From a Frank Schoonmaker selection in a 3/4 quart bottle Low neck fill. Crystal clear with a large amount of crust. Cork wouldn’t budge and crumbled with Ah-so Brilliant crystal clear color somewhere between an old Madeira and a young orange wine. Old wine nose, but full and dry on palate, tasting of mature red Bordeaux. Hours later the nose was more portlike. This went well with food, but better for after meal with a perfect savory Stilton cheesecake.
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Dinner at Jade Palace. Pale crimson, cloudy, bricked look of aged, very mature Bordeaux. Quite tart and acidic, fruit mostly faded along with tannins. Well evolved, clearly past it’s peak. Offers some interesting secondary notes typical of aged Bordeaux. Intellectually interesting.
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Thanksgiving w Chad, Jim, Jim, John & families. Very nice but faded fruit- best of the older wines opened at Thanksgiving, Chad liked it in particular.
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Seven Decades of Wine with lunch (Simpson's, Birmingham): High fill, well into the neck. In the glass it is an opaque, cloudy red-mahogany. The nose is very old claret with some stewed pruney fruit. On the palate, there's no doubt this has an old, somewhat tired feel, but it does has some good, sweet black fruit still. Drying and with a grainy feel (grainy tannins or is the graininess simply from sediment in suspension?). Faded a bit in the glass. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.
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12/11/2020 - cos65 Likes this wine:
From a Frank Schoonmaker selection in a 3/4 quart bottle
Low neck fill. Crystal clear with a large amount of crust. Cork wouldn’t budge and crumbled with Ah-so
Brilliant crystal clear color somewhere between an old Madeira and a young orange wine.
Old wine nose, but full and dry on palate, tasting of mature red Bordeaux. Hours later the nose was more portlike. This went well with food, but better for after meal with a perfect savory Stilton cheesecake.
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3/15/2019 - SGoenophile Likes this wine: 89 Points
Dinner at Jade Palace. Pale crimson, cloudy, bricked look of aged, very mature Bordeaux. Quite tart and acidic, fruit mostly faded along with tannins. Well evolved, clearly past it’s peak. Offers some interesting secondary notes typical of aged Bordeaux. Intellectually interesting.
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12/1/2013 - firstgrowth wrote: 88 Points
Thanksgiving w Chad, Jim, Jim, John & families. Very nice but faded fruit- best of the older wines opened at Thanksgiving, Chad liked it in particular.
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10/20/2007 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 88 Points
Seven Decades of Wine with lunch (Simpson's, Birmingham): High fill, well into the neck. In the glass it is an opaque, cloudy red-mahogany. The nose is very old claret with some stewed pruney fruit. On the palate, there's no doubt this has an old, somewhat tired feel, but it does has some good, sweet black fruit still. Drying and with a grainy feel (grainy tannins or is the graininess simply from sediment in suspension?). Faded a bit in the glass. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.
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