Pontet-Canet and Pym-Rae

[Rahsaan]

Went to a Pontet-Canet tasting last night with Alfred Tesseron. We had 06, 09, 10, 11, 15 and 16, but you don't need my non-Bordeaux-palate notes on these wines. I found them mostly delicious, in their own distinctive ways. With the possible exception of 2015, which was awkward.

The big head scratchers were the 2017 and 2018 Tesseron Estate Pym-Rae wines. Clearly taking us back to California (for better or worse). My friend and I preferred 2017 to the jam-bomb of 2018, although I guess technically 2018 is a more reputed vintage. However, retail price for 2017 was $380 and 2018 was $450. What?! Greatly inferior to the P-C wines right next to them (for half the price), not to mention everything else one could buy with that money.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by wine pricing. And it is a tiring topic. But maybe someone has something to say defending the Pym-Rae wines?

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Rahsaan:
Pontet-Canet and Pym-RaeWent to a Pontet-Canet tasting last night with Alfred Tesseron. We had 06, 09, 10, 11, 15 and 16, but you don't need my non-Bordeaux-palate notes on these wines. I found them mostly delicious, in their own distinctive ways. With the possible exception of 2015, which was awkward.

The big head scratchers were the 2017 and 2018 Tesseron Estate Pym-Rae wines. Clearly taking us back to California (for better or worse). My friend and I preferred 2017 to the jam-bomb of 2018, although I guess technically 2018 is a more reputed vintage. However, retail price for 2017 was $380 and 2018 was $450. What?! Greatly inferior to the P-C wines right next to them (for half the price), not to mention everything else one could buy with that money.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by wine pricing. And it is a tiring topic. But maybe someone has something to say defending the Pym-Rae wines?

They’re not poison.

Howzzat?

Mark Lipton

 

[Ken Schramm]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Rahsaan:
Pontet-Canet and Pym-RaeWent to a Pontet-Canet tasting last night with Alfred Tesseron. We had 06, 09, 10, 11, 15 and 16, but you don't need my non-Bordeaux-palate notes on these wines. I found them mostly delicious, in their own distinctive ways. With the possible exception of 2015, which was awkward.

The big head scratchers were the 2017 and 2018 Tesseron Estate Pym-Rae wines. Clearly taking us back to California (for better or worse). My friend and I preferred 2017 to the jam-bomb of 2018, although I guess technically 2018 is a more reputed vintage. However, retail price for 2017 was $380 and 2018 was $450. What?! Greatly inferior to the P-C wines right next to them (for half the price), not to mention everything else one could buy with that money.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by wine pricing. And it is a tiring topic. But maybe someone has something to say defending the Pym-Rae wines?

They’re not poison.

Howzzat?

Mark Lipton

Touché.

There is somebody somewhere who loves any given thing. De gustibus. There are also people who have a lot of money (or, in the words of my granddaughters, "lot of lot of" money).

Seven billion people. Venn diagram.

Now we dolly back. Now we fade to black.