First collaborationAccord Tannique with a group of great lovers of wine and music. In a beautiful setting, I am delighted to be accompanied by the internationally renowned guitarist Thibaut Garcia. With him I propose a tasting of 6 exceptional wines. Participants were able to discover the subtleties of the Music & Wine agreements.
Selection of 6 very high-end wines
- Ruinart House – Blanc de Blancs – AOP Champagne Grand Cru – 2013
- Domaine Dagueneau – Silex – AOP Puilly-Fumé – 2010
- Domaine Magnien – 1st cru Les Ruchots – Morey St Denis – 2015
- Lambrays domain – Clos des Lambrays – Grand Cru – 2017
- Château Haut-Brion – Haut-Brion Rouge – 2005
- Castle of Yquem – Yquem – 2009
Musical chords by guitarist Thibaut Garcia
With a great sensitivity, and with a lot of intuition, Thibaut has proposed perfect musical chords, which still resonate in our minds! A beautiful sensory journey.
Back in image of the evening
The tasting sheets of the Soenologist
Wine #1 : White White par excellence
Area : Maison Ruinart
Established since 1729, Ruinart is the oldest house in Champagne.
Name: Champagne
The most prestigious and known region in the world. When you have a moment, one thing to celebrate in life: you go to Champagne!
Tribute:
Frédéric Panaïotis, the cellar manager for over 18 years, died suddenly during a diving accident. He was 61 years old. A unique personality, both extremely rational and deeply sensitive. He led the house to excellence.
Wine is the living memory of our past.
Men leave, but wine and music remain.
Terror : 70% of the Côte des Blancs and 30% of the Montagne de Reims
Grape(s): 100% Chardonnay
Cuvée: White white
Vintage: 2013 – exceptional vintage
particularly late harvest: high freshness and marked tension
Service: 8-10°
Carafage: 30 minutes (optional)
Alcohol: 12.5% / sugar : 5.5g/L
Description : Chardonnays from the most prestigious terroirs, mainly classified as great wines,
Dress : Colour of an intense golden yellow, with light green reflections with silver shades.
Nose : Winey, chalky, brioche. The first nose reveals intense toasted aromas, evoking notes of dried fruit enhanced with pastry shades. The second nose offers citrus and exotic fruit fragrances, mixed with delicately smoked floral and mineral scents.
Mouth : Sharp, incisive acidity. Cool crystal. The wine is sparkling. Bull
Music & Wine Agreement : Aim glittering, bright, shiny. Illustrate the effervescence!
– Paganini: Caprice 24 (5)
Paganini's virtuosity will highlight the chiseled acidity of the wine, and its lively side! Moreover, these are Variations, which will allow us to play also on the notion of reserve wine.
Wine #2: The most beautiful way to express minerality in wine
Area : Didier Dagueneau (died 2008 in an accident of ULM) – domain taken over by his son Louis-Benjamin (vigneron of the year in 2016 by RVF)
- one of the pioneers of the grapevinification (a lover of Burgundy)
- look baba, but in his work Didier was opposite to the relaxation
Name: Loire Valley (sometimes classified as Wine of France because angry with the name Pouilly-Fumé)
Terror : Sols of flint, hence the name of the cuvée!
The vines are located on the top of the hill of St-Andelain. Terroir of hard clay and large sharp flint giving a more complex wine.
Anecdote: 1 person per hectare (area 12 Ha)
Grape(s): 100% Sauvignon Blanc (also called Smoked White)
Cuvée: Silex
Vintage: 2010
Service: 10° Carafage: 2H Alcohol: 13%
Description : Silex no longer presents himself because he is part of the pantheon of the great white wines of the world. It's one of the best savers in the world! A collection bottle
- Both Baroque and Cistercian
- Perhaps it is with this wine that one really understands what the notion of minerality in wine is. No scientific consensus on this concept! But one can try to vulgarize: acidity (calcareous soil, vivacity, freshness).
Dress : pale crystalline yellow, dotted with silvery reflections
Nose : Beautiful and very complex. Watermelon and grapefruit aromas. Notes of fruits of the orchard, citrus zest // minerality (gun stone), raised with freshness of eucalyptus and mint. Root notes, vegetal, but noble. A mix between citrus fruits (Pampemousse rose) and exotic fruits.
Mouth Crystalline. Purity! the tension is maximum, sharp acidity. The balances are there, and there is a lot of matter. This acidity is refreshing. Citrus flavours blend harmoniously with exotic fruits, while salivating minerality persists in the finish, accompanied by a hint of noble bitterness and smoky. Nice persistence!
Music & Wine Agreement : Search for minerality and crystalline side. The elements!
Tremolo on the acutes will be the perfect chord
Barrios – Una Lismonita – 4
Wine #3 : The wine must have the mouth of the place and the guts of the one who does it!
Area : Frédéric Magnien (44 Ha)
Name: Morey-St-Denis (AOC has five prestigious Grand Crus de Côte de Nuits)
Terror : The soil is clay-calcar with white marnes
Grape(s): 100% Pinot Noir
Cuvée: 1st Cru – Ruchots (indicates a place that contains rocks)
Vintage: 2015
Service: 14°
Carafage: 2H
Alcohol: 13%
Description : We'll look for finesse, subtlety. Address the notion of musical terroir.
