Above 1 magnum and 2 bottles per lot
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Quinta do Noval--Vintage 1963
Level: bottom neck(1)
Fonseca--Vintage 1977
Level: bottom neck(1)
Graham's--Vintage 1977
Level: into neckmagnum (1)
Above 1 magnum and 2 bottles per lot
Level: bottom neck(1)
Fonseca--Vintage 1977
Level: bottom neck(1)
Graham's--Vintage 1977
Level: into neckmagnum (1)
Above 1 magnum and 2 bottles per lot
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SOME 1961 CHAMBERTINS AT HOME, APRIL 21 1987
CHAMBERTIN, PAUL BOUCHARD 1961, 20++++
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, PIERRE PONNELLE 1961, 20++
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, LUPE CHOLET 1961, 20
RULLY, MOILLARD 1983, 18
CHATEAU TAYMOND LAFON 1979, 18
REMARKS:John Lawless has not had much exposure to CHAMBERTINS. I promised to treat him to some of the best wines from this commune in a effort, as it were, to leave an indelible footprint on his tongue. Tough the wines from CHAMBERTIN are my favourites (sic), they are very scarce in my cellar. Not much of it is made and even less reaches these shores. Anyway, it was not difficult to find the above since I've been hoarding them.
CHAMBERTIN, PAUL BOUCHARD 1961: The nose was very complex with lots and lots of different fruit beyond the plummy cassis that I always associate with Burgundies. The taste was assertive and powerful with the fruit promised by the nose as well as a hint of flowers. A wine of great breed whose massive sweet fruit seemed to linger for ever on the tongue leaving perhaps a hint of roses as it faded away. I scored it 5+ in every category hence the extraordinary 20++++. The best wine of the evening. When I tasted this wine for the very first time it was a huge ball of tannin with very little promise. A couple of years ago it seemed it was still uninviting leaving me with considerable doubt as to its future!
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, PIERRE PONNELLE 1961: The massive fruit and the spice reminiscent of a DRC wine was very unlike the delightful if rather shy wine I remembered. The taste was just as great as the bouquet, spice and all, with promise for further improvement, with the time, as indicated by the trace of tannin in the finish. It is very difficult to imagine a wine this delicious ripening to something even better. Vive le temps. Well worth the 20++.
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, LUPE CHOLET 1961: This was the most typical CHAMBERTIN of all. Massive fruit, with some honeysuckle perhaps, amongst a typical earthy nose. Great taste with the "gout de terroir" well in evidence. At peak or maybe just past. A truly glorious wine well worth 20 points.
FURTHER THOUGHTS: I don't remember who got me in touch with Mr. Ephrem Cooper who owned the DECANTER SHOP in Savannah. I never met him. We did business by phone only. I still have notes of the wines he offered me: 22 bottles of CHAMBERTIN 1961 @ $140 the case, 31 bottles of GRANDS ECEZEAUX (sic) 1961 @ $100 the case, both from PAUL BOUCHARD, 20 bottles of BONNES MARES 1961 from LIONEL BRUCK @ $140 the case, 1 case of LAFITE 1962 @ $300 the case etc., etc., and I only bought 1 case of each! If I had only known. Oh well, those were big dollars then. The far out price quoted on wine to day may well prove reasonable a decade from now. I know that the above seemed very expensive in the late sixties. The fact that they are worth a good $200 to $250 the bottle to day really means very little.
We had a bottle of RULLY, MOILLARD 1983 as a "rince bouche". It turned out to be one of the most delightful bottles of young white Burgundy to cross my lips, in the last couple of years anyway. The boys thought it to be a MEURSAULT! The consensus was that it was well worth 18 points. The nose was exquisite fruit, mostly apple and citrus, and a trace of soft peach in the mouth. The only criticism is that is lacked some backbone indicating that it might not last for ever in the cellar. Quite ready and totally delicious at any price.
The CHATEAU RAYMOND LAFON 1979 was, I thought, very delightful but lacking a little in backbone. Infanticide. It will be a marvelous bottle in time. Herb didn't like it much that night but I think that the black forest cake ruined it. A week later, I found it perfection but Herb didn't. I'm going to make him eat, or should I say drink his words soon.
Because there were only three of us, we only drank half the wine. Oh where is the great gut of old! Any quiet evening, not so long ago at that, I could have done justice to all three wines without the help or encouragement from anybody. Oh well, they weren't wasted. I let John take the remains home to bury them under a blanket of nitrogen. I have since found out that, unto the end, they stood, as expected, proud and unspoiled. Santa has hinted that I might well receive some such nitrous contraption for my Christmas. I tried, with little success, to move Xmas to some convenient day in June. Needless to say, Santa would surely be rewarded for leaving the pole ahead of time. I can't help but think of Garland and his/my computer.
