1991 Gentaz-Dervieux Côte-Rôtie Cuvée Réservée Côte Brune
Community Tasting Note
Boone's Farm Does not like this wine:
84 Points
Monday, August 10, 2020 - Thin wine. Not corked. Not much on the palate. Some very attenuated pleasant flavors for a second on the mid palate then the wine disappears. This may have been an off bottle
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Comment posted by cfk49:
8/10/2020 6:29:00 PM - Sounds like low-level TCA -- not enough to smell of cork, but enough to suppress the wine's characteristics.
Comment posted by Boone's Farm:
8/11/2020 3:29:00 PM - We initially tossed out the possibility that it might be corked but even the person in our group who is uber sensitive to TCA didn’t detect it. It is possible.
Comment posted by cfk49:
8/11/2020 3:53:00 PM - That's what's so nefarious about low-level TCA. Even those who are very sensitive don't detect corkiness, but the damage is done by the suppression of the wine's characteristics.