PSA From Captain Obvious

Kirk, thanks for this. I will have to take a look in my wine closet and see what I have.
The sparklers from Belluard seem to improve with a few years of bottle age for my taste.
What's happening with Le Feu?
 
Except for the sparkler I've never aged these wines either but that's kinda shocking to see, what, 2 years after release? Pox or something else?
 
apple juicy and slightly nutty; interestingly, after being open (in the fridge, no cork) for 2-3 hours, it got drinkable, but still obviously in decline; overly sweet and flabby, but not the sad, OTH profile it had upon opening. I see I have almost a case left and 2 mags, so I can hope for some better performance from some of those. and I have at least a case of 2012 Mont Blanc, b/c I agree with Marc that I have liked those with some age on them.
 
I had similar experiences with bottles of 2013 Les Alpes and Mondeuse. No bad bottles of 2012 Le Feu yet. Had a great bottle of 2013 Le Feu six months ago.
 
I just tried the 2011 of this last year and it was as pristine and sparkling pretty as a mountain stream. Perhaps you got a bad batch?
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Are these sans SO2? I can't imagine what would make such a young wine fall off a cliff like that.
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Yes. Very Little sulfur. There is a no sulfur cuvée called "pur jus". That I've only had young, but it was brilliant on those occasions.
 
originally posted by MarkS:
I just tried the 2011 of this last year and it was as pristine and sparkling pretty as a mountain stream. Perhaps you got a bad batch?
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I had '11 Les Alpes a few months ago and it was just as described above. I have a pair each of '10-12 Le Feu and had no intention of opening those soon.
 
Can't speak for the still wines as I don't cellar them (like but don't love them). The sparkling ages wonderfully though. Still have Mont Blanc back to '06 and Ayse to '07. Both are still great and improving.

My only problem is that I can't find the Ayse anymore, since SM stopped selling direct.
 
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