante had Bugundian elegance. 1995 Lafleur is just a baby, but is quite brilliant. And the 1952 Petrus was annoyingly good (bottle one had a slight edge over bottle two). It wasn’t a truly great wine experience, but it had lovely complexity and length, and was still very much alive.<\/p>\n

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Notes will follow in due course. I know these aren’t the sorts of wine that most people can drink regularly, but I feel compelled to try to taste as many serious old wines as possible in the name of benchmarking.<\/p>\n

It was the second Roberson tasting I’ve attended in a week. And both times I had to wait less than a minute for my district line train to Richmond, which can be a 20 minute wait in the evening. A sign.<\/p>\n

Pictured above: Neal chatting with sommelier Dawn Davies before the tasting got underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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