Great to have within a mile or so of our house in Briarcliff. A really interesting store set up with many bottles on display which would have the average wine lover salivating.
Equally interesting were the bottles offered for tasting. The Pichon Lalande 1982 out of double magnum, was extraordinary, and hard not to give it a perfect score. The Lafite 1982 alongside was very good, but the Pichon was more complex, more intense and a lot prettier. Two other Bordeaux were on the same table both from 2020, a Leoville Las Cases and a Montrose. Both promising, the Las Cases with its trademark precision and length, Montrose was brilliant and arguably better than 2019.
Schrader was not my cup of tea. Leave it at that. But the Vogue Musigny 2022 was. John Gilman pointed to changes to the estate, and the purity of the wine reflected this. Stunning bottle.
Mark, it was nice running into you and Nancy yesterday and hard to disagree with your preference of the perfect DMAG of 82 Lalande over the 82 Lafite but I think it was the 20 Palmer alongside the 20 Las Cases.
