Community Tasting Note

• brooklynguy wrote:

  January 22, 2022 - A disappointing showing. Perfectly good wine, but the producer style trumped anything that the wine might have had to say about soil. Served alongside a 2002 Drouhin Griottes, single blind, and experienced tasters were not even close to certain about which was which. That's a problem, as these terroirs make wines that should be easy to distinguish. This was the larger in amplitude of the two wines, with a richness in body, a fatness almost. But without the acid cut, the definition of aroma or flavor to make it interesting, never mid beguiling, as a good Amoureuses should be. Perhaps Drouhin Amoureuses is finer in a lighter vintage - I had the 07 two years ago and very much preferred it to this wine. And then when I think about the money we paid...very sad.

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• cfk49 commented:

  1/30/22, 4:33 PM - Looking at my experience with this wine and those of others, it sounds as though you had an off bottle -- whether due to variability of cork, a closed phase of the wine, or bad provenance (you mention what was paid for the bottle, implying that the wine had been recently purchased). I still have a very nice stash of this wine purchased on original release and I'm not worrying.

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