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1993 Dujac Clos de la Roche

I've had a bottle of 1993 Dujac Clos de la Roche GC in my cellar for many years and while don't remember where I bought it I always suspected the provenance since there was a telltale stain on the side of the bottle that was from leakage at some point. I opened it yesterday at lunch with friends and the cork was saturated and had quite a bit of mold under the foil. The wine was very brisckish in the glass and while the aromas were of mushrooms and sour cherry the palate leaned more towards Earl Grey tea and cedar. The wine was drilnkable but not prime and was a dissapointment. I'm not sure if I had drank it earlier if it would have made much difference as I think it had been cooked at some point.

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What a painful story, Bill. The '88 Dujac Clos de la Roche is my all time most transcendent Burgundy experience and I would expect nothing less from the great '93 vintage. Sorry to hear that this was your only bottle, too.

Mark Lipton

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I am sorry to her about your bad bottle of wine. You may never know what caused the problem. I recently found a poor bottle of Mouton- Rothschild 1970. It came from the same case as other bottles that all have been very good so far. Bottles from this era had lead capsules, and the capsule for this bottle was tightly sealed to the glass. However a small round hole of corroded lead was near the bottom of the lead capsule. When I stood the bottle up, I found that the level of wine was about 3 inches below the neck. For some reason there was some flaw in the cork to glass seal that allowed wine to contact the lead capsule and the wine must have very slowly leaked over a long time. Since this leakage came from the capsule well down from the top of the capsule, I did not notice it in the bin until I pulled the bottle from the bin. I am not even going to taste the wine because it may have lead contamination. I have had the flawed bottle standing up a few weeks. Soon I will open it to see the condition of the cork and perhaps sniff it from a distance before flushing it down the sewer.

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I was quite disappointed as Dujac is one of my favorite wines and their Clos de la Roche a personal favorite of mine too. I have visited a number of times and The Seyesse family is a perfect blend of traditional French Burgundian tradition with dash of American exuberence. Visiting there is always a treat.

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