Henschke 1998
Nose mature, pleasantly bretty horse saddle and damp leather, round plummy ripe fruit, soft blackberry and jammy fig confiture.
Wine Tasting Notes
Content
Heitz Cellars 1974
Nose open ripe rich, still youthful, spearmint and dark chocolate, earthy and gamey mushroom hints, very complex young and old flavours in one glass, leather and spices, palate soft gentle tannins that lack some body or depth on mid-palate, finishes a little short (cork very stained all a long length, probable leakage and poor storage not best bottle although very good).
Chateau Palmer 1970
Soft open full nose, bloody raw meat aromas, wet tobacco cedar wood and dried fruits, figs and damp undergrowth, little gamey. Palate soft easy and well balanced, great for game birds or veal/young lamb. Some truffles and chocolate on palate, very good.
Egon Muller 1993
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.
Michel Lafarge 2001
Red bowl brown orange rim, nose open quite rustic and dried fruit aromas, cranberry and strawberry, earthy with hints of leather and kirsch cherries on the nose, some VA, dry and soft palate, not great length good aromas not substantial.
Henri Jayer 1993
Wonderfully expressive nose, very open soft and ripe, mature and spicey, round soft fruirts strawberry and raspberry, with some tart cranberry, soft leather and earthy wet forest character, palate light well balanced with long firm acidity, soft dried fruits, shorter on length than expected.
Guigal 1983
Nose little tight, youthful still fresher oak more viognier lifts wood aroma, bramble and cassis with pepper and earthy full flavours, round and balanced, full long and complex.
Chateau Laville Haut Brion 1983
Straw golden colour with slightly amber rim, needs air to open up, decanting required, honey, nuts, lanolin and beeswax aromas, orange, tangerine, herbal and camomile, still with a crisp fresh acidity and long complex mineral palate.
Chateau de Beaucastel 1990
Nose open very aromatic, delicious old Amarone balsamic complexity, truffle and black chocolate aromas, earthy rich fruitcake like, palate quite soft tannins, very long and harmonious, delicious.
Emmanuel Rouget 1988
Brick red rim against a garnet bowl, nose open soft and aromatic, forest fruit aromas – strawberry, raspberry damsons and redcurrant, some earthy undergrowth sous bois aromas, mushroom and leather. Delicate palate, balanced earthy and long.
