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originally posted by Mike Evans:
How is the '05? I picked up a bottle late last year because I was so excited to see that a new local retailer was stocking a lot of LDM wines that I had to show my appreciation by buying something, but I spent most of the last several years tuned out of the wine world and am slowly getting caught up.
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The '05 in its youth was a bit riper and a tad less racy than the '04, but still an appealing bottle of wine. I didn't save any for later consumption, though, so I can't say definitely how it's developed.

Mark Lipton
 
Thanks, I'll plan to give it a try sooner rather than later. Being realistic with myself, though, I suspect it will join my 1 or 2 remaining bottles of the mind-blowing '89 and host of mid-90's to 00's from L-P and Marc Ollivier as another Muscadet aging experiment.
 
originally posted by BJ:
05 is phat
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Weren't there murmurs of phatness in the '04 too? Or is the '05 much more so?

Fwiw, I enjoyed watching the '04's I consumed bloom in size, scale and richness whenever I could manage to keep a bottle open a couple of days. (Not that they ever did it rudely.) They were always lovely in their elegance from the start, but patience rewarded in spades. Everything you liked opened up into another level and layer. That last bottle I had at the gallery with you and the others was simply a wine that was food on it's own....needing nothing.

I fully realize I'm the last person here to speak with much empirical knowledge on what makes a wine do whatever it does over time, but seems to me that with the LP wines at least, a decent vintage (not even a great one) can stand up over time and bring dividends...and those dividends are not at the expense of earlier enjoyable characteristics of the wine in it's youth. At least that's my take.
 
I've read phatness concerns in re: 2005; 04 has been uniformly admired as lean and classic, iirc. Personally, I've found a modest layer of flesh appealing.
 
Uh, point of order. You guys are misusing the terms phat and phatness. Fat/fatness in wine means low acid. Phat/phatness= cool, and not in the temperature sense.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Uh, point of order. You guys are misusing the terms phat and phatness. Fat/fatness in wine means low acid. Phat/phatness= cool, and not in the temperature sense.
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Well BJ is white after all.....but I got his meaning.

The '04, to me, is a huge wine, if treated properly with air. That's "huge" in the literal as well as "phat" sense. It's bigger than it lets on. If you find the pairing that works with it, so much the better, but I put it more in the category of "shut up, and look at the painting"...it needs nothing but focus from the imbiber.
 
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