6 certifiable fun-geeks, a conducive and comfortable round table, having dinner in NYC, and drinking Bordeaux (drank blind), a Piedmont (drank blind) and Champagne. Too busy enjoying everyone’s company and food, and so, no formal notes were taken by me. But I would rank the wines great to good, with each wine classically distinguishing themselves from one another.
November 25, 2024
#domainepascalagrapart Minéral Extra Brut Champagne #EtienneCalsac Les Revenants Champagne #FrancescoRinaldiEFigli 1996 Barolo Le Brunate #GrandPuyLacoste 1982 Pauillac #Pichon_Comtesse de Lalande 1983 Pauillac #Pichon_Comtesse de Lalande 1986, Pauillac #ChateauLaLaguneOfficiel 1988, Haut-Medoc #ChateauMagdelaine 1988, Saint-Emilion #Beychevelle1855 1989, Saint-Julien
Trattoria One Fifth. $10 corkage on Mondays although they didn’t charge us anything. Second time there. I find the apps to be meh but the pastas are excellent as is the steak and chicken.
Patrick,
All wines, iirc, were decanted in advance of arriving at the restaurant but I did not ask around which wine(s) were left longer in their respective decanters. All wines, imo, were in good drinking shape. I simply uncorked the ‘88 Magdelaine to smell-check before I left home. Took home 25% remainder from last night and am drinking it now and it still is in pleasant drinking shape.
Fwiw, the ‘96 Rinaldi Brunate needed all of 1.5 decanter hours and it showed well.
I thought it could be my WOTN when first poured but when I went back to it later it had fallen off some. So I would say that based on this bottle, one should drink sooner rather than later. I’ll probably open another bottle some time this winter. I’ll let you know how they compare.
