1985 Château Malartic-Lagravière Blanc

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  10/24/2014 - jamesdlandis Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Drunk with stand-around course of goat cheese on crackers (before sitting down to lamb with two '86 red Bordeaux), and it did not, to say the least, seem to suffer from having been driven that afternoon 55 miles from home to dinner in Boston. This nearly 30-yr-old white wine was, as to be expected, nearly golden, but it was not at all oxidized. To the contrary, it was fresh, vibrant, and holding the promise of up to ten years to go. It did not taste like other old white Graves, was not so much smoky as steely, and I would probably not have been able to have guessed its provenance blind, might have thought it a Chablis. (Though it did have a satisfyingly waxy feel in the mouth; others have described later vintages as having a "lemon wax" nose.)
  
  Have rarely been disappointed by old Graves. (This wine predates by two years the Pessac-Léognan appellation.)

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