I really liked the honesty in saying what the wine was, not what it should have been given its price. It’s disappointing, but educating. Keep it up.

What an experience! While it was disappointing to taste La Tache gone bad, it is part of the Burgundy experience. I really enjoyed talking DRC and Burgundy with you!

So informative! I could almost taste the wine with your descriptions!Love all the history. Beautifully done.

"So how'd you get your hands on this?..." lol. The ending was golden.

This is incredibly invaluable having documented a corked (or bad) DRC. Yes, it was an expensive lesson, but also one shared amongst many and for that I am appreciative. Thank you for the lovely video.

Just came across this channel and I like it. Gutting about La Tache but buying DRC from Acker is highly risky given association with Rudy

So glad I found this channel last night. Wishing you both all the best, and hope you guys will Keep at this!

Thank you for being so authentic

Acker has a history of counterfeit wines/bourbon. I truly hope this wasn’t a Kurniawan wine. What a bummer. Beyond impressed with how you handled it.

Thank you for sharing the experience. I wish you better luck the next time!

Great video and indeed educating and honest.

I was fortunate enough to purchase a bottle of 2018 La Tache directly from LCBO lottery in Ontario Canada. Was shipped with the original straw (straw-like grass) wrapping. So I’m the first retail owner of the bottle so at least I know the provenance is good. My price was $1,500.00 Canadian dollars. This is the one wine in my collection that may be a candidate for resale down the road but for now it’s resting in one of my wine fridges at 53 F. Crossing my fingers for a clear and fresh wine when it’s eventually opened. Thank you for the video and I can appreciate the disappointment in your La Tache. Unfortunately we all get a bad bottle now and then which we never want no matter what the price and scarcity.

I’ll help you taste the next bottle! Well done, Marius and Berit! 🍷

Ugh understand how bummed you must feel! But loved the honesty of this. Would be interesting to see a side by side of Burgundy and a New World Pinot!

So much information explained clearly in this great video! While keeping it real in being honest about the wine having gone bad. An excellent learning experience ( for both creators and viewers). Could you have made vinegar from the remainder of this undrinkable La Tache? You could have been the rare table having $7k La Tache vinegar

Great video. Subscribed! That’s one beautiful cellar behind you.

Love you made the effort! Thanks for sharing.. feel with you😢

I’ll never be able to afford a Grand Cru, though the first case of my premier cru 2022 Gevrey Chambertin has now arrived from Burgundy. Two more cases to arrive! 😊

Don't mean to be pompous, but... DRC produces three grand cru whites, yet only two are commercially available: Corton Charlemagne and Montrachet. The first vintage of Corton Charlemagne was in 2019. DRC also produces a small amount of red premier crus from the Petits Monts vineyard. There's a bit of danger in trusting someone just because they're a sommelier. Bernard Noblet retired, and the new winemaker is not his son. Also, the owner has no children, so there are no "father and son" relationships. Premox exists in red Burgundy but is extremely rare. DRC reds have never had any issues with premox. Regarding color, perfectly correct red Burgundies can be cloudy. Also, the cause for premature oxidation in white burgundy is not just defective corks but a number of other reasons. I am not doubting the 02 La Tache was bad, which is a shame as it is a great wine, but there seems to be a bit of misinformation. There is absolutely no way to paying $6k for a bottle of wine but La Tache is the best wine made for some of us, equal to Romanee Conti but just different. P.S. It is best to just say DRC or you kinda need to add "de" i.e. Domaine de la Romanee Conti.

I appreciate the honesty of this video. Now, is there a less expensive wine that would taste better than this and offer a better value for the money? The person who sold you this wine ought to stand behind it and give you another bottle. It's clearly spoiled and a bad bottle. At least that's what they do at my liquor store. In the rare wine room they tell you up front if you get a bad bottle we will replace it.

That’s the only real “tears” in a wine, pouring a La Tache down the sink….. 😢😢😢. Worst so far was a 74 Chateau LaTour….. it was a gift and hadn’t been stored well. Lead salts on the capsule, and when I went to open it the cork basically dropped into the wine….yep, no rescuing that wine…. I did just open a 2000 dessert wine from Liguria, and it was a bit maderized. Most of the ones that have been bad had cork taint, including a Dom Perignon P3, and others. Almost 100% of the time the shops replaced the bottle or replaced with something similar, but wine lives in a bottle and if it’s not tainted, but past its prime, then your only recourse is exactly what you did, or drink it, not many options. Like you mentioned, it comes with the territory and if you drink enough you will run into that.

Once I had a bottle of 30 year old Bordeaux, at the opening of the bottle it was clear and tasty, half an hour later it became cloudy but still tasted alright, an hour later it became murky and tasted almost vinegar!

Sadly this is "the way" when it comes to stupidly high-end bottles. Always sold "as-is" and no recourse to the buyer. Definitely scared me off paying the big bucks and makes it more "reasonable" paying restaurant premiums when at least you have that guarantee of a sommelier checking it's good and a new bottle if something is wrong. Look forward to seeing more videos from you!

I almost cried.

