Community Tasting Note

bacchus wrote:

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - shared with pat at selkirk manor. last tasted this wine on 2/15/2013. remarkably, impressions today are quite the same as what they were then. this is a very enjoyable wine from a vintage that did not earn much respect when it was released. i have tasted all the major vintages of lynch-bages starting with the outstanding 1961 and proceeding through to the 1980's with the exception of 1989 which i owned but sold without tasting due to financial hardship. of course, i can not place the '81 on the same pedestal as these other vintages. nevertheless, the unique character of lynch-bages combining soft fruit and earthiness shines through. tonight's bottle had the typical fragile cork. extracted in one piece but with a fracture just before release. the wine penetrates half way along the sidewall of the cork. despite this, the wine has not suffered from oxygen exposure while in bottle. youthful color with no browning or fading at the rim. the nose continues to be shy. acid and tannin fully resolved. luscious fruit and earthiness. very fine sediment in the last pour. although it seems as if the wine will live forever, i dare not hold it much longer. will enjoy remaining bottles on the next cold winter days or sooner if global warming persists for the next six weeks.

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