These Axel Prüfer wines USED to get mousey within 30-40 min max… but I’ve noticed the newer vintages hold up a lot better than before nowadays. Has anybody else noticed this difference ? (Pic taken in St Bart, Berlin)
These Axel Prüfer wines USED to get mousey within 30-40 min max… but I’ve noticed the newer vintages hold up a lot better than before nowadays. Has anybody else noticed this difference ? (Pic taken in St Bart, Berlin)
If this is the current vintage, I noticed the exact opposite. At least the previous vintage did not get mousey for me (it’s super easy to drink it fast anyways), but the current vintage seems to get mousey after ~10 minutes. I’m in the US, so possibly the wines were not transported properly.
awkwarduous
I purchased two a couple weeks ago and drank one while I was at the shop and the guy working there said what other guy mentioned about it turning mousey after 30-40 min. I’m in the US too so it’s very possible that things went wrong during transportation. If I need to drink it that fast I definitely won’t complain though.
Caleecha_Makeecha
Why continue buying wines from winemakers that make mousy wines? So many great wines out there.
milky2277
It’s the other way around for me, newer vintages of wines I used to like are full of mouse. Maybe I should cellar them for longer or retailers/distributors should hold on to wines that need time to correct
Goatpunching
Mouse doesn’t go away tho
bobwiebes
The last few vintages have been more and more stable every year, from what I’ve heard.
Transportation will destabilise a wine for sure. I am in Europe, but still I try to keep wines that have travelled a long way from France, Italy or Spain in the cellar for a weeks to a few months for them to find their footing in a new environment. Might sound perhaps even a bit spiritual but it’s been working for me.
In some wines, mouse goes away after them being stored for a months or sometimes years. In some wines, mouse actually only appears after such a time. It’s an annoying wine fault and I would love winemakers to find a way to not have it, but sometimes it’s just inevitable it seems. Hygiene is a superimportant factor, so most bigger wineries with newer machinery and more employees to clean it have often less tendency to have mouse in their wines, but still.
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If this is the current vintage, I noticed the exact opposite. At least the previous vintage did not get mousey for me (it’s super easy to drink it fast anyways), but the current vintage seems to get mousey after ~10 minutes. I’m in the US, so possibly the wines were not transported properly.
I purchased two a couple weeks ago and drank one while I was at the shop and the guy working there said what other guy mentioned about it turning mousey after 30-40 min. I’m in the US too so it’s very possible that things went wrong during transportation. If I need to drink it that fast I definitely won’t complain though.
Why continue buying wines from winemakers that make mousy wines? So many great wines out there.
It’s the other way around for me, newer vintages of wines I used to like are full of mouse. Maybe I should cellar them for longer or retailers/distributors should hold on to wines that need time to correct
Mouse doesn’t go away tho
The last few vintages have been more and more stable every year, from what I’ve heard.
Transportation will destabilise a wine for sure. I am in Europe, but still I try to keep wines that have travelled a long way from France, Italy or Spain in the cellar for a weeks to a few months for them to find their footing in a new environment. Might sound perhaps even a bit spiritual but it’s been working for me.
In some wines, mouse goes away after them being stored for a months or sometimes years. In some wines, mouse actually only appears after such a time. It’s an annoying wine fault and I would love winemakers to find a way to not have it, but sometimes it’s just inevitable it seems. Hygiene is a superimportant factor, so most bigger wineries with newer machinery and more employees to clean it have often less tendency to have mouse in their wines, but still.