Community Tasting Note

wspohn wrote:

Sunday, July 20, 2014 - 1982 Ch. Mouton Rothschild – this had a lighter colour than the last one I tasted, a medium garnet, but it showed a good typical nose of vanilla, cassis, cedar and spice, outgoing and very enticing. On palate it still exhibits considerable soft tannin, and a slight not unpleasant astringency, and excellent length. Had my note stopped there, it would have been a good showing as expected of this wine. Unfortunately, over 30-40 minutes, I observed the fruit abating and the tannins becoming much harder and the wine was drying out at the end. I haven’t had enough of this recently to suggest whether this was a result of a single bottle issue, or was representative of the general condition of this wine.

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