2016 Domaine Olivier B. Ventoux Les Amidyves

Community Tasting Note

Portland Seth wrote:

Monday, February 12, 2024 - Last of two cases. I had intended to save it for science but I don't always read my tasting notes before pulling a bottle. Three years ago this was a 95 pt wine, but it's just too sweet and hot and the garrigue has receded putting it completely out of balance. The nose still has interesting brambly notes but the palate tastes fortified. Au revoir!

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Comment posted by Canoehead:

2/13/2024 3:15:00 PM - Seth, its wild how even the better bottles can decline/turn so quickly. There's always other wine to taste out there. Hope to get back to Portland sometime this year and take you up on your wine warehouse offer. Cheers!
Comment posted by tward:

2/13/2024 5:48:00 PM - Shit. I hope my experience is different. Looks like I cracked open my first of four bottles three and a half years ago and loved it. Fingers crossed that it's in a awkward phase.
Comment posted by Portland Seth:

2/15/2024 7:25:00 AM - Both of you are always welcome in our tasting room! I'm starting to think a lack of sulphur is responsible for the precipitous decline of some young bottles I've had recently, especially the Long Toque Vacqueras (2018), while the Gianfranco Daino Suber (2020) was probably heat damaged in transport. Tward, you'll have to be the scientist now and I'm looking forward to your report in a few years, but my prediction is this wine is going to oxidize and taste like tawny Port. Other Rhones have tasted of matchsticks to me, I wonder if the sulphur they added is perceptible.
Comment posted by tward:

2/18/2024 2:57:00 PM - Furtunately, my second of four purchased bottles worked out great the other night. Hopefully, my other two bottles will hold up well, too.