Community Tasting Note
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JeffO wrote:
September 19, 2004 - Tonight was the night I opened the "stock market exuberance" bottle mentioned in my prior note. I've waited 20 years for this. 750 ml bottle (from BWL, London, purchased 2001) is in excellent shape, label faded, but no signs of water damage or other mishandling. Ullage at lower neck, color inside bright red and clear, bountiful crystallized boulders in a pile at the bottom (bottle was stood up 2 days ago), original capsule and cork. The cork was snug but ominously shredded like dry pate on removal. I managed to remove it all without hitting the wine, and then decanted the moment of truth.
Cooked. Sour medicinal Madeira. Shades of burnt brown color from meniscus to core. Too-sweet tar on the nose, sour maderized medicine invading the corners of my month and sending the rest of me recoiling. What a bummer. Kool Karma turns out to be Cruel Fate.
"There are no great wines. There are only great bottles." Someone somewhere sometime in the past 55 years murdered this Mouton. Alas.1 person found this helpful 25,079 views
1 Comment
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vintage1949 commented:
10/22/19, 6:09 AM - So sorry you had a bad bottle. I know what it is like to open a Mouton and be crushed by a very poor showing. Dave