1919 Clos Vougeot - Roger de Jouennes
This wine was bought in a small parcel of 4 bottles in total, 2 of which were unfortunately too low to be drinkable, one which is virtually perfect and then this one which had a lower but acceptable level for its age (min 6.5cm) but unfortunately with only re...
1975 Château Montrose - St Estephe 2 Ième Grand Cru Classé
Maybe Pomerol or at least right bank would have been a better choice, but this bottle had a descending cork and level Topshoulder so it was better suited for a tasting than commercial ends.The slightly lower level and age clearly showed i...
Chateau Magdelaine is an old school Bordeaux and classic St Emilion,made from mostly merlot with a tad of Cabernet Franc. The estate was bought by JP Moueix (that name ought to ring a bell) in 1952 and was merged with neighboring estate Bel Air Monange in 2012.
The 2007 is dark purple and fairly ...
2010 Les Jardins de Babylone, Jurançon, Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau
et Guy Pautrat.
This Jurançon Moelleux is the epitome of what a great producer can achieve with Petit Manseng. The light golden liquid is intensely sparkling and clinging to the glass with the vehemence of a pitbull, this h...
1962 Château Pavie, coming from a more than decent vintage albeit mostly forgotten about since it’s following a legendary vintage (1961).
Color was dark rusty red, nice shine to it, high viscosity. Wonderfully perfumed this one, with great scents of autumn forest intermingled with red berry jam, ...
1966 Château Pavie - a quite decent vintage but probable will always be eclipsed by the magnificent 1961 and excellent 1964.
The bottle we tried had a depressed cork and a slightly lower level : Ts/Upper so risk of it being not up to standard was high. Nonetheless, forest floor and spices jumped ...
1998 Château Talbot - the colour all cherry red here. Tons of fruit on the nose red as well as dark : red berry jam, dark cherries and cassis. A touch of wood (cedar) and a lovely spiciness too. This is a very accessible, easy drinking wine, so at the perfect drinking period, especially for those wh...
1988 Château Talbot - the color is completely garnet, all browns and practically no red left. Unfortunately, neither is there any fruitiness to be found : it’s all secondary and tertiary aromas. Cigarbox, game and lots of leather here, some grilled peppers too. Also a lot of forest smells, perfectly...
1990 Château Talbot has a similar color as the 1988, perhaps a tad more towards pomegranate. Despite being only 2 years younger, there is a lot more fruit and sweetness here : red berries, cherries and black currant jam. It’s more complex as well with lots of spices (white pepper and bay leaf) cedar...
Today we opened up a great bottle of Burgundy thanks to having a completely tattered,
barely legible label : 1964 Volnay Clos de la Pousse d’Or by Domaine de la Pousse d’Or
(Bousse or Pousse, the B and P in the name changed throughout the years) and I felt as
one of the lucky few, being able to t...
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