Montrose in a landslide
Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 9:10 pm
Big drama here because it is our general election today and even if you are 119 years old it is still closer than anything in living memory.
While waiting for the exit polls I am watching a BBC documentary on sharks - did you know that a mako shark can swim at 46 mph? For reference dolphins can swim at 20mph.
Did you know that the Greenland shark can live for over 200 years, is blind because parasites eat its eyeballs and it swims at 0.5 mph?
To finish remarkable footage of a female Great White hunting seals in False Bay. Great Whites don't have it all their own way.
I digress.
Montrose was the star of our 1996 tasting last night. We did the usual Comte Flaneur voting regime of three points for your favourite, two points for your second favourite and one point for your third.
Montrose romped home with 16 votes...Leoville Barton was second with five and Lafon Rochet third with three.
We tried the three Leovilles Bartons together and Leoville Barton came up trumps. The Langoa was more accessible but the Leoville Barton was finer and more complex, though more backward. The Poyferre we thought had more going on in the winery than in a Leoville a Barton. Poyferre had an Armani jacket on as Richard Zambuni noted.
We had GPL, and the bottle was sub-par. Duhart was on great form and unlike the Leovilles in a great place for immediate gratification. Pichon Baron was surprisingly unknit and accessible...I expected something with a bit more tension.
Montrose was deemed to be a FG in quality, and I think that is fair. It was a stand out on the night. I do not think it is better necessarily than Leoville Barton but it is more accessible.
Calon Segur was my third favourite wine. It had a lovely green olive element to its personality which does not equate to under-ripeness.
Lafon Rochet really stood out last night, a fine bottle. Likewise Sociando better than the bottle I had last week.
We had a treat with a slightly quirky Philipponnat 1996 Clos De Goisses to kick off and a delicious Rieussec 1996 to finish.
We had two other Cru Bourgeois...Potensac and Poujeaux both excellent
Confirmation of the vintage's fine credentials.
PS Tories looking good in an early exit poll
While waiting for the exit polls I am watching a BBC documentary on sharks - did you know that a mako shark can swim at 46 mph? For reference dolphins can swim at 20mph.
Did you know that the Greenland shark can live for over 200 years, is blind because parasites eat its eyeballs and it swims at 0.5 mph?
To finish remarkable footage of a female Great White hunting seals in False Bay. Great Whites don't have it all their own way.
I digress.
Montrose was the star of our 1996 tasting last night. We did the usual Comte Flaneur voting regime of three points for your favourite, two points for your second favourite and one point for your third.
Montrose romped home with 16 votes...Leoville Barton was second with five and Lafon Rochet third with three.
We tried the three Leovilles Bartons together and Leoville Barton came up trumps. The Langoa was more accessible but the Leoville Barton was finer and more complex, though more backward. The Poyferre we thought had more going on in the winery than in a Leoville a Barton. Poyferre had an Armani jacket on as Richard Zambuni noted.
We had GPL, and the bottle was sub-par. Duhart was on great form and unlike the Leovilles in a great place for immediate gratification. Pichon Baron was surprisingly unknit and accessible...I expected something with a bit more tension.
Montrose was deemed to be a FG in quality, and I think that is fair. It was a stand out on the night. I do not think it is better necessarily than Leoville Barton but it is more accessible.
Calon Segur was my third favourite wine. It had a lovely green olive element to its personality which does not equate to under-ripeness.
Lafon Rochet really stood out last night, a fine bottle. Likewise Sociando better than the bottle I had last week.
We had a treat with a slightly quirky Philipponnat 1996 Clos De Goisses to kick off and a delicious Rieussec 1996 to finish.
We had two other Cru Bourgeois...Potensac and Poujeaux both excellent
Confirmation of the vintage's fine credentials.
PS Tories looking good in an early exit poll