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[TN] '96 Lagrange

Tonight, Jean and I celebrated our return home from vacation and the end of the semester with a dinner of roasted rack of lamb and sauteed asparagus. A good bottle of wine was called for, so Jean retrieved from the cellar:

1996 Ch. Lagrange (St. Julien) color: dark garnet with no bricking nose: CEDAR, dark fruit, herbs palate: fine grained tannins, strong acidic core, ripe fruit, herbal character

The wine Jean originally went down for wasn't there (she later recalled pulling it at Christmas) so she came up with this bottle. Still very youthful, it was reasonably ready to drink after a decant. Classic Bordeaux character came through, which was very reassuring after a few less-than-classic Bordeauxs recently. Great with the lamb, this was a classic Bordeaux experience for me.

Mark Lipton

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Lawrence Leichtman

I've been drinking a few of my '96 Bordeaux and I'm finding a lot of hit and misses as far as maturity. I like Bordeaux on the front edge to middle of the aging peak. I'm find some especially Pauillac that are still quite young and slightly closed. I had a '96 Palmer recently that was a bit further on showing nice upfront fruit but plenty of secondary notes of cedar and tobacco so Margaux may beginning to age a bit more.

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