originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
I'd normally answer that 2014 may not be in a good place right now, but I suspect your bottles came from a source here in Paris where I've inexplicably had lots of disappointing older bottles (even though every bottle I've bought there has been taken up from the cellar beneath the store), so there may be something else going on here.
One of the reasons I'm trying to take notes with more frequency is that I only have notes on 25% of the 2014s I've had so far and only one of them good. A M-G Vosne, but it still felt like it needed some time to stitch together.
Setting aside producer and vintage, do you have a general take on 2014 and where it is headed? If you want to talk about specific producers or wines, that's great too.
After 2005, I began to cut back my purchases due to both my age and the size of my cellar, generally buying only when I found wines at what I considered stupid prices. Add to that, beginning in 2014, I have been living almost half time in France. The result is that I never bought a single bottle of 2014 red Burgundy to cellar, but again, that's not because I dislike the vintage. I've drunk plenty in French restaurants where they were generally overlooked by consumers in favor of the more expensive but less ready-to-drink-young 2016s and 2015s. But the 2014s have generally disappeared from the restaurant lists here (and the wonderful 2017s are almost all gone, too). I generally think of it as a vintage of lighter wines (not prejudicial) with good freshness, standing qualitatively between 2017 and 2011. Consequently, I'd have to think 2014s are just going through a shutdown phase and I'd leave them until the latter part of the decade. But there can be plenty of exceptions, I'm sure, as there always are.
