I attended a tasting of 1998 Red Burgundies (along with some 1998 White Burgundies) today and found them all horrible, with only a few exceptions. I also disliked most of the wines from my own company (I am a wine importer).We've had two extremely moist days here in New York City, although the weather today is ideal. I found the white wines at this tasting to be easy to taste and many were truly enjoyable, but the reds were dull, tannic, shut-down, acidic and often with off-putting wood aromas. The more oak in the wine, the more difficult the tasting experience.
This is a controversial vintage and I am hesitant to make sweeping judgements from this tasting. This was my most comprehensive tasting of the vintage, but I think it is also possible that the recent weather and the low barometric pressure has made it difficult to taste these young wines.
Has anyone else on the East Coast had difficulty tasting wine over the past few days?
Even if the wines were showing 'off,' I continue to find it regrettable that so many Burgundians feel compelled to destroy their wine with new oak. The worst offenders in Pinot were Domaine Henri Rebourseau in Gevrey-Chambertin and Domaine des Lambrays. Ugh, pure wood concotions.
Why?
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