Recent content by Paul Jaouen

Cloudy Bay made a good SB for not a lot of money. Then it got really poplular and price went up and quality seemed to go down. I haven't tasted in the last couple years so no clue what's happened recently.

I think I said something to that effect when I met you and tasted your wines. You were a pleasure to meet but the wines just weren't for me. All about style as there was nothing wrong with the wines.

Well if it wasn't brett, the alternative is too horrible to even think of.

No. I usually find a way to say that I don't care for the style of the wines. Only place I ever tasted where the wines were truly awful was Coturi. I don't think I would ever be invited back but then again I would never want to return.

The Tollot-Beaut showed better the second day. Seemed to mellow out some and allowed the fruit to shine through. I was disappointed in the Chinon. Way too much brett. Dard & Ribo was a welcome new find for me. Hermitage was just as you described. And what the hell are they thinking at de...