TN: 1996 Left Bank Bdx at Bobby Vans
On a hot and sultry thunderstormy day, our Bordeaux group (and one out of town guest) met at our €śhome base€ť, the Bobby Vans on 54th St. Thunderstorms put kibosh on our plan to eat outside, but were all vaccinated, and I enjoyed the AC.
2013 Suenen "Les Robarts" Extra Brut Champagne Crisp and delicious, green apple with lemon zest, Parker rolls, and apple blossoms. Fine mousse, good finish. B+/A- Theme was 1996 Left Bank (Medoc and Graves). I enjoyed my wedge salad, fries, sauteed spinach, and made a heroic but futile effort to eat most of my delicious tomahawk. 1996 Leoville Poyferre (St Julien) Fresh, open, giving. Sweet cassis and graphite, a little fennelseed edge made it a bit exotic, happy with this. B+ 1996 Leoville Barton (St Julien) Solid black fruit framed by cigarash and toast, ok but a bit plodding and less fresh than others. B- 1996 Ducru Beaucaillou (St Julien) Cassis and black plum, fruit seems to get a bit more red character with time, cigarbox, pencil shavings, lovely and long. A- 1996 Leoville Las Cases (St Julien) Alas, corked 1996 Montrose (St Estèphe) Fresh and young, surprisingly friendly for young Montrose, black fruits with herbs, silky texture, drinks more like a good Margaux than St Estephe. Long. A-/B+ 1996 Pichon Lalande (Pauillac) This was so elegant next to the more overtly powerful Lynch Bages. Black plum and currant, minty herbs, leather and tobacco. Beautiful A- 1996 Lynch Bages (Pauilac) Muscular, tannic, dark fruit with gravel and graphite. Long. A-/B+ 1996 La Mission Haut Brion (Pessac-Léognan) I was a little surprised how round and open this was, sweet black fruits, charred earth, coffee. Good but not real developed. B+ 2002 Alois Kracher Grande Cuvée TBA #7 Nouvelle Vague Sweet, a touch treacly, the Kracher wines never really move me. B- Fun time. Group voting Montrose 15 pts Ducru 9 pts LMHB 9 pts Lynch 6 pts Pichon Lalande 5 pts Poyferre 3 pts Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency. |
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