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I’m back on the booze!

19 April 2007 Loire, Sub-interest wine 1 Comment

I am back drinking again. Hooray for wine! I was hoping for my first wine to be good, but I am very disappointed with this.

Savennières Trie Spéciale 1997, Domaine des Baumard

This smells rather big and powerful. A heavy nose laden with the decayed sweetness of a ripe blue cheese. There is a degree of botrytic apricot fruit on the nose as well, but it largely smells damp and rotten. I am concerned by the lack of minerality here. The palate is very full bodied, with some acidity and minerality, but it is terribly flat. There is no real dimension or excitement here, it is just a big mouthful of simple flavours. It also doesn’t taste that nice, if I am honest. Doesn’t taste nice seems a pretty damning quality comment to me.

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I am a very charming insane person who is very well-endowed with academic epidemiology and professional wine qualifications. I am extremely generous with my opinions and bodily function references. Fifth top red trouser wearer in the international wine trade. I am the author of the first 800,000 words on here spread over 20 years of continuous publication.

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  1. Ed Tully 21 April 2007

    What a pity! I have always enjoyed the 97 trie speciale. I have always foundit to be packed with minerality. Maybe it’s just going through an awkward patch? Baumard is a wine god, after all. His Quarts are unbelievable!