Seriously good, drinking beautifully! That being said, would benefit from another decade in the cellar.
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Have you revisited the 18 lately?
Was a monster in 2022. Unlike any young bdx I’ve ever had. I liked it but I’d be surprised if Mark does given his typical profile. I feel like there was a post somewhere…
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Found it.
Looks we hard it about the same time.
Mark’s note is right on the money.
How are the tannins?
Tannins are as one expect from a 2005, powerful but not rustic. The beginning of softening, but still a need to cellar.
The wine was a lot easier at the end of the evening.
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Thanks for the look.
2005 Palmer is among the few Bordeaux that I bit on at release, and am storing from, 2005 which was the last meaningful volume Bordeaux vintage purchase for me.
Just my experience on the property here. Great, great stuff during, and at about, the bookends of the 80s, including 1990. Other than the 1999, quiet in the rest of the 90s. Revved up with great stuff, relative to the vintage, in 2000/01/02/04/05.
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, the greatest Bordeaux I ever tasted was the 1961. Every year, I would go to the primeur tastings, and wonder if they would make another. The 2005 is assuredly not; it’s a great wine, and fifteen years from now, it will be a glorious wine, but that extra degree of complexity and finish are missing.
The only time I have ever left Palmer, and thought maybe, just maybe, this is it was when I tasted the 2010s. It was mind boggling. Not just the grand vin, but the Alter Ego as well. The Alter Ego is a wine I usually dismiss; very good but not worth the money. I bought some, and they have been great drinking for some years.
Tasting the Palmerwas certainly a candidate Even here, I am not sure; fabulous as the wine it was, I don’t know has that multilayered full flavored finality of the ‘61.
It will be interesting to see what the 18 does with time.