by Jenise » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:22 pm
And here ares two TN's of my own:
1994 Chateau Roche Brun
I can finally answer one of Dale's questions. This is a St. Emilion. I still have no idea where I purchased it or why, but my inventory shows a price of $30 meaning it didn't just walk into our cellar on its own. And what was it like? Awful. Strange and necrotic nose of apple butter and resin. Bob found it attractive, I didn't. The first sip wasn't awful, but the fourth or fifth was. It crashed in nanoseconds, and we donated it to the camellias. So we opened:
1994 Chateau Canon
Another St. Emilion. Very nice wine and drinking well now. Nose has spicy red fruit and fungal tones that made me wish I was serving it with something mushroomy. (As it was, we were drinking it with smoked salmon still warm from the smoking. Not a good choice but this was the wine I wanted to drink and the food I had to eat, so we were happy to make do.) Had the austerity of the vintage and therefore none of the sensuous qualities aged St. Emilions can have in more generous vintages, but it was a nice if not stellar bottle of wine which, based on slight, but only slight, fading over the two hours we drank it would seem to be past peak. Drink up!
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov