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Big dinner, lots of 2000 Bordeaux
In article >,
amnspam (Dale Williams) wrote:
> In article >, Lawrence
> Leichtman
> > writes:
>
> >
> >I have 3 bottles of the Pinchon-Lalande. Do you think there is any hope
> >for an aging improvement in these wines? Normally I really like
> >Pinchon-Lalande but this is the most disappointing review I've read and
> >it seemed to be uniform across the group tasting and multiple bottles.
>
> Lawrence,
>
> as someone said, this is shaping up to be the biggest debate over a wine
> since
> the love-it-or-hate-it '90 Pichon Lalande. In other tastings, several folks
> said they loved this wine (as did RP & the sucker from WS, who hold more
> weight
> than me!). A few theories that were put out:
> 1) something (the petit verdot component?) is going thru a wierd phase, that
> time will smooth it out
> 2)the critics got a "special" barrel , and the wine is horribly vegetal. The
> winemaker I was talking to during dinner just said "this is green, and
> there's
> no excuse for green in 2000!"
> 3) there's some component of the wine that contains something that people
> have
> varied sensitivities or reactions to (like how some folks don't detect TCA)
> 4) there's some kind of lot variation going on (even if we got from several
> sources, probably same lot bound for eastern US). Though I think this would
> have to be lot variation in the assemblage, as this tasted like no damage
> I've
> ever experienced (and Mark Golodetz, a contributing editor at WE and one of
> the
> organizers of dinner, said he got the same greenness in a barrel sample).
>
> All of those theories but #2 hold out some hope for you. While I'm sure you
> got
> these wines with idea of drinking them in 12-30 years, if I were you I'd open
> one now . Give it plenty of air, then try. If you love it, put others to bed.
> If you don't like it (in finding an off flavor, not just finding it too
> young),
> then I'd sell on winecommune trumpeting the WA/WS scores. Because what's
> important is how you like it. And personally I have trouble imagining that
> greeness ever completely integrating.I hope you like it!
>
>
> Dale
>
> Dale Williams
> Drop "damnspam" to reply
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try one this weekend.
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