7/12/22, 2:35 AM - @aagrawal, @oldwines, @I'RatherBeDrinkingWine : thank you to the 3 of you for having taken time to comment on my rather bitter post. Origin and storage may have been the root causes for my recurring disapopintment with d'Yquem 2003, however, the two 6x cases were purchased from the same reliable supplier (Millesima in Bordeaux) as were all my d'Yquem since 1997. As far as storage is concerned, these 2 cases have been treated the same way as the other wines that I keep : underground cellar, cooled with an internal unit at 55-57° (F)/13-14°(C), humidity varies little (between 70% and 75%)... so most of the boxes of the check list seem to have been ticked. And, on the long run, most of my wines benefit from the same treatment, and I don't recall having had such a gap between my expectations and the actual tasting. As @I'dRatherBeDrinking Wine may have suggested, my palate may be different... or I may lack nuance when d'Yquem is on the menu. My expectations for that wine are systematically higher than for other sweet wines from Sauternes and Barsac, and it's all the more true for 2003 since my daughter was born on that year. I have spent 18 years anticipating the joy of celebrating important milestones with her and d'Yquem, increasing all the more the level of expectations and the consequent perceived severity of faults which would have been negligible in other vintages or other crus. Climens 1997 gave me the same sens of inconsistency as d'Yquem 2003, with this same ambushed bitterness and lack of fluidity, but it's "just" Climens, and flaws are acceptable. Not with d'Yquem ;)
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