2000 Ch. Larose-Trintaudon

A cross-post with historical reposts. (Not on the 2000 L-T, I haven't tried it yet, but my notes on the 1999, and historical ones from earlier days of wine on the Usenet.)

"Fred" also commented favorably here on 1999 L-T in two articles in 2003, available by search.

The first notes are from a regional newsgroup and mention an outlet of a US retail chain (Trader Joe's) discounting the price.

-- Subject: Re: Red wine value Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:32:39 -0800 Message-ID:

Trader Joe's has been dumping 1999 Ch. Larose-Trintaudon, from $15 or so first to $10, then $6. (It's running out.)

I'm just trying some of it. Not bad for $6, solid light Bordeaux, what the British trade calls, or anyway once called, a "luncheon Claret" (cool old-fashioned name). Not as hard and woody as Larose in strong years but very nice berryish fruit, vanilla from the wood, pretty drinkable, has a couple of years of life.

I attach earlier excerpts from various dates on same producer from net.wines, the Original Online Wine Forum (1982-86 when it changed to rec.food.drink). Only a fraction of the articles are in the Google archive, but these are there and reflect frequent contributors. (See Google for more.) [I have access to independent archives of older online public wine postings but I refer people to groups.google.com when also available, because that currently is an accessible public Usenet archive. -- MH] Note that "Trintaudon" is hard to spell, even without sampling it.

Charles Hunt, 22-Apr-85: Newsgroups: net.wines

Right now, there are dozens of fine bordeaux available ... For small estates (called "petit chateaux"), there are many available for

"Max Hauser" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

I reinterate what I said before. I just bought another case of it just a few days ago at TJ's for $9.49/bottle. There are much better wines out there, but L-T is a great value.

Fred.

No tasting notes, but a general opinion. I wasn't really impressed by it, but I paid $18 USD. I think the 2000 Beaumont is better and has better QPR, as does the 2000 La Louviere, but both of these were bought on futures and the price was better than it is on store shelves ($10.50 and $22 repectively).

At $12 USD I think I would take a chance on a few of the Larose-Tintaudon.

Andy