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Being retired, I can no longer avoid to even think of purchasing wines like the one I picked out of my wine cellar today. Sigh ..
1982 Ch. Latour. Many reviewers gave it a 100. I've had it for 30 odd years and even though my wine cellar is well insulated and range of temperature and humidity do not vary wildly, I don't think it has aged as well as I had hoped. It's a little dry and the cork did not come out in its entirety, even though I used my best and longest corkscrew.
I think it will still go well with the standing rib roast now cooking. I have another bottle of much younger Cabernet Sauvignon, if my wife does not care for this precious bottle.
Hope you all enjoy your special bottle for your Christmas dinner.
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I was at a wine tasting a couple of weeks ago and the couple across from us mentioned opening an '82 La Mission Haut Brion recently and having the same experience.
I too believe in opening wines more towards the beginning of their window of maturity. It's great if you can buy several bottles of something and try them throughout the years. But that's kind of hard to do, for most of us, with classified wines, especially First Growths.
...I got married in 1982 and some friends gave us a bottle as a wedding gift.
I opened it on our 20th anniversary and it had gone bad.
Shame.
Shame. 20 years is as nothing for such a great wine, but it does need to be kept at constant temp and constant humidity to preserve it. It is a living thing, after all.
Mine turned out better than expected: dry finish, but I could see/taste/smell the intensity and richness with which it was bottled. I wish I has drunk it 15 - 20 years ago. I was afraid to drink wines such as this too young. So, many I wound up drinking far too old. Such is life.
...to drink it a little too young than a little too old.
I drink CA wines and my oldest now is 8 years - probably drink it in 2020.
My oldest California (not playing oneupsmanship here) is a 1964 David Bruce Carignane. It's more of an oddity right now, more than anything else.
...I think of him as Santa Cruz mountains and pinot noir.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Bruce also made some great Zinfandels, in my opinion, but my palate wasn't yet that sophisticated. Still may not be, but I do enjoy them still.
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