#agedwinephobia
Château Meyney
Saint-Estèphe Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2020
@Doug Powers - It’s natural as one ages to overestimate the benefits of age in order to allay one’s fears of one’s own mortality. I get it. After all, I was a psych major in college.
@Pinotman /// Andreas - I agree! Cabernet-based wines with grilled or roasted lamb is a great pairing, but so are lots of other reds, most notably (at least for me) reds from the Rhone (north especially but also some from the south) and from Bandol. And I don’t have lamb very frequently.
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Tom Casagrande
My friend @Dave had this recently and said it was drinking well so I pulled one of my bottles. I struggle to find food that good Bordeaux shines with. Maybe our cooking wheelhouse doesn’t click with it. In any event, AFTER dinner this wine seemed really good. Nose is developing some nice complexity, with dark cassis, roasted Persian spices, cedar, moist gray clay, a bit of sweet wafty smoke. Rich and softening nicely in the mouth, with cigar box and cassis/plummy flavors, and some flinty minerality in the finish. I almost always like wine with food better than just wine, but not this. This is really fine to sip and contemplate. Great value. — a day ago