Edmunds St. John 2004 Roussanne Tablas Creek (Paso Robles) – Corked, and possibly heat-damaged as well. A shame. (6/08)
corked
Witters in Florida, summers in Beaujolais
Edmunds St. John 2004 “Bone-Jolly” Gamay Noir Witters (El Dorado County) – Corked. Or at least, so it appears; there’s no aroma, and since the previous five bottles have been corked, it seems like it’s inevitable that this wine be similarly afflicted, albeit in a lesser fashion. But – and granted, this is unusual – I happen have the winemaker at my house the next evening. He tastes and finds it not corked, and in fact performing correctly, but perhaps a slight bit cooked. It’s still, to me, suffering from near-complete aromatic dampening, and I don’t know how to define that outside of mild TCA, but I have to defer to the winemaker here. In any case, it’s not right, and I find no enjoyment in it. (5/08)
Old unfaithful
Ridge 1995 Geyserville (Sonoma County) – Corked. (4/08)
Pen-Ambra
Ambra 1996 Carmignano “Riserva Elzana” (Tuscany) – Corked. (4/08)
O, G, yay!
Ogier 2000 Côte-Rôtie (Rhône) – Corked. (4/08)
Welcome back Côtto
Champalimaud “Côtto” 2000 Douro “Grande Escolba” (Portugal) – Corked. (4/08)
Heid and sieck
Charles Heidsieck 1990 Champagne Brut (Champagne) – Corked. (4/08)
Dei off
Bucci “Villa Bucci” 2000 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico “Riserva” (Marches) – Mildly corked, and that’s not all that’s wrong with it. (4/08)
Alba mater
Roagna 2006 Dolcetto d’Alba (Piedmont) – Acidic, lightly-fruited, and lightly tannic. I must note for the record that almost everyone around me loves this. I think there’s something off about it, but it’s not (obvious) TCA, so I keep fairly quiet. Based on other vintages, certainly, this is not what the wine’s supposed to taste like, so I’d suggest dismissing this note for now. (1/08)
Pignan in a poke
Reynaud “Pignan” 1990 Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Rhône) – Corked. (1/08)