1962 Château Pavie, coming from a more than decent vintage albeit mostly forgotten about since it’s following a legendary vintage (1961).
Color was dark rusty red, nice shine to it, high viscosity. Wonderfully perfumed this one, with great scents of autumn forest intermingled with red berry jam, ...
1966 Château Pavie - a quite decent vintage but probable will always be eclipsed by the magnificent 1961 and excellent 1964.
The bottle we tried had a depressed cork and a slightly lower level : Ts/Upper so risk of it being not up to standard was high. Nonetheless, forest floor and spices jumped ...
1998 Château Talbot - the colour all cherry red here. Tons of fruit on the nose red as well as dark : red berry jam, dark cherries and cassis. A touch of wood (cedar) and a lovely spiciness too. This is a very accessible, easy drinking wine, so at the perfect drinking period, especially for those wh...
1988 Château Talbot - the color is completely garnet, all browns and practically no red left. Unfortunately, neither is there any fruitiness to be found : it’s all secondary and tertiary aromas. Cigarbox, game and lots of leather here, some grilled peppers too. Also a lot of forest smells, perfectly...
1990 Château Talbot has a similar color as the 1988, perhaps a tad more towards pomegranate. Despite being only 2 years younger, there is a lot more fruit and sweetness here : red berries, cherries and black currant jam. It’s more complex as well with lots of spices (white pepper and bay leaf) cedar...
Today we opened up a great bottle of Burgundy thanks to having a completely tattered,
barely legible label : 1964 Volnay Clos de la Pousse d’Or by Domaine de la Pousse d’Or
(Bousse or Pousse, the B and P in the name changed throughout the years) and I felt as
one of the lucky few, being able to t...
1981 chateau La Serre, a St Emilion grand cru classé. Again perhaps not the greatest estate, but being run by the same d’Arfeuille family since the mid 50ies, big investments and renovations in the 70ies plus being a grand cru classé (even now, after the latest revision in 2012), this was no bag-in-...
1981 Du Tertre. This is a fifth growth and perhaps a bit underachieving in those days but more recently bought by a Dutchman and since undergone the necessary changes to return it to the status it deserves. The color here very similar to the La Serre, garnet with some ruby red still left at the edge...
1970 Kopke vintage port: This vintage was declared by most of the major houses, so quite a good year and with Kopke not being the least this should be good. With the color the age was already showing : a lighter tea here with an orange hue in the outer edge. After the first alcohol dissipated (in ta...
1978 Krohn Vintage Port - this bottle hadn’t survived the 3-three and a half decades of cellaring and had started to leak somewhere along the line resulting in a fill level as topshoulder. Now if this were an oxidized fortified wine such as sherry, this probably wouldn’t be an issue, however with a...
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