A Vintage Bordeaux Tasting, 3 Heavyweights From 1988

A Vintage Bordeaux Tasting, 3 Heavyweights From 1988 – Episode #504

July 18, 2008

Back flying solo but still in Bordeaux, Gary Vaynerchuk tastes 1988 Cos d’Estournel, Margaux, and Latour.

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One impressed me was a bottle of 1988Leoville Las Casas,it o…” by old man
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Wines tasted in this episode:

Chateau Cos D Estournel 1988
Chateau Margaux 1988
Chateau Latour 1988

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July 19, 2008

Ken
Very interesting about these old wines,I dont think I could hold a bottle for that long,and like someone stated previously I wouldnt spend that much money on a wine.
Unless I had that kind of cash on me
July 19, 2008

Garry M.
Enjoyed the show but I gotta say QPR is way too
important to me to spend that kind of cash on a
bottle of wine when there is an abundance of wine
that is just as enjoyable for 1/3 those prices.
And if you spend $300 on a bottle of wine just to
impress someone… well that’s just obscene.
Maybe I would feel different if I had Gary V. money
but I don’t.
But that’s just my opinion.
July 19, 2008

Phil M
It’s Bordeaux. It’s classic vintages. It’s Gary V. “is it plugged in?…are you sure?” “it says 4 minutes” I love it! Keepin’ it real in freakin’ BORDEAUX!!!! Gary V nails it every time. Who ya gonna believe? The kid from dirty Jersey, that’s who!
July 19, 2008

Pebbles
Excellent show! I was lucky enough to try La Tour’s second wine from 1978. Even with less than proper storage, it was pretty good.

Any way you can do a garagiste wine show on a July 30th show? My husband would *love* it.
July 19, 2008

Jim in Atlanta
QOTD – Don’t think I have had any really high end bordeaux’s that were aged for a long period of time. Have had some middle range bordeaux’s that had been aged a few years and they were good.
July 19, 2008

HÃ©ctor Alvarez-Trujillo
Great show Gary> I’m a Bordeaux lover too, extraordinaries wines. About my favorite, althought it is very hard for me to decide between I’ll go with Lafitte 96…
July 19, 2008

Tim Delaney
Great episode. I have not had the pleasure of tasting any vintage bordeauxs but I hope I will soon. I turn 21 in less than a week!
July 19, 2008

James H
About 4 years ago i had an 89 Chateau Petrus, AKA The Monster. It was a wine experience that I will never forget. We were drooling from both corners of our mouths:-)
July 19, 2008

hasbeen
QOTD: A 1985 from St. Julien, unfortunately I don’t recall the Chateau .
July 19, 2008

ninefingers
1964 Ch. Latour in Philadelphia (Le Bec Fin restaurant. The waiter opened the bottle (last one in the restaurant storage) about 20-25 feet away and I could smell the wine at the table within seconds.
Had the owner/cook Georges Perier come over and invited him to has a sample.

Great meal!!
but the following day (sunday) I pulled my left index finger off doing gardening work with an GE ElecTrac. (Pulling grape roots out of the ground)
July 19, 2008

ninefingers
Remember that the corks in the Louis Martini CS (episode #432) were in good shape. Shows that proper storage, in your own home works also.
July 19, 2008

OzJeff
A 1995 ChÃ¢teau Deyrem Valentin (Cru Bourgeois) from the Margaux. Delicious wine from a property surrounded by first growths.
July 19, 2008

Andrew Kellner
QOTD: 1982 Leoville Las Casas. We had our doubts that any wine could really earn 100 point rating. While perfection is a tough thing to identify, that wine was pretty close for me. Side note, after drinking it the (VERY GENEROUS) host brought out the Opus One and we all looked at each other in amazement how the Opus was like drinking grape jelly after the Las Casas.
July 19, 2008

Leif erik Sundstrom
QOTD : most pleasurable was ‘82 Mouton….most interesting was ‘47 Mouton. Unfortunately I only got to simply taste each of these. But both were incredible pleasure and educational experiences.
July 19, 2008

Kdawg
QOTD: if we are going off of my own personal ratings, it would be both the 90 Pichon Baron and 90 Montrose. Both were profound bottles and the Montrose showed why it got the 100 score from Parker. I also scored a 95 D’yquem very high and a 95 Angelus very high, but the company and feeling of fun went into those ratings more then anything else.

I’m hoping to top that by the end of the year with an 82 LaLande or a 82 Las Cases

that said, none of the mature bordeauxs that I’ve had compare to the utterly primal 96 Lafite. It was just scary good and made me ache for more
July 19, 2008

Jose Corona
QOTD: 1982 Chateau Latour a few months ago……It was unreal!!!!
July 19, 2008

terroirist
The only thing semi-close wine I’ve had (I guess that it’s French.. haha..) is an 82′ Sauternes I had for last Thanksgiving. Hmm.. I guess I have not had a pre- 95′ Bordeaux! Damn You Vaynerchuk! oh well… It’ll happen.. Nice trio of episodes in Bordeaux. I dig the traveling shows. Very nice. You should go down and hit the nice smaller Southern French wines. I’d love to see you do (or me do) a show from Chateauneuf Du Pape. That would be nice..

aka Mike in Nebraska.
July 19, 2008

Withnail
QOTD: (tie) 1982 Mouton Rothschild and 1982 Leoville Las Cases
(had both twice)
July 19, 2008

Chief Tootles.
I’m beginning to enjoy Bordeaux a little more lately.
QOTD: Never had an old Bordeaux.
July 19, 2008

Rossodio
Well, it’s not a red bordeaux, but it’s a bordeaux… the 1990 Chateau Suiduiraut – Sauternes, but ridiculously nice. My own rating was 95 points.

If we’re talking strictly about red Bordeaux, then I’d have to say the nicest I’ve had is the 1970 Chateau du Domaine de l’Eglise. Very very nice, but I think that the magnum I drank from had been exposed to a bit of heat at some point or another. Regardless, a phenominal wine.
July 19, 2008

Bobby Wino
I had a a bottle of Sauternes from the 50’s a couple months ago…A beautiful rust/orangey color with tons of sweet delicious flavor
July 19, 2008

Fatdoi
qotd….. never
July 19, 2008

Richard Ritter
Well…they can obviously make great wine in Bordeaux but they can’t make a table to save their lives. I’m suprised the bottles stayed upright!

QOTD: I’ve probably had several pre 95 Bordeaux wines, but I’m still searching for “the one”.
July 19, 2008

senator
What a coincidence! I had those same three wines for dinner tonight!
July 19, 2008

Tyler RM
Another great one from the tour!

QOTD: N/A