Penfolds 1995
Tight black fruit, vanilla and coconut oak, new US oak full and smoky, eucalyptus and and mint ethers, solid palate showing little maturity, big long heavy and complex.
Wine Tasting Notes
Content
Chateau Haut-Brion (Imperiale) 1983
Nose deep and foresty, mushrooms damp earth, dried fruits cranberry and strawberry, old cedar wood, old church aromas?, touch of fatty roasted meat, complex with great acidity fresh deep flavours, wood smoke and mature elegant cedar. Vey good.
Domaine de Marcoux VV 2001
Big spicy warm nose, ripe raspberry/framboise EdV, black and white pepper nose, full big palate, solid tannins, not great not complex still very young.
Chateau Cheval-Blanc (magnum) 1985
Brown/red bowl fading to mahogany brick rim, mature nose ceps and earthy damp forest floor, sous bois, dry strawberry and cranberry, some old cedar old church aromas, soft leather suede like tannins, very gentle palate, soft acidity ripe confit fruit with chinese tea flavours, very long
