Saturday, January 31, 2009 - Lo Hei potluck with 1999 Bordeaux and other wines (Alex's place): Served blind, this took me a pretty long time to even identify as a CdP/ Nose was all prune juice and plums at first, rather sweetish, with a touch of flowers, ginger tones and, with time, some meat, pepper, bramble and the very lightest touch of funk started showing. More dried punes, plums and sweet berries on the palate, which was rather perfumed. Lots of 2005 structure, with fresh acid and fine-grained, but firm, chewy, sticky tannins especially as the wine moved towards its finish, with showed another shake of pepper. Might be going through a dumb phase at the moment, I found this good, but not great. It certainly needs a lot of time yet, 91-92 points for now.
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