Community Tasting Note

La Cave d'Argent wrote:

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Vertical Dinner (The Marine Room, La Jolla, California): This bottle was recently procured from auction by one of the attendees (for this tasting). It showed an appropriate deep red/garnet robe and a moderately intense nose, but I suspect that at some point in its history it was heat-damaged. Not entirely unpleasant, with red currant, mushroom and smoke aromas on the nose, there was a note of stewed tomato in the background on both the nose and palate. With medium acidity and soft residual tannins, the middle faded and the finish was medium-length at best. Having tasted this wine several times over the past 25 years, it did not seem to be where I would expect. This underscores the saying that, with older vintages such as this, there are no good wines, only good bottles.

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