Community Tasting Note
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PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 97 points
February 2, 2017 - Fit for a wine loving Groundhog: Bordeaux back to 1970, by way of a 1982 trio (Ripple Restaurant in Washington D.C.): The second of three 1982s in this most amazing flight, and we were very lucky to have such a great bottle! Possibly "better" than Leoville Poyferre in terms of superior concentration and more youthful tannin. Here the "Poor Man's Mouton" is turned on its head and one could say that Mouton is the "Rich Man's Lynch Bages". The aromas are sheer perfume, all in focus, crisp and fresh, with a youthful palate that puts some more recent vintages that are on faster aging tracks to shame. Bravo!
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Ericsson commented:
2/3/17, 2:44 PM - GPL is the poor man's Mouton not LB...
Otherwise nice comments. -
PanosKakaviatos commented:
2/20/17, 1:31 PM - Thanks for reading.
My reference is more historic. I have heard Jean-Michel Cazes often reverse the role for Mouton with his wine (and not GPL).
As this UK merchant also notes: http://interestinwine.co.uk/wines/pauillac/wines-lynch-bages.html
And this one, too, in California: http://www.klwines.com/Auction/Bidding/AuctionBidDetail.aspx?sku=1239895
Anyway... GPL prices over last 10 years or so are better than Lynch Bages' and the quality is about the same and sometimes better. So today, maybe you are correct :-). -
englishman's claret commented:
3/5/17, 8:31 PM - I agree that LB and Mouton have a fair amount in common when tasted blind. I think it's hard to mistake GPL for either of those blind...