04 left bank clarets
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:43 pm
Very brief notes from checking up on a vintage i like very much and bought heavily in (the last value vintage...):
-Issan: mature already, subtle and pretty perfume, gently opulent, lovely but for early drinking.
-Durfort: v keen on this property but recent bottles of the 04 have seemed a bit overworked. Lots of life ahead of it anyway.
-Cantemerle: they pushed hard here so the wine is dark and lean. I like but it's not going to soften.
-Brane Cantenac: a beauty. Really stylish and impeccably balanced, but don't keep too long.
-Dom de Chevalier: love this property to to bits and have followed it from the 70s. The 04 seemed a touch vegetal from first bottles but last nights was just lovely - dark minerals everywhere and such a subtle length.
-GPLacoste: tonight's bottle seems less good than i recall: there's a markedly honeyed sweetness which is attractive but then a bit cloying... Perhaps this bottle not at best.
Richard
-Issan: mature already, subtle and pretty perfume, gently opulent, lovely but for early drinking.
-Durfort: v keen on this property but recent bottles of the 04 have seemed a bit overworked. Lots of life ahead of it anyway.
-Cantemerle: they pushed hard here so the wine is dark and lean. I like but it's not going to soften.
-Brane Cantenac: a beauty. Really stylish and impeccably balanced, but don't keep too long.
-Dom de Chevalier: love this property to to bits and have followed it from the 70s. The 04 seemed a touch vegetal from first bottles but last nights was just lovely - dark minerals everywhere and such a subtle length.
-GPLacoste: tonight's bottle seems less good than i recall: there's a markedly honeyed sweetness which is attractive but then a bit cloying... Perhaps this bottle not at best.
Richard