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In Reply to: Re: The rule of diminishing returns in relation to wine... posted by sqmeyer on July 03, 2001 at 12:23:36:
Thanks -the information about the barrels strikes a chord. I bought a case of Cahors in France and found that all of them had that musty taste whereas I have had other bottles from the same region/vineyard that were fine. Corked wine I find tends to go to-wards rotten fruit!
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A guess: you're talking about young southern wines--like the Cahors you mention--and the mustiness is...tannins, which to my taste often give young syrah/grenache/mourvedre-based wines an unplaesant taste (and nose) reminiscent of (sorry) an old band-aid. Give those bottles, oh, five years in the cellar--and voila, no more mustiness.
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