Probably the only RU-vidr who will openly admit to spending his earnings on booze 😆 Class Tweedy, well deserved. Cheers, 🥃 Take care All the best D & B 👍
Hi Tweedy. Such a complex wine. I guess that’s what you would hope for from a premier wine …….. vimto and clotted cream! Delighted that your investment of your earnings was well spent. Thank you for the entertainment 👏👏👍😀🍷
I probably never will taste a $240 bottle of wine so it was fun to experience it through you vicariously. Your excellent descriptive vocabulary and the outside setting really brought it to life.
Thanks Mikael - yes I was definitely bracing myself for potential disappointment here! I was pleasantly surprised though, it really was something quite special, and quite different from other wines I've had from Gevrey Chambertin.
Well done you glad you’ve put the money to good use 🍷. All the best for more enjoyable content across all your channel. Thanks for sharing your passion. Cheers Pete 👍
Splendid to see you enjoying and almost getting overjoyed over a beautiful bottle - "Burgundy is expensive because it's the best !" and your video goes to prove it ! Great work as always, keep on doing what you do, we all love it Sir !
The title of this video is genius and it’s bound to blow up! That is one complex wine. I want some! What a good way to spend your RU-vid earnings. I think my first payout coincided with the council tax direct debit!
Thank you Mr WC21 - it is a bit clickbaity isn't it? ...but it's also entirely honest! I rather doubt it will blow up though, lots of people here on RU-vid seem to have quite negative reactions to anything about wine. They do love Ploughman's lunches though! It was a ludicrous wine! I almost hoped I would find no discernible difference between it and the much cheaper Gevrey Chambertins I normally drink, so that I would dismiss this whole notion of "Grand Cru" as a cynical means of extracting even more cash from idiots like me. However I've never had one quite like this. I'm not even sure if all of it was good! Sometimes I felt my tastebuds were being held hostage by it! It was dizzying and bewildering at times... but definitely not boring!
I'm over here from Tweedy Outdoors and thought I'd have a look and so glad I did! Really enjoyed your descriptions and your delight over this as your enthusiasm is infectious.
Had no idea you had other channels man! My wife and I really enjoy your main channel and the wealth of information and history you gather for your videos. Is this wine tasting even better from behind the tree? 😅all the best, Tony …p.s are you in the wine business?
Thanks Tony! Yes I have four channels in total! The bits standing behind the tree were a bit silly really, I was just trying to vary the scenery a bit so it didn't get too monotonous! No I'm not in the wine business, just an enthusiastic amateur.
As a big wine enthusiast I think you're very good at describing the wine. And it sounds like it delivered exactly what is to be expected from a Grand Cru Burgundy. Good stuff!
Thank you - I really appreciate that! I'm absolutely an amateur, I've never worked in the wine industry, and I don't even think I have a very good sense of smell, so I have to work quite hard at tasting notes! I was bracing myself to be a bit underwhelmed, and half expected it might seem like any other Gevrey Chambertin - but this genuinely did seem like something quite different and special. Probably not an experiment I'm going to be repeating very often, unfortunately!
Hi John, a lovely video, where else on RU-vid would you be trying to remember the taste of vimto? Hope its not long before the Tweed empire can give you another treat like that. Excellent filming too All the best!!
Thanks David! It went a bit silly in places but I hope that might stop it from getting boring during 11 minutes of me talking about a wine! It has been a long time since I've had Vimto as well - I think I should buy some to re-acquaint myself with it.
Thanks Kevin - although I suspect they'd probably want somebody with a much more professional approach to wine tasting than me! They probably don't want their wine described in terms of Vimto and clotted cream...
The only Grand Cru red Burgundy I have ever owned was stolen in a burglary. I might, one day, buy a single bottle, like you just to experience the sensation.
Really sorry to hear that Steven - I can't help but think whoever stole it probably wouldn't have understood how special it was, which makes it all the more cruel in a way. I know £180 is certainly not a cheap bottle of wine by any stretch of the imagination, but knowing that some Grand Gru Gevrey Chambertins can head well into the thousands I was actually pleasantly surprised that I could sample something like this without having to go absolutely crazy. It's certainly not something I'd be buying on a regular basis but it was a very memorable experience.
Excellent and well done 😂always nice to treat yourself 🍷😁if you were not a vegetarian i would have suggested you roasted a nice joint of Beef to go with it 😁😁
Hard to think of a good food pairing for this slightly crazy wine but by the end of it I did find myself craving Roast Beef Monster Munch so you might be on to something there!
