Bordeaux night: Brought one of the few birth year wines I had since it was a dinner with a few high-school friends. Sweet and vibrant dark red fruit for an awful vintage, a classic luncheon claret that does what it says on the tin. Love old-school Bordeaux that can be bought for a song such as these.
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Started off very hesitant. Was afraid this would be to far gone. Recovered quite well after a couple of hours of aeration. Was surprised to see the aged, ripe fruit take over together with dissolved gravelly tannins. A solid performance given the vintage. Drink up.
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Dim Sum Club at Imperial Treasure Teochew (Imperial Treasure Teochew, Ion): Really youthful, even backward for 1992 Bordeaux - this was surprisingly good. The nose was classic left-bank and quite attractive, with sweet cassis notes infused with plenty of tobacco, tea leaves and cedar. The palate was still shaped with fresh acidity and a good bit of fine tannins, and had a surprising amount of cassis fruit - this really did not drink like an old Bordeaux from a weak vintage. The finish was decent too, with that same trail of spice, earth and tobacco on the backpalate.
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Some meat some leather. Quite black cherries. Good body. V typical dependable aged claret. What is suprising is that this was a supposedly weak vintage but this came out relatively strong character wine.
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3/29/2024 - melvinyeowq wrote: 91 Points
Bordeaux night: Brought one of the few birth year wines I had since it was a dinner with a few high-school friends. Sweet and vibrant dark red fruit for an awful vintage, a classic luncheon claret that does what it says on the tin. Love old-school Bordeaux that can be bought for a song such as these.
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9/28/2020 - danckie Likes this wine: 90 Points
Started off very hesitant. Was afraid this would be to far gone. Recovered quite well after a couple of hours of aeration. Was surprised to see the aged, ripe fruit take over together with dissolved gravelly tannins. A solid performance given the vintage. Drink up.
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3/23/2020 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points
Dim Sum Club at Imperial Treasure Teochew (Imperial Treasure Teochew, Ion): Really youthful, even backward for 1992 Bordeaux - this was surprisingly good. The nose was classic left-bank and quite attractive, with sweet cassis notes infused with plenty of tobacco, tea leaves and cedar. The palate was still shaped with fresh acidity and a good bit of fine tannins, and had a surprising amount of cassis fruit - this really did not drink like an old Bordeaux from a weak vintage. The finish was decent too, with that same trail of spice, earth and tobacco on the backpalate.
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10/16/2010 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points
Some meat some leather. Quite black cherries. Good body. V typical dependable aged claret. What is suprising is that this was a supposedly weak vintage but this came out relatively strong character wine.
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1/12/2002 - SimonG wrote:
Good colour, fat with good legs.mature tobaccoey nose, dry classic claret. Good.
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