With a starter of salad (lemon cucumbers/blue cheese/garlic sourdough crumbs) followed by a deconstructed Beef Wellington (puff pastry, pan-seared filet, fresh shitake mushroom-brandy sauce topped with seared foie gras), we enjoyed these two wines:
2004 Alter Ego Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend
This is the only Bordeaux Second I've ever bought. And it's my last bottle of three consumed since 2017 and the best by far. Only decanted for about 30 minutes. All the weirdness of the 2021 bottle has integrated into mature dark fruits like huckleberry and black cherry with dark chocolate, tobacco, espresso and--significantly--none of the green notes evident before. Excellent mouthfeel with unobtrusive tannins. Probably has more runway left but honestly, for my tastes it's in the prime drinking window now.
2003 Château Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend
Borrowing someone else's note from CT because he captured it perfectly: ripe blackcurrant, sweet spice, dense, concentrated, tobacco leaf. Medium plus intensity and acidity, dense but surprisingly fresh dark fruits, talcy textured tannins, finishes a little warm. Nice especially considering the vintage.