Interesting start...

Had a few doozies on Monday... the 1982 Chateau Latour is amazing. While not as good as the bottles I had in February, this is classic, top-notch stuff. Loads of cedar, but still showing black currants and a little cigar box and tobacco. Powerful. A little lighter in color than February as well. Also tasted the slightly-corked 1983 Chateau Margaux. A pretty nose with violets and cedar coming through the slight-corkiness. Unfortunately, it really dulled the palate on the often-great, sometimes extraordinary wine. Tonight had the 1996 Chateau Pape-Clement, Pessac-Leognan. This is a baby just coming out of hibernation. The black fruits are starting to give way to the gravely-roughness in the wine. There is such power in here and this baby is only starting to show. The 1995s are closed compared to the 1996s, but I think they will outlive them. We'll see... this was a nice start. But my wine of the night was the 1990 Dr. Burklin Wolf Riesling Auslese Trocken, Pfalz. I've had this once before and boy did it not dissapoint. The first nose is pure petrol with a hint of apple. After 15 minutes, the wine fleshed out and turned into a beautiful mass of peach, apricot, petrol with an unbelievably mineral-laden finish. It is simply awesome stuff and certainly shows the agablilty of great Riesling. This wine still has 10 years to go before it might start to fall off. Sort of along the lines of the great Trimbach Clos Ste. Hune 1990, but less powerful.