WTN: Mas de Daumas Gassac Blanc '89...(short/boring)

Cracked this open last night w/ a forlorn hope:
1. Mas de Daumas Gassac Blanc de Raisens Blanc VdP de l'Herault (<eBaD; 25% Viognier/40% Chard/25% PetiteManseng/5% Muscat/5% Marsanne, Roussanne. Bourboulenc; 8,000 btls; 14%) V.Guibert de la Vaissiiere/Aniane 1989: Dark gold/bronze/copper color; some oxidised/sherry rather earthy/cidery/pungent/aldehydic slight fragrant/orangey complex nose; soft some oxidized/sherry earthy/orangey/cidery dry slight honeyed rather phenolic flavor; long soft bit metallic/earthy some oxidized/cidery/sherry slight orangey rather aldehydic/phenolic finish; pretty badly oxidized. $32.00 (Gom)
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A wee BloodyPulpit:
1. This was a powerful/wonderful wine in its youth w/ great aromatics. But, like many of us, youth has a way of getting away from us. The wine was pretty oxidized in a sherry-like sense. But, however, it was not undrinkable at all. I've had some orange wines that delivered a lot more hurt to the palate than this one did. It would not be hard to think of some dishes, like Spanish tapas, that one could drink this wine w/ some pleasure. But if you judge a wine by how it's "supposed" to taste...this relic is not for you.
Tom

Brave man, nice try!!

Brave man, nice try!!

Well, Bob....you'd be amazed..nay...appalled at the amount of old wines I have hanging around at home.
It's always an adventure when I open one. Sometimes, they are totally shot & down the drain they go. Sometimes,
they're merely "interesting" (as with people, I always look to what good I can find in a wine), which is about the best
I can say about them. And then, sometimes, I get my socks knocked off by how good they are....way beyond their time.
I kept going back to the Mas de Daumas over the last day & half now and the rest of the btl is headed down the drain.
Tom