Daniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): Semi- transparent bright ruby stone with a small transparent meniscus. Nose is an immediate WOW! big blast of rich, ripe red fruit with a typical St Estephe smokiness and minerality. Palate is quite green and tannic and let’s down the nose big time. 92 for the nose but 87 or less for the palate. Quite stunted on the length at finale. But that nose....
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Birth year wine for my bother, and I consumed it with him and my parents on my wife's and my anniversary, which made it even more special. This bottle was in great shape, with a fill at base neck. All the hallmarks of a really nice aged Bordeaux, with earth, leather and tobacco. Still a good amount of fruit present, too. With no previous experience with this wine or vintage I didn't decant, but I think it could have used 20 or 30 minutes, as the wine improved in glass over time.
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The 1979 Calon-Ségur from a perfectly stored bottle was a real treat. The wine showed a lot of tobacco, smoked paprika (especially on the nose), and leather but balanced out with a fresh blackcurrant acidity. 1979 was not a top vintage in Bordeaux, but this Calon-Ségur performed nicely and turned out to be a perfect match to a dry aged steak.
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Cork almost black. Very tawny, almost brown colour. Stinky on the nose - like very ripe cheese - but not spoiled. Soft, mature and complex - you would not drink more than a glass or so. Interesting rather than highly enjoyable - all in all a very pleasant birth year wine experience
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11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 Points
Daniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): Semi- transparent bright ruby stone with a small transparent meniscus. Nose is an immediate WOW! big blast of rich, ripe red fruit with a typical St Estephe smokiness and minerality. Palate is quite green and tannic and let’s down the nose big time. 92 for the nose but 87 or less for the palate. Quite stunted on the length at finale. But that nose....
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7/3/2023 - JCGuthrie wrote:
Birth year wine for my bother, and I consumed it with him and my parents on my wife's and my anniversary, which made it even more special. This bottle was in great shape, with a fill at base neck. All the hallmarks of a really nice aged Bordeaux, with earth, leather and tobacco. Still a good amount of fruit present, too. With no previous experience with this wine or vintage I didn't decant, but I think it could have used 20 or 30 minutes, as the wine improved in glass over time.
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6/26/2022 - FransS wrote: 86 Points
The nose is a bit flat, firm taste, not cmplex (anymore), bit chunky, and firm tannins; not bad at all after 43 years and from a modest vintage.
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5/14/2018 - MuckSo Likes this wine: 92 Points
The 1979 Calon-Ségur from a perfectly stored bottle was a real treat. The wine showed a lot of tobacco, smoked paprika (especially on the nose), and leather but balanced out with a fresh blackcurrant acidity. 1979 was not a top vintage in Bordeaux, but this Calon-Ségur performed nicely and turned out to be a perfect match to a dry aged steak.
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4/26/2014 - quinihno wrote: 92 Points
Cork almost black. Very tawny, almost brown colour. Stinky on the nose - like very ripe cheese - but not spoiled. Soft, mature and complex - you would not drink more than a glass or so. Interesting rather than highly enjoyable - all in all a very pleasant birth year wine experience
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