WTN: One dead, one napping

Turkeychili, salad

2003 de Fieuzal Blanc
Previous bottle solid if unexciting, this bottled totally premoxed. D

2018 Patrick Lambert Chinon VV
I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time. There’s some blackberry fruit and earth, but this is a tightly wrapped wine that seems to me to really want to go back to bed and wake up in a few years. Perfectly fine with dinner, but I think this has real upside. B for now

No wine Monday with sauteed shrimp finished with a “Ceviche” sauce (lime, orange, shallot, cilantro)

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

[David M. Bueker]

Are you sure that the de Fieuzal was dead, and not just pining for the fjords?

Bereft of life, it rests in peace!
My premox rate on 1994-2005 white Bordeaux is at least as bad as white Burg.

Run down the curtains and joined the Choir Invisible, eh?

Can one really call dead-at-20-years for a white Bordeaux "premoxed"? Oxidized for sure, but prematurely?

-Paul W.

Fair point, but I've had dozen+ bottles of 80s decade white Bordeaux in last five years that were drinking fine. True, most were Laville or DDC, but if you look at Fieuzal blanc on CT recent notes on 1989 and 1992 that are not compromised. But to me the call is based on another bottle of the 2003 on Christmas Eve which showed no real oxidation. And this wasn't "oh there's some nuttiness/oxidized notes, I think it's past it" but more "like bad old cider, totally oxidized" . It's the random non-linear nature of the oxidation that has always characterized what was originally thought of as "Random Oxidation in 1996 White Burgundy"
But maybe the Fieuzal is just tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.