So I finally got to try this infamous wine this past Saturday. I was hanging with some of the Dallas crew and one of them brought this blind. Not very good but not as bad as some folks have painted it. I had it in the 80-84 range. Certainly no one would mistake it for a 96 point wine or what did RP’s wife rate it…92 or 93.
I brought a La Bodega Merlot (Texas wine) blind that blew away the SC. 102 points on the Jay Miller scale.
I still need to type up my tasting notes and post them but iirc as you stated we tasted this double blind and I rated it B/B+. No way in hell this is a 96 point wine.
I finally tried a bottle a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like mine was worse than yours, it was actually unpleasant to drink. Bitter and green tasting. I couldn’t finish the glass.
Paul et al,
In the interest of information do you have the lot number and bottle number for the Sierra Carche you drank?
Thanks
It was Lot 8114, Bottle 2763 of 20000.
FWIW, I actually had it at closer to an 88-89 point wine, and probably preferred it to the “Texas wine”, which was too green for my tastes, but fooled many (well, okay, I won’t speak for anyone else, but it fooled me) into thinking it was a Left Bank Bordeaux from an underripe vintage…
Sounds like you guys had a good bottle.
Whoever donated that, I would love to buy a btl off of them…Curious to see the difference between a 25 point SC and a 88 point SC is.
You would have known that you had a bad wine. The worst smelling wine (right up ther with 1990 Vogue Musigny) that I have ever had.
Mrs. Robert Parker scored her btl, tasted non blind and with friends, a whopping 93 points…I want to taste that one!
Dan,
I agree with you regarding the '90 Vogue Musigny … a flawed wine for sure.
It’s not one of my favorites, but in all fairness, there are several different lots of the wine.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone would have gone 88 for any of the bottles we tasted at Posner’s. Maybe the first bottle (in Mark Franks’ words “the best of the four Sierra Carches, which is like picking out your favorite turd in the bowl”) could have gone 80-84. The bottle variation reported on CT and elsewhere is pretty extreme.
The first Carche was definitely the best…I do not rate wines, I ain’t no critic like JSM or GV, but it was hardly any good. Maybe people have lower expectations than me.
Claude,
I have only had 1990 Musigny twice, but neither were inspiring. The time EWS poured it for their retrospective of Burgs, I could not even take a sip, the smell was so vile.
I don’t disagree, Dan. I’ve had terrible bottles and merely uninspiring bottles. But the lot numbers are on there for those who want to compare. Fortunately, I never bought any. (BTW, back ca. 1992, I took a lot of heat from some people for not thinking that particular wine was a super great wine, and in fact for being less enthusiastic than many others about the 1990 vintage as a whole.)