World's Greatest, Hong Kong - Night III (8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana, Macau): The unmistakable Yquem nose of apricot, brown sugar, and caramel. This has added layers of banana cream pie, molasses, and toffee pudding. To be honest this nose is really uniform and can be compared to a 1990 or later without too much imagination. Honeycomb. Palate is good as well, not as good as the nose, but deep and delicious. Quite amazing, but the 1900 is the one tonight.
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Now, this is a bottle you do not see everyday. Carmel in color, the flavors and aromas were focused on burnt sugar, toast, carmel, butterscotch and just a faint whiff of honey. Not much fruit remained. The sugar seems to have gone in the same direction of the fruit as it was mostly gone as well. Still, it was a thrill to hold wine in my glass that was from before the turn of the century. Ooops, make that from before the turn of the century before that!
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6/9/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
World's Greatest, Hong Kong - Night III (8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana, Macau): The unmistakable Yquem nose of apricot, brown sugar, and caramel. This has added layers of banana cream pie, molasses, and toffee pudding. To be honest this nose is really uniform and can be compared to a 1990 or later without too much imagination. Honeycomb. Palate is good as well, not as good as the nose, but deep and delicious. Quite amazing, but the 1900 is the one tonight.
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5/8/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 70 Points
Now, this is a bottle you do not see everyday. Carmel in color, the flavors and aromas were focused on burnt sugar, toast, carmel, butterscotch and just a faint whiff of honey. Not much fruit remained. The sugar seems to have gone in the same direction of the fruit as it was mostly gone as well. Still, it was a thrill to hold wine in my glass that was from before the turn of the century. Ooops, make that from before the turn of the century before that!
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