2008 Camille Giroud Corton-Rognet
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honest bob wrote:
Friday, December 25, 2020 - From 75cl, perfect cork. Decanted one hour for fine powdery sediment. No, HonestBob isn't going to draw the polite veil of "flawed" shame over this bottle. On opening it was fizzy and violently acidic, 3 hours later it was flat as the back tyre on your bike when you're 10 miles from home on a hot summer day. Somewhere inbetween there was some sharp, red-fruited action and a surprising degree of sweetness (Monsieur Chaptal, so glad you could make it!) After a year in which I'd almost forgotten how capricious and downright sadistic-nasty PN could be, due to the fabulous German Spätburgunder now available (with strict selection) at each of the 10/20/30/40 EUR price points, here is a real bastard of a Burgundy "Grand Cru", a wine of which I had an exqusite 93P bottle as recently as 21.09.2019, but today resembles 75cl of cheapo New Zealand reject-swill: i.e. not entirely undrinkable, but absolutely not what you want to accompany venison on Christmas day. No excuses, this bottle contains average-to-good-to-drinkable jug wine, and was a real con-trick at 50 EUR back in 2010. 82-84P(?)
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Comment posted by cfk49:
2/6/2021 5:20:00 PM - Sounds like the wine finished malo in bottle. 2008 was a year of very long/stuck malos. If indeed the producer bottled this without the malo having finished, that is malpractice on the part of the producer. You should write to the producer and ask for a refund or a different wine as replacement.