How long to age a Brun 2005 Beaujolais blanc?

[SteveTimko]

So I spent three hours playing wine box Tetris arranging my Rhone/Burgudy bottles and my German/Austrian bottles in my new, larger, consolidated wine storage locker and I was arranging the wines to put those I want to age the most on the bottom.
I came across a Brun Beaujolais blanc from 2005 and I wondered-- how long should I let this age? What's the board's thoughts? Just one bottle, sure, but I want to get it right.
As a side note, how the Hell can a Stadlmann box be tall for Austrian bottles but as wide as a Rhone/Burgundy box? It takes up a freakishly large amount of space in my storage locker and will have to be replaced.

 

[jack hott]

Seriously. Brun wines are great, grand even, but I'd rather drink one on its way up rather than its way down. As a general rule I tend to drink my strays and save my multiples.

And, in terms of boxes, I've been slowly moving to C&P Breton boxes for most everything. They're wide, but flat and stack nicely. For Rieslings I use St Innocent boxes, which are shaped for burgundies, but hold long bottles perfectly.

 

[Bwood]

Drink them early, close to release date.

 

[VLM]

Of course.

 

[SteveTimko]

But I hear how great the 2002 Brun blancs still are. If the 2005 will continue to improve for a couple of years. I'd like to hold it.

 

[SFJoe]

Does it have a real cork?

 

[robert ames]

and how long to age j-p brun bourgogne pinor noir 2005?

 

[BJ]

pretty sure plastique, drink. too late to recork

 

[Thor]

If plastic, I'd drink and not hold. Alas.

 

[VLM]

I think if you don't hold and drink you are just asking for trouble.

 

[Thor]

You can get someone else to hold for you.

 

[Arjun Mendiratta]

We all just need to be held, don't we?

 

[David M. Bueker]

Some folks end up being held for drinking.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

'Wine box tetris' is good. Heh.

 

[Thor]

And others end up drinking to be held.