Community Tasting Note

Papies wrote:

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - Mouton 86 vs Las Cases 86 at the Papies:
Needs decanting, 2-3 hours to hit the peak. We opened and monitored it along with LLC for 1.5 hours and the wine kept on getting better and better. Dont rush it, dont filter and no aerators here please.
The wine is just entering its drinking window in our mind. From a perfect case still in the original wrapping papers. Cork was solid and well wet, levels were very good.

Class, Eleganse and complexity. We could really stop the TN here. The nose is really a journey into a complex set of red fruit, little earth and floral elements. The palate is velvety, layers and layers of beauty.
Wine is still very much alive and vibrant but tannins are well integrated and post 1.5 hours the wine was fully singing. Nothing out of sync or out of balance, purity to the limit. Complex and kept on improving, never loosing any of its vribrancy. Truly magnificent. maybe 98 is low.

VS the LLC.... the LLC is much more powerfull more meaty with a bigger nose. But MR beats the LLC with a velvet glove and a class of its own. Now if you adjust vs price... the LLC at 1/3 of the price is the one to buy.

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