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2005 Château Montrose
4/29/2024 - Musigny151 wrote:
Opened Saturday to check progress.
Bloody hell, laddie, this one is tight. A black hole of a wine; nothing escapes. One hour in a decanter and a couple of wisps of something aromaish deigns to make an appearance. Too faint to be recognizable. Another hour, those wisps have coalesced enough to show some fruit and a little spice. This is not fun.
Another hour, and dinner has been on the table for half of it. We have poured the wine into glasses, it is still bad tempered and showing little.
Another hour and the wine has decided not to fight quite as hard. It is still massive, the tannins are hard but not spiky, and now the wine is showing plenty of fruit, spice and licorice. Still I feel there is a lot hidden.
This was all about potential and had little to do with pleasure. I did have a final glass 6 hours in, and it was still not fully open, but far and away the best tasted. I have five bottles left, and it needs ten years plus, probably more.
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1971 Château La Conseillante
4/19/2024 - Musigny151 Likes this wine:
La Conseillante 1971
Part of an old cellar purchase. I got the wines this morning, and stood this up, expecting to drink it this weekend. But after I discovered another bottle from the cellar a 1975 Bouscaut was leaking and tasted DOA so I poured it down the sink. So despite knowing I should have waited, I pulled out the Ah So, and went after the Conseillante. Usually totally reliable, it left a small piece of cork in the bottle. In the end, after some feeble attempts to extricate the cork, I pushed it in, and used a meshed funnel as I decanted that captured almost all of the cork.
So after all the horrible things that I put it through, how did it look and taste?
It was brilliant. The color a clear dark rose, and aromas of smoked meat, flowers and red fruit. Still amazingly fresh, it tasted of the rose hips, spice and fresh strawberries. The finish was long, and layered. Loved the wine, and as it stayed in the glass, it remains fresh, but creeping in were some tertiary aromatics of earth and mushroom. A lovely wine.
It did fade after a couple of hours, but we were savoring the wine, and should have drunk a little more quickly.
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2021 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Großes Gewächs
11/24/2023 - Musigny151 Likes this wine: 97 Points
We served this with the Thanksgiving turkey alongside among others a very fine bottle of Pichon Lalande 1989. Opened and poured, and surprisingly drinkable, although optimally 10-15 years. This was voted the wine of the night. Mixture of apricot and minerality, honey and spices. The complexity even at this early stage made it special, but what brought it to another level was the balance, the mid palate lift and the length of the finish.
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