Older Bordeaux tasting notes

Oct 14, 2009 - I haven't seen any posts in ths area for quite some time so I hope no one will mind my notes on a recent tasting.    I had the opportunity recently to taste a few of the many good bottles from the 80's and the results were delicious. I tasted an 83 Boyd Cantenac and Prieure Lichine both from Margaux, an 82 Lanessan from the haut medoc and finally an 85 Lynch Bages which is a Pauillac.  The bottles had been stored reasonably well and the fills were very good, although the two Margaux had corks which were almost wet to the top and crumbled.  Having just found a bottle from 1998 which was leaking in a case of my own, there can be no better advice than to constantly monitor your wines, especially if they are still in a wooden case. While 82 Bordeaux put Robert Parker on the map (he declared it the wine of the century) and subsequently led the way to his favorable word on any review raising the price of wine,  it was fun looking back and seeing what these were all about.   Though fortuitously donated by another cellar, I was looking forward to tasting mature wines I had never been able to experience when they were young.  Each was carefully standing upright for 4 days and then decanted carefully one hour before serving. - 0 Comments