WTN: 2005 Jean-Marc Morey Santenay 'La Comme Dessus'

Beautiful pure pale red in the glass. But the first whiff is of coffee oak, and the second whiff is even more oak and only with heavy swirling can I coax out any raspberry aromas. I taste it, and the oak treatment crushes the fruit....this isn't particularly tannic, and the fruit smells pure and red, so why the heavy oak, and why from a Rosenthal CdB producer?

After 20 min or so, the mystery is untangled. I catch a whiff of it ...then as soon as I notice the whiff, suddenly its everywhere. Corked, and it must be really corked b/c I'm not sensitive to TCA at all. If I can smell the TCA then the sensitive guy can smell it across the room.

Alas.

$28, which would be good QPR if it wasn't flawed. Bought it recently enough that hopefully I can exchange for a clean bottle.

A second, clean bottle of this was dynamite. A bit too much oak when first opened, but it blew off with air. The wine was surprisingly ripe but never overripe. Lots of raspberry fruit, a lot of sappiness for a Santenay, some oak spice and caramel, not much tannin, a rounder mouthfeel than a typical Burg.
Not a long-ager, but terrific for drinking now.