Community Tasting Note

Goldstone wrote:

Saturday, March 10, 2007 - Drunk with Joe Lo over a very lazy lunch of pigeon and steamed crab at the Han Lok Yuen restaurant on Lamma Island, Hong Kong (incidentally, one of the best undiscovered restaurants in the world). It could not have been consumed in less reverential circumstances: shaken up by a 60 minute ferry ride and hike, undecanted, a little above optimal temperature and served in sherry-sized wine glasses. Oh, and the cork broke and part was left floating in the bottle. But one sniff of the nose takes you to somewhere sublime and absolutely defines the epitome of Bordeaux at its best. Still broodingly deep red in colour. A wonderful nose . Superbly poised in the mouth: fruit, tannins and acid all in harmony and great concentration. Tar, dark berries, cassis, fruit stones. Dense but welcoming. Impressive length with a definite "inside your head" quality. Just lacks silence-creating power (maybe because of how we drank it) but this will live in my memory longer than many silence-creating wines because of the overall circumstance. This is why I love wine. Drunk alongside a pre-decanted Ch. Musar 1994, which I am a huge fan of, but the Las Cases knocked it into a tipped hat.

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