93 Brusset Hauts de Montmirail

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As the front label announced in red caps, "eleve en futs de chene neufs". Well, there you have it. Another batch of what were surely beautiful grapes from primo vines completely fucked up. The wine struggled mightily, and you could tell the quality, but it couldn't overcome the oak.

I know we've all asked this question for decades now, but how could CENSORED think this sort of thing is good? Or anyone else?
 
originally posted by VLM:

Ummm, did anyone else but you buy this?
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I did. My tastes changed afterwards. I drank them long ago, probably before they reached age 10 because they seemed to be aging too quickly. That has nothing to do with oak, though. If you didn't mind the treatment, other vintages aged decently.
 
This was just an experiment. I was curious what it would be like at this point. I didn't cellar this; it was a recent purchase.

I've never liked this cuvee, nor the uber Santa Duc.
 
Santa Duc is a case where I don't know whether the issue is changing taste or chainging wine. I liked both of their cuvees in 89 and 90 and I continued to like their normal cuvee through the mid-90s. I didn't taste the Hauts Garrigues again until the late 90s at which point it had become hautly objectionable with so much hauteur showing that Gail mistook one for an Aussie wine. I haven't been a big fan of the regular cuvee for some years either. It's my impression that these wines became more spoofy. But that impression coexists with my tastes turning away from that style, so I don't know which cause has primary responsibility. But next to Santa Duc, Brusset wine is a model of restraint and transparency.
 
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