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• Bklyndude Does not like this wine: 70 points

  July 22, 2014 - July 22, 2014 - I have tried 3 of these over the past six months, purchased from wtso and cellared properly on this end since then. They have, alas, been uniformly disappointing, and bear the marks of having been cooked somewhere along the way. Thin and acidic, unyielding on the nose or the palette, they revealed not even a hint of fruit, tannin or much else, and had absolutely no business claiming status as vin de pays, let alone grand cru. Sometimes one wonders about internet wine "steals" being too good to be true, an assertion I'm glad is mostly inaccurate, but in this case it's - unfortunately - all too apt. I am going henceforth to limit "special" wine purchases like this to winter months as I do not doubt (reading others positive impressions of this wine) that heat was the culprit

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3 Comments

• Sotto325 commented:

  7/22/14, 6:51 PM - Not the heat. You are right. Just acid and bad balance.

• chcook commented:

  7/25/14, 9:30 AM - sometimes these burgs go into a dumb phase and totally shut down. I bought some from WTSO too and drank them a few years ago and they were great. I will hold on to my last one for a while now before I try again. thanks for the candid post. big help

• cbrachfeld commented:

  11/6/14, 7:02 PM - We order lots of wine from WTSO. During summer and winter, we have them hold the order, planning to take delivery in mid-October and in April so that the wines aren't exposed to climate extremes on the way. Rarely have I been disappointed with this strategy. Having said that, I haven't tasted any of this one yet, and I guess we will open the first bottle on a night when we're not having company...

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