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Pre Auction Wine Tasting w/ Aubert de Villaine (DRC)
NYC
Tasted Saturday, May 22, 1999 by mdefreitas with 985 views
Flight 1 - WHITES (2 Notes)
Flight 2 - REDS (12 Notes)
1994 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection 94 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Integrated fruit and oak. The fruit is more cherry than cassis, with an elegant mouthfeel. Could still need more time to resolve the tannins.
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1992 Beringer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve 90 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Smoke, oak, cassis. Nice, but a lot lighter than I remember it last.
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1994 Dominus Estate Napanook Vineyard 95 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Beautiful, dusty cassis and earth. Complex minerals and underbrush. Very Bordeaux-like in style.
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1989 Château Gruaud Larose 91 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien
Nice, evolved, mature wine, with minerals, earth, and some dusty fruits.
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1985 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Hermitage La Chapelle 88 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage
Dark and closed. Some minerals and fruits, but rather unforthcoming right now.
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1970 Château Lafon-Rochet 89 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe
Older skunk, which blew off a bit. Older Bordeaux aromas of leather, etc. Fully mature.
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1989 Château Léoville Barton 93 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien
Dark red, some bricking. Cedar, cassis, minerals, quite complex and elegant. Lovely wine.
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1983 Château Léoville Las Cases 88 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien
Dark, but closed and shut down. A bit thin on the mid-palate. Needs time, but hopefully the fruit will hold up.
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1981 Château Léoville Las Cases 88 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien
Light wine. Light earth, leather. Elegant.
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1985 Château La Mission Haut-Brion 88 Points
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
Loamy, gravelly, nose, but a bit watery on the palate. Fully mature, with the fruit beginning to fade. Drink up.
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1995 Chateau Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon The Montelena Estate 94 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Bright red/purple. Big, forward, full of crystallized cassis. Complex minerals and earth. Wonderful wine.
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1989 Château Talbot 88 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien
Earthy, with some exotic, but not all that pleasant, funk. Ok wine, but rather unusual.
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Flight 3 - DRC (3 Notes)
1993 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands-Echezeaux 90 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru
Earth, some cherries. A bit rustic and severe. Some stones in the finsh. Not all that charming right now.
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1990 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche 94 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, La Tâche Grand Cru
Huge, expressive nose. Exotic spices, minerals, black fruits, flowers, and smoke. On the palate the wine did not seem to live up to the aromatics, but a very nice grippy finish. Still tannic, and lots of room for improvement here. The best part of this wine was truely the aromatics. Wow.
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1995 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée St. Vivant 88 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Romanée St. Vivant Grand Cru
Relatively light in color. Cherry, and some herbs. A bit unexciting on the palate. OK wine.
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Flight 4 - DESSERT (2 Notes)
1983 Graham Porto Vintage 93 Points
Portugal, Douro, Porto
Very swett cherry and spice. Some florals. Tannins are resolving. Elegant.
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1990 Château Rieussec 92 Points
France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes
Honey and apricots. Forward and nicely balanced. Elegant Sauternes.
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1996 Louis Latour Corton-Charlemagne 92 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru
Nice liquid mineral sensations. Thick, intense and oaky. The oak probably needs time to resolve. Needs time.
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1996 Jean Noel Gagnard Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets 89 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru
Closed nose. Needs time. An elegant, rather than powerful style of white Burgundy.
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