1984 Domaine de Bablut Coteaux de l'Aubance Moulin de Bablut

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  11/6/2020 - forceberry wrote: 63 Points

  11,5% alcohol.
  
  Luminous, remarkably youthful neon green color with a vibrant golden yellow core. At first everybody thought this wine was corked by its nose, but further sniffing revealed that the nose was just odd, dull and unpleasant, but not particularly corked - although very similar to TCA. Aromas of damp wool, blue cheese, some unripe aromatic herbs, a little bit of stone dust, a vegetal hint of unripe green apple and a touch of root vegetable. The wine is dull, restrained and lively yet not pleasant on the palate with a medium body and somewhat unclean flavors of vegetal greenness, blue cheese, some lemony citrus fruit, a little bit of wizened yellow fruit, light lactic notes of melted butter and Brie rind and a hint of earth. Medium in sweetness with a high acidity. The finish is short, dull and somewhat musty with flavors of blue cheese, some white pepper, light lactic notes of creaminess and Brie cheese, a hint of chalky bitterness and a touch of unripe green apple.
  
  This feels like a typical example of a wine from the cool, rainy and miserable 1984 vintage: this year produced a poor harvest of grapes that were mouldy and most were not even ripe, but the producers still tried to do something with the fruit they had. Well, this is the result. The wine is dull, musty and vaguely unripe despite the richness from the residual sugar. Although this is not corked, it smells and tastes surprisingly much like a corked wine. Normally I wouldn't rate a wine like this, but since most likely all the bottles are going to be similar to this, I think it warrants a score - as a warning, if for nothing else. Can't say this really was worth the price at 17,50€. Avoid.

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  8/8/2019 - arvidpalmqvist wrote:

  Wet wool, dusty attic and cherries with a little funky old frowzy flavours but definitely not corked, and with some time, air and knowledge about the wines age I found myself to be rather forgiving. Off-dry or semi-sweet, 11,5% abv.

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  3/3/2018 - Mikaelbe wrote: flawed

  Unfortunately flawed - shame, good things lurking in the background.

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