I grilled wild boar tenderloins from D'Artagnan last night and opened my last bottle of 1970 Chateau Lynch Bages. The wine looked quite young and was still dark purple with just a hint of brick. Plenty of typical Pauillac aromas with lead pencil, cedar and leather. Plenty of cassis on the palate and still a bit tannic. The wine showed well with the boar. A dinner guest brought a bottle of 2005 Chave Hermitage Rouge and opened it to go with the boar....I had opened the LB just before dinner. The Chave was brilliantly reddish purple and a bit thick in the glass. Bacon fat, smoke and blueberries dominated the nose. The wine was initially a monster on the palate but it smoothed out after an hour or so in the decanter showing a ton of black fruits, tar and black pepper spice. I thought it was infanticide but it wasn't my call. A solid "B=" on the LB and an "A" on the Chave.
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15 years ago