TNs: Disaster Night (85 Leoville-Barton + 85 707)

Baby Chickpea · Post by **Baby Chickpea** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:34 am

1985 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon (Coonawarra)
Stored perfectly since release. Mid red with some bricking. Bouquet of lovely plums and dark berries. Obvious oak. Nice. Wine has very good length but is swamped and ruined by excess oak, which is too strong, dominant and very woody. Clarity of fruit has been monopolised. Unbalanced. 2nd bottle same. Perfectly stored bottles, purchased on release. No ullage and cork only 25% stained. Very disappointing.
83 / 100

1985 Chateau Leoville Barton (St.-Julien)
Nice long cork. Mid red with some brown edges. Bouquet and palate? No fruit whatsoever, only a torrent of tannin and bitterness and the smell of rats! Obviously faulty.
NR

707 · Post by **707** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:41 am

Danny, your tale strikes a chord with me, I've got a matching 85 Barton to yours in the "Corked/Faulty" box in the cellar.

Don't know why I'm keeping it because what the F... does one do with a faulty Bordeaux?

Baby Chickpea · Post by **Baby Chickpea** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:23 am

Steve, I've got two bottles left and will open another one soon. Fingers crossed ....