Community Tasting Note

• chambolle wrote:

  January 6, 2013 - I've enjoyed a number of tenths of this wine over the past year or so, but the last two tries have fallen prey to the dreaded 2004 stinkies - big time stinky. Dried porcini mushroom, green tea, peat and above all an overripe cheese/silage/merde stink that really precludes any enjoyment. Perhaps these were just bad bottles, but methinks on the other hand that the wine may be playing out the hand it was dealt. Pyrazine? Brett? A bit of both? Who knows. Whatever it is, it ain't good. It was fun while it lasted, but obviously a CSJ that falls to pieces six to eight years from the harvest isn't what one looks for in CSJ. Either we have some serious bottle variation going on, as bottles tasted a year or two ago were quite enjoyable, or the sickness that has befallen this wine was awfully well hidden - as my earlier note indicates, I did not perceive the green/pyrazine 2004 signature before, although I suppose "notes of 'mapleine'" might have been a warning of bad things to come.

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