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Bordeaux Wine Tasting (30-Oct-2010)

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chin:
I am too tired to write the comment now. Just upload the photo first. Will add comments later.

The theme was Bordeaux Great 8 second wines from 2000

Lafite - Carraudes de Lafite
Latour - Les Forts de Latour
Haut Brion - Bahans Haut Brion
Mouton - Petit Mouton
Margaux - Pavillon Rouge du Chateau Margaux
Petrus - no 2nd wines, nearest is 98 La Grave A Pomerol
Ausone - don't have petit Ausone, nearest is 2000 Moulin Saint George
Cheval Blanc - La Petit Cheval
Lafleur - 98 Les Pensees de Lafleur

White Wines
Margaux - Pavillon Blanc du Chateau Margaux (Grand Vin, not 2nd wine)
Mouton - Aile d'Argent
Haut Brion Blanc - Les Plantiers du Haut Brion

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[updated 31-Oct-2010]

Many thanks to Billy Mak for organizing the tasting, and collecting the wines. It wasn't an easy task to collect these wines.

The tasting was done in groups of three wines. All reds were double decanted (i.e. each wine, except the Latour, was quickly emptied into a decanter to allow contact with air, then poured back into the original bottle to preserve the aroma.)

The group consist of mainly amateur wine drinkers like myself, and a few experts like Hang. I can smell and taste the difference in many but couldn't label the characteristics. At the end, Billy asked everyone for their Wine of the Meet. The result
- Les Forts de Latour, 5 votes
- Pavillon Rouge du Chateau Margaux, 5 votes
- Les Pensees de Lafleur, 3 votes
- Petit Mouton, 2 votes
- Bahans Haut Brion, 1 vote

If everyone could have a second vote, there would be more votes for the Lafleur & Cheval Blanc. Surprisingly no one voted for the Lafite! After the vote, Billy named the rough market price, and the votes seem to corresponding to the market price, with Lafite being the glaring exception.

To me, each and every single one of them are good individually. But when pitted together, there is clear preference. The main regret I had was that I wasn't in tiptop condition for the day, and by the time of trying the last flight, my senses were getting numb. Otherwise it would have been much more enjoyable to retry whatever left in the bottles.

I am also attaching two documents - an article by Billy about 2nd wines from top chateaus, and the Robert Parker tasting notes for the wine tasted (except for the Kistler.)

chin:
Group photo.

chin:
Hang, and others, feel free to post the tasting notes.

hangchoi:
Me too....I am exhausted tonight. After this event I went to my friend's place for dinner and drank a lot of wiskies, and 2 bottles of red. Yan, your Ernie Els is big but lack of length and complexity.

I need time to type the TN and will post here later.

Many thanks for this interesting tasting.

hangchoi:

--- Quote from: chin on 30 October 2010, 22:53:43 ---Hang, and others, feel free to post the tasting notes.

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I left my tasting notes at your office.... :P

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