1996 Château Talbot
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Friday, December 2, 2016 - Friday Dinner at Home with Friends (Our House, Hong Kong): Decanted 3 hours before serving (which seemed to turn out about right but my previous bottles opened in March 2016 were decanted to 4 hours and showed a more fully-open side of the wine). Totally pristine cork with less than 5mm of staining. Totally opaque black-red in apprarance with just the merest beginnings of translucence at the edge of the glass. On decanting, the nose is an immediate and massive blast of milk chocolate and biscuit (KitKat!). On serving 3 hours later our guest's first words were "big chocolate!". There is some deep bramble fruit lurking behind the chocolate sweetness but not yet ready to come out and play. Palate is truly wonderfully oak-driven (not normally a combination of words I'd use) but very integrated with a full-thrust power that melts effortlessly into a huge powerful, resonant, reverberant finish with really long reverberence and resonance.....like an audience that keeps clapping long after the final orchestra note has faded. Totally super...and some really full fruit emerged with more time in the glass. I think that this can unfold impressively from now. 94+ and might get better over the next 5 years.
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Comment posted by BuzzzzOff:
12/3/2016 1:07:00 AM - Thanks for your note and rating, Comrade ;-). Great to read!!! We have one bottle resting quietly and comfortably in the cellar. We were thinking to wait until circa 2020...your note is encouraging. Having said that, we do have a soft spot for Kit Kat, and we would hate to miss that experience now :-)