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2001 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey Grand Vin Sec
6/6/2023 - nskelsey Likes this wine: 93 Points
What a lovely Sauternes; medium weight and medium sweet. Not a blockbuster, but instead elegant and understated. It's a light orange/pale black tea in colour and has an attractive nose of apricot and walnuts. On the palate it has good intensity with viscous notes of barley sugar and orange peel. What it lacks in intensity and complexity it makes up for with elegance and a hint of freshness. A very attractive wine. The second time I've had this in as many months and the two bottles have been consistent. On this showing it should be fine for another 5 years, but to get the best out of it I would begin drinkking up now,
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1982 Château La Lagune
6/6/2023 - nskelsey Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was paired with the '82 Cheval Blanc and you would have thought there would have been only one winner. The CB edged it on elegance and 'class', but the La Lagune looked and tasted like a 10-year-old despite being 40 years old. The CB began fading in the glass around the 45 minute mark, the La Lagune kept going for several hours. The CB costs around £1200 a bottle and the LL around £140 a bottle. Extraordinary value! Given the choice of one bottle of CB or 9 LLs, I know what I would go for. For pure elegance and excitement the CB edges it, but for substance and concentration the LL has it's nose in front. Either way, both were a real treat.
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1982 Château Cheval Blanc
6/6/2023 - nskelsey Likes this wine: 93 Points
Recent comments on this wine aren't overly flattering and seem to fit in with what other tasters have said over the years. On release people like Parker gave it a 100pt rating, but a common denominator among others, despite their own high scores on release, suggested that come 2015 it would be well and truly knackered. It appears I have been lucky. Level remained in the neck and on decanting there is no hint of bricking. It doesn't need long in the decanter, 30 mins top whack. The nose is gorgeous, and on the palate it's complex, elegant, remarkably refreshing and has all the usual notes of black fruits, etc and is beautifuuly balanced. Tannins are mellow and the length is persistant. One professional reviewer has described it as "juicy and sexy" and I get their drift. On the down side it's age is showing by the wine beginning to fade in the glass somewhere around the 45 minute mark, so not a wine to dwell on for the evening. The other eyebrow raising moment is it was paired with the '82 La Lagune, which is an extraordinary wine that tasted like a 10-year-old rather than one that is 40-years-old! Cost of the Cheval Blanc, around £1200. Cost of the La Lagune around £140. Given the choice of one bottle of CB or 9 bottles of La Lagune I know what I would go for.
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