les hauts de pontet paudillac 1983

[Kcwhippet]

Apologize for the abruptness before, diamondsman. However, I stand by the statements in my post. You have a second label wine from a not so great vintage and you live in a very warm area, all of which would make a serious wine geek shy away from that bottle. The vintage year on the bottle indicates the year the grapes were grown and picked, and the year the wine was fermented. Wines such as yours will generally spend 12 months or much more in barrel before they're bottled and then released. So, the absolute earliest you could possibly have had the bottle would be about late December of 1984, but most likely later, and that's certainly not more than twenty years.