Notes from an anniversary dinner with friends:
With steak tartare:
1995 Daniel Rion Chambolle Musigny ‘Les Beaux Bruns’ – love Rion, but haven’t had much of this particular wine before. Good colour and some mustiness in the nose, which passed away fairly quickly, leaving fairly deep pure fruit. Still showing soft tannins, decent midpalate fruit and decent length. Not bad.
With rare lamb chops:
1982 Ch. La Lagune – I have been holding this ever since release, testing a bottle out every few years. This one was a definite wow! The best so far and an indication that the wine is at peak. Very good depth of colour, and a good pure fruit – cassis, and raspberry, with undertones of vanilla and on palate more cherry in nature, so sweet and tasty that we both looked at each other and smiled, and went ‘Oh yeah!’. Smooth across the palate, good weight and long sweet finish, not drying at all. My only regret is that I didn’t lay down two cases on release instead of one!