Blog posts of '2014' 'September'

Bottles with missing labels make excellent material for tasting, and today we were lucky enough to try a classic : a 1970 Latour.

In the glass it had the typical maroon color of an older wine but what I noticed most was the exceptional darkness and concentration, and a high viscosity that made it...

For today’s tasting we tried what ought to be two wonderful pomerols from the eighties : 1989 Vieux Chateau Certan and 1985 Clinet.
Both wines were topshoulders so a bit low for their age but nothing too bad and at least mixed expectations make for interesting tastings.

The 1989 Vieux Chateau Ce...

This week’s tasting consisted of 3 very affordable Bordeaux : from 1981 a left and right bank and another left bank but this a decade older, from 1970. So very interesting to find out if the ageing potential is adequate for these “minor gods”.

We started with the bottle from 1970 : chateau d’Issa...

The most recent addition to our team, Yannick, had his birthday and was generous enough to treat us all with 2 pies. So for this week’s tasting we chose a good companion for these : vintage port from 3 different vintages and producers.

Chronologically, from young to old (with an incredible ageing...

Over the last months we’ve been tasting all kinds of wines, from small or unknown producers to some very good ones, but today’s tasting was pure indulgence : first up was 1959 l’Evangile followed by 1954 d’Yquem.

The Evangile was a mise négoce (merchant bottling) with the level of the wine slight...

1970 Chateau d’Issan, a 3rd growth Margaux . No first growth quality to be expected perhaps, but definitely no plonk either and coming from one of the few succeeded vintages in the 70ies it does have its pedigree and a good vintage in its favor. The color had turned a light auburn, a tell-tale that ...