wrote:

Chateau Montrose, Saint Estephe, 1986
Claret red with bricking. This almost smells mildly corked when first
opened, but hey, it's been 18 years in the bottle and it simply needs to
wake up from it's slumber. Cassis and cedar buried in a tough wall of
tannin but this opens up more with air and the glass 2 hours later tastes
better than the first, with good concentration and lots of intense smoke,
black cherry, blackcurrant, and the leather-cedary thing going on as well.
Young by several years. If I had another bottle, I'd wait 3-5 years before
opening again, but if you do now, DECANT. A- / 90-91

Infanticide!! I don't have the Montrose, but do have the Gruaud-Larose
from this year. A little bird tells me to wait another decade or so...

Technical question: When I opened up the newsgroup this am there were no
threads. Even in summer I cannot believe nobody has written in over a
week. Anybody else experiencing this?

Nope. As Dale says, it may be that Syracuse's newsfeed hiccupped for
some reason, or it could be that tin dropped a bunch of headers. Is
there a feature in tin to "refresh headers" or something like that?

Mark Lipton