I live in Sonoma County, California. I love Pinot Noir. I think I'll stick with my favorite Russian River and Sonoma Coast Pinot Noirs. Where we have many single vineyard boutique vintners.

So disappointing, to say the least. Unfortunately a nuance of wine collecting. Albeit the least favourable outcome, it was certainly handled with grace and elegance. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. I’m grateful to have stumbled upon your channel, I’ve watched all your content thus far. Really high quality and extremely enjoyable. Please keep going, perfect for the wine enthusiast alike! Cheers 🍷 can’t wait for the next one!

Many great pinots in Europe past burgundy now adays. Austria grand select pinots are fantastic for a $100. Swiss pinot, Gantenbein more the burgudy style. If you have it would love to hear your thoughts on it!

Experienced almost exactly the same for 1989 RC

Thanks for sharing. I feel so sorry for you guys! What a let down :/

Oh no ... So sad !!!! This should have been an amazing experience ...

Cloudiness is bad in an unfiltered DRC Pinot? You gotta go out and try a lot of fantastic PN before that test is failed! And, you should've tasted right away, to see where the wine was before letting it stew. Brave attempt overall though. Be flexible!

Sad. I see, after drink a lot of and for a long time, that light and/or heat punish Pinot Noir more than other wines through the time. I almost just have Pinot Noir from Burgundy at home (in Brazil). So dark and cool cellar is not optional to keep they alive for years and we have to make shure that this happens from the winery door. Hard.

Very frustrating to see an obviously flawed bottle on the channel. Why didn't your somm directly call out the volatile acidity (VA) flaw? This is not at all how DRC tastes. If you got this at a restaurant, this is when you send the wine back. If you buy from a reputable retailer, not an auction house, you can return a defective wine like this at good stores.

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New subscriber here, sorry to see you got a flawed bottle.

Would you buy it again?

That’s Rudy wine from Acker!!!!

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Something was wrong with this bottle. Burgundy is not a let down. You should drink more of it. Also, It seems that it wouldn’t have affected the outcome here, but at the beginning you said that you opened the bottle a couple hours before drinking it? How did you make the decision to do that? Did you consult the Sommelier to do that? Pinot Noir trends to the medium bodied, and old Pinot noir is said to be ethereal - as in it has a very short shelf life once it’s opened. It’s not like a huge younger Screaming Eagle cab that you want oxygenate by opening and or decanting way ahead of drinking to soften the tannins, etc. I was always taught to open and drink old Pinots some what “quickly” before they die.

did you save your receipt ? for return credit .

Would the wine producer do anything about that?

law of diminishing return.. after certain price point, you end up paying for marketing and brand name.

Oh, mate. Totally gutted for you and that wine. Begs the question as to why wine bottled using cork during that period with the known faults, demand such high prices. What is the failure rate? If you r ever in New Zealand, head to Central Otago for the amazing Pinots down there.

Great video. However, the problem with conventional wine people/educators is that they don’t call it how it is like for example Gary Vaynerchuk does. It’s better to say straight up that this DRC wine is corked and will taste like shit no matter who is the producer, secondly the 10k bottle won’t taste much different to a great 50 dollar bottle, especially to a lay person who has not tasted a lot of wine. For newer wine drinkers it’s important to try many kinds of wines and learn what tastes good to your own pallet. Just going by price and thinking “it’s expensive, so it must be good” will lead you nowhere.

Devastated for you guys..😢

Isn’t Acker the same dodgy merchant implicated in the Rudy Kurniawan scandal? Sorry for your loss 😭

I have opened a few of these bottles there normally a wax seal on top of the cork and don't see it on your bottle

The sommelier did not swirl the glass prior to smelling it?? Crazy!!!

These highly collectible wines can never live up to their lofty prices. To me, no wine is worth $100, much less 7k. I’ve been blown away by a $50 bottle of Burg - 1999 Simon Bize Aux Vergelesses. I would rather spend $7k on 140 different $50 bottles and find dozens of beautiful gems than one bottle that may or may not be great.

Favorite $30 bottle?

lol, you can’t breathe a wine by just taking the cork out.

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Did it come from Rudy’s cellar? I could never trust Acker after what they did to buyers.

I’m surprised they didn’t throw up.. wonder who paid for that bottle of yuck..

It's a little like crashing your car without insurance.

You take risks at auction … I can’t tell if the wine has gone bad or a true representation of the vineyard and winemaker? Ok it was poorly maintained.

Well done! But what a waste of money + a total disappointment!! Really not worth bothering with

I was waiting for the woman in green hair to start screaming or make a tantrum. Disappointment of a video.

not perfect?! wine has effectively become vinegar😅

Pino's are thin, acidic and austere. None of them are worth their price. They are better to sprinkle on your salad than drink.

They should use fertiliser to get more grapes and then make more wine. Or they could use genetically modified grapes so they’re bigger

If a wine it's faulty (in this case bc it has VA), you shouldn't be jumping into conclusions and telling it's disapointing. The wine should be returned. It's a nice video, but it gives the impression that the conclusion is "La Tache is a dissapointing wine".

Overrated. Can't beat a good TraderJoes bottle. Ha.

I assume you confirmed provenance of the bottle. That it wasn’t counterfeit