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I attended a gathering on Friday night of a few close friends for dinner and wine. Dinner was a quite simple affair of grilled filets with roasted root veggies and steamed long beans. Just some quickie notes of outstanding wines.

1966 Latour-Still quite dark with a clear rim and a slight brickish color. Very tight nose of graphite. Very firm black fruit with lots of cedar and leather and still massive black fruit and plum notes.

1961 Cheval Blanc- More brick than purple with a huge nose of barnyard, blackberry and wet stones. Vibrant, sweet fruit with layers of vanilla and cassis.

1921 Palmer-Very pale garnet with a patina of brown. Light and ethereal on the palate almost like old Burgundy. Mushroom and cedar at first with plenty of sweet cherry and an elegant mouthfeel like liquid velvet.

1982 Cos D' Estournel-A massive blockbuster of a wine. LOt's of cassis and black cherry with an abundance of lead pencil and firm yet supple tannins and a finish that went on for minutes. This wine still has years of life ahead. Concensus WOTN.

1985 Lynch Bages- Quite brickish with a nose of wet horse blanket (Brett)and lead pencil. Plenty of black fruit but too much leathery bretty flavors.

1980 D'Yquem (served with a winter pear Tartain) Wonderful nose of dried orange peel and Asian spices. Crisp acidity and flawless sweetness with flavors of honey and apples with loads of citrus and a refreshing finish.

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Ed Rasimus states in part: "If these are the wines of a "quite simple affair" I'd love to be invited to a real blowout."

Here might be the wine menu for the blowout. Mouton 45; Latour 45 and

61; Romanee-Conti 45 and 85; Cheval-Blanc 47; Yquem 59, 67, and 1847; DRC Montrachet 78; Rauenthaler Baiken TBA 1949(state); Cossart Gordon's Bastardo Vintage Madeira 1875; Quinta do Noval 1931; Bretzenheim cellar Tokaji Essencia 1811. Some people would nearly kill to be invited to such a blowout.

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I've been fortunate enough to have drank the '61 Latour, '45 Mouton and the '31 Quinta do Noval Nacional. The Bordeaux were both fabulous, still vibrant and full of fruit and complexity but the Noval was certainly the best wine I've ever drank. Dr. Dick Peterson, winemaker for many years at BV and father of Heidi Peterson Barrett, brought a bottle to a gathering last year in Seattle. 1931 was his birth year (sorry Dick) and he was most generous in sharing his penultimate bottle. The wine was still quite youthful and packed with dense fruit and subtle sweetness with layers of complex notes. Given it's rarity and profound flavor it was most certainly a wine of a lifetime. When drinking these very old vintages I not only find a lot of pleasurein the flavors and textures but I also get a sense that I am tasting history, it's hard to explain but it gives one a sense of connection with the past.

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There's a lot to be said for well-executed, simple food (which isn't actually all that simple).

I'm sure it is quite cliche now, but you didn't taste this from a foam cup, did you? :-)

Seriously, clearly an outstanding wine event.

Dana

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