Wines from the week...

Enough about beer and fake bottles... how 'bout some real ones? The 1995 Chateau Leoville Las-Cases is starting to open and is a beautiful bottle... lots of cocoa, mocha, black tar, graphite, bacon, black fruit, cedar - still a baby, but a blossoming, tannic, powerful baby... the 1985 Chateau Haut-Brion is as it's been - very nice, with lovely gravel, bacon fat, and smoke on the nose. Not the best HB, but still very good... Three bottles of the 1997 Paul Jaboulet Aine Cornas "les Terrasses"... very smokey with black olives, meat, dried tar, and smoke with a peppery, powerful finish. Beautiful wine. One was not as good as the other two.