Tonight, I opened a 2012 Guiberteau Saumur Clos de Guichaux… totally oxidized, shot.
Next attempt: 2014 Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet… also advanced.
I moved on to a 2017 PYCM Pernand-Vergelesses Les Belles Filles… A delicious drink. Smokey, flinty, fresh. Complete and satisfying, and premox free! Though not his most exalted wine, I find that particularly in 17 PYCM’s humbler bottlings outperform.
Interesting to see the color progression from 1st to last…
1/3 - If this was baseball, you’d be in the MVP race!
Seriously, that sucks. I know I enjoyed my PYCM Pernand Sous Fretilles 1er immensely so I hope it made up for it. Seeing wines as recently as 2014 show signs of premox is disheartening.
Ugh now I’m worried about the Sauzet les Referts case I’ve let sleep so far. PYCM has never given me a premox issue, though I tend to drink them pretty young since they’re so good on release.
White Burgundy is just luck of the draw, it feels. The sickest part of all of this is that now, drinking my glass of PYCM Pernand, it still feels like it was worth the 2 shot bottles before I got here!
Yes, I had multiple bottles of the 2010 Clos de Carmes pre-moxed last year…and then I had a bottle that was pristine and seemed like it could benefit from another decade in the cellar. I have one bottle of the 2015 Clos de Carmes left that I plan to drink by the end of this summer.
I recently brought a few 2014s home from the locker to check in on, St Aubins 1ers and lower level Chassagne, and they’ve mostly showed the telltale PYCM reductive sulfur like character that often quickly blows off but in these cases had issues doing so. I’d say to stay away form 2014 PYCM right now as they could potentially fail you!
Happy to hear that the PYCM rocked (no surprise there) but a bit devastated about the Guiberteau from OP and others here, I had no idea one should be wary of potential premox with their wines too…
I’ve had oxidized bottles of 2010 and 2008 Chidaine. At the time, I thought of them as just oxidized and not part of premox … but this thread is having me reconsider.