WTN: 2000 Soucherie Clos des Perrieres Savennieres

Before posting this note, I searched to see if anything had been posted on it in the past. Back in April of '08, Rahsaan mentioned opening a bottle of this and finding it oxidized and undrinkable. If my bottle wasn't that way in 2008, it had certainly become so by July of 2009.

Dark yellow. Badly oxidized. Blech.

Before posting this note, I searched to see if anything had been posted on it in the past. Back in April of '08, Rahsaan mentioned opening a bottle of this and finding it oxidized and undrinkable. If my bottle wasn't that way in 2008, it had certainly become so by July of 2009.

Dark yellow. Badly oxidized. Blech.

Sorry to hear that. Do you have any other vintages laying around?

That's my only bottle of Soucherie. Any thoughts on how other vintages are doing?

Any thoughts on how other vintages are doing?

Oh I don't know. 2000 in general seems to be offering some patchy results from that part of the Loire and I don't think it was ever heralded as a candidate for long-term cellaring (of course in the context of old-style Savennieres, even short-term cellaring can be a few decades!). But then again there are reports that even the 'good' vintages 95-96-97 are showing premox.

I guess we just have to wait and see if any of these bottle re-emerge on the other side. If there are any left!

I've got one 2000 Savennieres, the Baumard Trie Speciale, and need to drink soon.

I've heard the reports on 95-97 being oxidized, but my lone bottle of the regular '96 Baumard was quite fresh (though not especially complex) couple months ago. I also haven't had issues with '02 Closel like some others. Of course, if it's an issue like white Burg PremOx, there can be some randomness.

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