Dress : Dense rub
Nose : Very elegant, on cherry, raspberry. Light leather, we get into the tertiary.
Mouth : We find the elegance of the black pinot, the tannins are silky, beautiful persistence.
Music & Wine Agreement : We're attacking a monument, but we're going to look for finesse, subtlety. Address the notion of musical terroir that is the key in Burgundy. Each plot gives a unique Pinot Noir. Illustrate elegance!
– Vals n.3 de Barrios Elegante (4
The piece is stolen without being exuberant, remains light and elegant. This will allow for a slow rise in power.
Wine 4 : We go up a step, understand the difference with a big cru
Area : Lambrays domain (register Boris Champy)
A place unique to the world that adjoins the Clos de Tart and has produced for centuries, inimitable and upsetting reds.
Name: Clos des Lambrays (Morey-Saint-Denis) located in the heart of the Côte de Nuits
Terror : 8.52 hectares // the inverted fence southward, which offers an infinity of microclimates and exposure. The very thin soil, poor, limestone in altitude and clay down, allows the production of a silky wine.
Grape(s): 100% Pinot Noir
Cuvée: Clos des Lambrays – Grand Cru
Vintage: 2017 (vinified by Thierry Brouin)
Service: 14°
Carafage: 30 minutes
Alcohol: 13,5%
Description : For lovers of wine and large terroirs, Clos des Lambrays is majestic, a wine inimitable to the enchanting floral. A striking finesse and flexibility
A wise blend of a large Clos Vougeot for strength and a Latricières Chambertin for fineness and aromatic extension.
Dress : Deep ruby dress
Nose : Very seductive, bewitching, feminine. The notes of blackberry and blueberry that evolve over time on the truffle and undergrowth. We also have some leather on the "sanguin" side of the wine. A great complexity.
Mouth : Powder tannins, a phenomenal length. The wine is powerful, dry, long, wide, mineral tip, infinitely intense. It is a large bottle in perspective that begins to open and will defy time.
Music & Wine Agreement : Here we will play on the contrast with the first cru. This will be the major work of the programme. Qqch of very dense, powerful, bewitching, but still in finesse, balance and subtlety.
Barrios – La Catedral, three movements (7)
A journey that settles in finesse. Seven-minute room, more consistent. Pretty magical piece, in the spirit of this wine. Evolution in the glass, bcp of things to tell.
Wine n°5 : Wine; a fabulous time machine
A great wine is like Mozart's music, you never tire
Area : Château Haut-Brion – Favorite wine of Thomas Jefferson
Name: Pessac-Leognan
Terror : tiny quartz stones named « serious » + single basement of clay, sand, limestone
Grape(s): Merlot: 56% Cabernet Sauvignon: 39% Cabernet Franc: 5%
Cuvée: Château Haut-Brion Rouge
Vintage: 2005 – Historically dry year. weather conditions very close to those of the legendary 1949 vintage. High concentration
Service: 15°
Carafage: 2H
Alcohol: 14%
Description : It's a great luxury product! Rarity, notion of excellence, great art
87% new barrels / Reviewed by Robert Parker 100/100
Dress : Dense, almost black
Nose : notes of smoked (characteristic of the cuvée), havane, roasted coffee beans. Several tasters smelled chocolate, moka.
Mouth : The wine is long, creamy, wide, powerful and fresh. What is amazing with this wine is that despite its age, it gives the sensation of great freshness. A form of youth. Also, very nice length.
Music & Wine Agreement : We're going to change the universe, while staying at the previous coin/wine level. We stay on power, on evolution. As it is an old vintage, playing Bach to evoke the timeless side of wine and music. Thibaut evokes the notion of "classical" which applies to both Wine and Music!
Weiss – Fantasy (2-3)
Bach – Choral (4min)
Wine #6 : The world's most famous liquid wine
Area : Castle of Yquem
One of the most elegant ways to travel in time
One of the most elegant ways to get blood sugar
Name: 1st Cru Ranked Superior – Great vibration in this name
Terror : mix of clay, gravel and limestone, with a very special microclimate.
The castle's encépagement is distributed between 75% of semillon and 25% of sauvignon blanc
Grape(s): 80% Semillon and 20% Sauvignon
Vintage: 2009 – warm but not excessive temperatures. An optimal maturation and evolution of the grapes.
Service: between 8 and 10°
Carafage: 2H
Alcohol: 13.5% / sugar : 156gr/L
Description : We're on freshness, on finesse. It's agricultural goldsmithy!
This wine evokes Kashmir: elegance that fits in with the duration, which is in my opinion what makes a great wine
Dress : Golden yellow, pulling on amber
Nose : Aromas of exotic fruits, maracujas, mango, pineapple. Citrus, lemon, yuzu. Really a great complexity
Mouth : The texture is silky, smooth and light at the same time, the perfect sugar-acidity balance. The aromatic persistence is exceptional, endless...
Music & Wine Agreement :
It is the mythical wine that every amateur wants to taste once in his life. Play on sensuality, greed, a wine that leaves no voice. Seek emotion.
Isaac Albeniz – Asturias (7)
