Garagiste Warehouse, Seattle, WA
Tasted Saturday, July 16, 2005 by Wusman with 1,431 views
The wines were decanted ~2hrs prior to the tasting and poured back into bottle. All wines were tasted semi-blind (list of 21 possible wines handed out at the beginning of the tasting) in random order. Pours were ~1oz, but ample opportunity to return to wines you were unsure about. People were asked to take notes and rank their top 5 wines of the tasting. Bread, cheese and water were all provided for people to palate clense. At the end of the tasting the wines were placed in rank order based on votes.
As people were coming into the warehouse, this lovely white was poured.
After about 30 min we moved on to the reds.
Overall, this is a vintage with considerable depth of color and moderate to high tannins. The wines were on the whole very primary but good to great. Was sad to see a few of the wines that I own not perform as well as I would like, but I can always blame that on youth. A few of the wines stood above the rest. Most everyone was surprised by the performance of the Osoyoos Larose. It was a nice wine, but clearly stood out a bit, but for its price a good deal.
Group ranking:
WOTN - Pape clement
#2 Mouton
#3 Latour
#4 Osoyoos Larose
#5 Palmer
My overall ranking:
WOTN: Latour
#2 - Pape clement
#3 - Lafite
#4 - Palmer
#5 - Cos d'estournel
2002 Bindi Chardonnay 88 Points
Australia, Victoria
Yellow, straw. Nice notes of crisp fruits and flowers on nose and palate. No butter here. Bright and fresh. Quite nice.
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