Anyone out there disappointed with Ernie Els 2002?

From: Clive Sindelman
I had a really disappointing bottle of Ernie Els 2001 last night. The bottle had been perfectly cellared. However, I thought the nose and palate suggested a bad dose of brett. Is this a problem with this vintage of EE, or was I just very unlucky? Comments please.
 

Note from Tim James: It was the 2002 version of this wine which Wine mag had analysed, after a panel member tasting blind insisted it was contaminated by Brettanomyces (see the March 2005 edition) – and so it proved  The 2003 has also been found problematical in this regard (though with both vintages there seems to be bottle variation). I hadn't heard of the 2001 being damaged, but it is hardly surprising if it is. The Ernie Els wines used to be made at the Rust and Vrede celllar, of course. Now it is being made at their own property, so we can hope the Brett problem is a thing of the past. An enormous amount of money has been spent on these contaminated wines, of course....

COMMENTS

From Chris Ford:
Received a bottle a while back as a gift and I recall reading an article on how the wine had some Brett drawbacks. Currently it's sitting down in the cellar.... Will I ever open it? Not likely – its overpriced and (this might sound a bit material (wine should be ment to be enjoyed not as a liquid asset) I use it as a show-off piece when friends check out my cellar. I am very sceptical if the high price will live up to the great quality of South Africa's very best wines that are half the price.

I am gonna let it sit another few years and then it will most probably be consumed with friends in the early hours of the morning after a few other bottles have been consumed and we will most probably all comment of how great it is only because in the early hours of the morning all wine tastes great with great company.