2001 Rougeard

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Brian C

Brian Campbell
Never having seen the wines on a shelf, I stumbled across couple of bottles of the 96 clos, 2001 poyeux, bourg, and breze at what appeared to be release prices and grabbed as many as I could afford. While I am familiar with their reputation I'd had never had the opportunity to try any of the Foucault wines.

I opened the 96 clos which was pleasant enough though a bit tired, but the 2001 Bourg was the one that really surprised me. It was a pretty angry wine, kind of a sloppy acidic mess with enormously overpowering roasted red pepper flavors that never really toned down until day three (and even then was far from a pleasant wine). I thought it was a flawed bottle but another bottle showed consistent with the first.

They were not grey market, but did sit on a store shelf for several years. Any ideas on what is going on with this wine...as I have 1 more and still have the poyeux. I saw another tasting note online that referred to the roasted red pepper? I can't imagine this is a typical showing for the Rougeard wines...
 
That sounds about right.

2001 Le Bourg was very angry the last time I tried it, too. It tasted a bit like a sweet red pepper burned over a campfire, and not much more.

Previously it was one of the most stunning wines I'd ever drank. So I've accepted that '01 Le Bourg is really nowhere near ready to drink except perhaps for research purposes. And even then I think disappointment is likely.

It was a painful way to learn to leave these alone and stick with '01 and '02 Clos for the next few years, but that's my strategy. I'm not getting into '01 Poyeux just yet either, but I think I only have one bottle.

Oh, and what Joe said.
 
Hmmmm. Beats me. I've no idea about their storage.

I would fear that 2001s are in a closed place right now, I'm surprised by your description, but I wouldn't have opened my own at 8 years--I am still waiting on mine.
 
originally posted by slaton:
That sounds about right.

2001 Le Bourg was very angry the last time I tried it, too. It tasted a bit like a sweet red pepper burned over a campfire, and not much more.

Previously it was one of the most stunning wines I'd ever drank. So I've accepted that '01 Le Bourg is really nowhere near ready to drink except perhaps for research purposes. And even then I think disappointment is likely.

It was a painful way to learn to leave these alone and stick with '01 and '02 Clos for the next few years, but that's my strategy. I'm not getting into '01 Poyeux just yet either, but I think I only have one bottle.

Oh, and what Joe said.
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If this comes back around to blossom it will be the most dramatic comeback I've ever come accross!
And the store is probably neither great nor horrible on storage. Certainly not a temperature controlled vault. And I belive the '96s were a library parcel from a couple years back.
 
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