Community Tasting Note

Papies wrote:

Saturday, April 16, 2011 - Papies LWE - Mouton 86 vs Cos 86 and some other friends (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Wine is just about clearing in colour which means its coming to drinking age out of the closed face. ( Marc Perrin very nicely gave this rule of thumb for old Roussanne or Marsanne Roussane blends, that the roussane ( hence the name) goes into a dark stale bitter phase post year 5 or so and in order to be able to drink it one needs to wait untill the colour goes back to whittish/green & clear. I wish we knew that before we opened some lovely bottles in the past)

Our bottle still had an orange tint hence some left over roussane bitterness. Rich, mineral and deep with lots of vribrancy and life in it. Pretty long finish. Pretty cool for 1991 white. We suggest decanting like 30-40minutes to help it open up but the key is checking that the colour is clear prior to opening.92+

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