look what happens when mott’s not around… haha just kidding

qotd: a little too young to have been given an opportunity to try a bordeaux older than ’95, in fact, i don’t think i’ve had one older than 2000.

I just purchased some 2005 Bordeaux last week to store and drink later. However, I’ve never drank Bordeaux. I’ll being purchasing some very soon to drink right away!

Very interesting, like looking at the older wines.

QOTD – I don’t have much experience with any older wines… yet!

Very classy show. I wish you would have a tea show, maybe a one-time show like the sake show.
QOTD: I don’t think I’ve had an older Bordeaux. I was drinking Cold Duck before 1995.

QOTD:1970 Chateau Mouton Rothschild.
Fine times fine friends……..the best Bordeaux I’ll ever have!

QOTD: Never had a Bordeaux that old. Do have a 98 and several 2003s waiting to be ready to drink tho. So hard for the “average” wine lover to get or afford old Bordeauxs!

Another great one from the tour!

QOTD: N/A 🙁

What a coincidence! I had those same three wines for dinner tonight! 🙂

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”.

qotd….. never

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

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.

I’m beginning to enjoy Bordeaux a little more lately.
QOTD: Never had an old Bordeaux.

QOTD: (tie) 1982 Mouton Rothschild and 1982 Leoville Las Cases
(had both twice)

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.

QOTD: 1982 Chateau Latour a few months ago……It was unreal!!!!

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

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.

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.

A 1995 Château Deyrem Valentin (Cru Bourgeois) from the Margaux. Delicious wine from a property surrounded by first growths.

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.

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)

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

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:-)

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!