Community Tasting Note
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Kriz wrote: 90 points
July 3, 2013 - Château Montrose / Tronquoy-Lalande tasting; 7/2/2013-7/3/2013 (Ciel Bleu (**) Amsterdam Okura hotel): In a line-up with Montrose '00 '10 '09 it's hard for a 1995... Passed it's peak. Everything integrated and ready to drink.
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StefanAkiko commented:
7/3/13, 10:06 AM - What a fantastic tasting you attended! But: Ahurm, as a lover of seasoned wine I don't expect the ’95 to be geriatric just yet. We're at least 10 yrs from beheading our last btl of this one. Maybe you had a poor btl? Or taste preference?
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Kriz commented:
7/3/13, 11:09 AM - Hi Stefan,
I heard there were bottle differences between the tables. I had to rate the wine I tasted. It's a beautiful wine with great balance. There were signs of ageing. I had the '95 together with the '86 (magnum). And you are right. I liked the young ones ('03, '09 and '10) more than this one. But, a great wine nevertheless. Try it in 10 years time and I will read your notes then. Enjoy drinking wine. Like Jean-Marie Guffens (Guffens-Heynen, Verget) once said: "there are no great wines. There are only great bottles". And maybe in this case that says it all. -
StefanAkiko commented:
7/3/13, 11:28 AM - "We should only drink the wines we enjoy!"
And you are doing the precise right thing to evaluate what you actually have in the glass. Kudos! To quote someone I don't remember who: "I've licked many lables, and they all had an unbecoming taste of dry, grainy paper."
Over the recent years we have enjoyed the best of a +case (15 btls) of 2000 Montrose and have finally hidden the remaining spoils in order to have a chance to enjoy a few after their hormonal teenage years.
Like cheese, it is easy to enjoy the younglings and it takes some acquiring in order to appreciate the mature ones. Same thing with poetry and engineering, opera and food, bitter taste spectra and subtleties, good vs bad pain etc etc etc.