Bordeaux: The "Outer Years" (04, 08, 14, etc.)

[JustinP]

I’m a fan of 01 and 04, 01 a bit nicer and generally a little more generous but 04 generally cheaper. Both drinking well now. Haven’t tried many (any?) 08. Like 14 as well.

I had 04 Montrose and VCC recently, both great though the VCC really special. Notes here:

TNs: Some belated birthday wines - Goodfellow, Laherte, Martin Woods, Walter Scott, Duckhorn, Beringer, Montrose, VCC, Suduiraut

Over the weekend I had some old friends over for a late celebration of my birthday. These folks are in the “non-geek but like wine, go to wine country, etc.” category. As usual when I have this gang over for wine, the deal was that I supply the wine, and in return they have to listen to me yammer about it. Good trade! I put together four side-by-side flights based on categories of wine I’ve been exploring, with the hope that each pair would provide an interesting contrast. I think three of…

Lots of good notes and discussions in the Bordeaux thread on some of these years:

What Bordeaux are you drinking tonight?

It would be useful to have a running Bordeaux thread to go with the “Loire classification”, “recent Burg vintage experience”, etc. threads. Those region specific threads seem to encourage broader and more long-running conversations on their respective regions than do single tasting note posts or the general “what bottle did you open tonight” thread. So, starting this thread both for notes on the bottle you opened tonight and more general Bdx chat. Tonight for me: 2001 Leoville-Barton [IMG_77…