Community Tasting Note

rocknroller wrote:

Monday, April 22, 2019 - BV Georges de Latour Vertical from 4 Decades: '64, '80, '84, '89, '98 (St. Paul, MN): Very dark red plus color with a 3mm clear margin. Splash decanted and drank a glass over almost 2 hours. A beautiful showing for the '98, eclpised only by the ethereal '64. It didn't start out that way though. Initial aromas suggested somewhat stewed fruit, mission fig and brown sugar and thoughts that this didn't hold up or was heat damaged. Yet there was none of those qualities on the palate ever. Then the dramatic evolution in glass began as first the stewed character slipped away and then a perfume emerged that cocntinued to build over the next hour. The perfume was a high pitched mix of crushed flowers and black and blue fruits, cedarbox, lead pencil and a fruitcake like mix of dried fruits and spices. The palate espoused those same characteristics in a well blended mix of dark berries, cassis and more subtle blue fruits, pencil, mineral, Medium body and round tannins. This really needed the oxygen to shed the old bottle aromas and blossom. Lots of life left here and a wine that will still reward further aging I think.

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