Ripe wines
Ripe wines
Ver mensaje de RayQA recent experience with a favourite Chateauneuf from 1998
which showed poorly (stewed fruit, very evolved) got me thinking.
Do wines from ripe years show better young and age poorly ?
Is it the high Grenache content ?
Any similar experiences ?
Re: Ripe wines
Ver mensaje de RayQWell, I have tried just a few Chateneuf so I do not have enough experience but I think that this trend is common in wines from almost everywhere…. This is the result of the so-called globalisation….. and IMHO this has nothing to do with Grenache…
Cheers!
Stewed fruit and very evolved?
Ver mensaje de RayQCould it be a bottle issue, don’t you think? I don’t think in a Grenache issue. On the other hand I keep in mind the summer of 2003... Hell! What a vintage! Quite odd to find a good quaff on that vintage!
Regards,
Jose
Re: Ripe wines
Ver mensaje de Paco HigónBut have you guys found that riper vintages age less well ?
Re: Ripe wines
Ver mensaje de RayQProbably, but I would not dare to say that this is a general rule.
Re: sort of off topic ...
Ver mensaje de RayQ... because I usually do not keep the wines I buy long enough (20, 30 years) to judge whether they age better or not ... in my time frame, they seem fine ;)
MaJesus
Re: sort of off topic ...
Ver mensaje de MaJesusI don’t think it’s 20 or 30, is it? More like 5 or 6!
Re: sort of off topic ...
Ver mensaje de suikoWell, I’ve tried not long ago wonderful ’biggies"; from 2003 and I still have several waiting to be drunk ... I have not noticed any decay at all and I would even say that some of them still needed to wait a bit longer (like Aalto ps), but I’m not an expert ... hence, for me they are extremely fine after 5-6 years, but maybe for a more discriminate, expert taste they are not ;)
MaJesus