CWD: '00 Pegau Cuve Rserve

[Scott Kraft]

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[Brad Kane]

originally posted by drssouth:

Checked with the chef (my wife)
The steak was more like 1.5 inches thick..
6 minutes one side, 4 minutes the other at 900 degrees then 3 minutes at 500 degrees...perfect medium-rare

That's better. The other sounded like a recipe for beef jerky.

 

[Chris Coad]

900 degrees?

Is welding equipment required?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Brad Kane:
For NathanI disagree.

Originally posted 1/03.

2000 Pegau- Chteaneuf-du-Pape, Cuve Reserve
Perhaps most reminiscent of the 98, but with several key differences. This is a very seductive, easy drinking and extraordinarily ripe wine. It shows a more roasted quality with decidedly less structure than the 98. Its sappy and liqueur-like with rich black fruit, light spice, chocolate and a touch of meat. While thoroughly enjoyable, I do wish there was more structure to the wine. Still, there were comparisons being made by Dan between this wine and the 90, which followed and was my wine of the night, so Ill give the wine the benefit of the doubt and hope it gains some of the complexity I had hoped it would show more of. Certainly glad I squirreled away a few bottles. A/A-.

Pegau in 90, 98 and 00 all have tasted not so much shut down as roly poly and clunky when they were/are young. The 98 for me came out of that in the last year or so. The last time I had the 00, it had not. It sounds as if it is coming around. If you have bunches or stashes or groups of bottles, start drinking now I would guess. I certainly plan to try another sometime in 09. But I think it is still in its upswing.

 

[Carl Steefel]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

Pegau in 90, 98 and 00 all have tasted not so much shut down as roly poly and clunky when they were/are young. The 98 for me came out of that in the last year or so. The last time I had the 00, it had not. It sounds as if it is coming around. If you have bunches or stashes or groups of bottles, start drinking now I would guess. I certainly plan to try another sometime in 09. But I think it is still in its upswing.

Pretty much my thoughts exactly. Because these don't shut down, they are easy to drink throughout their life, but they don't deliver much complexity early on. I had the same experience with the '98 Pegau, which just turned the corner and entered a whole new phase with the last bottle. 2000 isn't quite there yet, but I am also not sure it will ever quite the match the 1998 given its apparent lack of structure. Anyway, I will be saving the rest of my 2000 to see what they do...