Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Comte Flaneur wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:54 pm
...for an ‘Ayrton Senna’ - £9.99 to be precise.
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Racer Chris wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:32 pm

Comte Flaneur wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:54 pm
...for an ‘Ayrton Senna’ - £9.99 to be precise.
...

Care to fill in some meaning on this?

Having lived in the U.K. Jacques will know and explain …


WRT Grand Mayne, I drank a couple bottles of 2008 several years ago which were pretty good.

Racer Chris wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:32 pm

Comte Flaneur wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:54 pm
...for an ‘Ayrton Senna’ - £9.99 to be precise.
...

Care to fill in some meaning on this?


WRT Grand Mayne, I drank a couple bottles of 2008 several years ago which were pretty good.

Chateau Vin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:42 pm

Racer Chris wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:32 pm

Comte Flaneur wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:54 pm
...for an ‘Ayrton Senna’ - £9.99 to be precise.
...

Care to fill in some meaning on this?


WRT Grand Mayne, I drank a couple bottles of 2008 several years ago which were pretty good.

Isn’t it a British slang for ten pounds???

Racer Chris wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:42 pm:groan:

Musigny 151 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:52 pm I Adam and Eve that you are elephant’s trunk and your loaf of bread is filled with pony and trap.

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marcs motivated me to pull a 2000 Grand Mayne [St Emilion] as mentioned upthread, and this has been delightful the last two days. In casita AKR, this is a nice weekend wine beyond midweek kitchen quaffers so I feel the older wines are worth polishing glasses and the contemplation of decanting. In the end I decided to just pour it through a Vinetto on the first night, and allow the natural breathing of the half empty bottle for the second night. The bouquet is complex: fennel, iodine, seaweed leading into a palate that is on the plummy side. Depending on how sensitive one is to sur maturite, maybe one might find prunes on the palate too (I thought there were hints of it on the second night). There is fruit depth here, far more than some more stern 2000's I've had in recent years. The tannins have melted away, and the acidity is aligned with the fruit but it drinks very well on its own. The texture is of a mature full bodied wine which has shed its precipitates, so no chewy youthfulness, but it does not yet 'glide' like the elite finesse right bank wines. This would have been a very fun rhubarb flavored wine to discuss with the BWE West Coast cadre since it seems like so many of them have a long history with the property. Tough wine to grade: for my tastes it sits at that cruel knifepoint between a B+ and A-, but I'm sure I would have notched it higher five years ago. I don't see it fading at all, but unless there is a compelling reason (one of those long planned but never consummated verticals, year of significance, Voodoo curse etc.) consider bumping the 2000 up in the drinking queue.

marcs wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 12:12 am Having a 2000 Grand Mayne with dinner right now, and wow is it good. Unfortunately I have a slight cold/case of the sniffles so some subtleties are lost on me, but I can tell that the texture and smoothness are excellent and it has classic soft merlot flavors with nothing overdone. Body is just the right weight for an aged Bordeaux, not too heavy and not too light. No fireworks but so comfortable and well done, like perfect slippers or a well worn baseball glove. Not like an OFFICIAL 95 POINT WINE but just such a perfect Tuesday night aged Right bank Bordeaux