7/3/23, 10:15 PM - Thank you for the gracious offer, but it's not really necessary. We consumed all of that last bottle, it's not like it went down the drain. It was certainly drinkable, if a bit of a surprise. It's showing made me think it best to open this bottle sooner rather than later. This one certainly doesn't make me think there is any hurry on the last bottle.
1/17/23, 9:37 AM - I'm inclined to agree. Generally I try to give Oregon pinots about 7 or 8 years post vintage. A 2014 Franny Beck Johann showed wonderfully last year. This drank so well young, I thought it might never close down. Apparently it has. FWIW, some 2015 pinots I've had have seemed to demand more time, the structure has proven more firm than the prior vintage
11/25/22, 12:28 PM - It was decanted for about 45 minutes, then poured back into the bottle. That seemed to have been more than adequate. It didn't change much over the couple hours the bottle lasted. It may have been fine without the decant as the nose was expressive and open from the moment it was decanted. I didn't sample it at that point.
11/12/20, 9:49 AM - Re the question of how to tell the disgorgement date: That was the only bottle I had of this, so I can't check for reference. My recollection is there is a code faintly etched beneath the label near the bottom of the rim. An online search should show you guides to interpret various producer's codes.
9/15/20, 7:21 PM - According to Richard Peterson's glossary of wine terms, bottle boquet= "After bottling, further aging in sealed bottles develops a pleasing taste and odor characteristic called “bottle bouquet.” Bottle bouquet usually begins to develop in bottled wine three or four years after bottling, and develops in both red and white wines."
4/8/20, 10:45 AM - Re: the question about how many of these have been TCA-infected. This was my third corked bottle of nine consumed. I've gifted a couple bottles to civilians, with feedback that one of them was "off"
8/18/15, 7:11 PM - With regard to the question as to whether this seems advanced for its age, in my view, perhaps slightly. It does seem a touch more advanced that a 2007 Selbach Oster spatlese we drank a couple weeks ago, but NO where near as advanced as a 2005 Donnhoff Kirscheck drunk a week or so ago, which did give me pause. That bottle prompted me to pop cork on this. Do bear in mind that some of my Donnhoff spatleses may have sat on a retailer's shelf for 3 or 4 months. At the time I bought this, I was not in the habit of marking the puchase dates on the bottles to differentiate those I bought on release to differentiate them from later purchases.
1/2/14, 7:03 PM - obviously, others liked the wine better than I have, so you may wish to try it for yourself. Still, in its defense as a cooking wine, there certainly isn't anything there to offend...be it off-tastes or just ..flavor.
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