New William Kelley mega-article on Bordeaux today

[Jim_Stewart]

FWIW I enjoyed an ‘82 du Tertre a couple of years back. Here is my rambling note on the experience.

TN: 1982 Chateau du Tertre, Margaux, Bordeaux

Yeah, I know, my TNs can go on (and on) . . . I had a case of this wine disappear in the 1990’s due to teenage hijnks(and admittedly parental shortcomings), but I found a single bottle recently at Cellar-Raiders and thought WTH. With expectations set low, but also with hope kept alive by an incorrigible naivete for things to turn out well, I plunged the corkscrew into the butter-like cork. The cork was totally wine soaked and the last ¼ in fell into the bottle. (hmmm. . . maybe this is a wine f…