1982 Bordeaux Tasting or The Heat Episode?

1982 Bordeaux Tasting or The Heat Episode? – Episode #166

January 15, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

Is today the long awaited heat episode? Watch today as Gary tastes a 1982 Bordeaux that was stored in less than ideal conditions. See how it held up.

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October 19, 2009

John J.
qotd so far the 82 pichon longueville comtesse de lalande i got to try.

Gary, you should try doing a vin jaune episode
May 28, 2009

Phredd
QOTD: I graduated from high school that year. Back then, I wouldn’t have touched a bottle of wine with a ten-foot pole.
April 25, 2009

tcatjo
1982: My daughter, Tori was born.
April 6, 2008

Grif
My first favorite vintage wine was a 1982 Rodney Strong Pinot Noir. It was probably â€™85 or â€™86 when I had it. It was an oak monster but oak was a new flavor for me at the time and I loved it. I still appreciate a little oak.
June 8, 2007

ktw
1982-launch of the first compact disc player changed my life
March 1, 2007

Alos Diallo
Well I was 2 years old haha
January 20, 2007

Vinacull
A combination of Eau de armpit and mushroom soup makes for an intriguing EP Gary. However in my mind, the mystique surrounding the LONG-awaited heat episode continues (Tony?!?!). QOTD: The year of heavy concert-going for me. Ted Nugent’s Scream Dream tour, Ozzy Ozbourne’s Blizzard of Oz (and a little known band called Def Leppard opened up for them), and favorite moment was the ASIA concert where Carl Palmer did a 20 minute solo on a revolving drum set that had every last person in the place on their feet – amazing virtuosity even if people did think Heat of the Moment was trite. Unfortunately I have no great wine drinking memory from that year because I was just a junior in high school.
January 18, 2007

Yo Pauli
I was surprised that the wine wasn’t lighter in color? I’ve read that reds get lighter with age, and you would think that twenty years would be plenty of time to lighten it up a bit?

82? Its all a blur.

Thanks for the fun wine podcast!
January 16, 2007

SoCalDaveBandito
THANKS GARY!!

I dragged my Mac out to the kitchen, am sitting around getting some work done and eating dinner while watching episode #166 and you go and drop an A.J. Duhe bomb on me. There goes my appetite. I hope that Bordeaux was stored in an oven. ha. (kidding of course)

Lance Mehl? Of course I remember Lance Mehl. There were alot of great players on that ‘82 vintage Jets team: the NY Sack Exchange (Gastineau, Klecko, Lyons & Salaam), Freeman McNeil, Wesley Walker, Greg Buttle, Lam Jones, Pat Leahy… Unfortunately they were led by Richard Todd. Oh well.

But my favorite moment of ‘82 though was when the New York Islanders beat those Canucks for their 3rd straight Stanley Cup.
January 16, 2007

Shotgun
Sorry Gair, crappy episode, EXCEPT for the QOD:

Best thing in 1982 for me? (you can relate)–

Birth of a healthy son, thriving still…
January 16, 2007

GeneV
Six weeks in Germany, Southern France and Spain. The last time I got to take a vacation that long.
January 16, 2007

Brooklyn Paul
Good energy for your 3rd/4th show of the day! Thanks!

QOTD: 1882 – New York Islanders won their 3rd straight Stanley Cup. Woo-hoo!
January 16, 2007

Jtk
Gary great episode! QOTD: The Bordeaux vintage 82, and the fact that i was just starting kindergarten. Cheers ~~~
January 16, 2007

CampingLisaB
1982…Hmmm…that would be the end of my freshman year of high school. First boyfriend…
January 16, 2007

chayut
Actually, I don’t think this wine was heated enough to ruin the wine because if the wine was heated, the cork should pop out a little bit.
January 16, 2007

Italian Stallion
I saw your post Brandon…..Eye of the Tiger is still one of my favs
January 16, 2007

Greg Allen
QOTD: Favorite thing of ‘82 would have to be that I was born July 27!!!! Rock on!!
January 16, 2007

Tim Tamblin
It wasn’t exactly 1982 but the show today sparked a similar memory. I opened a non-cellared ‘87 Lytton Springs Zinfandel last September for my wife’s B-day patry with a small group of wine friends and though drinkable, it was clearly on it’s way out. The fruit had that old barnyard jammy-ness with a hint of Port and what could almost have been described as TCA-ish(corked), but it wasn’t. There was a ton of sediment as it clearly wasn’t heavily fined or filtered, if at all. The brave souls who stepped up to the plate for a try found it a unique experience and did their best to sustain my fragile ego by complimenting what was redeemable about this otherwise terrific wine(I had this old vine beauty back in ‘89 when it was in it’s prime).

When all was said and done,(the bottle was consumed by 3 diehards)the consensus was that “it was what it was”. Clearly they were stoked to have been a part of tasting a piece of Sonoma County history as Ridge purchased Lytton Springs in ‘91. When I bought the wine, it came directly from their old barn style tasting room which was the way it used to be here. Having lived in this area since ‘75 I desperately miss the old tasting rooms(which were also the same buildings where the wines were made)as they were so delightful compared to the new, so called improved versions. I still have the ‘88 and ‘89 to quaff so we’ll see what waits in store…
January 16, 2007

Lawrence Leichtman
Fun episode but I have had the opposite experience several times including several dried out ‘66 Ducru, 70 and 79 Pinchon Longueville. So it can go either way. Earlier writer asked about Cheval Blanc. Went to a vertical tasting of ‘59-94. The ‘70 was fabulous but the best was ‘76, the ‘82 was still a baby and definite infanticide there.

Best thing about ‘82 was my youngest son being born and going to work for a new medical practice.
January 16, 2007

Len C
QOTD – Bought my first motorcyle!!!
January 16, 2007

Oregon Jim
Started the Family Business with my Dad, and my first daughter was born~! A great year. Dad’s retired and still puts an ice cube in his red wine but my daughter’ now a CPA and starting to appreciate good Pinot Noir even if it’s sometimes not from Oregon (rhymes with “Shotgun” not “bygone” so say I rode shotgun on the Oregon Trail.)
January 16, 2007

Grasshopper
Sensei,

Great episode and I am sure someone above may have said the same thing, but to truly test how this wine held up after not being stored “correctly” is to taste it side by side with a 1982 that had. Even though the bottle you tasted had not gone bad or to vinegar does not mean it still is delivering the way it should or could.

I also think you should have opened and paused the tape and come back two hours later and given the wine a real chance to show itself. I bet you guys drank it later in the day…how was it??

Your humble student…

Grasshopper
January 16, 2007

Bear Down
Gary,

Great episode. I’ve been priviledged to drink a lot of aged wines. They’re great! They can be a crap shoot, but if you stick to the bigger reputable auctions houses, they’re a pretty safe buy. Also reputable secondary retailors. I will not mention who I work for, but I do work in the secondary market. They have specialists that carefully inspect the wines and check their provenence. I know we turn down consignments where I work all of the time due to passive storage etc.

You’re right Gary. Wine is a lot tougher than people give it credit for.

‘Bear Down.
January 16, 2007

Mary
My oldest daughter, Madelyn. She means everything to me, only bad thing is that she is not in the whole wine thing.
January 16, 2007

MaryS
QOD: 1982 – Blizzard in April dumps 2 feet of snow on NJ. Same day I turned 17 and took the road test for my driver’s licence. Test was early, snow was falling fast, but I passed