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The 2011 Mouton Rothschild - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé et arrivé.

This year the label was made by the French Artist Guy de Rougemont - this after a trio of foreign artist ( Chinese - American and a Britisch painter)

Guy de Rougemont - who is a friend of Moutons owner " the Baroness" wanted...

Trilogie de Château Le Pin  - A blend of 3 different vintages : 2011/2012/2013

A blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot - grapes cultivated by big brother Château Le Pin. Château Le Pin only uses 100% Merlot for their wines.

Some may think that the Trilogie is some kind of second label like many b...

Because my warehouse manager celebrated his  50th birthday we opened and tasted a bottle of 2012 Chablis Monts Mains from Raveneau.

Perhaps still a little too young as Raveneau produces Chablis that can age for decades.

But with these temperatures we rather enjoy drinking it in his younger sta...

1997 Château Mouton Rothschild - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

The wine is very dark cherry red in the glass, nicely concentrated with fat colored legs.1997 is supposed to be one of the lesser vintages for Mouton or even Bordeaux in general,but surprisingly there’s a very concentrated perfume ris...

1965 Château Latour - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

If you’re even remotely interested in older Clarets you’ll probably know 1965 is legendary…unfortunately, in a bad way : it has a reputation
for being an atrocious vintage. You can read everywhere the weather conditions were terrible resulting ...

1970 Château Canon La Gaffeliere - St Emilion Grand Cru Classé

This left banker was already quite old, but performed very good.. Also a Topshoulder, but here the color was much lighter red with a pomegranate edge. Right after opening and pouring it gave off a whiff of a brand new beach ball, that...

1966 Château Palmer - Margaux 3 Ième Grand Cru Classé

The Palmer 1966 is almost half a century old, but still nowhere near its retirement. The light maroon color is perfectly normal for its age and level (topshoulder), the aroma’s soaring from the glass however were not only incredibly deep and c...

1970 Château Palmer - Margaux 3 Ième Grand Cru Classé

The 1970 Palmer was recorked at the chateau in 1997 and hence a level still high in the neck. The color here was balancing the tightrope between browns and reds. The nose was very similar to the 1966, but a bit more tuned down. There was still...

1982 Château Ausone - St Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classé

The color immediately passed the test : deep brick red with barely a hint of light brown in the outer rim, so very consistent with 1982.Very powerful aroma’s suggested a good pedigree : not overly fruity but still nice red cherries present, wo...

1972 Château Mouton Rothschild - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

1972 had all the bad weather of 1973, without even the slightly balmy September, this was a disastrous year to produce wines. Not only in France but throughout Europe with the one exception of the Tokaji region in Hungary: here the To...