1986 Cos D'estournel

[Brom]

"59 & 61 Latour, 64 & 70 BV Reserve, 69, 70, and 74 Heitz Marthas', 74'76, and 78 Diamond Creek Volcanic Hill"

Did you ever find these wines to your satisfaction? If so, at what age?

If you did not find the '59 Latour to be to your satisfaction until this year, does that mean it was too early to drink 2 years ago?

Or does it mean it was too early for you to drink it?

"All still had tannins"

Yes, of course they did. What do you mean to say by this?

My point with the original post is while certainly he can drink the wine later he can just as certainly drink it now. Do you think no one drank the '64 BV in 1981 and found it to be perfectly satisfactory?

Wines change, they become different as they age.

Certainly one can say "aromatics were not fully developed".

By the same token, one can say fruit and grip had not fully faded.

You are looking for wine to lose its grip and structure ("it still had tannins" - as if this were a bad thing) in favor of different flavor components. That's your personal taste.

A pre-specified and publishable quantifiable "optimum" drinkability time for any wine is a myth.

Optimum drinkability exists for each of us based on our own preferences.