Most disappointing wine of 2011?

[Randy_Bowman]

@Steve Saxon

Has to be the 82 PLL that Ken V. brought to NY. While the wine was very good it was not showing like I know it should but it was much better than my corked bottle of Richebourg.

He got it from Carrie. It was a re-labeled bottle of Charles Shaw that Tex left here and stayed in the hot shipping room. Don’t blame Ken, Carrie still hasn’t told him.

[K_John_Joseph]

@Larry P

Easily the 2001 Beaucastel I popped for our 10-year anniversary. Tasted like cheap cooking sherry.

Luckily I was able to save the day with some quite wonderful 2001 Mordorée Lirac and 2001 Alban Grenache. Unfortunately I have a 2nd Beaucastel in my cellar, from the same source.

That’s just a bad bottle of the Beaucastel. I’ve had two pristine 2001s over the last 4 months, including one on Saturday. Both were absolutely wonderful bottles of wine.

[Bob_Wood]

I was going to nominate the Steltzner claret, but I have to go with the truly heinous and fecal-matter loaded '07 St. Innocent Momtazi.

[K_John_Joseph]

Bob Wood – Rabble Rouser…and we’re even talking about disappointments!

[Bob_Wood]

@K John Joseph

Bob Wood – Rabble Rouser…and we’re even talking about disappointments!

Just tryin’ to see if Sax will rise to the bait!

[Steve_Saxon]

@Bob Wood

@K John Joseph

Bob Wood – Rabble Rouser…and we’re even talking about disappointments!

Just tryin’ to see if Sax will rise to the bait!

That would have been one of my picks but how disappointing can a $20 wine be? Besides, I first drank it in December 2010.

[KyleCWilkinson]

2004 Drouhin Brouilly

[Ed_Gonzales]

2007 Schrader T6 Beckstoffer To Kalon Cab

[Sanjay_Nandurkar]

2008 Cullen Cab (Di) weak and hollow
2003 Dominus 03 effect? no finesse hot and blocky

[LMD_Ermitano]

May I name 2?

1991 Domaine Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon

1964 Bodegas Riojanas Monte Real Gran Reserva

[Humberto_Dorta]

2006 clos des papes

[Robert.A.Jr]

@Chris Seiber

What wine was most disappointing for you in 2011? I posted the same thread near the end of 2010, and so I’ll restate a modified versin of my guidelines from that thread this time around, which were in the hopes of making the thread as relevant and interesting as possible to the rest of the board. The guidelines are as follows:

(1) “Disappointing” means relative to expectations. It’s not the same question as “what was the worst wine you had in 2011.” If you had a d’Yquem or first growth or Grand Cru Burgundy from a great vintage and thought it was an 88 point wine, that would be quite disappointing; if you had a glass of Woodbridge merlot at a wedding reception and thought it was a 78 point wine, that isn’t necessarily disappointing at all.

2007 Dominus.

Amazingly tight and shot down, IMHO, contrary to many of the TNs I read on CT. I shoved my remaining bottles deep into the back of storage. While I certainly did not expect this wine to be firing on all cylinders so early in its life, I expected a better raw showing.

[V_Viinikka]

1991 Hudelot-Noellat Romanee St. Vivant

It was so closed that it was painful to think about the potential it clearly has. The feeling was enhanced still with the fact that the 1992 bottle of the same wine beside it drank perfectly.

[mike_pobega]

2001 Araujo Eisele

[Nathan_Smyth]

@Robert Alfert

2007 Dominus.

Amazingly tight and shot down, IMHO, contrary to many of the TNs I read on CT. I shoved my remaining bottles deep into the back of storage. While I certainly did not expect this wine to be firing on all cylinders so early in its life, I expected a better raw showing.

How quickly did you empty the bottle?

Because that sounds like a wine which might need four or five days to start opening up.

[mstockley]

2007 Tablas Creek Esprit de Beaucastel. Markedly spritzy, but not a flaw according to the winery so fits the OP rules.

[David_McMillen]

2008 Tensley Syrah Colson Canyon Vineyard

[Scott_Brunson]

@Frank Murray III

@Corey Miller

For me, 2008 Clos de Lambrays. Everyone has been praising it to high heaven but our bottle was not enjoyable. Hollow and dominated by stems that didn’t fade even after several hours of air.

Sure, sure, piss all over my Lambrays parade. I don’t even have the wine yet.

I had a 2009 Louis Michel GC Vaudesir chablis last week that was blah, boring and blah. Is the balance of 2009 Chablis going to taste like this? Tell me no after what seemed to be very good 2008s.

tasted at domaine in June
They poured lots of 09s but for Vaudesir they chose 06 and 08
09 M. de Tonerre was all butterscotch. Interesting but not how I like my Chablis. Planning to wait for 2010s

[Scott_Brunson]

99 DRC Vosne 1er Cuvee Duvault Blochet
I know it’s mostly (maybe all) young vine GC but it was green and overly stem-tannic.
(an under ripe 99?)
01 Grivot Les Chaumes killed it head-to-head

[Tony_Petro]

@David McMillen

2008 Tensley Syrah Colson Canyon Vineyard

Hmm. I thought I had a flawed bottle, and it still might have been, but now I’m curious about your experience. I can’t remember for certain since it was months ago, but it seemed reduced/funky, with a burnt rubber nose. I think I actually dumped the bottle, which is rare for me.