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Monolith
Dear readers, one more picture from Saturday: a picture of the PoMo subter Corbu flim-flam Napa compound of the wine which presuming no one locates and auctions at Bonhams & Butterfields a case of Falernian possesses the very lowest quality-to-price quotient in all viticulture: Opus One—the wine that makes you beg for Opus Zero.
JOE ASCH agrees with Robert Parker about the older vintages of Opus One. On his web site, Parker recently wrote the following:
With a new winemaking team in place, and no longer any influence from the Mondavis, it is ironic that Opus One appears to have produced its greatest trilogy of vintages [2005-2007] to date. This wine has always been more about sizzle than substance. While some top wines have emerged, others have been riddled with brett as well as lacking in concentration. That accusation can not be made against any of these three vintages.
At a tasting of a dozen vintages of Opus One in Paris about a decade ago, twenty or so experienced French tasters found the wine to lack any sense of terroir. Sure there was lots of fruit, but Opus One left the tasters with nothing to think about. Italians have a nice expression for a complex wine: vino da meditazione. On that evening Opus One did not make the cut.
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October 18, 2009
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August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
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August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…