Friday 7 September 2012

A Bad Cold & A Bad Bordeaux

Have had a bad cold for almost a week now - no wine, no reading about wine, not even one bottle of wine bought! Well, tonight the nose seemed alright, and I opened this new vintage (for the monopoly anyway...) of Château La Tour de By, usually a nice performing minor Bordeaux. But not this one. It performed decent with the grilled chicken and a mustard- and tarragon sauce, but on its own, no thanks.

2008 Château La Tour de By
A cool, anonymous, small nose with notes of note yet ripe red and black currants, bluberry bushes and some old chocolate. I was sitting with it for a few hours, waiting for it to blossom, but it never did.
The taste is tight, somewhat foursquare and sparse with low keyed red fruit, greenish tannins and a medium long finish with a metallic touch. Anyone interested? Me neither.
65p   (tasted 2012/09)

2 comments:

  1. Thats really bad to hear about such a wine, but "nice" to see that i am not the only one having an bottle of wine , occasionally ,that is simply put not worth it.

    And hope your getting better with your cold, thats not something one wants.

    Flemming

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    1. Well, you have to take the bad with the good, as long it doesn' t happen to often...:-)

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