'Pierrebise' Anjou.
I felt pretty sure that the first bottle was premoxed, but somehow the wine still had some redeeming features. However, when my second bottle was pretty similar, if perhaps a bit more drinkable I started to have doubts that maybe this is what the wine is meant to be like?
If anyone here has drunk these or related wines and can decifer from the picture and my notes whether this matches their experiences, would be pleased to hear back.
Note from the wine in the photo:
- 2013 Pithon-Paillé Anjou Pierrebise - France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Anjou (03/11/2018)
Seems to have held up better than the last bottle, but still seems advanced or an oxidative style. Hay and bruised apple on nose, some caramel and oak too. Creamy, yet acid driven palate, with sweet apple and nutty notes on finish. Oxidative, has a fino-sherry like quality.
- 2013 Pithon-Paillé Anjou Pierrebise - France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Anjou (07/12/2018)
Oh dear! On pouring my 5 year old says: what’s that wine? It’s the same colour as my apple juice! And indeed it is! Shy nose, bruised apple, a yeasty touch, some dried hay but on the palate it is rather nutty with notes of sherry and an oxidative finish. But funnily enough it is not unpleasant and inherently drinkable but I fear not what this wine is supposed to taste like. I have one more and need to pop soon to see if also shot or not...