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Mention Faiveley and opinions split — those who remember the old, hard, closed wines, and those who taste the estate now and wonder what happened. The dividing line is roughly 2007, and this 2010 Mazis stands firmly on the new side.
Malconsorts ends where La Tâche begins. A premier cru that has spent a century being told it belongs one rank higher — and a 2010 that argues the case in line rather than in flesh.
Bryant's estate Cabernet comes from one vineyard on Pritchard Hill. Bettina comes from three vineyards that belong to somebody else — David Abreu's — and is named for the owner's wife. The last bottle of a long evening.
It rained on roughly half the days of 2010 in Tokaj, and the vintage was written off almost before it was bottled. Ten years later, in a half-litre bottle at the tail end of a long evening, the wine made the case that the write-off had been premature.