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Default '89 Beaucastel

On Apr 29, 5:07*pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> Last night, after a topsy-turvy day of canceled dinner invitations and
> re-invitations, Andrew ended up going over to a friend's house for a
> sleepover and Jean and I had dinner at home to celebrate our 23rd
> anniversary the following day (i.e., today). *For dinner, I cooked a
> roast leg of lamb and sauteed locally grown asparagus with late-season
> (this year) morels from Minnesota. *With this, I opened a wine from the
> year of our marriage, the 1989 Ch. Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
>
> Our second (and last) bottle of this, when opened it revealed some
> maderization on the nose, indicative of some heat damage somewhere in
> the transport chain (not unheard of in this era for Ch. Beaucastel).
> That did abate with time and what remained was a remarkably fresh wine,
> tasting of cherries and only a slight hint of meat/game with very fresh
> acidity. *It had thrown a bucketload of sediment, but a decant did
> wonders for this wine. *Quite tasty with dinner, but not nearly as
> awe-inspiring as the earlier bottle, alas.
>
> Mark Lipton


Too bad, that was a really nice wine in the past. Late season morels
in April?