WineHunting: Pegau

Well, it really found me since I wasn’t actively looking…

But…

…found 2012 Pegau Cuvee Reserve for $45 at European Wine Resource in Richmond. Looks like average price $60-70 at other retailers.

No prior experience with this shop.
With $15 ship, six pack seemed like a no brainer… which is good since I have no brain… :slight_smile: :angry: :stuck_out_tongue:

thanks for the find just took 2

Wally’s in LA has it listed for $48 now.

European Wine Resource has been great in my experience. Even got some shipments with plastic wrapped bottles, which I appreciated - helps preserve the labels if you have metal racks.

So at $45, that means it comes to around $135 per non-brett-bomb and non-corked bottle. Still pretty high.

neener

Thanks never tried pegau in for 3

Just received - all in good shape.
Love it: ground ship = next day

Wow.
This is seriously good.
My favorite since 01.

Might have to reload…

Side question - they are selling the 2012 Pegau in an “OC”, not an OWC. Is that just a cardboard box?

I have decided to I have to stop buying Pegau. I have opened more flawed bottles than good ones. It is not worth the price of admission for me anymore- which is a shame because when it is on, this is a wine I really do like a lot.

I love Pegau for its wildness, and find the brett to be a part of the bargain. That is a good price for a good vintage.

Bob, I do not want to take the risk of aging them 10+ years, but I’m willing to purchase in years like 2012 and drink them on the young side.

Even in young wines I have had problems with such things as secondary fermentation (just happened with a 2009 last week) and other bottles that have been flat and flavorless. Lots of bottle variation for me.
I’ll be happy to try your bottles, however. [wink.gif]

I would say 80-90 % of the problems are reported States-side … never had any problems with my bottles (28 vintages so far) here in Austria …

Think about it!

Which was the point of my semi-joke earlier in the thread. If you’re paying $45 and every bottle is good, that’s a great price. If you have to buy 6 to get 4 good bottles, your real price is now $67.50 per bottle. If you have to buy 6 to get 3 good bottles, your real price is now $90 per bottle. The value proposition may be different at those prices.

I don’t know that thinking about it will help much. Presumably you are suggesting that the problems develop in transit to the US or once here, but that provides little help for people in the US, who can then either accept the problems or not buy. I have never had a bottle I didn’t enjoy, but for those particularly sensitive to brett there seems to be little choice here in the US but to stop buying. Maybe buying direct from the importer would yield cleaner results than bottles that have passed through many hands and many unknown conditions.

Gerhard,

I think, like me and others here, you must have at least some tolerance for in pleasure in brett. Pegau’s east coast importer takes good care of the wine in transit. And, in any case, I regularly taste Pegau at Pegau, as you do. I love the wine, but brett-o-phobes would not. This is really a wine that exemplifies the truth about one man’s meat and another’s poison.

The bottle I opened had no brett.
Clean and delicious, silky and balanced.

I’ve tasted through roughly 2 cases of '12 Pegau at our bar/ with friends and found no bad/ bretty bottles… Not to say I haven’t had some in past vintages… '11 Laurence recently was beautiful but a hint of Brett.

Johnathan,
it is fact that Pegaus style isn´t brilliantly clean like a mirror, everybody who loves the domaine knows it … and usually appreciates it - but the huge amounts of undrinkable brett which are reported here have never come across my palate, neither at the domaine tastings nor elsewhere …
Unfortunately I don´t know the reason either …