Weekend of Wine Part 3
This was supposed to be finished last week. But planning trips to Europe, dealing with hungry tourists and catching up on the practical side of wine blogging (drinking) got in the way. I will try to get the last two parts of my weekend of wine done before I leave for foreign vineyards. (I too late I am already here)
If you cast your mind down the page a little you will remember I left you just as we were leaving Waterford. Eamon had a little heart to heart with the driver which seemed to calm him down and left my thighs very much relieved.
Glenelly was the next stop. Bought in 2003 by May-Eliane de Lencquesaing from the Garlicks – who owned the Stellenbosch property for the previous 138 years – it is a rather grand place. The cellar, opened in 2009, is a four floored, 600 m² gravity-fed beomoth, housing (our estimate) around 10 million Rands worth of barrels.
The wines were very good. Tight and refined. My impulse is to say that Madame de Lencquesaing’s Bordeaux influence is obvious, but I feel that would be slightly disingenuous, as my knowledge of Bordeaux’s wine is limited at best, and have only tasted a little and none from Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande. The wines were well balanced with the oak and fruit not at odds. The Chardonnay was precise with great balance between limey zing, and texture giving oak influence. These wines, in my very young and very ‘umble opinion are made to be drunk a few years after purchase. But thankfully this opinion was not arrived at by having by jaw beaten to a pulp by a 2×4 dipped in wine. The service was impeccable, the staff having an in-depth knowledge of the history, wines and workings of estate.
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