On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:05:04 -0700, Bi!! > wrote:

>My wife and I celebrated our 35th anniversary last night with a bottle
>of 1989 Chateau Margaux. ... It's been a while since
>I've tasted the wine and it's entering it's drinking window imo. The
>wine was a medium garnet color totally clear at the rim with a faint
>hint of brick in the body of the wine. The nose was sightly oaky at
>first but after 30 minutes the aoak blew off and revealed classic
>Bordeaux cigarbox and a hint of barnyard but there was an overwhelming
>perfume of fresh wildflowers. Typical Margaux elegance on the palate
>with a medium body and well resolved fine tannins. The flavors leaned
>more towards red currants and raspberry with hints of leather and
>minerals. This wine should drink well over the next 10 to 15 years.
>Very tasty, very Margaux. Not the best Chateau Margaux I've ever had
>but still a fairly solid "A" on the Dale scale.

I opened my one bottle of this a year ago, with much the same results.

JJ