1982 Château Giscours - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux (7/14/2012)
Quite advanced aroma, but not over the hill. Dark, sweet fruit, but still with some savoury character. The structure is completely resolved, but it still remains vibrant. It drinks well but there doesn't seem to be a hurry with it. It is quite simple and straightforward and though pleasant, it isn't a terribly memorable wine. It's just nice old wine.
1982 Château Chasse-Spleen - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Moulis en Médoc (7/14/2012)
A really lovely, classic mature Bordeaux. Lovely tangy cherry fruit with some cedar cigar box and dried elderflower. Really amazingly sweet but also well structured with still some tannin - and that tannin with the still sweet fruit makes me feel that this particular bottle could have aged and improved still! This seemed more like a wine that is just beginning to drink well! Continually improved over the four hours when it was open.
1982 Dow Porto Colheita Single Harvest Tawny - Portugal, Douro, Porto (7/14/2012)
20% abv, 110 g/l sugar. Mahogany colour. It smells of figs, some aged oxidative character, but still with lots of fruit, quite a bit of alcohol showing. The palate is very sweet, bracing because of quite high alcohol. It's pleasant but doesn't really seem as aged as I would like a 30yo Tawny to be; and the alcohol is too obvious. Nice, but not great.
