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Modern Classics in Their Day
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” - Oscar Wilde
Straight-forward out-of-control liquid speech from wines once made to truly evolve. Not that the 100-yard dash isn’t fun, too, but there’s something rhythmically magical about the long distance runner that I miss with the last decade contenders. The uninterrupted book vs. the sitcom, commercials and all.
Brilliance, in order preference.
1. ‘64 Cheval Blanc St. Emilion $900 A+ -100 ***** 032509
—speechless quiet time/mature & complex/what Heaven pours
2. ’90 Cheval Blanc St. Emilion $1050 A+ -275 *****
—bloodrich/thorough with 20 carressed years to go/Heaven’s back porch
3. ’67 Latour Pauillac $365 A+ +85 *****
—powerful/seamless genius/speaking in tongues/don’t stop
4. ’95 Meo-Camuzet Vosne Romanee Cros Parantoux $175 A+ +45 *****
—pretty earth & real/spicebits, chunky meat, delicious oddball
5. ’89 La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan Rge $925 A+ -565 ****
—all the darkside/fairly tannic flesh/to be alone/slight heat
6. ’67 Dr. Burklin-Wolf Riesling TBA Wachen Rehbachel Pfalz (375ml) $240 A = ****
—goofy weirdo, but I loved it!/old & oxidized/out of this world
In order preference.
1. ‘03 Rippon Pinot Noir Central Otago Lake Wanaka 13.5% $41 A +5 *** 022708
2. ‘03 Shaky Bridge Pinot Noir Central Otago 14% $35 A +9 ***
3. ‘04 Kawarau Pinot Noir Reserve Central Otago 13% $32 A- +4 **
4. ‘05 Rippon Osteiner Central Otago Lake Wanaka 13.5% $16 A- = **
5. ‘06 Kawarau Pinot Noir Estate 13.5% $27 A- -1 **
6. ‘06 Sleepy Dog Pinot Noir Central Otago 13% $30 A- -4 **
7. ‘06 Sleepy Dog Chard C.O. Blair Gunn Block 13.5% $18 A- +3 **
8. ‘06 Shaky Bridge Rose Pinot Noir Central Otago $17 A- -1 **
9. ‘05 Freefall Sauv Blc Marlborough 12.5% $17 A- -1 *
