On 03/19/2010 06:55 PM, graham wrote:
"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On 03/18/2010 10:30 PM, graham wrote:
Perhaps it's age, *mine*!! Claret doesn't smell like the clarets I drank
in
my 30s {:-(


Sadly that's as likely the claret as your nose, Graham. Most claret
today is made for drinking within several years of production, not
laying down as before. This change is much remarked on in the wine
community.

cheers none the less!

-E
I wondered that! So many of them are barely recognisable as clarets - I
suppose it's all due to Rolland and Parker{:-( I drank the last of the
few 97s I had the other day. I know, I should have finished them long ago
but this was a Gruaud Larose and I've had more pleasure drinking cheap CdRs.
Graham



Ye've named the very devils, particularly that fellow from Monkton.
Even in the CdR, many wine makers talk about engineering a cuvee that
fits his profile.

Too bad about the Gruaud, I'd have expected it to at least be holding up.

-E