'03 Northern Rhones: Tightening up?

WINE TALK
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In a separate thread we’ve discussed whether wines truly tighten up, close, shut down, go dumb - choose your favorite phrase.

Interestingly enough, a friend tells me to stay away from opening 2003 Cornas, Cote-Rotie and Hermitage because they’ve “gone tight as a drum.”

Has anyone had an '03 Northern Rhone of late? Any reason to think they’re all dumbed up? I suspect bottle variation, but my sample size is about nil.

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I can’t speak to many Northern Rhone '03s but the La Mouline we had back in August was certainly not shut down. Two hour decant was sufficient cause several wine epiphanies. http://dat.erobertparker.com/bboard/showthread.php?t=209052" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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I don’t know if that wine will ever shut down, but I suspect it may go through a phase where the intense chocolate, espresso, mocha, vanilla characteristic of its treatment may take center stage, only to revert back to its floral, decadent, cherry/olive/cassis wonderfulness. Darryl, when are we doing 2941 again? Let’s forget the desert wine and just go Mouline vs Turque! [worship.gif]

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Faryan,
The problem is that without those awesome coupons I can’t afford to drink the good stuff. I still feel stupid that we only had one.

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Faryan

I am confused by your rating scale.

Sierra Carche, at 76 points, is less than 1 star. What does that mean?

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Here’s what happens when you tighten up:

Bruce

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Let it go Dan deadhorse

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Already drank 2 btls from my case of 03 Duclaux Cote Rotie bought from Max and they were awesome and pretty open for business…
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