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1979 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
10/23/2014 - pekingunther Likes this wine: 93 Points
The wine out of DM was drinking beautifully. Perfect balance front to back palette, length on finish of 40+ seconds. Proof again that wines in largerfFormats that are older, tend to find a balance that 75cl doesn't. Plenty of fruit, fully integrated tannin. Tobacco and a little leather on the nose. Just an amazing wine experience.
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1986 Château Carbonnieux Blanc
8/31/2014 - pekingunther Likes this wine: 89 Points
While 89 is probably a fair reflection of the wine as it stands now, the actual joy of this drinking this wine is far greater than just it's score. To be able to enjoy a mature white wine - at 28 years old, that many would have written off. You can envisage the wine at its peak (which I'd guess would have been a decade ago) and you can take your mind back to the vintage. Aged wines carry so much emotional content than young wines, that they provide that much more contentment... I'd get more of this over a modern blockbuster just for that alone.
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2006 Tensley Syrah Colson Canyon Vineyard
8/31/2014 - pekingunther Likes this wine: 91 Points
Initially I criticised this for being quite green, but then I let it open and breath a bit, and I think it is more that it is a Paso Robles Syrah that is being made true to style in the Hermitage tradition. In fact it reminds me very much of the Chapoutier style. I would suggest that to do this, they have picked just a little before full ripeness, but the balance that comes through after the wine has air makes this perfectly OK. In fact it makes it a wine that I think many would go to "old world" on a first or blind tasting.
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