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1998 Châteauneufs, and tasting v drinking
Andrew Rae, Uncorked, London EC2: Having just returned from a trip visiting some of our growers in the southern Rhône, I was prompted to read your report 1998 Rhônes - not so glorious, alas . A fine example of blind tasting - or rather its perils. We drank the Pegau 1998 (your score 14/20), after the glorious 1995 vintage from the same domaine, at dinner on Monday night. Dense and impenetrable at first it only began to open up with a couple of hours’ aeration. We could have dismissed this as a poor wine. Alternatively, we could look at the pedigree of the producer, as well as the nature of the vintage, and conclude that the wine...
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