By: Simon Roberts
So Dave and I are heading to Hong Kong in a couple of weeks for some client dinners and tastings. A good amount of planning has gone into the trip with the best part……..tasting and deciding what to take. We got together with a few lucky members and tasted some likely candidates. As the saying goes, it’s a tough job but someone has to do it! I mean you have to make sure everything is drinking well…right?
1996 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet – You have to love this producer, just pure quality and focus in the wine making techniques that shows through time and time again. This Batard has laser like concentration and it is just starting to develop nice butterscotch and honeyed nuances, it leaves a very moreish taste in the mouth……..this bottle did not last long at all.
1982 Pichon Lalande – Showstopper the last two times I have tasted it and this bottle did not let me down..magic in a glass for me, just pure essence of the left bank..the balance and softness of this wine stuns me everytime.
1989 Dujac Clos De La Roche – Okay…..now I know…I have definitely been Dujacked! This wine was sublime. Bing Cherry exploding form the glass…truffle and smoke…wow..this was a mindbender.
1989 Chateau Clinet Pomerol – Smoking good Bordeaux, this legendary right bank is drinking right on the money right now. It has totally fleshed out and is drinking with precision and balance, cedar, forest floor on the nose, plum and camphor on the palate……..you have to love Bordeaux when it drinks like this.
We will be tasting more tonight and I will report back, some Guigal and Hudelot to try amongst others……need to be sure they are drinking……….it’s just the right thing to do!