1983 Chateau Margaux and Lafite

[hotwine]

Congrats, PW! May all of your troubles be little ones!

Have only had Lafite a couple of times - at a restaurant in '75, shared with another couple, while courting D (spectacular! Or maybe it was just her huge blue eyes...); food was chateaubriand. Then there was the '80 I bought while visiting Wiesbaden on business in '85 or '86... we drank it in '99 with steaks and it was wonderful, in spite of me punching its fragmented cork down into the bottle and having to strain the wine through a (clean) bandana (blame my bad storage). The restaurant price in '75 was $100, vintage was '61 (I think); price of the '80 was $54 and still have that bottle. There was another super Bordeaux with escargots at La Forgot in Nha Trang RVN in '67 with three other LTs, but don't recall specifics.... just that it was a really nice bottle. Point being that memorable Bordeaux will be stuck in your head forever.

Again, hearty congrats!