Tasted Saturday, May 21, 2011 by Sleepy Dave with 938 views
A group of friends organized this event to evaluate how are the Bordeaux doing in the aged of 10 from this excellent vintage. 2bottles of each wine so that everyone will have sufficient pour (we have about 16pax), 6wines (11bottles, only 1bot of Cos'd) from Left Bank and 5wines (8bottles + 1 Magnum). However, 2bottles of each wine also showed some bottle variations too, some ppl even shouted: how could this be the same wine?
Overall, I'm kinda disappointed with the vintage from the wines that I tasted today. Healthy fruits, lush and soft in texture and seems drinking quite nicely now. With the relatively soft structured and this level of fruits, I'm not really sure how will the wine aged and will they eventually turn out to be a great wine given the price and rave reviews. That's being said: To me, 2000 is a very good vintage but certainly not a great vintage (1990, 2005).
Quite disappointed when I tasted.
This is a very weak Cos'd, even the 2001 & 2004 is a much better wine.
Showing really well, delicious and this voted to be the wine of the day by many.
My personal favorite. Solidly built with power, depth but also very refined.
Good but rather green.
Delicious, this is a very good Pomerol that won't break the bank.
The most powerful, structured wine but also a bit too extracted which I'm very curious how is the evolution. If the tannin will ever round up and mellow down, this is undoubtedly a great Troplong Mondot.
Showing well.
Rather anonymous.
Rather anonymous too
A simple but refreshing Rose.
2007 Dönnhoff Hermannshöhle Riesling Großes Gewächs
Germany, Nahe
Decanted for about 60mins. Perfume aromas of floral and mineral, with relatively sweet core for a GG that display honey citrus as well as lemony note. Sweet entry, very lush and rich but where is the very firm acidity backbone? Rather flabby and disappointed. The medium length finish is a bit sweet too. This simply lack of the definition. I was left early and my friend updated me that after chilled and decanted for another 1.5-2hrs, the wine has actually show very well, sweetness mellow down and show very good structured, depth and refinement.
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