Tweedy, this is a very comprehensive review. The wine is a great reward for all your work. I often wondered why anyone would pay 180 quid for a bottle of burgundy, but now I can see why. Maybe I shall treat myself one day, but in the meantime I shall continue drinking New Zealand pinot noirs at around 15 to 20 quid.
Thank you! Money is a funny old thing isn't it? We all have our different thresholds for different things. I'm really quite stingy when it comes to things like home improvement or cars but other people will happily lavish huuuuge sums on those things - way more than I spend on wine in a year. I wouldn't derive any pleasure from having a really smart frontage to my house - or a sports car parked in front of it - but I do really enjoy fine wine!
Thank you! Maybe you've seen some of my other videos and know what a high esteem I hold him in? Alas characters like that are in such short supply these days.
@@WessexMan I love the idea of Burgundy in pints! I'm completely on board with that as long as the glasses are the right shape. Actually a handled/dimpled "mug" wouldn't be terrible.
@@BurgundyWithTweedy Apparently the old dimpled mugs are too expensive now, if you can actually find them. My local has one left and that's reserved for my good friend Dinger on a Saturday evening.
Watching this, while emptying our tonight’s second bottle of Aldi’s finest £4.79 Malbec (I’m not an alcoholic - the missus is here too, she’s just finishing off the dishes), I must admit we didn’t experience any cherries or rotten leaves in in our plonk 🍷 🍷 🍷.
It was an experience, but as I said in the video a bit over the top! I'm going have to start making much better videos if I ever want to have another bottle! 😂
Maybe - although it wasn't particularly shy at first, and I eked it out over two or three hours, during which time it did evolve in all sorts of interesting ways as recounted in the video. I used to decant Burgundy more often, particularly with one of my old favourites (Fourrier Gevrey Chambertin), but I hardly ever bother nowadays. I feel like I can often get a similar effect just by leaving the bottle open for a couple of hours and/or lots of swirling in the glass! Maybe decanting just speeds that process up?
They're "wine prongs". The ones shown here are made by a company called Westmark, you can buy them on Amazon. They're intended for removing corks from old bottles (e.g. 15 years plus) where there's a risk of the cork disintegrating with a conventional corkscrew. I find them more convenient and use them for pretty much everything now. One word of caution though, they're not good with completely synthetic "corks" - the ones that look like rubber bungs. For those I sometimes end up having to go back to using a corkscrew.
@@BurgundyWithTweedy Thank you very much for the information. I have genuinely never seen or heard of them before. Not sure I have anything that old mind........ :)
I'm guessing it's not going to be the sort of unspoilt rustic boozer I like (are there any of those at all left in the Cotswolds?) but I am still slightly intrigued.
I agree wine tasting notes sometimes sound a bit crazy and/or pretentious but it is actually quite hard to translate complex flavours and smells into words. I honestly used to think it was all bullshit but what changed my mind was the introduction to a book on whisky by Michael Jackson (No, not the singer! The beer/whisky writer, sadly no longer with us). He challenged the reader to describe the flavour of Coca Cola to someone who had never had it before. Whether you like Coke or not, there is a lot more going on there than just sweet fizzy water and it's actually incredibly hard to describe the flavour. Rightly or wrongly, bottles of wine - like the one featured here - often demand significant prices. Given that, I'm convinced there is some utility in providing a potential buyer with an idea of whether they're going to like it or not. Obviously though I would recommend people considering spending a lot of money on a bottle of wine to refer to someone with more expertise than I have!
It's sometimes hard to tell with RU-vid comments whether it's a light hearted leg pull or a genuine grievance! If the latter, then it's worth remembering you don't have to watch anything you don't want to watch on RU-vid. I'd recommend turning auto-play off, and making use of the "not interested" and/or "don't recommend channel" options whenever you see a video recommendation you don't like the look of.
@@BurgundyWithTweedy Man, 16 years of using RU-vid, and I just learned that I don't have to watch anything I don't want to. This is extraordinary. Just amazing news, this.
@@The_Invisible_Hand_Of_CVGood, so we're past the basics. Sounds like you were here by choice, but something went awry. Was there something about the thumbnail / title which was misleading or inaccurate?
I agree - in the sort of price range I'm normally more comfortable with (e.g. around £60 for Gevrey Chambertin) I really struggle to find anything at all on the shelves at Hedonism. Also whenever I've tried looking for cheaper appellations (e.g. Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Nuits, which I think can be quite good) there seems to be nothing there. However, given the complex nature of wine pricing and the fact they carry so many bottles, I get the sense sometimes individual wines fall through the cracks a bit, and this particular Chapelle Chambertin was actually cheaper here than at most other retailers I saw on Wine Searcher.
