Agreed. I talked to the local merchant from whom I bought this and he
told me the same thing. Good, because I like Clos Pepie.

On 4/6/18 10:46 AM, Mark Lipton wrote:
> On 4/3/18 1:33 PM, Lawrence Leichtman wrote:
>
>>
>> So, I went out and bought a bottle just to see. Not what I expected from
>> previous bottlings. Very disappointing. Just a bad vintage or a change
>> in wine making?
>
> Larry, are you talking about the La Pepie bottling? If so, it's only
> been made in '15 and '16 IIRC. The '16 was made as an emergency measure
> in a very difficult year and shouldn't be taken as indicative of
> anything beyond the difficult year IMO.
>
> Mark Lipton
>