1977 Lake's Folly Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  12/2/2012 - CamWheeler wrote: flawed

  1952 Maurice O'Shea Lunch (Sydney, Australia): Totally gone.

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  8/29/2012 - JerM wrote: 93 Points

  (Dinner w Paul&Elsa and Werns) Tawny garnet in the glass, translucent. Nose is expressive, dark with dusty berries, soft earth, meaty with gentle dried flowers. A soft and seamless palate follows with an elegantly light-mid-weight pallate - almost a Pinot-like density. Elegant texture, with light and slightly smokey minerality. Soft wood and dried cherries and a hint of tar and creosote, ending on a pretty finish of caramel honey. Paired amazingly with Paul's selection of cantonese haute cuisine. This bottle has survived rather well at 35 years, pleasing and very elegant; might have started deteriorating somewhat a few years back, but still drinking VERY well. Classic beauty, and special! Glad to have shared this.

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  8/29/2012 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  Dinner with Jerming (Asia Grand, Odeon Towers): This might have been better a few years ago, but it was still beautiful on the night. It had such a lush, attractive nose, lots of black cherries and cassis, sweet spices and tobacco, dusty earth, smoked meats, a touch of dried flowers and wood herbs. Lovely, complex stuff. The palate was surprisingly light-weighted, Pinot-like in density, with absolutely silky tannins and a lovely dancing freshness to it. This was just upon the cusp of starting to thin out, but was still beautiful drinkable - while little seams balsam wood starting to show up, it still had a lovely amount of Cabernet fruit, with elegant flavours of cassis and black cherries underscored by ever so slightly bittersweet notes of smoke and tar, tobacco and dried earth. It finally drifted away in a nice touch of dried flowers and malted honey. Really nice. Weakening, but still delicious. It really flattened out after half an hour, showing some iodine notes sticking out from thinning fruit. Still though, it was really charming when it lasted. A treat.

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