I usually just lurk here, but must report a sort of double miracle. Night before last I pulled a bottle of 2000 Ch. Plaisance to go with braised shor t ribs. Unfortunately the highly rated (by some), inexpensive wine was und rinkable. Smelled and tasted like nail polish (or what I imagine nail poli sh to taste like). It was summarily dumped out. In the slot in my cooled space (I'm in Florida, and I have an above ground, built-in wine "cellar" that I keep at a relatively warm 63 degrees F.) I f ound an old forgotten bottle. It was the 1982 Chateau la Garde (Graves). The wine was beautiful claret. Nice mahogany to purple still. Lovely ceda ry, earthy nose, and in perfect balance on the palate. Coffee, tea, what I take to be forest floor, all around a lovely core of cassis, black cherry, and plum notes with silky tannins. A full one-minute, layered finish. The second miraculous part of the episode is that I remembered buying the w ine in about 1985 when I was just beginning to buy wine to lay down. I got it at a beer store that had a bit of cheap wine. My price, $3.79! Can't think of a better value in my experience.
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11 years ago