WTN: '70 Ducru

For various reasons, we decided to have our Easter dinner a day early, so on Saturday cooked a leg of lamb in a vaguely Basque style and served it with oven-roasted Peruvian purple fingerling potatoes and asparagus (I gave the morels in the store a long, hard look but passed as they were $40 a carton and not locally sourced yet). With this repast, we brought forth from the cellar:

1970 Ducru-Beaucaillou
color: dark red-purple center going orange at the rim
nose: modest cedary overtones to dark fruit, becoming herbal later
palate: medium body, fruity mid-palate, lovely secondary nuances, fully resolved tannins, harmonious, balanced

This was the last of a cache purchased jointly with Dale last year or so, and probably the best of the lot. Its most impressive aspect was its balance and harmony. It retained a freshness to its fruit and seemed quite primary initially upon opening, but later took on subtle but distinct secondary elements of an herbal-tobacco nature. Just lovely with the lamb, despite the liberal use of garlic, thyme and oregano in the marinade.

Mark Lipton

Glad to hear it's drinking well Mark. I have a bottle of this stashed away, and will probably drink a bit more than a year from now for my 40th.

thanks for note. I took one of mine to Apiary last night, showed fairly well (we were doing blind, and ended up with an accidental vertical- 70, 75, 82). I've got one left. Will write up notes this afternoon.