Saturday, November 12, 2005

Bordeaux fever

I wouldn't really call it "Bordeaux fever" but my creativity is at such a low right now, I couldn't come up with anything else to say... Only thing creative this week that went out was a 1995 Lynch-Bages that after 4 hours started to open. It was a beautiful wine, perhaps not quite as powerful and massive as the '89 we had on Sunday, but it was still much bigger than most of the other Lynch-Bages I've had (perhaps including the 2000). It was just starting to show some bottle aromas - cedary leather, sweet cherry fruit, etc. This wine was classic Pauillac - power matched with amazing elegance. St.-Estephe gives you raw earthy-power, Margaux is much more floral, very seductive; St.-Julien is round and elegant; but only Pauillac has the power with elegance. Oh yeah, had a little Krug every night this week... LOVE IT!

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