2009年に出会った美味しいワイン ボルドー
楽天最安値に挑戦中!言わずと知れた『ボルドーの女王』!古酒が登場![1985] シャトー・マルゴー マルゴー飲み頃の美味しいマルゴーです。偉大な年に比べるとスケールは少し小さいですが、この位の方が扱いやすいです。正にボルドーの女王です。その名にふさわしいワインですね。パーカーも最初低い点を付けていましたが、98年に飲んだ評価でポイントを上げて94点になりました。4万円なら眠っている可能性もある82・83・86よりお買い得だと思います。抜栓後は杉の香り、徐々に開いて来て、カシス、インク、土の香りが出てきます。色は濃くて深いガーネット色、太く濃密な果実味、柔らかくなって来たタンニン、余韻の綺麗な酸、スパイシーさもあって、絶好調に味の乗ったマルゴーです。タンニンのざらつきも無く、綺麗なビロードの様な喉越しと、トロッとした舌触りは正にマルゴーですね。エレガントで理想とするシャトー・マルゴーの味だと思います。良いですよ。ここ3~4年間ぐらいが第1期飲み頃のピークでしょう。1985 Chateau Margaux Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition # B1Jan 1998 Robert Parker 94 Drink: 1997 - 2010 $400-$1374 While not as powerful and concentrated as the 1986, 1983, or 1982, the 1985 Margaux is more charming and, at present, more complex than those more backward vintages. The color is a healthy dark ruby/purple. The seductive nose offers copious quantities of lavishly ripe black berry and cassis fruit intermixed with toasty oak and floral scents. This rich, expansive, and velvety-textured wine has developed more length, and additional flavor dimensions over the last several years. It has always been a remarkably approachable and enjoyable wine, but it appears to be taking on more character and quality than I ever imagined. It is one of the most delicious and seductively opulent Margauxs of the last two decades. I consistently underestimated this wine when young. It gets better every time I re-taste it, which happens with increasing frequency. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted 10/97. Wine Advocate # 88Aug 1993 Robert Parker 91 Drink: 1993 - 2005 $400-$1374 (75) The 1985 Margaux continues to age well and can be drunk with great pleasure. It is a lovely, seductive, medium-bodied wine with a gorgeous bouquet of toasty new oak, berry fruit, and violets. Rich, concentrated, supple, elegant, and graceful, the 1985 Margaux has turned out to be a beautiful wine that will evolve for at least another 15 or more years. Remarkably approachable and enjoyable to drink, for the next decade it will provide considerably more pleasure than the more ballyhooed and backward trio of 1986, 1983, and 1982. Anticipated maturity: Now-2005. Last tasted, 6/93. Wine Advocate # 84Dec 1992 Robert Parker 92 Drink: 1995 - 2010 $400-$1374 Last Tasted 6/92It appears I originally under-rated this vintage of Chateau Margaux, which is displaying more character, charm, and complexity than I first thought. The color remains a healthy dark ruby/purple, and the nose offers plenty of vanillin smoky new oak, as well as cassis and an intriguing floral component. In the mouth, the wine is medium-bodied with the tannins beginning to melt away. There are gorgeous levels of sweet black fruits, low acidity, and a long, lush finish. Not as forward as the 1985 Mouton-Rothschild, this wine is, however, evolving into a more interesting and complex example of Margaux than I initially expected. Anticipated maturity: 1995-2010.