| Posted by:David Chan | Wynns John Riddoch 1982 | Thu Oct 07 00:25:59 EST 2004 |
| Tasted 26/9/2004, Friend's Birthday Dinner at France Soir. Colour: dark ruby red, medium red rim. Nose: Intense cassis, blackcurrants, cedar, leafy, minty, hints of capsicum and tobacco leaves. Palate: Smooth, sweet fruit core of cassis, dark berries, fully integrated vanillin oak and dark chocolate, with layers of complex aged secondary flavours - capcisum, tobacco leaves, cigar, leather and prunes. Like the first bottle, but a shade more intense and powerful, the happy coincidence of bottle variation. Fully developed and holding, a sheer pleasure to drink over the great food (went well with France Soir's delicious rare fillet de boeuf topped with bearnaise sauce). | ||
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| Posted by:David Chan | Wynns John Riddoch 1982 | Tue Feb 25 14:01:12 EST 2003 |
| Tasted 3/7/2002, DC's Birthday Dinner #1. Ruby Red, no signs of brown on the rim, youthful colour for a 20 year old Cab Sauv. Nose: Powerful bouquet of cassis, black berries, cedar with a hint dried tobacco leaves. Palate: Sweet fruit core of cassis, black berries well integrated with dark chocolate, vanillin oak and highlighted by a melange of developed secondary flavours that peels off in layers to reveal more underneath! First, capcisum, fading to tobacco leaves, cigar smoke, then old leather mixed with dried prunes. Ultra smooth, very fine tannins that does not intrude, superbly balanced - no sharp edges anywhere. A very fine drop that can be enjoyed and appreciated by itself, but more than capable of holding its own in the company of a rare eye-fillet or a rich beef bourgogne. (Note: this is the first vintage of the John Riddoch, and IMHO, the best of all the JRs that I have tasted so far. I think time has aged this bottle wonderfully. Hopefully, JRs of other vintages will reach this level of development when given time and caught at their optimum.) | ||
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