03 Montus- PDV-BS

[Joel Stewart]

i keep trying to re-create the 01 in my mind and the 03 is just flabby after all. great floating mouthfeel and piney/peppery/sagey notes still working, but after 3 btls (not all tonight...), i decided i do long for more citric bite.

 

[Joel Stewart]

take that back

with air time, there are some salty notes filling in on the back end. im lovin it.

 

[Zachary Ross]

Haven't had the 2001, but I thought the 2003 I had in April 2007 was pretty nice but needed more cellar time to work off its oak. The only other vintage I've tried is the 1994, which I drank around the same time as the 2003. It was pretty interesting, very acidic and tart with loads of oil/creosote, pine, and a touch of charred oak.

 

[Joel Stewart]

take that taking back once more..

this is anointment wine.....white tannins i've never heard of lash you. then you feel honey.

heck with acidity

who do you love...????

 

[Joel Stewart]

3 hrs later revisit....the wine gives and gives. i think a church should be erected.....i'm seeing reims at dawn now....sometime a white does not need to have the acidity for me, if it's replaced by salinity and tannin.

 

[Zachary Ross]

I feel as though I interrupted a running monologue. Don't mind me, I'll just head back to non-sequiturial Africa.

 

[Joel Stewart]

originally posted by Zachary Ross:
I feel as though I interrupted a running monologue. Don't mind me, I'll just head back to non-sequiturial Africa.

coast is clear now...bottle is done. i was prepared to dis the vintage and was thrown off in a good way

 

[Chris Coad]

I can't keep up with the cuves at this estatel. What is "PDV-BS"?

 

[Zachary Ross]

Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh Sec

 

[Chris Coad]

Ah, of course. I was trying to work out the initials of some luxury cuve....

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Chris Coad:
Ah, of course. I was trying to work out the initials of some luxury cuve....

I know what you mean. Why can't they just call it Madiran Blanc ferchissakes? Actually, though, I love the name Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh and the way it flows, to the extent that some days it comes unbidden into my stream of consciousness, so carry on.

Mark Lipton

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by MLipton:
to the extent that some days it comes unbidden into my stream of consciousness, so carry on.

Nice!

 

[Jeff Grossman]

It makes me think of an old French handyman shambling about the grounds. Everybody calls him Vic but his real name is....

 

[Joel Stewart]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
It makes me think of an old French handyman shambling about the grounds. Everybody calls him Vic but his real name is....

nice.

 

[Joel Stewart]

originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Haven't had the 2001, but I thought the 2003 I had in April 2007 was pretty nice but needed more cellar time to work off its oak. The only other vintage I've tried is the 1994, which I drank around the same time as the 2003. It was pretty interesting, very acidic and tart with loads of oil/creosote, pine, and a touch of charred oak.

pine seems to consistently come up for me with this wine too. i agree, it is an interesting white...it's not a grape you taste often, that petit courbu. looks like from our collective exp. that the wine shows some vintage variation...at least i'm hoping the winemaking hasn't changed lately. the 04 is in the stores here....despite finding likable qualities to the 03 once aired, i sort of hope it's an anomaly.