Profiling Five Collectibles For The Connoisseur's Wine Cellar:
Latour, (Pauillac), 1990
All reviews have been amazingly consistent in its praise. Much is being talked about its roasted, earthy, hot year character with extremely low acidity. Its fleshy, seductive, opulently-textured flavors, and a full-bodied finish with considerable amounts of glycerin and tannin enhance the wine tasting experience. The wine is sweet, accessible, and seductive on the attack. In any event, it will last 25-30 years.
Sandrone, Barolo “li Vigne” Double Magnum 2001
It has received a good review by Antonio Galloni, in the Wine advocate. Says he, ”Sandrone's dark ruby-colored 2001 Barolo Le Vigne presents a fantastic nose of flowers, minerals and crushed raspberries followed by generous amounts of very ripe red fruits, mint and eucalyptus notes with well-integrated oak and fine tannins.” Noticeably more structured than the 2000, with more balance, freshness and a longer finish Sandrone is traditional in design, but modern in execution. Tremendous in harmony and elegance, 2001 Barolo Le Vigne is a sure shot collectible.
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Dow's, Vintage Port, 1994
The massive 1994 is unquestionably the finest Dow tasted since the 1977. This opaque purple-colored wine is not as developed or flamboyant as Fonseca, but it is super-concentrated and multi-layered, with huge masses of fruit and some tannin in the finish. This is a slightly drier style than Fonseca or Graham's, but it appears to be a classic, majestic, enormously constituted 1994 that should age effortlessly for three decades or more.
Fonseca, Vintage Port, 1963
Fonseca is one of the great port lodges, producing the most exotic and most complex port. It excels in its magnificently complex,
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intense bouquet of plummy, cedary, spicy fruit and long, broad, expansive flavors. The 1963, one of the great modern-day classics of vintage port, is an incredibly aromatic, sublime, majestic port that simply defines Fonseca's style perfectly.
Cheval des Andes, (Cabernet-Malbec), 2002
This wine is a joint venture between Bodegas Terrazas de los Andes and Chateau Cheval Blanc in Bordeaux. This is a finely sculpted wine, with a ripe, focused core of red currant, plum and blackberry fruit balanced by vanilla bean, coffee and smoke notes. Long and plush, with fine-grained tannins carrying the finish. Tastes more like Bordeaux than Argentina though. Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2008.
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