1966 Chateau Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, France

Maybe a star crossed bottle caught at the right moment? This performed wonderfully right from the cork pull. Deep resonant black fruit, cassis, blackberry, red cherry, eucalyptus. dark chocolate, leather and pencil. This just had it all, and feigned a bit of mouton mint at times. A Pauillac performing way above expectation here on this night. Lovely.

blossomed over time but had hints of red fruit at the beginning even though color was dark brown red (but more red than other 1966 Bordeaux opened at the same time). Fruit really showed up after a few hours in the decanter. Very impressive and a great example of good breeding. Complex red fruit, dried fruit, hint of tobacco. Funky notes mainly blew off.

Mouton vs Lynch-Bages 1989, 1986, 1966 and 1961 vintages (A collector’s home): Decanted for 2 hours, served single blind in a flight of 4 wines. Wine E, My 1st ranked wine, groups 1st. This was a great bottle, performing well above expectations and a surprise flight winner. Smokey nose, showing tar, cured meats, cassis and mocha. Very complex nose and the palate doesn’t disappoint showing firm, beautiful fruit, complex layers of intense red and black fruits. Shortish finish but otherwise a great wine. To me Wine E and Wine H were too close to call for wine of the flight, I went with E because of the complexity. Turned out to be the Lynch in a surprise.

With Jamey. Deep red. Looks like a wine from the 80s! Amazing drink, black cherry, tobacco, super fresh. Delicious and amazing!

Had 2 bottles of 1966 last night. Both tasted different and looked different. Nonetheless, both were absolutely delicious. Was nervous about decanting for too long (and so started to drink after 20 minutes) but stayed the course and on reflection I would have left a little longer before drinking as continued to open up along the way. Fantastic that this wine is drinking so well after 56 years.