Betsy made ribeyes with a black olive sauce, broccoli with parmesan and lemon, and a sweet potato for our Valentines dinner. When she said ribeye I had envisioned a fairly serious Bordeaux, but when I saw the olive vinaigrette and the lemon on the broccoli, I decided to scale back what I was opening. A more modest wine, a half of the 1996 Ch. Talbot (St Julien), did well. Rich cassis fruit, some cigarbox and leather, a little smoke. Ripe, decent acidity, with some lingering tannins. Not a great Bordeaux, but a great value (I paid bought a case of 375s at $290 a couple years ago, this is a nice $12 half bottle!). B
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