I still have about six 1999 Olivier Leflaive Puligny Montrachet "Les Folatieres" left in the cellar so I opened one with dinner last night of grilled Black Bass with lemon buerre blanc. Still pale gold in color, a bit of age on the nose with nutty notes and a hint of sour milk. The nose cleared off after a few minutes and a bit of apple and peach showed up. The wine was mature but not over the hill or oxidized. Light and deft on the palate at first the wine showed a good bit of minerality and acidity with a rich fruit background. Plenty of pear and apple witha good spritz of fresh lemon. Not bad for it's age. "B+"
1999 Olivier Lefalive Puligny Montrachet "Les Folatieres"
Jun 01, 2009
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Not to be a party pooper, but the problem of course with the PremOx thing is that it seems fairly random even across a case. Couple of notes of horrible oxidation on this on the OxBurg wiki, hope your good luck continues! Me, I'm trying to kill everything 96-03 as soon as possible!
I have no false illusions that every bottle that I have will be pristine as I have already opened a few bottles already that have been horribly oxidized. I waffle on selling them since I know that the problem exists but since I don't know which bottles it becomes an ethical crap shoot. If I sell to a knowledgeable buyer he/she should know the risk but one never knows the level of knowledge that a buy may have so I continue to pull corks and hope for the best.
One would think auction buyers would be well informed of the risk, but until recently white Burgs were fairly strong. But a friend who works at a big auction house says the shoe has dropped, and sales are dipping on the '96-02 whites (except for a few producers initially preceived as immune, like Coche-D and Leflaive)
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