TN: 2004 Chateau Lascombes

WINE TALK
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After the stellar showing with Executive Wine Seminars, I decided to give this bottle a taste last Friday night. Opened at noon and threw in the decanter until dinner time around 7PM.

Color is deep, dark purple with no signs of red. Acacia flowers and fresh earth on the nose along with some dark fruits. Palate is expansive with cherries, smoke, coffee and upfront new oak. Finish lasts almost a minute and brings the coffee/espresso note back. A stellar effort.

I have very limited exposure to the 2004 Bordeauxs as well as Margaux in general, so I won’t say that this does not show its terroir. I do know that it isn’t you father’s, or grandfather’s for that matter, BDX. This is a big, modern wine that should appeal to big, rich CA Cab fans…such as myself. I had the 2004 Pavie two weeks ago, and at this stage of the game, I prefere the Lascombes. At half to a third the price of Pavie, this is a no brainer to pick more up.

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whats the going rate for these?

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Currently at Costco down here, they are $59.99 each. And, they are sitting on cases of it.

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Thanks for the note Bill. I picked up 3 of these soon after release (for about $39 per, but have yet to pop one. I looked at one in the cellar yesterday as I was moving it to get to a zin I was after and was wondering how they are doing. So your note is very timely.

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$39 is a back up the truck price for wine of this quality. $60 is a value IMHO.

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What ca cab’s would you compare it to?

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I had it next to a 1999 Phelps Insignia on Friday night and it is in that style…big oak up front with good fruit extraction. What it really reminds me of is the 1996 Opus One that I felt was stellar while young.

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Surprise, Surprise. You can give EWS the credit Bill, but you know my TN on this wine 2 weeks ago got you to drive to Costco. [whistle2.gif]
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Oh be quiet.

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Geez, you must have liked the damn wine, you even posted a TN on epuppeteer.com the Winery Advocate.

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I had this wine at release in Hawaii. it was very nice, although I wasn’t gaga over it. But I was glad that I knew that I had 4 in the cellar. Plus, it was a far sight above the 03.

However, the 03 was supposedly better after a year in bottle. And I guess that I am thinking that the 04 is teh same: that Lascombs shows better when it has settled in the bottle for a year or two.

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I opened an 03 last weekend to compare the two and the 03 sucked. The wine had more wood than the nudist colony when Salma visited. No comparison. If that wine got better in the last year, it was paint thinner back then.

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Guilty. Plus there might be a bit of a troll for America’s foremost BDX blogger out there.

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That was my complaint about it when I had it at release. And I am someone who si very tolerant of oak.

BTW: A very sexy Salma hayek is on the cover of the WebMD journal this month. Most medical journals don’t have such nice covers.

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Bill’s just a posting whore - he doesn’t care where he spreads his TN’s, he’s a player.