Many Muscadets at Racines

I have about 6-8 bottles of 2002 Muscadet in my cellar. I am now too petrified to taste them. How can a love so right go so wrong?
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Jay Miller:


Why do you assume that? I'm confused as to why it's okay to assume it was heat damage or cork failure but not to assume that it's premox.

I would have suspected the former myself based on personal experience if not for Joe reporting multiple times on the latter over the years.
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Where are the threads on any wine board expressing concern about it, Jay? Why are there only two recent negative notes about it on cellartracker? Why haven't you or I experienced it and I'm sure we've both had plenty of experience with the wine, as have many of our mutual friends. If there's such a rampant problem, why aren't they mentioned in the same breath as '02 Huets and the various Hunes and Frederic Emiles that have been affected? There's no widespread evidence that there's been a serious problem with the wine and if there's something developing now, it's really outside the age when premox strikes.
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a) not a lot of people were putting 2002 Muscadets away outside of this bored
b) I only put away about 6 bottles (a lot for me at the time) and most of those were consumed relatively early so my experience isn't very relevant.
c) why do you assume a problem must be rampant for it to exist? but Joe certainly mentioned experiencing it frequently and he put a lot more down than I did. I tried using the bored's search function but...
d) I'm not aware that premox always strikes at the same time for a given wine. I've never heard that before. I agree that it often seems to start affecting random bottles at the 5-6 year mark.
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Again, Jay, premox has come to mean something specific and part of that is it affects a large part of a production. It's not me that's assuming that.

Show me where I say that premox always strikes at the same time?
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
c) why do you assume a problem must be rampant for it to exist? but Joe certainly mentioned experiencing it frequently and he put a lot more down than I did. I tried using the bored's search function but...
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He used "p'ox" most of the time. Anyway, with a little effort, I have found these postings:

12 Muscadet:

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02 Muscadet:

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00 Muscadet:

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02 Huet:

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so, as promised, I opened one of my remaining bottles of 02 L d'Or yesterday. It didn't show any signs of oxidation, but it was distinctly going through change of life, with the mellower pinot blanc character I remember in the 89 coming out. There was still some Muscadet nerviness there, but if that's what you seek, you shouldn't wait longer. Not a wine that's over the hill but not a wine that everyone will prefer to what it was earlier.

Maybe my next bottle will show oxidation. That has happened to me with the 02 Cazin Renaissance.
 
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