Huet 2002 wiki

I opened a second release, non-reserve last weekend in honor of my son's birthday. Not fresh as a daisy, but enchantingly good. Out of the bottle, it was almost shockingly dry, but a bit of air elicited the bare residue of sweetness necessary to lubricate all the other flavors, and it drank deliciously for a couple of days after. Mm.
 
Another totally delicious 02 Le Mont demi sec tonight. With about 15 minutes of air it firmed up and opened up simultaneously. Not sure why mine show so well. Half bought from chambers upon release; balance from crush a few years later.
 
originally posted by maureen:
And brad was nowhere in sightAnother totally delicious 02 Le Mont demi sec tonight. With about 15 minutes of air it firmed up and opened up simultaneously. Not sure why mine show so well. Half bought from chambers upon release; balance from crush a few years later.
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Want to buy mine? Your experience is such an outlier from what's been reported by others from all over the past five years that one can only conclude you either don't notice the flaw, or it's a characteristic you enjoy.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by maureen:
And brad was nowhere in sightAnother totally delicious 02 Le Mont demi sec tonight. With about 15 minutes of air it firmed up and opened up simultaneously. Not sure why mine show so well. Half bought from chambers upon release; balance from crush a few years later.
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Want to buy mine? Your experience is such an outlier from what's been reported by others from all over the past five years that one can only conclude you either don't notice the flaw, or it's a characteristic you enjoy.
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You are truly an a**hole brad. I am more than capable of noticing oxidised wine (just had an oxidised 04 Jadot CC) and the good huet i post on has not been oxidised. I find oxidation quite unpleasant. I always drink these wines with experienced drinkers and all of us think the wines show beautifully.

I seem to recall having one a few months ago with others from this board and we all found the wine more than sound. Has it never occured to you that not all of the 02 Huets are premoxed and perhaps you and some others here ran into a bad batch?
 
And I just reread this entire thread. Yes, too many poxed 02 huets. But plenty of pristine bottles reported and not just by me but also from experienced huet drinkers such as kirk, chris and sasha. Oh i guess none of them can tell when the pox is around.
 
originally posted by maureen:
And I just reread this entire thread. Yes, too many poxed 02 huets. But plenty of pristine bottles reported and not just by me but also from experienced huet drinkers such as kirk, chris and sasha. Oh i guess none of them can tell when the pox is around.
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Yes, but you are the only one reporting nothing but pristine bottles every time you have one. Others have good ones from time to time, but also report off bottles. That's a big statistic anomaly which calls your reports into questions given the wealth of data on the issue. This isn't about a bad batch or shipment. The reports have been all over the country from Chadderdon and grey market and there are reports internationally. I was told several years ago that the British importer was also aware of the issue, so there's a lot of evidence out there that this is systemic.

Oh, and who's the asshole here? Every time you post about a good bottle, you find the need to needle me.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by maureen:
And I just reread this entire thread. Yes, too many poxed 02 huets. But plenty of pristine bottles reported and not just by me but also from experienced huet drinkers such as kirk, chris and sasha. Oh i guess none of them can tell when the pox is around.
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Oh, and who's the asshole here? Every time you post about a good bottle, you find the need to needle me.
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Well, fair enough. I was trying to be funny (see, i don't actually think you are causing or misdiagnosing the pox) but i guess i was actually waving a red flag. But i have drunk 5 of the 8 le mont ds i bought and i hate to tell you they have all been great. The one bourg i opened years ago - before talk of pox began - i didn't care for but chalked it up to its being young and a richer wine. Maybe it was getting poxed. Still have five and if any of them are bad i promise to tell.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by maureen:
And I just reread this entire thread. Yes, too many poxed 02 huets. But plenty of pristine bottles reported and not just by me but also from experienced huet drinkers such as kirk, chris and sasha. Oh i guess none of them can tell when the pox is around.
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Yes, but you are the only one reporting nothing but pristine bottles every time you have one. Others have good ones from time to time, but also report off bottles. That's a big statistic anomaly which calls your reports into questions given the wealth of data on the issue. This isn't about a bad batch or shipment. The reports have been all over the country from Chadderdon and grey market and there are reports internationally. I was told several years ago that the British importer was also aware of the issue, so there's a lot of evidence out there that this is systemic.

Oh, and who's the asshole here? Every time you post about a good bottle, you find the need to needle me.
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I would suggest that if we're about accumulating data points, we're about accumulating decent data points. Maureen is under no obligation to take international reports or importer fretting in hand when she opens a bottle. She just opens, drinks and posts, and so we get more data from valuable contributors with a very long and reliable track record.
 
I suggest that when Maureen mentions the word premoxed in a post, she never mentions the name Brad in the same post and when Brad mentions the word premoxed in a post he never mentions the name Maureen in the same post. Although I would say that well over half of my Huet 02s were poxed, not a single one of my 02 Huet fizzies have been corked. Anomalies happen. Maybe Maureen got a good batch. But anomalies happen and one shouldn't draw conclusions merely from one's own batch.
 
Btw, is there some reason why pre mox/pre moxed (without the space) is now censored? That's just silly. It would be nice if the Politburo corrected that.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Btw, is there some reason why pre mox/pre moxed (without the space) is now censored? That's just silly. It would be nice if the Politburo corrected that.
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IIRC, Brad, it started when you berated another poster for misuse of the term. I guess that the Politburo wanted to nip such discussions in the bud, but that's rank speculation on my part. I agree, though, that this censoring business is an annoyance.

Mark Lipton
 
Parker was censored on Wine Therapy, which also censored Hitler, in respect of the Godwin rule, and ***********, I have always thought because of Hitler's policy of Lebensraum, but I'm not sure. I think the rules changed here and became more capricious as befits a board run by a Politburo. I have not yet heard of anyone who's existence has been erased, so to speak, so we should be happy with what we have.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Btw, is there some reason why pre mox/pre moxed (without the space) is now censored? That's just silly. It would be nice if the Politburo corrected that.
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IIRC, Brad, it started when you berated another poster for misuse of the term. I guess that the Politburo wanted to nip such discussions in the bud, but that's rank speculation on my part. I agree, though, that this censoring business is an annoyance.
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I believe you're referring to the Muscadet incident and I stand by my position that too many people wrongly use the term pre mox, as they did in that instance. To ban the word as a result of that discussion is pretty juvenile.
 
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