1998 Fiefs de Lagrange

[hotwine]

With Christmas dinner, consisting of standing rib roast, garlic mashers, green beans almondine, asparagus sprouts in cream sauce, homemade crescent rolls, baby carrots in a glaze of butter, brown sugar and Jack Daniels Black, finished with chocolate fudge cake with fresh raspberries and Warre's '92 LBV Port (burp). Yee-haw! My only disapppointment was she wouldn't let me smoke the roast over oak.

Still trying to get a grip on the wine profile... "young", "unfinished" come to mind. Nice fruit, not too tannic, but just not ready for prime time yet, even with two hours in the decanter. Should have sacrificed some of my older but less plentiful Bordeaux, but the dozen assembled family members weren't geeks, so they didn't care.