Preston Wine Club Annual Dinner (Preston): A deepish teak colour. Completely shot on the nose - not faulty, just past it. Slightly raisined feel combining with a bit of oxidation on the palate. But really this is completely dead. All bar one of the bottles were apparently pretty much the same: even the one better bottle was reported to be past it, just a little less decayed. Shame, but that's the risk you take with older wines, particularly the lesser cuvées, even in good years like 1967 (though Hugel talk more of 1967 as being a year for pinot gris). Not rated.
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5/7/2005 - andrewstevenson.com wrote:
Preston Wine Club Annual Dinner (Preston): A deepish teak colour. Completely shot on the nose - not faulty, just past it. Slightly raisined feel combining with a bit of oxidation on the palate. But really this is completely dead. All bar one of the bottles were apparently pretty much the same: even the one better bottle was reported to be past it, just a little less decayed. Shame, but that's the risk you take with older wines, particularly the lesser cuvées, even in good years like 1967 (though Hugel talk more of 1967 as being a year for pinot gris). Not rated.
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