1970 Chateau L'Arrosee

[TheEngineer]

I pulled what I thought was a second bottle of this and I had purchased it at a different time. When I cut the capsule, it surprised me. The cork on top read 1996 while the rest of the cork read 1970. I'm guessing that this was a Chateau held bottle and then recorked for shipping. I was looking forward to see if there was much of a difference.

In fact, I think I preferred the original bottle.... This one was just fine too, the wine was solid, opening up jsut a bit funky but then moving forward with some nice forest, earth, nuts, mushroom, leather, and then the fruits even emerged better in this bottle which survived a long night (12 hours in the bottle), but it felt just a tad more reserved than I remember the previous bottle to be. Nonetheless, a nice bottle.