Cackling from the fact that almost all the high scores of this vintage are from abroad. In my head it’s straight up cope because praising the wine with potato water and ethereal bell peppers is so unserious.
Thank you for the sentiments!
Yeah, I don’t quite get the whole burying your head in the sand and hoping it all goes away thing.
Our NYE was definitely not ruined. My wife still enjoyed the non-Champagne French sparkling rose I had as a backup. Unfortunately I can’t remember specifically what it was.
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Makes me think flawed would be an interesting CT metric; some sort of index relative to a norm. Especially if it’s not contributing to scores.
Flawed means a lot of things, we know this. Yet if above a norm, someone should read reviews a bit more. Get grounded in what’s going on.
Click on a score in our desktop site, and we show the percent marked as flawed.
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The only thing I would add here is that if somebody does mark down a wine as flawed, in their comments, they should explain what they mean rather than just making that statement. That would be helpful as well.
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This wine is a tricky one, as it’s so bad it’s easy to call it flawed. But which flaw is it? I gave it a generous 65 points and made a comment that I couldn’t identify which flaw would cause it, even though it’s hard to imagine someone would actually release that kind of swill on purpose.
Is it flawed or just a very poorly made wine?
If it’s in pretty much every bottle and thevwinrmaker stands behindbit, it’s not flawed, it’s showing as intended.
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So if a wine has noticable VA or brett or mousiness, and it’s in pretty much every bottle, would these then not be considered flaws?
Cheers
I seriously wonder if it was fine at disgorgement (do people test taste the wine being disgorged?) and something went very wrong with the dosage/topping up.
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I also thought poorly made was the most likely scenario. Just a guess.
I just opened two 2015 blanc de blancs. I have previous notes with great scores. First bottle, cork came out with no “psssst” and wine was flat. Acidic nose and other weird aromatics. Sour in the mouth and undrinkable. Second bottle had a pop and good bubbles, but round and rather one dimensional so while this particular bottling was highly regarded, I’d say “drink soon”.
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I’ve been waiting to see what Galloni thinks of the 2020 UM’s…and this is the time when he usually puts out his Sonoma article…BUT of course…it’s here…and this is what we get: “Ultramarine was in between releases at the time of my tastings. I was able to revisit the 2014 Blanc de Blancs Late-Disgorged Charles Heintz Vineyard, which is just as compelling as it was last year.” BS! You know he tasted them…and they SUCKED! Cruse probably fed him more BS about needing more time…
what a bunch of 
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Btw…chilling a 18 Hirsch Rose for later…
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It would have been pretty incredible to see a review published that was truly abysmal. Making up a reason you didn’t review is bad enough.
This is a good point.
When I see flawed, I generally think bottle rather than the entire bottling, but it can definitely be either one.
And a corked bottle is a long ways from a bottling that has, for example, an unacceptable level of va.
It would make sense to not rate a corked bottle, or a really muted bottle that could be low level TCA. But for a wine with a microbial issue, that could be just that bottle or could be the entire run, it may make sense to rate it to create a data point that others could compare to.
Another gorgeous non asparagus vintage! Strawberries n cream with persimmon spice and blood orange acidity…very soft and appealing. Love it!
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all my 2018-2020s are going to be shipped off to auction, lmk if anyone want’s to make an offer before they go, lol.
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I hope you get a decent hammer on them! There was so many sitting on WB for weeks and weeks and the prices kept dropping…but zero listed this week so maybe your timing will be ideal 
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I have 83 bottles of UM going live at auction starting tonight. VIntages going back to 2014.
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Wow, good luck to you! Hope it turns out well!