Class 64 in tasting
posted on 5 January 2015On Sunday evening (28/12/14) I attended the Bordeaux tasting, which has now become a classic end-of-year event that Angelo Peretti organises for just a few lucky friends at the Taverna Kus in San Zeno di Montagna. In my opinion it is the best way to celebrate the end of one year and the arrival of a new one. On stage this year were 12 wines from the 1964 vintage (they are 50 years old, you guessed it) and it is always very exciting to approach these wines and discover that charm is often an emotion that knows no age... Below is my commentary on some of the wines that impressed me the most, and at the end you will find the complete list of the labels in the tasting. We are talking about wines produced “pre-Parker-mania”, hence Bordeaux with a gentle, elegant soul, where super-concentration is almost non-existent, the alcohol degrees range from 10° to 12°, but what freshness, what length of mouth, what longevity! ...the ’64 was certainly a good vintage.
My favourites: first of all Margaux Chateaux Brane-Cantenac: clean, clear-cut bouquet, you feel the balance already on the nose and so in the mouth. Discharge of colour, light but intense body, serious, classy, spicy.
Followed by Saint-Emilion Grand Cru - Clos Labarde, Pomerol - Chateau Feytit Còlinet and Haut Médoc - Chateau Duplessis.
A pity that three out of the twelve on the list were corked.
Complete list:
- GRAVES - CH HAUT BAILLY
- POMEROL - CH FEYTIT CLINET
- MARGAUX - CH GISCOURS
- PAUILLAC - CH BATAILLEY
- POMEROL - CLOS RENE’
- MOULIS EN MEDOC - CH CHASSE SPLEEN
- SAINT-EMILION - CLOS LABARDE
- GRAVES - CH DE FIEUZAL
- HAUT MEDOC - CH DUPLESSIS
- POMEROL - CH BEAUREGARD
- MARGAUX - CH BRANE CANTENAC
- PAUILLAC - CH PEDESCLAUX
