We don’t often go to the wine tastings at K&L, but I happened to be checking my e-mail and checked out what events they had going on. We’ve been out of town in the past for this event, their Grand Burgundy Tasting, so we had to go. The good thing for this event was that limited the number of people who could attend and required ticket purchase on Tock (in the past for some of the regular tastings, it’s been a bit of a zoo).
There were 6 wines to taste, 3 whites and 3 reds. We quite liked the Puligny Montrachet. It was quite crisp and Andrea liked the minerality of it. The Chassagne Montrachet was very different from the previous wine…it it didn’t have the crispness of the previous one, but was more complex. But then the Corton Charlemagne was sort of the goldilocks to the two previous ones. It had some interesting layers of flavors and I thought it was an older wine that it was. It had some acidity, but not so crisp as the Puligny Montrachet and this was definitely our favorite. Although we did not intend on buying anything, we did end up purchasing a bottle of this.
For the reds, we started with one friom Nuits-St-Georges. This immediately struck me as oaky, which is at first quite appealing, but after awhile, it felt like it masked the character of the burgundy and the relatively delicate pinot noir (this reminded me when we bought a bottle of Don Julio 1942 from Costco since we were curious and it also was very vanilla/oaky which again was very appealing on first taste, but then masked the tequila flavor too much for my taste). The Chambertin seemed like a classic Burgundy to me, but the winner for us was the Clos de la Roche. It was so unusual, unlike any other Burgundy we’ve tried. i wasn’t sure even how to describe it. I was thinking fruit compote, but that wasn’t even quite it. But it was definitely too expensive for us to buy.
Afterward, we tried out their automated Open Wine Cellar. We tried the Burgundies – a Cote de Beaune, a Gevrey Chambertin, and an Echezaux.
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