Really fun dinner (with some good Bordeaux). It’s always a lot of fun to consume the wines that have had more a lifetime than you ! …

1959 Latour was served blind and the guess was ‘61 top shelf left bank (but definitely not Haut Brion). In very good shape and super classic profile from this era: pencil shavings, dark fruit, and the most pleasant of stank. Exceptional balance and resolve. Still very much intact, in the peak of its drinking window, and will likely stay there for at least another decade.

1983 Palmer just as enjoyable if not objectively better. My PSA: if you can find this, drink it … it is such a high quality wine that drinks like any top shelf Bordeaux from a great vintage but for a fraction of the price. If you want that quintessence of Bordeaux pleasure without the outrageous price tag, this is the wine. So well-balanced, overwhelmingly endowed with that seductive Margaux profile but even more polished. It definitely makes it to the mythical “desert island” 12-pack.

Stay well and drink well.