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2005 Château Pontet-Canet
5/10/2024 - Turtlerider wrote:
Had with Dave D in a small road house in Edmonton. Wine sat in the car most of the day. It was the first sunny warm day of the year. Totally unexpected. It was probably 80F in the car when I took the wine into the hotel.
I chilled in in my hotel fridge which thankfully was a crappy fridge, but just about cellar temperature.
Definitely worried it would be cooked.
Paid $25 corkage and our young server decanted the wine for us. Tons of sediment. The travel probably shook the bottle a little.
Allowed the wine to breathe for 7 or 8 minutes. Very closed, smooth mouth feel, it needs to breathe.
Ordered steak bites and truffle fries appetizers and sipped water while the wine was allowed to breathe for more minutes. Applies took 15 minutes to come and the wine had opened up a little.
Over two hours the wine opened up and we really enjoyed it. It probably deserved at least a two hour decant, but the conversation and laughs made up for the sub optimal wine conditions.
We had been planning a get together for over 5 years, only to have something always interfere, so this last minute meeting had to do.
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2003 Château Lynch-Bages
4/27/2024 - Turtlerider Likes this wine:
Very barnyardish on opening. I actually thought the wine had gone off, but that blew off in less than a minute. I’d call this classic Bordeaux. Some red fruit, leather, a little tanic. A great companion to the T-Bone steaks off the BBQ, roasted potatoes and roasted veggies and goat cheese. The wine was very good, which was great because I over cooked the steaks…Sadley, my last bottle.
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2005 Dominio Pingus Ribera del Duero Flor de Pingus
3/30/2024 - Turtlerider Likes this wine:
My last note said I should wait a year or two, so now it’s 11 years later…
Very soft and integrated. The hot alcohol from my last note is not present at all. I get some tobacco, subtle fruit, fine tannins. This is probably past its prime and may have been better a few years ago.
Having this with bone in rib eyes cooked over mesquite charcoal, potatoes and mushrooms. Should be a nice meal. My lovely wife will cover hers in BBQ sauce and not taste the wine at all…
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