Wineflock - Pre-1990 First Growth Bordeaux Tasting

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Tasted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 by winefool with 859 views

Introduction

Fun evening, but pretty roundly disappointing on how the wines showed for what they were supposed to be. Not nearly as good a showing as past years.

All wines blind as usual.

Flight 1 - With crispy duck confit (3 Notes)

  • 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Medium bright red crimson. Towering, but still tight, black fruit, briar, cedar and pencil lead aroma. Medium tight red fruit on the palate with a long tight tannic finish.

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  • 1982 Château Margaux Flawed

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux

    Full deep red/purple. big round red fruit with hints of heat and acidity. tight tannic acidic red fruit. Just the slightest hint of cork? This bottle seemed like it was stripped compared to the last one I had.

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  • 1989 Château Lafite Rothschild 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Bright red color. Big candied red;black fruit with clear briar and graphite hints. Mmmmn, nice big bold black fruit on the palate with great concentration and a long finish with coffee notes.

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Flight 2 - With Maine diver sea scallops and morels (2 Notes)

  • 1983 Château Haut-Brion 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Pink/red color. Roasted red game with beef blood notes and a hint of mint. Nice red fruit with earth and mineral on the palate.

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  • 1990 Château Haut-Brion 95 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Full red color. big bright red fruit with tons of acidity . Mmmn, very nice with chocolate smoked cherry cough drop notes on the finish. My WOTN.

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Flight 3 - With rack of Lamb (2 Notes)

  • 1986 Château Lafleur 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    Ruby red color. tight red fruit aroma with spicy licorice with vanilla hints. big slightly candied black fruit on the palate.

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  • 1992 Château Le Pin 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    A throw in for this dinner - the lowest rated Le Pin ever from Parker... Pale red/crimson color. Rich red cherry briar bugundian aromas - sweetness, spiciness, and pepper. Rich red cherry and spice on the palate. Not what you expect from a bordeaux, but tastes like a really nice high quality burg!

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Flight 4 - With warm cheese course (2 Notes)

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