TN: '79 Pichon Baron, '05 Huet, '93 Bouchard, etc

I hear much better reports re the Pichon Lalande, and look forward to trying it.

Interesting, Dale. Looking back at my notes, I find that I had the '01 version of this wine (yum!) and the '02 Loibnergarten Smaragd from Donabaum, both of which were superb. I don't doubt for an instant that pasta carbonara didn't show it to its fullest extent ;-)

Mark Lipton

No big surprise. IIRC, Baron in that era was considered a notorious underachiever, and only came into the forefront after a change in ownership in the '80s. Confirmation?

Mark Lipton

I thought that the change came in mid-70s, the '81 is at least good and the '82 quite good. But up until the excellent 1990 there are still off efforts. This wasn't expensive, part of a lot with other wines I actually wanted, by my calculations I probably paid virtually nothing (I'd have paid the same or close for lot w/o the Baron).

The good th> DaleW wrote:

Mark Lipton wrote: I don't doubt for an instant that

In the interest of marital harmony, sometimes when there are 3 open bottles one chooses NOT to open a new one. :)

Ah, marital bliss.

Longeuville has always appealed more to my taste but even the '79 Longueville was tired the last time I tasted it. I still have one more bottle but am not eager to taste it. I think it was '79, many French wines from that vintage faded faster than they should have.