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1992 Château Latour Grand Vin
3/17/2024 - Octavian_Valkamo Likes this wine:
Great stuff, impressively well held.
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1971 Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Barolo Riserva
3/3/2024 - Octavian_Valkamo wrote:
NR.
Interesting wine for birthday dinner's final wine.
Cork's foil was a bit damaged, I feared that the wine would've been recorked with some other stuff or damaged otherwise.
Cork came out in two pieces and I filtered it through a coffee filter to a carafe. Color was a beautiful brickish orange with some dark red/garnet still in the wine.
Initially after pouring from carafe to a glass and checking that there is no debris/sediment, the wine was still quite shy.
Old spice, just a hint of red berry and old wood and initially on the palate the wine had acidity, some red berries and a hair polisher finish.
However, after about 45-60 minutes the wine developed both on the nose and the taste to something way more beautiful, that I couldn't have thought at the initial taste.
It gets a much more softer, sweeter fruitiness, vanilla and old spice notes that intensified as well as on the palate it mixed between the acidity of an old red berry bunch, vanilla-softness and woody, smoky and spicy notes.
The tannins have fallen quite flat, so it didn't have the depth and concentration of a younger or slightly aged barolo, which was the key point missing to have this be the home run wine.
However considering the state of the bottle from the outside, I am very lucky this wine was so drinkable after waiting about 60 minutes and the tastes were still multilayered and complex.
Great end to a birthday weekend, best of luck with the future bottles, I still have one with a better fill level thankfully!
Cheers!
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1971 Mouton Cadet
3/2/2024 - Octavian_Valkamo Likes this wine: 94 Points
HAUNTINGLY excellent wine from Baron Philippe de Rothschild.
Fill level: bottom neck.
Cork was so wet it fell to bottle, but I decanted through coffee filter.
Color: brick, very light, orange and stunning.
First nose: smoke, old wood, wet leaves, spicy pepper, like an old pinot noir.
Then the fruit hits: sour raspberry and velvety vanilla-chocolate.
Palate: initially smoky, peppery and spicy on the front then mid palate lingers with a velvety chocolatiness and the acidity is there, tannins are very soft. Finishes mid length at some cocoa/vanilla and spicy tones with a raspberry finish.
Great way to celebrate a birthday, I am truly lucky with this individual bottle, how well it was stored, how I got on auction for almost nothing and how good it tasted.
After about 30 minutes in the glass the wine faded, but it held in the decanter for the 3-4 hours we drank it, so every time we poured new glasses from the carafe, the wine was very alive.
My previous old Bordeaux experience was a Medoc from the legendary 1982 vintage, but this wine was truly something special. I almost feel bad leaving a "94 point" review, since it doesn't do this specific bottle nearly justice but it should give a guide to future buyers seeing a mid neck or bottom neck bottle with no signs of leakage.
A truly stunning wine, thank you Baron Philippe de Rothschild for making such an incredible wine!
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