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Chateau Cheval Blanc 1990

Posted By Ronan on July 12, 2009 in  | 0 Comments

Country: France
Vintage: 1990
Colour: Red
Site: St Emilion
Region: Bordeaux
Producer: Chateau Cheval Blanc
Date Tasted: 12-07-09
Score: 98

Open, damp earth and a little menthol lanolin/, fine and elegant, iodine light bretty characters developing, wet leather and damp forest mushroons, red cranberry and cherry fruit, earthy, very ripe fruit on palate round and complex, grilled red pepper aroma, very long, superb.

Chateau Latour 1961

Posted By Ronan on July 12, 2009 in  | 0 Comments

Country: France
Vintage: 1961
Colour: Red
Site: Pauillac
Region: Bordeaux
Producer: Chateau Latour
Date Tasted: 12-07-09
Score: 98

Very elegant and fine, still big and powerful for a bottle this old, complex and showing youth, menthol hints, soft fine balance, long, complex, truffle and cinder toffee. Still incredibly showing lots of red ripe fruits, cedar wood and elegant tannins.

Armand Rousseau 1972

Posted By Ronan on June 13, 2009 in  | 0 Comments

Country: France
Vintage: 1972
Colour: Red
Site: Gevrey Chambertin Clos St Jacques
Region: Burgundy
Producer: Armand Rousseau
Date Tasted: 13-06-2009
Score: 98

(lots of thick depo!) Very rich spicy and smoky nose, bacon fat, very meaty, oxo cube beef, incredible concentarion of fruit still for this age, very full and fresh, blackcherry and dried strawberry, salami and parma ham, med dark bowl with a wide rim of orange brick.

Egon Muller 1993

Posted By Ronan on November 10, 2008 in  | 0 Comments

Country: Germany
Vintage: 1993
Colour: White
Site: Sharzhofberger Auslese Goldkapsel
Producer: Egon Muller
Date Tasted: 10-11-08
Score: 98

Incredible nose! Deep honey and roasted nuts, intense petroleum and citrus mineral lime characters, very complex, palate has great balance, exquisite poise and elegance, amazing richness but light and refreshing, palate changing from heavy and honeyed into light cirus and mineral with one sip, amazingly long. A real treat.








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