Community Tasting Note

• Charlie C wrote: flawed

  June 10, 2021 - To be clear: I tasted two bottles of this wine -- the first two out of a case --3 days apart. The first bottle I tasted over a 90 minutes period. the second bottle I decanted and tasted over a 2 hour period. The results were essentially the same. The wine was undrinkable. It was off from the first sniff. A bit of mustiness did blow off. That doesn't bother me. The real problem was sulphur in such quantities that it obliterated everything else. Since the wine was supposedly made with barely any sulphur addition, I can only imagine that it was made in a highly reductive manner. Either that or there was some enormous blunder in the winemaking that resulted in some bottles having added sulphur far out of proportion to what was intended. I have seen nice notes on CT about this wine and they reflect what a trusted wine dealer described to me. The first bottle being flawed I understand, it happens. 2 for 2? There is no way I can trust the next bottle to be OK. I will avoid this producer in the future. Your mileage may vary.

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• seemore glass commented:

  8/2/21, 11:53 AM - Hi. I have a case of the same 2019 in my cellar, which is drinking beautifully. I’ve had several of this label every vintage since 2013, so I was surprised to read of your bad experience. Could your retailer, or their distributor, have mis-handled it? One day in a 90° truck and it’s all over, as I’m sure you know. Also, I sold wine retail for several years, and I have had three people bring back perfectly good bottles of that wine, because it’s not your typical lala white. It sounds like this is not your situation, since sulfur aroma is the offender. Anyway, hello from a big fan of that wine.

• Pontifax commented:

  3/9/22, 7:59 PM - CHARLIE C.: ...most unfortunate....I hope you returned the remaining bottles for a refund....cheers, PONTIFAX.

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