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Joe Dougherty
I am damned if I can understand how I might taste Bregeon's 2000 Gorgeois blind and have any idea that it is 10 years old.

And I'm a guy who tries the occasional aged Muscadet.

Maybe there's a hint around the edges of the impenetrable gabbro-subsoil structure that this has some age, and if I had a witness present I'd open the Y2K Clos des Briords that's in the fridge, but still, this is a wine of remarkable immobility.

Comments?
 
This one has some breadth and some power, but it's hard to figure it for old, or even medium.
 
Do you see such lack of evolution as a Dorian Gray-like attribute or flaw?

-Eden (even when Muscadet ages, I don't usually view it as aging all that much, unless it's an oxidative aging, in which case it may be due to the cork as much as it is to the wine)
 
Great wines don't simply stay almost unchanged for a long time - they evolve into increasingly interesting mutations until they begin their descent.

(I've been working with the bobal grape since 2003 and I still don't know for sure if it's simply able to keep, or if it does evolve interestingly...)
 
Actually, the stuff has evolved, but it starts from such an amazingly backward place that it takes a decade to get to "young."
 
SFjoe, I am curious - what do you think the octane measurements might be on this Y2K ? There is sometimes a connection to the behavior described, but other things can contribute too; in fact, other things have to contribute.

This thread reminds me of a massive vertical at koehler-ruprecht two years ago.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
SFjoe, I am curious - what do you think the octane measurements might be on this Y2K ?
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The label on its sister claims 12%, which was my guess before I looked.
 
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