Community Tasting Note

honest bob wrote:

Sunday, August 5, 2012 - From 37,5cl. Decanted 1.5 hours. This excellent wine has surprised and puzzled me before and it is doing so again this evening. Everything - scent, entry, mid-palate, finish, is sweet, shiny, buffed, polished and complacent, no edges. I won't go over all over the "cedar, tobacco" stuff again, take it as given. The point is, all the interesting things cower behind a sweet, fat, purring, Cheshire-Cat-like grin which persists longer than the finish of the wine does (John Tenniel, I salute you!) I could do with a bit more cut, edge, and above all, balancing acidity. Is this a 37,5cl thing? Or a typical mature Lynch Bages feature (I remember finding the 1982, 1985 and 1986 a bit too sweet and complacent for my taste about 5 years ago)? I'm going to keep on at this, one 37,5cl bottle per year, and if it doesn't get more interesting by 2017, then the rest of the case gets sold on to someone who appreciates this style more than I do. 90(?)P

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