'95 Chateau St. Jean "Cinq Cepages"

[Drew]

Decanted for 1 hour.
Beautiful opaque black/purple color. Muted nose of black fruit and alcohol. Upfront cedar notes mixed with mature plum, chocolate and an unknown bitter component. A year ago this wine was a little too astringent now this bottle seems to be a little flabby. Smooth but lacks good acidic balance. Not bad overall but no match for the '93 IMHO. I'm hoping this was just an off bottle. 14.3% Alc/vol.

Drew

[winoweenie]

Drew-ole'-bean, welchume back. Have heard reports that the Florida BTF is on the look-out for some smuggler bringing wine in from back East. That bottle is either a bad boy or your stash is in a dumb period. This bottle should just starrt showing its' pedigree in another 2-4. WW

[ddf68]

Had this two nights ago with filets in a brandy peppercorn cream sauce. Initially there was an excessively bitter note on the finish, so we decanted and opened a Lambourn Family Zin Howell Mountain, when we got back to the Cinq (about 45 min.) the bitterness was gone leaving the plum and chocolate. I did not find flabbiness.

ddf

[This message has been edited by ddf68 (edited 03-05-2001).]

[Drew]

Popped one last night. Really beautiful classic California Meritage. Dark and red fruits, cedar, cigar tobacco and bitter chocolate flavors with a nice linguring finish. Still plenty of fine tannins and this bottle showed no signs of bricking. I think I'm down to my last two.

Drew

[winoweenie]

Tolt youse ! nananana. ww [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]

[Drew]

Popped one last night to overcome them wine blues. Absolutely at the tip, top of it's game. Very floral with sweet cassis, spice, dark berry, mocha and a tad of cinnamon. Really nice. Eileen fought for and got more than her share [img]http://wines.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]. Hard to believe that this was bought for about $20.

Drew

[winoweenie]

And then came the 96 as #1. Prices thru the roof. WW