Lesser wines

Many probably ask themselves, does this guy ever taste lesser wines?

Yes I do, but I do not have the time to put them in here. The blog is something like the top 15-20% of what I taste, and it still takes a lot of my time, writing all the notes. But I will put in a few ones from a recent Sauternes tasting, just so you see that it is not all glory and halleluja.

2001 Caillou, golden, quite big nose, good acidity, and quite fresh, but bitter and short finish. I gave it 85. In a vintage like that, this is not impressive.....still, at 85, its a good wine. Then a Piada 2005 from Barsac, sweet, ok acidity, simple, fresh, short finish, 62, still decent, but you wan't a bit more.

Now, for the worst part, to vineyards close to Climens. 03 Simon, sweet, simple, some canned mushrooms, no acidity to balance, some tropical fruits. 42. Then 05 Liot, simple, boring, nothing sticks out, no complexity, simple, easy, well.... boring. 49

So, its not only great stuff tasted, lots of good wines, that are great for the price, but also a lot of normal everyday wines, and those worse than that, those awfull commercial things that people for some reason feel the need to get into their body. When a bottle of wine gets close to a bottle of milk (that I would guess would be something like 1,3€), or even worse, bottled water!, alarm bells should be ringing! It takes many months, maybe a year to make a wine, of any quality, if you did the job, how much effort would you put into it at 3€ in the shop? That would probably mean half the price from the producer.

Life is to short for bland and simple wines!