Old Bordeaux Dinner (Hong Kong Country Club, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Daerker brass-gold colour but still very fresh-jeweled and bright in the glass....no-one could guess it was 25 years old. Nose is subtle and multi-layered: deep bass notes then seashells, ozone, melted butter, rounded pebbles in a saltwater stream. Palate is gorgeously deep and unctuous, perfectly harmonised and all round edges like the pebbles from the nose but with an added element of slightly carmelised butter. Grows and expands in the head on the finish - it positively billows. Serious length and resonance....deep and growling. It's that rounded pebble thing you remember the most, though.
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Tasting Group - White Truffle Dinner (Casa Aneff): Tasted alongside the’86 Jadot Corton-Charlemagne, and this wine still seemed so young. There was great freshness on the nose with hints of browned apple and vanilla. The palate was all honey and there was a nice amount of acidity left on this wine. Still quite tight on the finish, this should still improve with time.
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Angela's Belated Birthday Dinner (Crown Wine Cellars, 18 Deep Water Bay Drive, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): This is the "Collection Privee de la Famille Drouhin" release from last year when the Drouhin family tasted all their library wines and released their favourites from back vintages. Briefly decanted. Deep but bright and fresh-looking yellow-gold colour. This has a quiet but purposeful nose of lime leaves and rounded butterscotch boiled sweets. Palate is oh so soft and delicate.....so light but with tons of power....melted butter and molten gunflint..... so molten and rounded. Calm and understated length and resonance that is long and very sophisticated. So incredibly understated, even with its acidic backbone. Absolutely brilliant when paired with lightly grilled fresh scallops, bacon, marmalade and salmon eggs. It evolves with time in the glass into a perfectly rounded pebble.....absolutely integrated and fully-formed. Fantastic.
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6/4/2015 - Goldstone wrote: 94 Points
Old Bordeaux Dinner (Hong Kong Country Club, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Daerker brass-gold colour but still very fresh-jeweled and bright in the glass....no-one could guess it was 25 years old. Nose is subtle and multi-layered: deep bass notes then seashells, ozone, melted butter, rounded pebbles in a saltwater stream. Palate is gorgeously deep and unctuous, perfectly harmonised and all round edges like the pebbles from the nose but with an added element of slightly carmelised butter. Grows and expands in the head on the finish - it positively billows. Serious length and resonance....deep and growling. It's that rounded pebble thing you remember the most, though.
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12/13/2013 - yacobove wrote: 90 Points
Tasting Group - White Truffle Dinner (Casa Aneff): Tasted alongside the’86 Jadot Corton-Charlemagne, and this wine still seemed so young. There was great freshness on the nose with hints of browned apple and vanilla. The palate was all honey and there was a nice amount of acidity left on this wine. Still quite tight on the finish, this should still improve with time.
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8/3/2013 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 94 Points
Angela's Belated Birthday Dinner (Crown Wine Cellars, 18 Deep Water Bay Drive, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): This is the "Collection Privee de la Famille Drouhin" release from last year when the Drouhin family tasted all their library wines and released their favourites from back vintages. Briefly decanted. Deep but bright and fresh-looking yellow-gold colour. This has a quiet but purposeful nose of lime leaves and rounded butterscotch boiled sweets. Palate is oh so soft and delicate.....so light but with tons of power....melted butter and molten gunflint..... so molten and rounded. Calm and understated length and resonance that is long and very sophisticated. So incredibly understated, even with its acidic backbone. Absolutely brilliant when paired with lightly grilled fresh scallops, bacon, marmalade and salmon eggs. It evolves with time in the glass into a perfectly rounded pebble.....absolutely integrated and fully-formed. Fantastic.
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