Georges Duboeuf Pouilly Fuisse 1998

Pros: The cork didn’t crumble
Cons: Hideous smell, wooden and vinegary taste

Welcome to the June 2000 installment of the Cyber Taste Off!

Like previous CTOs, a collection of highly epinionated writers are gathered to give their takes on a few selected wines. However, for this CTO, a couple of wrinkles were...

Pros: Light, sweet, alcohol not strong
Cons: No Legs?

I've avoided every solicitation by our dear leah to review wines, and not without reason.

I was raised the hard way: blue-collar, frame house in the barrios of San Antonio, the smell of beer and chili powder in the house and cheap...

Pros: Easy to find and not terribly expensive.
Cons: Oak may be overbearing for some.

The weather is rapidly becoming unbearably hot in Dallas, but that doesn’t stop my friends from engaging frequently in patio dining now that the sunlight is lasting well into the evening. Fervently in denial about the true nature of the weather...

Pros: Excellent white burgundy
Cons: A little too much oak for some

Feeling a little like Christopher Columbus charting course for the New World, I am writing my first wine review. This is a fun wine taste-off and I have included links to the other participants in the taste-off. Please go to their reviews for expert...

Pros: I suppose it's a nice little wine.
Cons: For $18 I want a nice big wine.

This is the second wine being reviewed in tonight's Gourmet Experts French Wine Cyber Taste Off.

Joining me tonight in my French wine appreciation apprenticeship are the following erudite gentlemen: ErgoPropterHoc,...

Pros: A refreshing grapefruit flavour
Cons: No other flavours

Benjamin Disraeli wrote, "I rather like bad wine . . . one gets so bored with good wine." Georges Dubœuf’s Pouilly Fuisse might have been the good wine he was talking about. This wine seemed like a crisp, refreshing beverage for a hot summer...

Pros: Perfectly sound for what it is
Cons: None in its range

I know I am going to hack some people off — I even know who it will be, sadly — by so much as mentioning the word 'terroir' here. (For some reason it alarms folks much more than does the term 'micro-climate.') Equally, no scientist alive will tell you,...

Pros: Pleasant and delicate
Cons: Not flavorful or memorable enough to justify its price

1998 Georges Dubœuf Pouilly-Fuissé is a white chardonnay wine from the Pouilly-Fuissé region of Burgundy that fails to deliver enough flavor and finesse to justify paying about $18.00 for a bottle. Although it is not unpleasant by any means, I...

Pros: Pleasant wine, interesting nose
Cons: A bit over-priced

This is a review of the second French Chardonnay that we are tasting this evening, a 1998 Pouilly Fuisse from George Dubeouff. The other reviewers are ErgoPropterHoc, JeffSullivan, Leah, PeterLRuden, counsel, jruemmele, mshawpyle, sleestakk, and...

Pros: Funny name
Cons: Unfunny price

The recent craze for Top Ten Lists at Epinions got me thinking. What if I were stranded on an island, with moderate climate, ready supply of fresh seafood and a small but sexually active flock of lamb bearing and lactating (for great stinky cheese...

Pros: Crisp with many Pouilly Fuisse characteristics
Cons: Too high in acid, noticeable alcohol, bitter on the finish.

In "Adventures on the Wine Route", Kermit Lynch writes, "No matter what they put behind a Pouilly-Fuisse label, it earns a good price. Sales are effortless. Consequently, most Pouilly-Fuisse are stretched in terms of yield per acre and then...

Pros: Light versatile wine
Cons: must have been a bad year for grapes

I used to order Pouilly Fuisse back when we entertained for corporate dinners. The wine was always a success and never interfered with dinner. IT was back in the 1980's and I had raved over the years how it was the "perfect wine". So, I bought a...