boy, I have trouble enjoying bordeaux these days. I just looked at my consumption report on cellartracker and the only bordeaux I've enjoyed (as opposed to consumed and didn't enjoy) over the past few years is the 1979 Margaux I bought in early 1982 and drank last winter (very balanced and sophisticated), a '66 gruaud, a 375 of 90 gruaud, and a 2000 pavillon rouge. Others I've drunk and thought "eh, I wish I'd opened burgundy" were 89 & 90 Sociando, 85 Leoville Barton (which I used to love), and 82 Ducru - all of them from my cellar and well-stored and opened and served under ideal conditions - but just not to my taste.
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TN: Three 2003 Bordeaux with Christian and Remo
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originally posted by maureen:
boy, I have trouble enjoying bordeaux these days. I just looked at my consumption report on cellartracker and the only bordeaux I've enjoyed (as opposed to consumed and didn't enjoy) over the past few years is the 1979 Margaux I bought in early 1982 and drank last winter (very balanced and sophisticated), a '66 gruaud, a 375 of 90 gruaud, and a 2000 pavillon rouge. Others I've drunk and thought "eh, I wish I'd opened burgundy" were 89 & 90 Sociando, 85 Leoville Barton (which I used to love), and 82 Ducru - all of them from my cellar and well-stored and opened and served under ideal conditions - but just not to my taste.
Damn, Maureen! I wished that you'd just offered up the '82 Ducru for interested parties. While I haven't had the '82, the '78 and '79 Ducru were very fine wines that I'd gratefully try again.
Mark Lipton
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by maureen:
boy, I have trouble enjoying bordeaux these days. I just looked at my consumption report on cellartracker and the only bordeaux I've enjoyed (as opposed to consumed and didn't enjoy) over the past few years is the 1979 Margaux I bought in early 1982 and drank last winter (very balanced and sophisticated), a '66 gruaud, a 375 of 90 gruaud, and a 2000 pavillon rouge. Others I've drunk and thought "eh, I wish I'd opened burgundy" were 89 & 90 Sociando, 85 Leoville Barton (which I used to love), and 82 Ducru - all of them from my cellar and well-stored and opened and served under ideal conditions - but just not to my taste.
Damn, Maureen! I wished that you'd just offered up the '82 Ducru for interested parties. While I haven't had the '82, the '78 and '79 Ducru were very fine wines that I'd gratefully try again.
Mark Lipton
I bought a half case of it when futures were being offered. I have no recollection of drinking any of it, however, until I had one from someone else's cellar about 4 years ago at a small dinner where we also had 82 pichon and 82 cos. All bottles well-cellared and served at the right temp with food and with the 5 of us lingering over them for a few hours. All showed well, the ducru was my favorite (the wines still seemed simple to me, compared to burgundy) - but this bottle from my cellar (the bottle 4 years ago was a recent ex-chateau release) seemed like it would've been better if consumed a few years ago - and I like lots of age on bordeaux. Frankly, I traded my final bottle to macarthurs to pay for a case of german 08s!
Sorry about that - but if you come to town, I've still got leoville poyferre, gruaud larose, and sociando (and la mission but that's still too young) we could open if you insist on bordeaux.