2007 Simon Bize Bourgogne Blanc Les Perrières- France, Burgundy, Bourgogne Blanc (5/7/2012)
Poxed but drinkable…does have some nice white flowers, caramel green apples, chalky minerals…but just too much apple juice. Next bottle might do better…lets hope. NR (flawed)
Awful news. Loved the '08 Vergelesses Blanc which subsequently tightened up. Definitely not what you want to find when you revisit at only vintage + 5.
My bottles purchased on release from WHWC have been fine (so far). But I did a “refill” of a couple of bottles on Winebid a couple of months ago, those showed much more advanced, I’d assume storage issues (I have decent luck with WB, but generally stick to less expensive bottles at a discount, easy to shrug off 10-15% advanced with $15 bottles, I prefer more certainty with expensive stuff). Of course, with random nature of premOX issues maybe I just got lucky with Woodlands bottles and unlucky with Winebid bottles.
Well…second bottle is killer! Meursault-like…dancing lemon/lime acid, smoky flint, chalky…now with the caramel green apples as complexity. What a difference a bottle make! Flawed to 91pts.
Patrick, Guillaume (the white winemaker at Bize) and I did a blind tasting recently of the Bize 2007’s under cork and under DIAM. The DIAM finished bottled showed amazingly fresh and vibrant compared to the cork finished ones and so Patrick is going to move all his whites under DIAM starting with the 2011’s which I think is a great idea.