Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

January 4th,1998, Les Chenets Restaurant, Montreal, a bottle of 1986 Chateau de Lamarque that unfolded miraculously over a three hour dinner. My world changed that night.

July 1997, Concorde, LHR to JFK, 1990 J. Boillot Volnay Les Chevrets. Invited to the flight deck for landing. Sat in the jump seat. Best day of my life.

Spring, 1970, in Houston. After drinking too many bottles of $.99 Piesporter Riesling and $2 1er Cru Chablis Lucie and I tried a $5 1962 La Lagune. It changed our life.

The first BWE convention, Chicago 2001. The blind tasting, the broken Fonseca, the 1990 Chateau Haut Bailly i brought to meet all these new wine lovers!

Nic

Christmas 1990, my father's house in Westport, dinner, 1975 Lascombes, intoxicating bouquet, liquid silk, full-on Margauxberries. I didn't know wine could do that. I've loved old claret ever since.

Approx. 1975. Purchased a 64 Bonne Mares from Lupe Cholet for $15., I think. Nothing has ever come close.

December 31, 1977 blind tasting of red wine in Minneapolis. Easy winners all 1970 Bordeaux - in order: Lascombes (Margaux), Gloria (St Julian), Grand Village (St Emilion, I think). Non-Bordeaux others far behind.

Chris Bublitz

1997 Chateau Pichon Lalande in 2005 - this wine had a highly perfumed 100 point nose that just drew me in from the first sniff and even though the wine had a feminine somewhat thin mid palette with a rather short finish, none of that mattered as I was completely enamored

Bordeaux epiphany was 1990 Lynch Bages drank in 1995, the nose, the texture, the finish, still one of my all time favorite wines

Red Burgundy epiphany was 1997 Jacques Frederic Mugnier Chambolle Musigny les Amoureuses, who knew wine could be so elegant and powerful at the same time? Drank in 2000.

White Burgundy the 1997 Michel Niellon Chassagne Montrachet les Champgains, drank it at Goumard Prunier in Paris and got introduced to a new world of what Chardonnay should really taste like.

Less than thirty words for each!!!

My wine epiphany was picking two wines when I made dinner for our 5th wedding anniversary. To match with the fillets I bought a 1992 Freeman Abbey Bouche cab and a 1995 Shafer cab. Both were incredible compared to the cheap plonk we were accustomed to prior.

Bordeaux epiphany was a friend sharing a 1927 Giscours and 1955 Figeac. My eyes were opened wide with how great a wine can be.

I'm still waiting for epiphany.

Around 1981 with a 74 Barolo.

Around 1988 for Bordeaux with an 82 Poujeaux.

Has to be the 1978 Clos du Val Cabernet, some older cabs were being poured by the glass by a generous (and knowledgeable) steward at Sportsman's Wine Bar in Phoenix. I believe that was in about 1990, so it was 12 years old at that point.

August 1982 at Le Pre Catalan in Paris.
A dumb kid who knows nothing about wine basically stumbles upon a mispriced bottle of Chateau Latour 1976.
I don't think I had ever had a Bordeaux before.
The light bulb went off as soon as i tasted it: "Ah! Now i get it!"
Not remotely one of the best bottles i have had as of today, but it was certainly the best bottle i had had then. It was an eye opener and a game changer for me.

1975. Bought bottles to thank my bosses. One leftover sits in my closet a few years. Opened at dinner some years later while Gail and I were dating. Fantastic.

(1971 Cos d'Estournel)

1971 was a great, great year. Historic really.

2013, on a mountain in Puerto Rico overlooking a lake, 1982 Pichon Lalande. Finally understood what a perfect wine could be.

1980 Lamb dinner at a friend's house; 1976 Giscours First time food elevated the wine and wine elevated the food.

Circa 1984: 1968 Caves Velhas Garrafeira. To that time the oldest wine I'd had by a factor of four.

A bit much to call it an epiphany, but the first time I tasted a wine and started to get what "decent" wine is about was a bottle of Ch. Lascombes in the early 90s (so presumably the vintage was late 80s) at a restaurant somewhere in Asakusa.

Blanquito wrote:1971 was a great, great year. Historic really.

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