A slow meandering wine weekend

Had a mellow wine weekend which was well needed. Been drinking too many monumental bottles and needed to come back to Earth.

On Friday night my old friend Jean-Paul Brun was right back in the driver's seat again with his sensational '05 Morgon. The nose was very meaty (saucisson?) with pure red fruits and some barnyard aromas (brett?). I let it sit for awhile and the funk blew off and you had a Haute Cote de Nuits look-a-like. Some spice, red fruits, herbs and that pronounced meatiness along with an elegant palate with ripe tannins, silken-like texture and a long finish. will be interesting to see where this wine goes in three years.

Also had the 2004 Claude Branger Muscadet Sevre et Maine "Les Grans Moutons" which is a wispy style of Muscadet with beautiful pure fruit, intense minerality, and loads and I mean loads of wet sandy beach. Very good and reminds me more of Bossard than Luneau-Papin or Marc Ollivier's stuff.