PARADIS helped finish a lovely evening. I'm very sad for Herb. Suzan's illness is really crunching him up. I wish I could do something to lighten his burden even if he didn't appreciate my RAYMOND LAFON.
CHAMBERTIN, PAUL BOUCHARD 1961, 20++++
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, PIERRE PONNELLE 1961, 20++
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, LUPE CHOLET 1961, 20
RULLY, MOILLARD 1983, 18
CHATEAU TAYMOND LAFON 1979, 18
REMARKS:John Lawless has not had much exposure to CHAMBERTINS. I promised to treat him to some of the best wines from this commune in a effort, as it were, to leave an indelible footprint on his tongue. Tough the wines from CHAMBERTIN are my favourites (sic), they are very scarce in my cellar. Not much of it is made and even less reaches these shores. Anyway, it was not difficult to find the above since I've been hoarding them.
CHAMBERTIN, PAUL BOUCHARD 1961: The nose was very complex with lots and lots of different fruit beyond the plummy cassis that I always associate with Burgundies. The taste was assertive and powerful with the fruit promised by the nose as well as a hint of flowers. A wine of great breed whose massive sweet fruit seemed to linger for ever on the tongue leaving perhaps a hint of roses as it faded away. I scored it 5+ in every category hence the extraordinary 20++++. The best wine of the evening. When I tasted this wine for the very first time it was a huge ball of tannin with very little promise. A couple of years ago it seemed it was still uninviting leaving me with considerable doubt as to its future!
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, PIERRE PONNELLE 1961: The massive fruit and the spice reminiscent of a DRC wine was very unlike the delightful if rather shy wine I remembered. The taste was just as great as the bouquet, spice and all, with promise for further improvement, with the time, as indicated by the trace of tannin in the finish. It is very difficult to imagine a wine this delicious ripening to something even better. Vive le temps. Well worth the 20++.
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN, LUPE CHOLET 1961: This was the most typical CHAMBERTIN of all. Massive fruit, with some honeysuckle perhaps, amongst a typical earthy nose. Great taste with the "gout de terroir" well in evidence. At peak or maybe just past. A truly glorious wine well worth 20 points.
FURTHER THOUGHTS: I don't remember who got me in touch with Mr. Ephrem Cooper who owned the DECANTER SHOP in Savannah. I never met him. We did business by phone only. I still have notes of the wines he offered me: 22 bottles of CHAMBERTIN 1961 @ $140 the case, 31 bottles of GRANDS ECEZEAUX (sic) 1961 @ $100 the case, both from PAUL BOUCHARD, 20 bottles of BONNES MARES 1961 from LIONEL BRUCK @ $140 the case, 1 case of LAFITE 1962 @ $300 the case etc., etc., and I only bought 1 case of each! If I had only known. Oh well, those were big dollars then. The far out price quoted on wine to day may well prove reasonable a decade from now. I know that the above seemed very expensive in the late sixties. The fact that they are worth a good $200 to $250 the bottle to day really means very little.
We had a bottle of RULLY, MOILLARD 1983 as a "rince bouche". It turned out to be one of the most delightful bottles of young white Burgundy to cross my lips, in the last couple of years anyway. The boys thought it to be a MEURSAULT! The consensus was that it was well worth 18 points. The nose was exquisite fruit, mostly apple and citrus, and a trace of soft peach in the mouth. The only criticism is that is lacked some backbone indicating that it might not last for ever in the cellar. Quite ready and totally delicious at any price.
The CHATEAU RAYMOND LAFON 1979 was, I thought, very delightful but lacking a little in backbone. Infanticide. It will be a marvelous bottle in time. Herb didn't like it much that night but I think that the black forest cake ruined it. A week later, I found it perfection but Herb didn't. I'm going to make him eat, or should I say drink his words soon.
Because there were only three of us, we only drank half the wine. Oh where is the great gut of old! Any quiet evening, not so long ago at that, I could have done justice to all three wines without the help or encouragement from anybody. Oh well, they weren't wasted. I let John take the remains home to bury them under a blanket of nitrogen. I have since found out that, unto the end, they stood, as expected, proud and unspoiled. Santa has hinted that I might well receive some such nitrous contraption for my Christmas. I tried, with little success, to move Xmas to some convenient day in June. Needless to say, Santa would surely be rewarded for leaving the pole ahead of time. I can't help but think of Garland and his/my computer.
PARADIS helped finish a lovely evening. I'm very sad for Herb. Suzan's illness is really crunching him up. I wish I could do something to lighten his burden even if he didn't appreciate my RAYMOND LAFON.