Community Tasting Note

KeithAkers wrote:

Monday, December 8, 2008 - Lynch Bages Vertical 1961-2005 (Sweets and Savories, Chicago IL): nose: brutally tight at first smell(and it had been decanted for a near 12 hours). Upon the revisit about a 1/2 hour later along with heavy swirling, it started to unwind a bit with bits of belgian chocolate, pencil lead, creme de cassis, black currants, and dark red cherries. Its hard to get a full picture on this as the nose is almost shrouded in a black cloth

taste: very big and firm tannins. I'm not getting the sweet tannins that people try to profess about 05, for me alot of them have been hard edged and massive. What is able to fight its way through the tannins is nice after finally opening up a bit with dark red and black cherries, creme de cassis, pencil lead, and belgian chocolate. Very firm and hopefully what is left in the bottle will reveal more in two days from what I took home

overall: Very full bodied and massively tannic. What pokes through is nice, but this is one brooding beast of a wine that needs a lot of time sideways to reveal itself. This is certainly proving to me that 05 bordeaux is a young man's vintage as it will require a massive amount of patience to get these wines at their peak level(of course the irony being with the prices, that those that can fully afford a lot of 05 bordeaux are older and this wine won't be begining to be mature for another 20 years). I think there's upside on this, but then again, who knows as there is just a wall of tannins that needs to be fought through

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