Seattle, WA
Tasted Monday, September 12, 2005 by Eric with 476 views
Tonight I sat down for a leisurely business dinner with the folks who have been working on my PR for the last six months. We talked shop for a bit and then settled into a nice meal highlighted by a beautifully contrasting pair of Bordeaux from my cellar.
I started out with a frisee salad that was dotted with fatty slices of smoked and chilled lamb, not quite as nice a match as I hoped. Still, for what it lacked in power the Haut Brion was an enthralling wine to swirl and sniff, pleasing in such a secondary and tertiary way.
My main course was a simply grilled slice of tuna served atop sauteed spinach and with some terrific french fries. With this, the big, bouncy and black Las Cases was a fantastic accompaniment. Actually, you could drink that wine with just about everything and be happy, yummy!!!
1981 Château Haut-Brion 89 Points
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
This was a bottle acquired from Garagiste in January. The cork was nearly perfect, and upon opening this quickly opened up to reveal a beautiful yet slightly reticent nose of steeping tea, coffee, Asian spice, and that beautiful Graves dust. With time a hint of mintiness pervaded the wine as well. The palate was delicate and silky, not a wine of fruit but rather of texture and finesse. Perhaps this deserved 90 points, and frankly it was a joy to drink, not about fruit but rather about textbook aromatics, elegant and lithe.
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