Bill S. wrote:

> 1927 Dom. Joseph Bory Muscat de Rivesaltes – no on caught on to the
> age of this – it was orange (but not browning) in colour, warm nose of
> oranges and nuts, (but more like almonds, without the sharpness of
> walnuts), and a warm fairly dry finish. Recently bottled from a cask
> sitting since the vintage.

Most interesting, Bill. Were you the source of this?


> 1986 Ch. Gruaud Larose – very good nose of cedar and black fruit, and
> huge still hard tannins that obscure the midpalate fruit so I couldn’t
> really say whether or not it was adequate (I was thinking this was a
> 1975, from the unusual combination of high tannin and low, or at least
> uncertain, fruit). Drying finish. Hope this comes around someday as I
> have a half case somewhere!

Wow. Thanks for the heads up as I've got this, too. It may perform
differently coming from our passively cooled cellar, though.

Mark Lipton