'98 Ch. Rouviere, Bandol

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Strangely plummy and fruity, some oak. Given that this is essentially 100% Mataro, I wonder if they took some American juice and made wine with it. Not at all like other Bandols I buy.

And I must have liked it enough at some point to bury it in my cellar. Sadly a wasted effort.
 
originally posted by SteveTimko:
Are the 1998s drinking well yet?I've got three bottles of La Bastide Blanche Bandol Longue Garde and I didn't want to sacrifice one to find out.
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Depends how you like them. fatboy, for instance, thinks they're great. I think they need another 5 years, minimum.
 
Yeah, my 1993 Pibarnon still needs a few years. Sadly, it took me three bottles to figure that out (insert crying emoticon here).
 
Hmmm. Although those two are not Bandol estates that I follow (or at least in the case of Pibarnon, haven't since they abandoned their old style a long time ago), the others that I do follow drink well at pretty much any age. If they're not drinking well now, I wonder if they ever will?
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Hmmm. Although those two are not Bandol estates that I follow (or at least in the case of Pibarnon, haven't since they abandoned their old style a long time ago), the others that I do follow drink well at pretty much any age. If they're not drinking well now, I wonder if they ever will?
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Third bottle I let it breathe for several hours and it opened up greatly towards the end, telling me it still needs time to develop. I was under the impression that 1993 Pibarnon was still old style.
 
Maybe they've gone on to a newer new style, but I think they started being fairly oaky and fuzzy back in the late 1980s.
 
I'm just going to put in a plug here for my all time favorite Bandol: Jean Pierre Gaussen Longue Garde.
 
i recently had one of my gaussen longue garde's and it was really getting into gear. earlier ones had all been pretty clenched and closed (sigh).
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Maybe they've gone on to a newer new style, but I think they started being fairly oaky and fuzzy back in the late 1980s.
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Had the 1989 Pibarnon a couple of years ago and it was wonderful. If that's oak I'll take it by the boatload.
 
While we're discussing Pibarnon does anyone have any recent knowledge on the 2001? I have about 6 or 7 bottles which I acquired by accident.
 
originally posted by SteveTimko:
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Maybe they've gone on to a newer new style, but I think they started being fairly oaky and fuzzy back in the late 1980s.
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Had the 1989 Pibarnon a couple of years ago and it was wonderful. If that's oak I'll take it by the boatload.
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Steve -- The reason I'm pretty sure they'd departed from what they had been doing before is because I remember Franois and Jean-Marie Peyraud asking me, the first time I visited in Bandol which was 1991, about other Bandols that I had experience with, and when we reached Pibarnon, I indicated it was not the same as it earlier had been -- with which they agreed.

If you liked it, great. Chaq'un son got. I was staying in the Bandol appellation for three nights last week and Pibarnon does continue to appear on some good restaurant lists.
 
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