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TN: 8 Pauillacs, an Alsace, and a Chablis walk into a steakhouse

Our city Bordeaux group got back to Bordeaux last night, with a Pauillac th eme. I double-decanted my initial candidate- unmistakably corked- but a dif ferent bottle seemed fine, and I jumped on train. UN General Assembly and c limate summit meant gridlock, but luckily (for me at least) we were at Mort on's, an easy walk from Grand Central.

First white was blind. Ripe/tropical fruit, balanced acids, a little soft o n finish but tasty. My guess was a riper Sancerre like a Cotat. Nope. 2004 Fevre "Les Preuses" Chablis GC. B

1983 Trimbach "Cuvee Frederic Emile" Riesling Vendange Tardive Minerally, petrol, citrus. Long and full, this was great, thanks Ramon! A-

First time back at Mortons in a while. Service was good, I enjoyed a choppe d salad (though not very food friendly) and the shared porterhouse was good (though I think they wet age). Nice sides (fries, Lyonnais potatoes, brocc oli, spinach creamed and not). On to the Pauillacs. Ben had brought his special blind bags, and we each ba gged our wines, and then they were randomly grabbed and numbered.

Pauillac #1 - Lean, not very giving, harder tannin. B/B- (got better in gla ss)

Pauillac #2 - Barnyard and earth over cassis fruit B+ (good but gets even b etter in glass.)

Pauillac #3 - Warm lush fruits, broad and long, earthy full. A-

Pauillac #4 Drier tannins, a peculiar medicinal note (someone thought corke d but I didn't get that). a bit hard. B-

Pauillac #5 Big tannins, but strong fruit as well, forest floor, good lengt h. B+

Pauillac #6 Full, tannic, some heat on finish. B/B-

Pauillac #7 Tannic, structured, great fruit, this should be great in time. B+/A-

Pauillac #8 There's a herby overlay to red fruit (Chris says Ludens Cherry Cough Drop). tannic. B/B+

We voted using our usual 3/2/1 method. Some people changed votes as they re tasted before voting, I stuck with original notes.

Pauillac #1 - 1982 Grand Puy Lacoste (2 votes)

Pauillac #2 1999 Mouton-Rothschild (16 votes)

Pauillac #3 1996 Pichon Baron (15 votes)

Pauillac #4 1995 Lynch Bages (0 votes)

Pauillac #5 1986 Pichon Lalande (4 votes)

Pauillac #6 1986 Pichon Lalande (0 votes)

Pauillac #7 1990 Grand Puy Lacoste (11 votes)

Pauillac #8 1995 Lynch Bages (0 votes)

Frank's wine was the '99 Mouton, so he got free dinner Amazing that we had 2 pairings out of 8 wines. Even wilder, my original cor ked bottle was the 96 Pichon Baron -and Frank had brought a backup- the 96 Pichon Baron. We could have conceivably only had 4 wines represented. Fun night

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a p arty where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivi ty, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

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DaleW
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theme. I double-decanted my initial candidate- unmistakably corked- but a d ifferent bottle seemed fine, and I jumped on train. UN General Assembly and climate summit meant gridlock, but luckily (for me at least) we were at Mo rton's, an easy walk from Grand Central.

on finish but tasty. My guess was a riper Sancerre like a Cotat. Nope. 200

4 Fevre "Les Preuses" Chablis GC. B

ped salad (though not very food friendly) and the shared porterhouse was go od (though I think they wet age). Nice sides (fries, Lyonnais potatoes, bro ccoli, spinach creamed and not).

bagged our wines, and then they were randomly grabbed and numbered.

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ked but I didn't get that). a bit hard. B-

y Cough Drop). tannic. B/B+

retasted before voting, I stuck with original notes.

orked bottle was the 96 Pichon Baron -and Frank had brought a backup- the 9

6 Pichon Baron. We could have conceivably only had 4 wines represented.

e, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objecti vity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

Any idea why the two bottles of '86 Pichon Lalande showed so differently?

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lleichtman

Lots of possibilities- different storage histories would be prime "suspect" , but there are other possibilities- random cork oxygen ingress variation (see the AWRI studies, corks in same case can have huge variability) is ano ther. And of course there is taster issues too- I for instance claim no con sistency! Genius taster will never be used to describe me.

But while I liked #5 much more (more fruit, no apparent heat) they both sho wed tannic. Similarly, no one recognized the 2 95 Lynch Bages as same wine (though they both showed tannic and herby/medicinal).

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DaleW

We were discussing chaptalisation in another thread (powders), I know for a fact this wine is chaptilised which is impressive in '82!

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Emery Davis

Is Lynch Bages the most overrated wine in M?doc? It regularly hits the 150 euro mark and...

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santiago

Dale,

Lynch-Bages, even rappers know what it is, hell they even know how to pronounce it.

Glad to see that AFW is still going. I will check in more often. I have a hunch that usenet may be the future of social networking. Seems very 3.0 once you look at what goes on in wine discussions on FB... ;-)

cheers

Mike

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Mike Tommasi

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