vegetal taste in new cabernet?

[wdonovan]

I didn't say which cab 'cause I didn't think it mattered. I just wanted to find what causes it and if it's a single bottle phenomenon or vintage-wide. It is a low end Chilean Colchua (sp?) Valley '04 Los Vascos, owned or partnered by the Lafite Rothschilds. I think they've done exceptionally well with this vineyard in the last 5 years. I thought by this vintage, they'd have a wine so consistant it would only be hurt by vintages that suffered terrible weather conditions. It sounds from your answers that this is not going to be better in another bottle. Is this type of character something that would typically mellow / disipate in time? This vintage has just recently started shipping. I'm trying to assess whether I should spend a full day scouring all my local haunts for what's left of the '03 vintage. It is one of our house wines that we buy by the case.