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In Reply to: "most special" Hmmm.. posted by Mike.S. on February 07, 2001 at 16:21:11:
So you had a '45 yquem 'eh? Supposedly one of the best, I'm yet to have the pleasure. All of the sauternes will turn brown as they age even black. The 1887 yquem I had was black. I have a bunch of older yquems and anything pre 1978 is pretty much amber if not brown by now.The 75 moutons are a mixed bag. I had 3 last year and to my tastes the fruit is past its prime and the bottle has lost it's balance. Gorgeous Warhol label though, with lots of sediment in each and plenty of that mouton cedar. Interesting how much variance you can have in bottles that old though. You mentioned you had wished you waited another 15 years, so I'm guessing the fruit still tasted massive to you? Weird how that works, my current drinkable mouton is the 83. I've had a bunch lately and they all seemed to be drinking perfectly until the last bottle I had. The last one I had was FULL of fruit and had I not had the others, I would have said sit on it for another 15 years.
As to your '95, well that's all preference. I'm a big fan of balance, I don't particularly enjoy the big hedonistic california cabs unless they are at least 20 years old. I also don't enjoy the fruit hiding all of the other minute flavors that only aging can bring out. I don't think you'll find one person out there who will tell you to drink that fabulous 95 before 2005. Me, well I'll wait until at least 2010 to sample, but wouldn't get really excited about being able to grasp what it will be capable of at 2020. '95 was a fabulous vontage from what I've read. I made the mistake of trying an '85 about 2 weeks ago and I keep learning the hard way that these things need longer than 15 years if they were done right. The '85 was still all fruit. The more I try, the more I'm convinced to wait 20 years. Alas, the temptation grows too strong and will not make it much longer before uncorking a '86.
Odd how much the new vintages cost even for futures. I think anyone is was better off putting $500 into a few bottles from the 70's as opposed to 2 bottles from the last vintage, but that's me. What a fun learning cycle though.
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