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Joe Dougherty
Two bottles of 2000 Thomas-Labaille Buster opened last night were a mess--tired, somewhat oxidized, really not interesting or drinkable. The better one was OK to deglaze the scallop pan, but that's as far as it goes. Both under real cork, natch, but not both corked.

Has anyone tried one lately that was better? I have a few more, I suppose I should just open them and free the space.
 
I had odd experiences with the 2002 where half the bottles from a set of 6 were wonderful and half were over the hill and oxidized. It led to my first concern that premox wasn't limited to white Burgundy.
 
I've never had any luck aging this wine. Maybe they want the full 20 years but my feeling is it is not bad corks, premox, postmox, or any other Internet born theory, this wine and many others, in the majority of vintages, are just meant to be drunk young. And why not? It's always great young.

And if it were me I would leave the remaining bottles for another decade just to see how it sorts itself out, but I'm into that kind of stuff.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
I've never had any luck aging this wine. Maybe they want the full 20 years but my feeling is it is not bad corks, premox, postmox, or any other Internet born theory, this wine and many others, in the majority of vintages, are just meant to be drunk young. And why not? It's always great young.

And if it were me I would leave the remaining bottles for another decade just to see how it sorts itself out, but I'm into that kind of stuff.
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You also have free storage, I suspect.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
I've never had any luck aging this wine. Maybe they want the full 20 years but my feeling is it is not bad corks, premox, postmox, or any other Internet born theory, this wine and many others, in the majority of vintages, are just meant to be drunk young. And why not? It's always great young.

And if it were me I would leave the remaining bottles for another decade just to see how it sorts itself out, but I'm into that kind of stuff.
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I agree with everything Kay said.

The Thomas-Labilles opened a 1995 Buster at the Angers Fair and it was over-the-hill.

Drink up or hold long term.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
I've never had any luck aging this wine. Maybe they want the full 20 years but my feeling is it is not bad corks, premox, postmox, or any other Internet born theory, this wine and many others, in the majority of vintages, are just meant to be drunk young. And why not? It's always great young.

And if it were me I would leave the remaining bottles for another decade just to see how it sorts itself out, but I'm into that kind of stuff.
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I agree with everything Kay said.

The Thomas-Labilles opened a 1995 Buster at the Anger Fair and it was over-the-hill.

Drink up or hold long term.
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I've had good '98s and '99s fairly recently.

I have no hope for the Y2K for the long term.
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
The Anger Fairwhat a concept! I bet they drink a lot at one of those!
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I get invited every year. And it's not about management!!!

What a blast of hate!
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
I had odd experiences with the 2002 where half the bottles from a set of 6 were wonderful and half were over the hill and oxidized. It led to my first concern that premox wasn't limited to white Burgundy.
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I had that experience with 2000 Provignage from Marionnet, it reminds me that I should probably pull another.
 
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