CWD: '04 Brun Beaujolais Blanc

[drssouth]

With saffron rice, artichoke chicken and green beans..

2004 Jean-Paul Brun Beaujolais Blanc Terres D'Orees, alc 12%: Pale with faint citrus on the nose... has a nice soft pillowy texture on the palate with a gentle hint of pears and peaches... the finish is slightly more sour but not bitter....quite good with the food...this is doing well...I assume this is not typically a wine to "age" (?)

 

[Steve Edmunds]

I bought this when it was first available; bought half a case. In a year and a half the bottles I had were, I was sorry to discover, oxidized. So-did your bottle have a real cork in it? Mine didn't.

 

[drssouth]

originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
I bought this when it was first available; bought half a case. In a year and a half the bottles I had were, I was sorry to discover, oxidized. So-did your bottle have a real cork in it? Mine didn't.

It appears to be a cork-like/cork-colored composite known as nomacorc which on the website is described as "Nomacorc, manufacturer of the finest synthetic (plastic) wine corks available. Nomacorc is a foamed, co-extruded still wine closure"....fortunately, no oxidation at all in this particular bottle

 

[Jeff Connell]

I haven't had any trouble with oxidation, but from a recent bottle the wine didn't seem quite on form. Perhaps the vintage doesn't quite match some of its predecessors. Which, for example, 1998, 1999, and 2000 are now almost Goyardian for richness and character. The 2004 will never be that, but I can't help but think the nomacork is putting this wine off.