Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 2011 Simple Series VII: Sean's Birthday (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Opened 6 hours before and decanted another 3 hours, yet this was so, so closed. It had a beautiful flowery bouquet, with dried violet petals floating like a halo over a lovely noseful of dark fruit, tobacco smoke and dried earth. A glorious Pauillac nose. The palate was so very tight though, so this drank like a wine at least a decade younger, with super fresh, super primary cassis fruit at the fore precious else beneath but for a graphite-like nuance. So pure, yet so tightly clenched and barely showing. Still though, this was clearly a First Growth, with great depth, superb balance and a lovely, ringing transperancy to its dark fruit as it moved into a finish of effortless power and subtle length. So obdurate, so clenched, so young. This needs decades yet. At the moment, it was intellectually great, but rather less pleasurable. Some said that the quality here was greater than that of the 1966 Latour we had together. Perhaps so, these things are hard to tell, but the older wine was just drinking so much better on the night. I would recommend locking bottles of these away in the cellar and forgetting about them for a long, long time.

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